It's true. And it's beautiful. And, tragically, WarEagle went to Georgia. Anyone know about Tiger?
Back in May, I ended a quick little something I wrote on Sara Burson – an Auburn alumna who tinkered with her George Washington University commencement name card in order to graduate (Masters in Tourism Administration) as “Sara War Eagle Burson” – by contemplating Vestavia’s legendary White sisters, my former classmates.
At the time, the only evidence I had to back up my claim that there existed in the world a beautiful girl actually named WarEagle, and another beautiful girl named Tiger, and that they were sisters, was a comment on a message board.
Thanks to the glut of feature section fan profiles leading up to the ’89 Iron Bowl, I now have a lot more.
From the Nov. 30, 1989 edition of The Birmingham News:
For more content celebrating the 20th anniversary of Bama’s first visit to the Plains, visit The War Eagle Reader’s 20 Years collection.
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[...] So there’s this thing I just wrote about finding a profile (from the Nov. 30, 1989 edition of The Birmingham News, part of the [...]
So I printed this story out and showed it to my wife.
She (the Vandy grad who was born into one family of Auburn grads and married into another) said “thanks for not wanting to name our children War Eagle and Tiger”.
I told her I that she should be thankful that my dad didn’t name me Buck Fama instead.
[...] Sara Elisabeth War Eagle Burson trashes her wedding dress at the A-Day game. [...]
[...] McCoy” was destined from birth to become a Texas Longhorn quarterback, so apparently when you receive the middle name “WarEagle” from your parents your destiny is to one day paint your wedding dress burnt orange and navy blue outside of [...]
Hold crap. Tiger lived in the apartment under me while I was at Auburn. I feel famous.
As for wondering about me, I graduated from Auburn. Although some don’t understand, and that’s fine by me, I love my name! Now I’m 30, and even more today I would hate to have an ordinary name…I can’t and wouldn’t want to imagine life any other way. War Eagle!!