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At a rain-soaked, poorly attended football game, South Carolina’s ‘Towel Guy’ is born

A generously announced crowd of 53,420 left plenty of room for creativity at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday.

By halftime, South Carolina was leading Akron 28-3, a score that eventually became final, and rain was pounding off empty sections of bleachers. Rather than use these things as excuses to head back to the dorm, Aidan Smith saw opportunity. The freshman spent parts of the first and second quarters tying together white really towels with his friends. As more space cleared around him in the north end zone, he began to swing.

Major s/o to the guy in the student section who has appeared to tie together all of the rally towels.