Why am I showing you a picture of various U of Utah women’s soccer fans showing off their Ute soccer scarves?
Because I want to tell whoever out there who might have the ear of the Auburn Fan Shop: if you make an Auburn soccer-style scarf, I will pay substantially more than its manufacturing cost to purchase it.
Why? Because while there’s a lot of things football could stand to steal from soccer, there’s not many more easily stolen or just about any cooler than a soccer scarf. Consider:
1. It’s dead useful once the weather turns
2. It’s a way to take your gameday outfit beyond the standard shirt/hat/tie pairing without having to resort to costumery*
3. No one else in college football is running with this idea; we’d have cred out the wazoo
4. Holding the scarf up during the alma mater would be a thousand times cooler (and cooler-looking) than a slow sway, or whatever.
Plus, they’re just stylish, and the design is cake. Just take this:
Replace that silly Utah logo with the best logo in college athletics, change the white-on-red to orange-on-blue and the red-on-white to blue-on-orange, outline everything in black, and we’re golden. If I really had to choose, I’d still take an Auburn hockey jersey first … but a soccer scarf would be a close, close second. Make it happen, people who have the capacity to make it to happen.
(One other thing: the reason for the photo above is that the Utah women’s soccer team is selling their scarves as a combination fashion accessory and season ticket. If Auburn wants to follow suit, despite the fact I will be unable to attend any matches this season, I will be buying a season ticket all the same.)
(HT: omg-yanks.)
*Not that I have anything against Auburn-themed costumery, of course. I encourage it wholeheartedly. It’s just not for all of us.
Jerry, I’ve made your day:
https://www.sportsscarf.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=A&Category_Code=NCAA#NCAA_Auburn
None of these are soccer scarves, but the jersey one is pretty cool. I still like the one Kevin found the best.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Auburn-Tigers-Argyle-Fleece-Game-Day-Scarf-New-/120585973890?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_NCAA_Fan_Shop&hash=item1c137bf082
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AUBURN-UNIVERSITY-TIGERS-JERSEY-SCARF-w-POCKET-/350295388613?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_NCAA_Fan_Shop&hash=item518f3b71c5
http://cgi.ebay.com/Auburn-Tigers-Warm-polar-fleece-scarf-/300376175356?cmd=ViewItem&pt=US_NCAA_Fan_Shop&hash=item45efd0b2fc
http://www.shopncaasports.com/NCAASports_Auburn_Tigers_Ladies_Accessories/Auburn_Tigers_Navy_Blue_Jersey_Scarf
Thanks, guys. Cool stuff. Kevin’s is the only one that’s really a soccer-style scarf, though … which is why I’m totally buying one if the AUfficial Shop doesn’t come through by the start of the season.
In other news…it looks like the bracket is down to you and me. You get the nod if Spain wins. If not, I win over Ghana Soundz judging by the tiebreaker. Game on!
Joe, quit stealing my Friday post’s thunder, haha.
I thought everyone had forgotten about the bracket, haha.
I always wanted to get a group together at the stadium and sing songs like soccer fans do. Songs that are not the typical Auburn cheers we’ve been doing for a hundred years and more importantly songs that are NOT BON JOVI. For instance like this puma hardchorus vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-_rf2jVxxY
Leave it to a bunch of Yids to make Savage Garden cool…
I am never ever going to wear a scarf. EVER.
I was just thinking about this the other day!
Ok this is has got to stop. You are a great writer, but you push soccer, want us to wear scarves to football games, don’t hate bammers (because you don’t have to live with them), etc. Again, you are a great writer, but you are about as far from 99% of Auburn fans as you can get.
Yeah, Jerry. The most important thing isn’t that you’re a great writer who loves AU. It’s that you’re filling otherwise-dead time writing about something that brings joy to 90% of the world. Vamos Roja!
CON, where do you get the idea I don’t hate (most) Tide fans? I don’t throw a lot of Molotov cocktails around, figuratively speaking, because the endless STUPID BARNER-STUPID BAMMER screeching is so pathetically tiresome, and I don’t think this site is best served by inviting it in. But I’m not under any illusions about how delusional, arrogant, and craven they can be. No, I don’t live amongst them, but I read a LOT of their scribblings online, and I know the score. (Of course, that means I also know how empty-headed Auburn fans can be some times.)
As for the scarves, yeah, suggesting that Auburn fans start wearing an Auburn-related piece of clothing to Auburn games that would be a new tradition unique to Auburn clearly makes me less of an Auburn fan.
“… about as far from 99% of Auburn fans as you can get.”
Come again? What makes you the authority? The Auburn Family is extremely diverse and I think it’s great that we have a well-rounded blog like this one to not only entertain us, but to keep us informed. So what if there are a few articles written about the World Cup? Seems to me that there have been more positive reactions than negative. It also seems to me that you could easily tell, “Hey, this is a post about soccer,” by looking at the title and just skip reading it.
I’m 100% for a blog that doesn’t mention bama every day, and doesn’t allow room for the constant pissing match between a select few Auburn and bama fans. I’d like to think that 99% of Auburn fans are above that…but clearly not by your standards of what an Auburn fan should be.
“(Of course, that means I also know how empty-headed Auburn fans can be some times.)”
Which means you honor Shug Jordan by doing so:
“Nobody has a lock on idiots”.
Hobbes, awesome.