It has been whispered on messages boards about the strange amount of times that the number 19 can be found at this game-winning juncture in the national championship game … can you spot them all?
It would be really spooky if it was Wes Byrum’s 19th field goal of the year.
UPDATE: Per this email from his parents, the going theory is that the 19’s are a secret handshake between God and long-suffering Auburn warrior Neil Caudle… No. 19… who held the snap for Byrum.
There’s also the whole Dark Tower thing.
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5?
Six, at least. You can see the 19-yard line.
I can’t tell if Oregon has number 19 on their kick block scheme.
Also, if you count the other numbers and add them to the 19s and note those alien like dots on the field and count the officials at the bottom of the frame you might get to another 19. That’s just far out, man.
For anyone who’s read Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, right about now is a good time to start freaking out.
Subject: Hey, Auburn Fans!
Date: Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:41 pm
Hey, Auburn fans! I just downloaded my pictures from the National Campionship game. Because we were on the south end of the field, opposite from the action at the end of the game, I made pictures of the jumbotron and scoreboard. The attached picture reveals that not only did #19 take the snap and hold the ball for the 19 yard field goal to break the 19-19 tie to win the N ational Championship, but there were 19 seconds left on the play-clock.
All of us have wonder at times whether or not we are in God’s will. Wth each injury and disappointment, Keith and I wondered if God wanted Neil to play football at Auburn. But Neil always felt he was in God’s will, even when things didn’t go like he wanted. Getting to be a part of the National Championship team seemed to be an affirmation that he was right to stick it out. But God always exceeds our expectations. Sometimes God gives us signs. …
One more thing, see the side judge with the ‘S’ on his back?
Guess what letter of the alphabet ‘S’ is….
Now we all have a new number to play in the lottery.
I gotta go with Neal’s take… Now if one of the player’s names was “Chassit,” THEN I’d REALLY be freaking out.
sorry about the alien lights, yo. those are actually my kitchen lights reflected on the tv when i paused it and took the pic. and i was watching this ass-kicking for the (gasp!) 19th time!!
also, unfortunately, i understand that alabama has claimed this game as their 19th national championship, due to saban being present.
If I weren’t such a lazy loser, I’d look up the name of AU’s long snapper. He wears #61. When he’s upside down doing his job, his # looks a heck of a lot like (geez this IS getting spooky)… 19.
i just confirmed that the first two numbers in the birth year of every single auburn player on the 2010 team is “19”.
surely divinity deigns this rig,
else i’m neither sexy nor big.
2xtiger, without looking I’m going to say our longsnappers name is crofoot. I think we have one of those every year like tennessee has punters named colquitt.
OK, each letter has a numeric value:
A-1
U-21
B-2
U-21
R-18
N-14
T-20
I-9
G-7
E-5
R-18
S-19
When you add up the value of each word you get 77 and 78, When you subtract 77 from 78 you get the number one.
Josh Harris is the long snapper and he is number 61.
i’m also reminded of a certain number from our current head coach’s record previous to auburn, which seemingly has no relevance to his new mission other than landing that same number of 4-star or higher recruits to his team every year.
5-19 to 19-5 (regular season without seccg). is it this easy to find coinkydinks in numbers all the time, if we just look hard enough? or is auburn, the war eagle reader, and its fans just super badasses?
19 … The volume / brightness of Oregon’s uniforms. (Scale out of 10)
The non-19 numbers on the screen:
1 Auburn’s rank
2 Oregon’s rank
4 th qtr
2 seconds
1 + 2 + 4^2 = ?
Freaky!
This is funny… and a little creepy. Is it also weird that me and most of my friends at Auburn happened to be 19 during this season?
And if you go back 19 years from the Mayan end of the world year of 2012 you get … 1993. The last undefeated season for Auburn! Were the ancient Mayans part of this “Cult of 19”?!?!?
Not quite, Potshot. Don’t forget 2004.
BUT,
Look what happens when you do some creative math with Auburn’s last three undefeated seasons, 1993, 2004 & 2010:
1+9+9+3 = 22
22-2-0-0-4 = 16
16+2+0+1+0 = 19
The number of Championships Bama would have claimed had they won this year? – Yep, 19.
The number of times I have to remind myself every day that we just won the national championship….19.
My wife played soccer at Auburn and I swear to you she was #19
I’m with Neal. The second thing I thought about after seeing this pic was The Dark Tower.
Does this mean that now we’ve reached the end of this season we get to start back at the beginning and do it all over again?
One can only hope!!
in championship games this season Byrum was 2/3, or 66.7 percent. 6+6+7=19.
Wes Byrum adds a field goal as the final two seconds are deducted from the clock.
18 + 3 – 2 = 19.
Different tanget: Alabama was the 22nd state admitted to the Union.
Oh, and they were admitied in 18 hundred AND 19.
Auburn’s coach for that 1993 season? 19 inches tall.
the average auburn fan has 19 more teeth than the average alabama fan. this is truly bizarre stuff.
Prepare to be freaked out. http://www.19.org