At 12:42 a.m. this past Sunday morning, I cracked open a second celebratory beer and raised it to the man whose inspired performance had made that celebration possible: T.J. Finley. Yes, of course, Finley had little to do with Auburn’s Saturday night exorcism of 22 years’ worth of Tiger Stadium bayou voodoo. The superhero cape […]
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Isaac Okoro, the 2020 NBA Draft, the Atlanta Hawks, and me
Hello! I’m Jerry. I am an Auburn basketball fan. I am also an Atlanta Hawks fan. 25 years stood between Sonny Smith’s departure and Bruce Pearl arriving to whisk Auburn out of the basketball desert in his magical hot air balloon, and at no point in those 25 years would those two statements have been […]
Auburn 80, South Carolina 67: Sha la la la la la live for today
Hit it, The Grass Roots: This Thursday has mostly been an exercise in telling myself not to dwell on the box score from Auburn’s cathartic win over Frank Martin’s Gamecocks. After 10 minutes of continued offensive anxiety — punctuated by Samir Doughty missing an open layup that told us “KINDA GOT THE YIPS RIGHT NOW, […]
A Decade Under the Gusfluence
Auburn football’s 2010s weren’t actually bookended by Outback Bowls. The 38-35 victory over Northwestern 10 years ago rightfully belongs to the 2009 season; if you count that as part of the just-concluded decade, you have to logically shift the Tigers’ recent 31-24 defeat to Minnesota to the 2020s. But who cares about logic in the […]
Thoughts on Georgia 21, Auburn 14
I’ve rewatched this play a lot lately: Obviously, a different fourth-down completion has since emerged as the go-to example for anyone delving into the intersection of Auburn victory over Georgia and good fortune/divine intervention (delete as applicable). But it’s easy to imagine prayer at work in this one, too. Given how close Aromashodu is to […]