Very Cam Newton, n’est-ce pas?
TRANSCRIPT:
I, like you, have read everything, I’ve heard everything, and I’ve seen everything. Now the time has come, the time has come to decide who we are, what we are, and what we’re going to do.
You Alabama fans listening in to see what we’re doing, what we’re saying, how we’re feeling, how we’re thinking – how about giving us a moment alone, just us Auburn people, so we can talk among ourselves. Would you do us that favor? We’d appreciate it. Take a break, go to the bathroom, get another beer, do whatever you want to do, I don’t care. Just give us Auburn people a moment alone.
Well, now that we’re alone what do you think? Ah, I know they’re still there, I know they’re still there listening in on what we’re saying, but so be it. I’m not scared of them and you’re not scared of them either, not since coach dye came, none of us have been scared of them anymore, none of us. If they weren’t scared of us, they wouldn’t still be listening in and thinking we didn’t know they were there.
Funny thing is they probably thought we were stupid enough to think they would leave when we asked them to leave. They’re the ones with the problem, not us. In fact I want them to hear what we’re saying and what we’re talking about. I want them to know what we’re thinking, they need to know, and when they find out, they won’t sleep good tonight, tomorrow night, any night. We’re coming after their butt. We’re coming after them today, we’re coming after them tomorrow, we’re coming after them the day after tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that.
We will not rest, we won’t sleep, we will not be deterred until we reach our goal, and that goal is simply this: to paint this state – the entire state – not North Alabama, not South Alabama, not East Alabama, not West Alabama, the entire state, orange and blue. Now Terry Bowden and I didn’t always agree, and we didn’t always see eye to eye on everything, but we did agree on one thing. We might not get them, the Alabama mamas and papas, but we were going to get the sons and the daughters. We were going to get the children, and we are getting them. Birminghan was once their bastion, their home ground, their turf. Lookat the statistics. Statistics don’t lie. Birmingham and Jefferson County students are coming to Auburn as never before.
We’re winning the battle there, and we’re winning the battle everywhere else. Take a snapshot here, take a snapshot there and it might not be evident. But in your heart, in your heart of hearts, you know we’re winning the battle, and you know we’re winning the war. Where are their sons and daughters going to school? Think about your Alabama friends and the number of their children who are coming to Auburn. Inch by inch, person by person, child by child we’re winning the war. It might not be evident in every battle, and it may or may not be evident today, but we’re winning the war.
All we have to do is keep the faith and keep on fighting. Every day in every way in every arena. The future is ours. All we have to do is fight for it and take it. Keeping the faith, that’s the key. And I don’t want to get anybody mad, and I don’t want to offend anybody, but think about the Vietnam War. Think about it in the context of the Alabama-Auburn rivalry. Time and time again we Americans claimed victory. We read about it in the paper, we heard about it on television, we beat ourselves on the chest.
And what did it get us? In the little things and the hearts of the people? That’s where wars are won and lost, and we’re winning this war with Alabama, just as sure as you hear the sound of my voice, we’re winning it. You know it and they know it.
That’s what will keep them awake tonight, that’s what will keep them awake in the nights to come. Winston Churchill, he of the Auburn heart said it best, “Never, never, never give up. We will fight on the land, we will fight on the sea, we will fight in the air, we will fight until Hitler and his Nazis are driven from the face of the earth.”
Now I’m not comparing Alabama to Hitler and the Zazis. Not at all. There are many good Alabama people, and I have many good Alabama friends, at least a few, and I have great respect for them and their program for what they’ve accomplished down through the years. But this is not about them, this is about us: who we are, what we are, and what we are going to do.
We are going to fight them today, we are going to fight them tomorrow. We’re going to fight them every day and every way. We won’t win all the battles, but we’re going to win the war. You Alabama fans out there, still listening in, eavesdropping voyeurs that you are, lurking there in the deep, dark shadows of radioland, you can bank on it. We’re going to win the war. Remember Dunkirk, the gallant British army was virtually driven into the sea. That was but one battle. It was a long, long war as this has been, and will continue to be, a long, long war.
No, this is not about you. This is about us, the Auburn people. And this is a call to arms. Today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after that, and the day after that. We will fight until victory is ours.
And as for today, Coach Jordan said it best, and that’s beat hell out of the University of Alabama. We will fight until the victory is ours. We may get knocked down, but we will not be knocked out. We will get up and fight again. We may occasionally be downhearted, but we will not be defeated. Never.
It is not in our nature, not in our makeup, it is not in our heart and it is not in our soul. Remember Goliath, remember the Roman Empire, remember Ozymandias. Learn from them, my Alabama friends. Learn from them and prepare to join them. No, Ozymandias was not Ozzie Nelson’s cousin.
Now go listen to Eli. He’s a good man, he’ll tell you who Ozymandias was. Back to you, Paul. Let’s get it on.
Related: Listen to the 1956 Beat Bama pep rally.
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“In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the cry of “War Eagle!” rings in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height.
On, On, you Auburn Tigers. Be copy now to men of grosser blood, and teach them how to war.”
(With apologies to Shakespeare and Henry V for the alteration)
War Eagle!
Proclaim it…through my host,
that he whicih hath no stomach to this fight,
let him depart; his passport shall be made,
and crowns for convoy put into his purse;
we would not lose in that man’s company
that fears his fellowship to lose with us.
This day is called Black Friday:
He that wins this day, and comes safe home,
will stand a-tiptoe when this day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Newton.
He that shall see this day, and live old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
And say “Tomorrow is St. Newton.”
Then he will strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say, “These wounds I had on Newton’s Day.”
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he’ll remember with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall their names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words–
Newton the quarterback, Fairley the defender,
Bynes and Dyer, T-Zac and Adams–
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Black Friday shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But they in it shall be remembered.–
Those few, those happy few, that band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood for Auburn
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition.
And gentlemen in Auburn, now abed,
Shall think themselves accursed they were not there;
And hold their manhoods cheap while any speaks,
That fought with us upon Black Friday.
and now, unfortunately, with bammer’s dumbing down of their admission standards and Auburn’s rasing their’s, the opposite of what Housel has said is happening… I know of MANY a child that grew up in an Auburn family that is now in school at bammer, simply because they couldn’t get in at Auburn.
Lots of water under this bridge.
Remember Dunkirk, you eavesdropping voyeur! Water under the bridge, water under the bridge…
I say this as an Auburn alum and fan; that was fucking stupid and I’m actually kind of embarrassed by it.
Philip, how in the hell can you make that statement? The point Mr. Housel was making was that we have to fight the fight of the spirit to make Auburn known as the pre-eminent university in the state–not just as a football program, but as the best educational institution and family. What in the hell can you find embarrassing about that?
Michael Val
(who wonders if true expressions of passion over a worthy subject are what Philip, along with most people today, find “embarrassing”)