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South Carolina football had a night to cherish in Columbia.
In front of a packed house at Williams-Brice Stadium, the savvy Gamecocks took down No. 10 Texas A&M, 44-20, to snap the Aggies’ 7-game winning streak and improve to 5-3. They piled up 530 yards of total offense and shut out Texas A&M in the 2nd half, dominating the final 30 minutes after the game was tied 20-20 at halftime.
It was a football party in Columbia in front of a national TV audience, and the fans stormed the field afterward. But when the game ended, the party was just getting started. In the locker room, South Carolina’s players had the predictable wild celebration, and it included head coach Shane Beamer and his wife, Emily.
The players played hard for Beamer all night, and after the game they were still getting it done for him, as it turned out. Beamer called his wife over to the center of the celebration and told the players it was Emily’s birthday next week.
Beamer had told his players all week leading up to the showdown that if the Gamecocks won, he was going to do a celebration for his wife. So, in a show of romance and true team solidarity, Beamer and his players serenaded Emily by singing “When I See U” by Fantasia.
And they say romance is dead pic.twitter.com/FlMx9XSOIJ
— Gamecock Football (@GamecockFB) November 3, 2024
Apparently, the players sang the song before practice each day to sort of get ready for the occasion. So, after they won on the field in the biggest way Saturday night, they scored a huge victory in the locker room, too.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
