What happens when you’re the football coach at Vanderbilt and you win six games? If you’re Derek Mason, you go bowling, in more ways than one.
Mason got a surprise while attending a game with the hometown NHL team, the Nashville Predators, against the St. Louis Blues. In honor of the Commodores’ coming trip to the Independence Bowl, Mason received… a bowling ball, courtesy of Predators team mascot Gnash.
(For those wondering, Gnash is described as a prehistoric saber-toothed tiger, a bit different from the Auburn, LSU and Missouri varieties that inhabit the SEC.)
It’s not certain exactly what Mason did with the bowling ball, which might have been a little too close to Volunteers orange for Vanderbilt tastes.