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.
Vintage
Here’s what Toomer’s Corner looked like after Punt, Bama, Punt
You’ll hear that it all started 50 years ago today. It didn’t. But Dec. 2, 1972… man, that’s the day it blew up. War Eagle. To find out how Auburn cheerleaders Susan Moseley and Sarah Barber spent that night, click here. TWER photos: Larry Paker and Cecil Bridges.
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 […]
Beating the Mighty Bulldogs in 1972
“Five plays. We’re going to beat the mighty Bulldogs in their backyard with five plays.”