Few Auburn (or in this case, Auburn-ish) references in movies have inspired more tips to TWER than this scene in Nebraska. Some old guys are just sitting there watching—or maybe just listening to—former Auburn Tigers and Chicago Bears wide receiver Devin “Neck of a Gazelle” Aromashodu make a great catch and run for the Bears […]

The favorite piece of soap opera scenery of General Hospital-loving Auburn fans has returned, splitting screen time, as it were, between Ava and Carlos during some surely scandalous rendezvous in a booth at Jake’s The Floating Rib. An Auburn pennant that first appeared on the wall of the favorite fictional watering hole in fictional Port […]

On the night of Atlanta’s second winter storm in two weeks, Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren went on the record with Grace Elizabeth Anderson, the adorable future Auburn fan snow baby born on the frozen tundra of I-285 during the original Snowpocalypse of 2014. And sure enough, dad Nick Anderson was sporting an AU logo […]

Just when you start to think maybe, maybe, maybe it was all a dream, someone asks “Not sure if you saw this tweet from Justin Timberlake on the Iron Bowl….” Let’s see… Chris Davis is bringing sexy back 109 yards? Ain’t no lie, Saban, bye, bye, bye? Wasn’t there some “Second Chance” song he did […]

Another example of the deep, lasting cultural impact of the Iron Bowl? Only a Beatles reunion could be bigger. “Every year CBS brings you the biggest events on television,” the voice on the commercial for CBS’ The Night That Changed America: A GRAMMY Salute To The Beatles says over quick cuts of the Victoria’s Secret […]

Charles Barkley, the self-proclaimed greatest athlete to ever play for Auburn (Bo Jackson is the second best), added another notch to his much looser Tonight Show belt (thanks, Weight Watchers) Tuesday, yucking it up with Jay Leno (and Matthew McConaughey) for the 16th or 17th time in the 22 years he’s hosted the show. Auburn was […]

Little Rock, Arkansas. 2013. Candace Weekly is a fundraiser for a local nonprofit. Her husband, Joel Tanner, is a graphics designer. They met while attending Auburn. He was (presumably) a graphics design major working as a cook at a restaurant, she was a waitress majoring in Apparel Design and Production Management (“Your classic quarterback-cheerleader romance”). […]

So they either a) just typed “Best football stadium ever” into Google Image Search and went with the first thing they saw, or b) watched Auburn-Georgia and thought that using the stadium where the guy won the game with nothing short of spidey-sense would thematically consistent or something. Either way, yes indeed, that’s Jordan-Hare Stadium […]

Matt Lauer can’t stop talking about the Iron Bowl. In addition to including Chris Davis’ last second OMG in his Top 10 Cultural Moments of 2013 list on Monday’s episode of The TODAY Show, Lauer went gaga over “the most extraordinary end to a sporting event that I have ever seen” in NBC’s Toast To 2013 that […]

UPDATE: He’s been identified: Auburn grad Brandon Wright from Chicago, and he says he specifically asked the photographer to make sure the AU logo was in the shot. Which is awesome. … When The Wall Street Journal needed a photo of person least likely to raise the suspicion of robots charged with airport security for […]