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.
Vintage
VIDEO: New Auburn basketball coach Sonny Smith speaks with the press, 1978
Awesome.
VIDEO: Auburn Basketball vs. Southern Cal, 1972
Auburn will begin a home-and-home series with USC at the Galen Center on Dec. 18, 2022… 50 years and three days from the schools’ first meeting. USC won 73-66 on Dec. 15, 1972 in Los Angeles at the Trojan Invitational. You can watch some of it here.
Punt, Bama, Punt and the Dates to Remember
Do you remember what you were doing 50 years ago tonight? Who you were with?
Susan and Sarah do.
VIDEO: Great coverage of Pat Sullivan’s 1971 Heisman Trophy ceremony
Footage of Pat. Footage of Jean. Footage of Shug talking about John Heisman like a man qualified to talk about him. Shug making Catholic / Baptist jokes. Yankee jokes. Shug’s accent (“Steve Spoo-ri-uh”). Shug and John Wayne. This is fabulous.