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The ultimate form of fan participation

By Darren Rovell
ESPN.com

Wednesday, November 20, 2002

After hearing that Duke's football team had snapped its 23-game losing streak with a 23-16, season-opening victory over East Carolina, Neil Gilman sat by his phone and waited for the call. "Congratulations on the big win," Gilman told Woody Fish, Duke's director of football operations, after receiving the call he had been expecting. "Can I get you fixed up for next week?" Tearing down the goalposts has been a time honored tradition for college football fans after a team pulls off an improbable ...

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