If you like TWER, please consider supporting my work via Patreon. Thanks! Yes, he eventually sent his two boys, Mike and Rick, to do or die for Auburn. But in the late 50s, Phil Neel was just a guy trying to make it, a guy trying to get as much mileage out of his tiger tracings for the Birmingham Post-Herald as he could get. If that meant money from Auburn, fantastic. … [Read more...] about Phil Neel’s Tiger for Hire
Never-before-seen photos of Leonard Nimoy’s 1974 star trek to Auburn
"On a humorous note, Nimoy began speaking of experiments conducted by Dr. Werner Von Braun dealing with flashes of light. He related the flashing theory to the Auburn crowd by saying the flashing is happening now in the form of what we call streakers." Yes, it was a heck of a week for Spock to visit the Plains; the kids who would one day be piloting flights from to energy … [Read more...] about Never-before-seen photos of Leonard Nimoy’s 1974 star trek to Auburn
That time Bear Bryant lost a recruit to Auburn in the shower
If you like TWER, please consider becoming one of the 100. Thanks! In early 1981, when young sports columnist Paul Finebaum's story on how Bear Bryant was "losing his grip" on the state of Alabama appeared in the Birmingham Post-Herald, assistants under brand new Auburn head coach Pat Dye pounced. It wasn't so much the words that had them smiling. It was the photo that went … [Read more...] about That time Bear Bryant lost a recruit to Auburn in the shower
How petty Georgia fans delayed an Auburn grad’s career as a best-selling children’s author by a decade
So I wrote the cover story for the 2019 winter issue of Auburn Magazine, and it's about how James Dean, the Auburn engineering grad behind the whole, amazing Pete the Cat thing, doesn't hate Auburn, despite popular belief in Bulloch County, Georgia. I mean, would a guy who hated Auburn draw this eagle? Speaking of, I only just now realized that the story behind the eagle … [Read more...] about How petty Georgia fans delayed an Auburn grad’s career as a best-selling children’s author by a decade
What Auburn SGA campaigning looked like in 1973
Auburn's SGA elections are this week, and the concourse looks about the same as it did this time 47 years ago. Only difference this go round? Perhaps less a little intrigue. Yes, I have it on decent authority that the power to the cooler storing the chocolate chip Baskin Robbins ice cream SGA presidential candidate Chip Stillwell was scooping out for voters was somehow cut … [Read more...] about What Auburn SGA campaigning looked like in 1973