Archive for ‘June, 2011’

Gus Malzhan gets a Gatorade bath, 1998

Gus Malzhan gets a Gatorade bath, 1998

Researching Malzahnian lore is one of our passions. So you can imagine our excitement upon learning that Shiloh Christian just uploaded select passages of the high school apocrypha to YouTube. Our favorite? What—on the occasion of winning the school its first Arkansas AA state championship—might possibly be Gustav’s first Gatorade bath ever. Trying to confirm. [...]

Jim Fyffe Calls the Game-Winning Field Goal in the BCS National Championship Game

Jim Fyffe Calls the Game-Winning Field Goal in the BCS National Championship Game

That Rod Bramblett, who has had some great moments in his eight seasons behind the Auburn Network microphone, is still so thought of as “The New Guy” is less a slight against Bramblett than a testament to how loudly the original Touchdown Auburn still resonates in the ears of the Auburn heart. Lord knows how [...]

Auburn Basketball: Chairmen of the Boards

Auburn Basketball: Chairmen of the Boards

Presenting the cover of the 1987-88 Auburn basketball media guide, a work tapping the same literalism celebrated by Sports Illustrated’s recent retrospective on late 1980s counter-ironic pro-sports posters (the collection that brought us Chuck Person in chaps). We want to believe that there is a same-era poster somewhere out there of Bobby Lowder in a [...]

TWER Asks and Anwsers: Who Starts at Quarterback?

TWER Asks and Anwsers: Who Starts at Quarterback?

Continuing in our series of teasers for a TWER-related project we’ll soon go into in greater detail, we put the greatest personnel question facing 2011 Auburn football to a roundtable of TWER friends and contributors…
Who starts at quarterback this season— Barrett Trotter? Clint Moseley? Kiehl Frazier? Cam Newton’s vapor trail?

Loveliest Fast Food Joints of The Plain: Bill Holbrook vs. McAuburn (1978)

Loveliest Fast Food Joints of The Plain: Bill Holbrook vs. McAuburn (1978)

There’s a new McDonald’s in town— in Tiger Town, actually, built to the same Starbucks-esque specifications met in renovations completed this week at the area’s four existing Golden Arches. But we don’t even think being the swankiest McDonald’s market in the country would have kept Bill Holbrook, one of Auburn’s most notable alumni cartoonists, from [...]

Chuck Person Rocks Cummerbund in the 9th Worst NBA Draft Day Outfit Ever

Chuck Person Rocks Cummerbund in the 9th Worst NBA Draft Day Outfit Ever

Coming on the heel’s of Cam Newton’s coronation as the avatar of GQ chic, Yahoo! Sports names the white tux The Rifleman chose to wear to the 1985 NBA Draft ceremonies as the 9th worst Draft Day outfit of all time. And things only got better. … Keep Reading: * The 2011 Auburn schedule poster [...]

Still Hope for Toomer’s Oaks

Still Hope for Toomer’s Oaks

Well, there might be something to all that “they’re just down 24-0″ talk. Cause the trees, they’re hanging in there. So much so the university is still considering the possibility of rolling them come fall… or at least they won’t say “no” until later this summer. Looks like we’ll have to wait to start rolling [...]

Cam Newton Shoots Under Armour Commercial with Tom Brady… and Justin Timberlake?

Cam Newton Shoots Under Armour Commercial with Tom Brady… and Justin Timberlake?

And who better to help Timberlake bring sexy back than a GQ model?

Cam Newton Photo Spread in July Issue of GQ

Cam Newton Photo Spread in July Issue of GQ

It was pretty obvious last week, and quickly confirmed to us by the magazine, that The Blessed Individual would soon extend his dominion over pop-culture via an upcoming issue of GQ. And it has come to pass. Turns out Cam Newton fills out high end men’s casual wear almost as well he does a football jersey.

Auburn Fans Rescue Louisiana Jet Skier

Auburn Fans Rescue Louisiana Jet Skier

So now Louisianans can love us for our first aid skills, not just our sexual prowess.

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