The Spring of Dye continues [previous installments here, here, here, and here].
All this talk of field renovation got us thinking about the time in 1991 when Coach installed a fence built with pressure treated pine on the five yard line. It was so funny, Osmose decided to turn it into a classic, classic commercial.
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We really needed to pressure wash the stands before that commercial was shot.
Still the greatest coach commercial, ever. Yes, better than Yaw Yaw Orgeron and his Hummer.
I guess every program has these kinds of boosters, but if any of you have ever watched friday night lights (the tv series) I say this:
yella fella=buddy garritty
If you haven’t watched it you need to. It is fantastic.
I remember Dye said his goal at Auburn was to have a defense so good, the other team was afraid to snap the ball – and he very nearly did. Good times.
And the “Yella Fella” before he became famous!
I remember this one very well…..classic.
This was a good one, but my favorite was the one Dye did with Vince Dooley.
[...] version coming) is bearing all kinds of fruit, fruit almost as good as the time he and Jimmy Rane tried to build a fence on the field, or when he was stuck on Golden [...]