“Gus in his prime element… Hahaha we tried to lighten the mood but he beat us mentally.”
On the Saturday after I got the assignment, Jennie, my wife, was making pancakes and my five-year-old daughter Sadie was walking around in her pajamas singing songs and when she came in to my office to tell me that breakfast was ready, she opened the door and saw me at the computer, crying, and shouted “Mommy, Daddy’s watching a video of Bo Jackson again.”
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One of the interesting features of this year’s Iron Bowl is the apparently radically different views of the game: for Auburn fans, a sublime comeback, or Bama fans, a dreadful collapse. But which was it—comeback or collapse?
Dr. Jolley says it was both.
Early in their courtship, Young Bartley made a bet with his Bama fan girlfriend: if Alabama won this year’s Iron Bowl, he would sing “Rammer Jammer” in front of Bear’s statue. If Auburn won, she would stand at Toomer’s Corner for 15 minutes holding a sign of his choosing. He needs some help choosing.
Several Auburn fans celebrated the Sunday night news of the Tigers’ No. 1 BCS ranking by rolling Toomer’s Corner for the second time in two days. Some of them got creative. Just not as creative as they wanted to be. The students behind the “#2 Cam” message tied into the shrubbery told us they originally [...]