The only thing I could think about at the committee meeting last week: what’s going to happen to them if / when they’re removed? So I asked. Hmm. Good question. Brief discussion. Maybe some sort of monument? Put it on display somewhere? Not sure. Now a new idea about what to do with the Toomer’s [...]
I’ll be holding the Auburn Network studios hostage yet again tonight (Occupy Hubbard), this time brandishing the sweet sounds of Auburn yesteryear. My only demand? Your undivided, delicious attention. And a pizza. Tune in to The Drive on 106.5 FM or www.ESPNAU.com at 5 pm (or start an hour earlier if you want the best [...]
If you plant them, they will roll—in 3-5 years. But plant what?
The recommendation that one or more large trees replace the Toomer’s Oaks, and for a temporary solution to be developed and implemented in order to continue the tradition of rolling Toomer’s Corner, was approved by Auburn University president Dr. Jay Gogue earlier this week. The recommendation was delivered to Gogue by the Committee to Determine [...]
1991 wasn’t the best of years Auburn fans. Our first losing season in a decade was in the works; a traitorous, sanction-loving moon was in the 7th field house. But while the quality of football Auburn had cultivated in the late 80s was waning, by God, the low-fat, low-calorie ground beef its meat scientists had developed during that same time had arrived, and what it may have lacked in taste it made up for in pride.
At least a molecule of every future tear I cry will be born of the knowledge that THAT wasn’t made permanent.
Introducing our joint radio venture with The Drive.
Maybe some wires or something. Maybe.
That Auburn fans will eventually be rolling not trees at Toomer’s Corner but an “attractive intersection structure” made specifically for that purpose appears to be increasingly likely, like it or not. Here are six more examples of what rolling wires in the historic, orgiastic, Click-it-Or Ticket-less center of the Toomer’s Corner intersection looked like.
Ah, the ’50s, when if Alabamians wanted to root for a winning team, they had to root for Auburn… when the tiger at the Magic City’s brand new menagerie was named the Auburn Tiger and when the elephant was named “Miss Fancy.”
