You be the judge. And again, my apologies to the family of Dr. John Day.

Posts mentioned in the broadcast: RPM: Glenn Tolbert’s “War Eagle”; RPM: “The Legend of Pat Sullivan”; RPM: Mysterious Auburn fan gives Bear Bryant the ‘Emfinger’ in ’69 Iron Bowl song; Beat Bama Beatbox, 1989, and (kinda sorta) Down, Set, HIPSTER! A two-year-old treatise on punks and pigskin (just in time for Georgia).

For more marvelous Marconi misadventures in Auburn history, tune in to The Drive—ESPN 1065 FM in Auburn / Opelika or online at www.espnau.com—Thurs. at 5 p.m.

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More than meets the eye?

Last week, EDSBS suggested a roll-able, robot Jimmy Rane could fill the celebratory void at Toomer’s Corner.  The Committee to Determine the Future of Rolling Toomer’s Corner would have welcomed the idea. In fact, included in the sample of suggestions printed in the report recently released by the committee, amid genuine horror at the prospect of some sort of tree sculpture, and genuine fear that Bama fans would strike / Spike again if real trees got the go ahead, there was a seed of something kinda sorta similar, something incapable of being Spike’d, something impervious to mockery (because if you mocked it it might morph into a tiger or a pressure-treated 2×4 with a little yellow tag or a Death Blossom-equipped Gunstar and kill you).

“I prefer Option #3, return the rolling tradition back to Toomer’s Corner and away from the trees,” opined one Auburn fan, a 1984 Auburn graduate. “We have many talented individuals who could design appropriate structures. Encourage the design of structures that can be mechanically morphed into something that can be rolled (I know it sounds like science fiction but think ‘Transofrmer’ type technology). Make them into architectural marvels that have completely different forms between game wins.”

The idea didn’t receive much play at the committee’s last meeting, but this is totally the way we should go: Transformers. You may have killed the Toomer’s Oaks, Al from Dadeville, but you will never kill TOOMERUS PRIME!  Believe in work—hard word, Auburn engineers, and make this happen. The legacy of Robo-Nova demands nothing less.

More on the the Toomer’s oaks: Here’s what the type of tree that might replace Toomer’s Corner looks like / Wire system being considered as temporary solution for rolling Toomer’s / On the feasibility of a Toomer’s Corner transplant / Toomer’s Corner rollings didn’t start with Punt, Bama, Punt, says History / Did Auburn students celebrate Bear Bryant’s death by rolling Toomer’s Corner?

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Missed last week’s episode? Press play and all is forgiven. It’s worth listening to for the new, brilliant (Rich, Slick—many thanks) It’s Pronounced Jordan intro alone. And for Rich’s laugh after after the Finebaum thing.

You can listen to our first episode (on pre-Aubie Auburn mascots) here.

Related: Here’s what the type of tree that might replace Toomer’s Corner looks like / Wire system being considered as temporary solution for rolling Toomer’s.

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Last week I took my guerrilla Auburn historian shtick to the Lee County airwaves with It’s Pronounced Jordan, a joint venture between The War Eagle Reader and The Drive, Auburn’s latest sports-talk alternative. The Drive airs from 4-6 p.m. each weekday (on ESPN 106.5 FM) and is hosted by an outstanding man after my own Auburn heart, Rich Perkins (recently profiled by The Plainsman, dontcha know). It’s Pronounced Jordan is / will be a half-hour segment each Thursday at 5 p.m. that will hopefully give the posts populating TWER’s “Vintage” section the vigor that only warm repartee can. Or something.

If you can’t listen in radio or internet (www.espnau.com) real time, we’ll be posting each week’s episode on TWER sometime during the following week.

Last week’s topic was pre-Aubie Auburn mascots. You can listen to that below. And do enjoy the photo accompaniments, but please excuse the flood of “you knows” (undiagnosed Tourettes, I’m convinced) and distance from the microphone, two problems that will likely get much, much worse this week thanks to my decision to deliver a stream of consciousness sermon on the history of rolling Toomer’s Corner. You know how we roll.

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Watch this two-year old footage recovered from a camera mounted to an eagle-esque ornithopter that was flown into the wild blue yonder by some Joe Vimeo only to be attacked by an actual eagle before you answer.

via Jalopnik.

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Gus Malzahn, makin' it rain since 2011!

