Archive for the Category ‘The Daily Believer: Random Notes, Posts, and Webphemera’

The Auburn Mardi Gras float looked even cooler in the parade

The Auburn Mardi Gras float looked even cooler in the parade

They told us the Auburn float look better at night, during the parade, basthed in the lights and smiles of Auburn children, and they were right. You striped well, Mystics. Photos: @nighthawk77, @bradyH819, @SteveWard75. … Keep Reading: * Auburn grad Katherine Webb will featured prominently in new SI Swimsuit Issue * One of the Wiggles [...]

Why won’t Auburn grad Katherine Webb pose for Playboy?

Why won’t Auburn grad Katherine Webb pose for Playboy?

Because of her Auburn grad grandfather (here he is in the 1959 Glom)! That’s why! He’d shoot her. War Eagle. h/t: the Auburn Warrior Princess Related: The first two Auburn coeds to pose nude for Playboy. … Keep Reading: * Cam Newton, Auburn intramural basketball star * One of the Wiggles is an Auburn fan [...]

One of The Wiggles is an Auburn fan

One of The Wiggles is an Auburn fan

Thanks to 2002 Auburn grad Rinkey Stanley, Jr., David Housel’s goal of securing the hearts and minds of Tide children has never been more achievable. Stanley’s son Daniel is really into The Wiggles. During a meet ‘n’ group at stop on the band’s 2012 tour, they gave Anthony Field, the blue Wiggle, an Auburn shirt. [...]

Cam Newton talks with Fox News about returning to Auburn for his sociology degree

Cam Newton talks with Fox News about returning to Auburn for his sociology degree

Included in Cam Newton’s promotional itinerary while in Super Bowling New Orleans was a sit down with “Fox and Friends” host Brian Kilmeade to discuss, among other things, Newton’s return to Auburn to get his sociology degree, “like Ronald Reagan.” “There were a lot of questions concerning about why in the world I’d go back [...]

Auburn cartoonist legend Bill Holbrook’s comic about performance-enhancing deer antlers (from 2009)

Auburn cartoonist legend Bill Holbrook’s comic about performance-enhancing deer antlers (from 2009)

Bill Holbrook, the pen behind such noted comic strips as On The Fastrack, Safe Havens, and Kevin & Kell, and arguably the best Plainsman cartoonist ever, has apparently been commenting on / predicting Bama players’ alleged abuse of deer antler spray (street name: Rudolph Binaca) for years. Here’s a Kevin & Kel strip from 2009: [...]

Must-see Mobile Mardi Gras float features Aubie, Toomer’s Oaks, Heisman Trophy

Must-see Mobile Mardi Gras float features Aubie, Toomer’s Oaks, Heisman Trophy

In accordance with the theme of its 2013 Mardi Gras parade—”Mascots, Southern Style”—Mobile’s Mystic Stripers Society managed to pull off a float whose majesty rivals that of Auburn homecoming decorations of yore. If you recall, the initial plans included only Aubie and the Toomer’s Oaks, but the Stripers took it up to notch, adding representations [...]

UA student newspaper contrasts Alabama’s Million Dollar Band with Auburn’s $11 Million Band

UA student newspaper contrasts Alabama’s Million Dollar Band with Auburn’s $11 Million Band

The front page of today’s Crimson White? A story about how members of Alabama’s Million Dollar Band have to bring canteens to practice to avoid dehydration and then use the bathroom at Arby’s, while members of the Auburn University Marching Band will soon be relieving themselves like kings in their own trillion dollar bandtopia. “Auburn [...]

VIDEO: ABC News’ coverage of the Kopper Kettle explosion

VIDEO: ABC News’ coverage of the Kopper Kettle explosion

Like we said—and Lord knows we said it plenty—the Kopper Kettle explosion on Sunday morning, Jan. 15, 1978 was a big, big deal, so big it made ABC News that night, which is actually how Dean Foy found out about it. He was on a ski trip in Colorado. He turned on the TV. Thanks [...]

Former Auburn student (and Miss America) Mallory Hagan singing ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ when she was 4

Former Auburn student (and Miss America) Mallory Hagan singing ‘Achy Breaky Heart’ when she was 4

We started The War Eagle Reader with very strict criteria for posting old videos of adorable 4-and-half-year-olds at recitals: They would have to be of local children who later attended Auburn University for at least something close to a year, they would have to have worked at Niffer’s, they would have to have been crowned [...]

ESPN apologizes for Brent Musburger’s comments about Auburn grad Katherine Webb

ESPN apologizes for Brent Musburger’s comments about Auburn grad Katherine Webb

Aubie’s former girlfriend Katherine Webb was last night’s headline. But just below the fold was Brent Musburger’s spontaneous, red-blooded reaction upon seeing her for the first time. ESPN is now apologizing for the hubba-hubba heard around the world via a recent tweet by spokesman Mike Soltys: Have been asked on focus on @_KatherineWebbin BCS: We [...]

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