We miss the eagle, you miss the eagle, all God’s children miss the eagle.
It’s there to visit for those who know the not-so-secret location of its (final?) resting place. But folks have been tweeting about it a lot and Instagramming their friends riding it like Falcor and really just missing it, so here are some photos we recently discovered of the day it first took flight: Dec. 2, 1989. That was the day. Sound familiar? Ditto. Yes, the eagle whose majestic wings welcomed fans to Auburn basketball fans to Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum (then just Eaves-Memorial) was installed to mark the occasion of a football game, specifically the first Iron Bowl in Jordan-Hare Stadium; obviously nothing basketball-related could occasion the installation of a giant bronze bird of prey, even for a team coached by a man named Eagles.
The ceremony was at 9:30 a.m. People were there. Auburn won. The eagle soared. For 7,842 days. This was its last in the air.
Related: VIDEO: Auburn’s eagle nearly flies the coop in epic pre-game flight.
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I had pictures taken under that eagle after I graduated. Now it sits over by the track and I see it every time we do PT there for the ROTC department and it makes me sad.
You sure that was Saturday and not Friday. The game kicked off at 2:30pm. The campus was packed and that looks like a Friday crowd for that game.
I remember going to the Parade and Pep Rally Friday afternoon and then watching the concert on Friday night in Plainsmen park. Coach Dye said don’t ever let up.
Then, I remember going to tiger walk which was packed before 11am, but yet you can see this place wasn’t packed.
My father was the inspiration and main benefactor who first had the idea of an eagle.He was an alumni sick with cancer and wanted to leave his college a legacy. He felt Auburn gave him an opportunity to be successful in his chosen field of engineering, which he Was.I find it disheartening to know that the eagle has been taken down and put in front of a Softball field. The fans will never see this beautiful Bronze sculpture that my father Intended to mount over the Scoreboard in the stadium but the alumni would not allow it. It is a beautiful sculpture and should be enjoyed by everyone and my father would have appreciated that.