Football fan rafts through Helene’s floodwaters to a friend so they can go to the game together

ATLANTA (WSB) – College football is a way of life for some fans.

That’s why someone in Atlanta didn’t let the flooding stop him from taking his buddy to a big game.

On Friday, rapid water rescue teams put a boat into the floodwaters in northwest Atlanta to bring several Hanover West families to shore and to safety.

However, there was one final rescue that did not involve Atlanta Fire and Rescue, but rather a best friend with the motivation to take his buddy to the biggest college football game of the season in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

“I woke up this morning and looked outside and couldn’t see my front yard and my car was flooded,” said Peter, a University of Georgia football fan. “And I thought, ‘Yeah, I don’t think I can pick you up. You can all go without me.’ And he said, ‘Well, I think we’ll go to Tuscaloosa anyway.’ So he said, ‘I’ll buy a raft and pick you up.'”

That’s exactly what Ben Posner did.

He called several Dick’s Sporting Goods in the area until he found one that had a raft.

It took nearly 30 minutes and multiple attempts to get enough air into the raft, but Posner actually saved his buddy.

“I’m never nervous,” Posner said when asked if he was afraid of getting caught in the flood.

Stormy weather and high flooding couldn’t stand in the way of these two dedicated best friends who love the Georgia Bulldogs.

“It’s a dedication, not just to me, but to the love of college football,” Peter said.

As they like to say in the SEC, it just means more and these two Bulldog fans proved that.

The No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs have a chance to beat No. 4 Alabama by one point.

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