New Years Eve eve, 1989. Busch Gardens. The legendary Pat Dye, about to lead his Auburn team to victory over John Cooper's Ohio State Buckeyes in the 1990 Hall of Fame Bowl, lays his guts on the line, as it were. Phil Snow: "And Dye appeared to grasp the subtleties of the exotic dance much sooner than did his Buckeye … [Read more...] about Pat Dye, belly dancer
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This 18-year-old Auburn fan wrote a great song about Alabama weather and the Weather Channel loves it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYjjSmsGxBI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0Cd_M1K3N4iMYZKqn242R6-4yNvuT6sZ04PK5E9vXkejT5AxP6lUIOQnU Saturday was, for once, perfectly pleasant across the Heart of Dixie. No freak freezes. No flash floods. No pop-up polygons. But meteorologist Reynolds Wolf — son of Birmingham, noted Auburn fan — still couldn’t keep his mind off “Alabama … [Read more...] about This 18-year-old Auburn fan wrote a great song about Alabama weather and the Weather Channel loves it
Phil Neel’s Tiger for Hire
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
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