Nashville is well-known for its nightlife, with country-music and bluegrass bars aplenty. Now you can add rowdy packs of college football fans carrying goalposts through the streets.
Saturday night, Broadway Street in Nashville earned a place in football folklore, as Vanderbilt University football fans carried goalposts all the way from the team’s stadium following a win over No. 1 ranked Alabama, through the downtown core, past a plethora of bachelor and bachelorette parties, and tossed it into the Cumberland River.
And Nashville Predators defenceman Dante Fabbro will always have a place in that story. He’s got the mark on his car to prove it.
Fabbro told the Tennessean‘s Alex Daugherty on Sunday that the goalposts from the viral night in Nashville were carried right over his car, which was parked near 6th Ave., saying that they didn’t scratch it, but a yellow mark from the paint was left behind.
Bridgestone Arena, where the Predators play, is right on Broadway, putting it directly in the path of the possibly inebriated and definitely ecstatic Vanderbilt fans.
Though the players usually park their cars in the arena’s garage, according to Daugherty, the team was having an event at the Twelve Thirty Club across the street.
Fabbro has been with the Predators since being drafted by the team 17th overall in 2016 but didn’t suit up for the squad until the 2018-19 season, meaning he missed out on the ‘Smashville’ celebrations in 2017, when Nashville played the Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals.
As a whole, Nashville hasn’t had much to celebrate in the sports world, but the unlikely victory over Alabama is certainly a great start. Add to that the Predators’ potential following the acquisitions of Steven Stamkos, Jonathan Marchessault and Brady Skjei, and Broadway might get even crazier in the months to come.
Someone remind Fabbro to maybe park his car indoors.
