The back-in-the-day downtown decor was always over the top. The store windows were always painted — before the games, after the games. But at the same time, 50 years ago, it’s like they knew.
VIDEO: Terry Bowden’s introductory Auburn press conference
The biggest takeaway from these 38 minutes, to me at least? Terry Bowden seemed awesome. Gene has his #WordsOfChizdom and all that, but if there’s been a more articulate (for lack of a better word) coach in modern Auburn history, I can’t think of him.
VIDEO: Never-before-seen footage of Auburn’s 1976 Beat Bama Bed Race and beauty pageant
You gotta love the War Eagle Girls and Plainsmen. Those outfits… so distinct, so classy. But underneath? Whoa… Yes, before the actual race part of what I believe was the group’s third annual Beat Bama Bed Race fundraiser, the War Eagle Girls strutted their stuff in thematically consistent nighttime attire before a captive audience at […]
An Auburn Transplant in Philly: AU grad asks Bama fan friend to get an Auburn tattoo in return for her kidney
1996 Auburn psychology graduate Becca Coluntano and Chad Watkins met at the gym. It didn’t take long. They’re cut from the same cloth. They talk the same trash — one about Alabama, one about Auburn. One day in 2004, Becca walked in in an Auburn shirt, not thinking twice about it, encountering the enemy at a […]
Beating the Mighty Bulldogs in 1972
“Five plays. We’re going to beat the mighty Bulldogs in their backyard with five plays.”