Auburn coach Gus Malzahn spent part of his week filming a Ford commercial on Auburn’s campus. So it’s obviously high time to check out some car ads featuring former Auburn coaches. And while Gene Chizik’s final Ford commercial was indeed memorable (for being so depressingly ironic)… … this is TWER—you know where we’re heading: The [...]

He recently bought the complete series of 24. But when Sports Illustrated asked Cam which TV shows (plural) were on his DVR, he only named on: “Duck Dynasty.” The irony! Newton recently told Vibe the same thing (thanks again, Vibe!) in an a two-part interview that probed his pop culture proclivities. “I absolutely love watching Duck [...]

Old Auburn “yells and songs” from 100 years ago. They helped Auburn win a national championship in 1913, maybe they’ll mix some magic into 2013. Learn them. Love them. Skyrocket. Boom. Auburn. From the Oct. 13, 1913 issue of the Orange and Blue… soup’s on:   This post sponsored by Toomer’s Drugs, sole agents for [...]

Freshmen in pajamas technically reenacting the deliberate possible crashing of a passenger train—what wasn’t to love?! What’s not to miss?! Yes, sadly, save for a brief appearance in the mid-2000s, the cherished Wreck Tech parade disappeared from Auburn’s streets and yearbooks when Auburn and Georgia Tech discontinued their annual rivalry in the late 80s. Let [...]

There’s new talk of bowl games going international. Wouldn’t be anything new for Auburn. Auburn (7-2-1). Villanova (7-2). Tropical Stadium. Havana, Cuba. New Year’s Day, 1937, the second to last day of the week-long first “Cuban National Sports Festival.” They called it the Bacardi Bowl. Or the Rhumba Bowl. Or the Cigar Bowl. (The New [...]

As good was they were (because they were made by “Crow” the Smiler), the fanciest drinks ever served in Auburn weren’t the only reason you went to the Drug Store on the Corner. You went there for cigars, you went there for cigarettes. And if you wanted some Hernsheimers, which sound fancy as all get [...]

Al.com’s Ed Enoch today broke the news that on Sunday, Paul Finebaum spoke with then still-incarcerated Toomer’s Oaks poisoner Harvey Updyke, something no other member of the media will be able to do—at least legally—until 2018. Updyke’s probation prohibits him from speaking with the media for five years. Even though the terms of Updyke’s probation [...]

Auburn finished the 1897 football season 2-0-1. And $700 in the red. Coach John Heisman knew what he had to do. He had to break a leg. In a straight up fascinating story in the latest issue of Alabama Heritage magazine, local Auburn historian Ralph Draughon Jr. (junior to that Ralph Draughon, so you know [...]

They weren’t expected to go up until just before football season. Auburn’s Public Works Department apparently didn’t get the memo. “Public Works got them in earlier this morning,” said Auburn City Manager Charles Duggan, speaking of the concrete poles on which the city will string a system of wires for Auburn fans to roll in [...]

It’s so hard (and kinda eeesh) to picture him molding young men of lesser institutions, and so you try to avoid it, but there he is, yearbook-official: Ralph Jordan, basketball coach (and assistant football coach) for the University of Georgia, 1948. Yep, yep, yep, basketball—just like he’d also done at Auburn before heading off to [...]