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Posted on 8/10/20 at 12:41 pm to AuSteeler
Posted on 8/10/20 at 12:41 pm to AuSteeler
I greatly enjoyed being at the Pasadena Natty to such an extent that the loss didn’t hurt me very badly. I was actually more hurt by the A&M loss within the next calendar year.
I think the football lifer in me was just so happy to be watching Auburn play in the freaking Rose Bowl for a national championship that, especially coming off a 3-9 season, I felt we were playing with house money. It kinda stings looking back and looking at all the IFs but it doesn’t change how I view that season or attending that game. I guess if we would have won it would have legitimately been nirvana.
I think the football lifer in me was just so happy to be watching Auburn play in the freaking Rose Bowl for a national championship that, especially coming off a 3-9 season, I felt we were playing with house money. It kinda stings looking back and looking at all the IFs but it doesn’t change how I view that season or attending that game. I guess if we would have won it would have legitimately been nirvana.
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Posted on 8/10/20 at 12:49 pm to auburnnyc94
I felt the same way you did, although we thought we were getting to be a somewhat dynasty after winning it all in 2011 and then going back in 2014.
We had a great time...and finally an Auburn team getting to play in the Rose Bowl for the first time ever(as you said).
But you have to look at the entire feeling, and having control of that game...slowly seeing it slip away...thinking we GOT this in the last 2 minutes of the game..to see victory snatched away in defeat....and then all the 'what else could go wrong' things that happened to my family before finally getting home.
I hate even writing this again...such pain(but smiling some)....
We had a great time...and finally an Auburn team getting to play in the Rose Bowl for the first time ever(as you said).
But you have to look at the entire feeling, and having control of that game...slowly seeing it slip away...thinking we GOT this in the last 2 minutes of the game..to see victory snatched away in defeat....and then all the 'what else could go wrong' things that happened to my family before finally getting home.
I hate even writing this again...such pain(but smiling some)....
Posted on 8/10/20 at 3:58 pm to auburnnyc94
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I greatly enjoyed being at the Pasadena Natty to such an extent that the loss didn’t hurt me very badly. I was actually more hurt by the A&M loss within the next calendar year.
If true, you and I think very differently. Though heartbreaking and hard to watch, the TAM game was meaningless compared to the National Championship game that we were one play away from winning. A situation that Auburn was in where they had only been in the position ONCE in a 50 year period. A game that would have solidified Auburns position in the elite. It would have eliminated the "Once in a lifetime Player" conversation of 2010.
It would have been awesome to see that team finish on top after how that season went. They deserved it in my opinion.
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