Of course, the cloud came out Dec. 30, so… you know…

h/t Jalyn Henton.

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Dwayne Wade does the SuperCam

Born in the glorious wake of his touchdown dive against South Carolina last year (Victory the First), Cam Newton’s signature celebration—a mimed transformation from Clark Kent to Superman—isn’t just being ripped off by lesser gods of college football this year, it’s being appropriated by NBA All-Stars.

Last night, after the game-winning bucket against the Charlotte Bobcats last night, the Miami Heat’s LeBron James and Dwayne Wade turned to where Newton was sitting–he was paying another special court side visit to one of his biggest fans, Michael Jordan– and ripped their imaginary shirts open in obvious tribute.

Newton recently revealed that seeing uncredited imitations do indeed raise his gentle dander, but last night’s display was deserving flattery of the highest degree. And when we’ve crossed sports, obviously what we’re seeing here is the birth of a new fad a la planking and Tebowing: SuperCamming. Start sending in your photos today: mail@thewareaglereader.com or copy us on Twitter: @wareaglereader.

h/t Erin Ross.

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As an autonomous cell of the Auburn media machine, we present from the TWERchives one of the first Aubie posters ever printed—possibly THE first (back in the ol’ boys more hulking, cro-magnon period)—as a reminder of where our beloved mascot has been, and where we can take him (manually or automatically) for the first time ever.

Aubie has been named to the Capital One All-America Mascot Team six times since its  inception (2003, ’04, ’05, ’06, ’08, ’11), but he’s never taken home the title.

If Aubie beats Nevada’s Wolfie Junior, he’ll more than likely square off against Georgia Tech’s Buzz again. Beat Buzz, and Auburn’s mascot program gets $20,000. And a lot of press.

So text “Aubie” to 78527 up to 249 times an hour, or go to www.capitalonebowl.com and do it even more.

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In 1986, this was "a calendar no Auburn fan should be without."

The YouTube trilogy of WBRC’s 1986 Iron Bowl preview is finally complete.

In the first installment (which we found and posted back in March), we had the wonderful introduction to Auburn’s season recap by the demon Gorgar (1:14), Layer Tillman’s incredible touchdown snag against Georgia Tech (3:34), a topless Tracy Rocker (3:57), and the general revelation that no one in Birmingham talked the 80s talk (with their hands) or walked the 80s walk like Bruce Cunningham, THE Bruce Cunningham.

Part 3 confirms that nothing will ever soothe the pain of Van Tiffin’s kick in the crotch. But at least the gut-wrenchability of Auburn’s last-second loss contributed to a slow motion art film recap of an Iron Bowl sound-tracked by Phil Collin’s “In The Air Tonight” (in which the station “took a great deal of pride.”)

But the best thing about WBRC’s Iron Bowl preview is undoubtedly Michael Jones’ stone-faced (but just as leathered) featurette in the second video on the “insult merchandise” available at the new Riverchase Galleria, such as:

Bama’s version of the “My Two Favorite Teams” bumper sticker…

Wrong way “AUBRUN” key chains…

Wrong way Auburn and Alabama coffee mugs…

And Got Two? Hesiman caps…

But Jones saves the best for last: “a calendar that no Auburn fan should be without.”

There’s obviously no way this would fly in the state’s current post-poisoning, politically correct culture. But it’s hard to pinpoint exactly what year —’95? ’97?—this sort of thing became inappropriate, even for the Iron Bowl insult merchandise market (Harvey would probably know). There’s part of me that would almost like to think there are dudes still making and hawking this particular brand of boo-yah somewhere outside ol’ Legion Field. Speaking of, the second video also gives us former Birmingham mayor Richard Arrington and former University of Alabama president Joab Thomas bemoaning the Iron Bowl’s potential (and eventual) transition to a home and home series. And oh yes — Jones’ stoic analysis of Auburn-Alabama jokes (7:57), delivered as if he’s looking for a little after-game pain reliever of his own: “The good thing about those jokes is while they aren’t always funny, they are interchangeable.”

I was always more of a Channel 13 man, but WBRC owned the ’86 Iron Bowl, which is the first Auburn-Alabama game I remember watching as intently as I watch Iron Bowls today, and with equal emotional investment.

I may have even had that calendar.

Related: Bama students vandalize own campus, blame Auburn fans.

Originally posted June 1, 2011.

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