A Ghostbusters shirt—no, Volbusters. Gold chains. 110 film cameras. Mesh War Eagles hats. Jams. Ocean Pacific. Aubie in sunglasses signing paw prints on schedule posters featuring the curls of Ben Tamburello. Jeff Burger under center for the Blue Team. President James Martin. Pat Dye in his prime. Bobby Lowder in public. And Bo—Bo Jackson, Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson, dressed like a roadie for Stryper. April 26th was the most Auburn’s Decade of the 80s day ever.
It was the Dye-era picture day. No one forgot. Everyone dressed up. Everyone ordered the package. The class got a pizza party. And a new upper deck. And four in a row. Lord, look at it. Then look at Bo dominating some kids at A-Day 1984.
AU Archives photos via Orion Stan-Gravois.
Did Bo lose a bet? I guess when you are that awesome you can wear anything.
You guys have got to get a better photo viewer widget. I guess having to click through to each pic is pretty 80’s.
Boy, that second-generation Aubie costume looks rough compared to the current one. Even the brown-and-orange original looks better in hindsight.
They couldn’t get that material again when it wore out– they tried to! So they switched to a different manufacturer and that’s how the “real orange” Aubie came to be!
Are those the first known pictures of the “new” leaping-tigers scoreboard in the North end zone? I can’t remember when it was put up, but I didn’t think it was that early. (It is possible that I’m just getting old, of course.)
I was there. And Bo was there shining in all of his glory. It was very ’80’s and it was a remarkable time to be on The Plains. War Damn Eagle! 🙂
I was right- the scoreboard was installed for the ’86 season. It wasn’t there in ’85. So the ’86 A-Day game was the first time it was used.
wish they’d have at least put the leaping Tigers SB in the N. EZ as opposed to what’s there now. And I’d love to see an album of pics showing JHS’s expansions through the years
and btw, I do miss the old school leaping tigers logo
“Bo Knows Pajamas.”