Jim Fyffe’s “Touchdown Auburn!,” which we’ve been revisiting this week for obvious reasons, is brimming with wonderful recollections of the highlights of the Pat Dye-era of Auburn football. And “the Eric Ramsey thing.” In his defense of Dye’s role in the scandal (from the chapter “With Him All The Way”) Fyffe writes: “The whole Eric [...]

EDSBS.com was dead in the water Wednesday. Idle hands are LSUFreek’s workshop. Spencer Hall’s perfectly astute description: Not that Gus Malzahn doesn’t already look enough like an amnestied, brilliant, and slightly terrifying Nazi rocket scientist quietly working in the hills surrounding Huntsville, but yes: give him Nick Saban’s hair, and he now has a fully [...]

The USFL chapter in Jim Fyffe’s memoir-ish “Touchdown Auburn!” starts off with a mea culpa of sorts: “I saved Paul Finebaum’s life.” Related: Jim Fyffe’s tombstone. … Keep Reading: * Watch Pat Dye lick sugar off a football * Best Auburn majorette name ever? * Cam Newton on a Segway * The Thing That Ate [...]

All Elvis was doing was thanking people, thanking them very much. All Jim Fyffe was doing was telling people that Auburn had scored a touchdown. On paper, it was the most unoriginal sports catchphrase ever. On the airwaves, it was magic. (Thanks, jackass golfing Bama fan!) Fyffe died 10 years ago today. He once said [...]

Tomorrow, Jim Fyffe will have been dead for 10 years. He died on May 15, 2003 after suffering a brain aneurysm. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery. According to FindAGrave.com, this is his tombstone. Related: Jim Fyffe folk art, 2003. … Keep Reading: * Best Auburn majorette name ever? * Pat Dye ‘arrested’ [...]

Rarest among the clips Lulu-vision has been killing it with lately: the Bo Jackson featurette that aired during the broadcast of the 1985 Heisman Trophy ceremony. It probably comes across even rarer because, judging by the voice over, the producers thought it was supposed to be a 1970s educational film (so yeah, it’s too bad [...]

The biggest sign that this Toomer’s Oakss trading card is, in fact, a legitimate, officially licensed, actual real thing isn’t the “Auburn” instead of the “Toomer’s,” (’cause that’s important) it’s that someone has already bid it up to $61. And there are still five days left. The eBay description reads: You are bidding on a [...]

The West Georgia Auburn Club recently held its annual meeting and Charles D. Hudson Memorial Scholarship Banquet. According to a post on the club’s Facebook page, the night was a huge success and “highlighted with wisdom and inspiration from David Housel and a rousingly entertaining auction spear headed by Coach Pat Dye.” Judging by this [...]

Come fall, you won’t be able to roll Toomer’s Corner on an around-the-block whim after kissing the bride, or after Bill Clinton is elected, or probably even after your average basketball victory (as monumental as that would be). As TWER first reported in March, the triangle of poles and wires that will serve as the [...]

It’s getting harder to “remember Dunkirk” after David Housel’s speech at the final rolling of the Toomer’s Oaks, which is fast becoming his most memorable, at least if our search term analytics are any indication (they usually are). A day hasn’t passed since that it’s-OK-to-call-it-epic day that someone hasn’t come to TWER searching for a [...]