Crap! According to the ‘net, you are correct. It is a good thing I didn’t become a history teacher that lectured from memory. Yeah, it was the ‘82 OU game the goalpost was from. Being a drunk college student must have clouded my memory. At least that is how I remembered it.
Husker Country Doc, they are some sort of aluminum alloy. I thought it seemed heavy walking it through Lincoln, but it turned out that the other 15 people hanging on it just made it feel that way. The aluminum conducted the heat too quickly to cut it with the torch we originally tried with, but a chop saw made pretty quick work of it the next morning. Threw the circuit breaker several times though.