Orange in the end zone
Just drove by Williams-Brice. Reports/message board posts of the Clemson-themed vandalism have been greatly exaggerated.
Unlike last year, the vandals did not paint the weight room windows. They did manage to get inside the stadium, and use orange spray-paint in the south end zone.
Equipment manager Chris Matlock said you can barely notice the damage.
The stadium’s locked up pretty tight now, btw. Unless you want to scale an 8-foot fence in broad daylight, you’re not getting on the field.
Here’s the brief I wrote for Thursday’s paper:
Whenever Clemson scores a touchdown, Tigers play-by-play announcer Pete Yanity makes his signature call, “There’s orange in the end zone.”
A week and a half before the Clemson-USC game, vandals painted orange in the south end zone at Williams-Brice Stadium overnight Tuesday.
USC equipment manager Chris Matlock saw an aerosol can and “a little orange paint” on the field Wednesday morning. Matlock said the damage was minimal and would not require workers to re-sod the grass before the rivalry game Nov. 28.
Matlock said the graffiti message, which included a ‘C,’ appeared to be incomplete.
“It looked like either they got caught or ran out of paint,” Matlock said.
The stadium vandalism has become a destructive part of the rivalry. Last year vandals sprayed orange paint on the weight room windows at Williams-Brice.
Matlock hopes officials can identify the culprits through surveillance videos.

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