Where did it all start for you

Acceptance letter in Dec 1997

My first game I can remember was auburn-lsu 1996 :(

I had been to games before that but that's the first time I can remember loving going to auburn games.

I guess then?

I grew in Atlanta as a UGA fan. I was accepted at both Georgia and Auburn. Thought i was going to Georgia and had a roommate and all set. But I wanted to major in Aviation management, so decided to go to AU. Never, ever, ever looked back. Greatest decision of my life second only to marrying my wife of 32 years. Met her at Auburn too, so perhaps the AU decision was the best. It shaped the rest of who I am today and what I love.

Birth

I was months old during PuntBamaPunt game. My dad's screams listening to the game on the radio woke me from my nap. Hooked every since.

ditto. Grew up in the lean years of the 70's and early 80's. anybody that was a tiger back then, they can never be anything else. It was me and one other kid in my entire class growing up that were Auburn kids the rest worshipped the old dead drunk and that was HARD! You young whipper-snappers don't know how tough we old timers used to have it (sarcasm)

When my dad enrolled at API in 1955.

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All these years later I still can't understand how anyone thought Miami deserved that title more than Auburn. I know the run Miami went on is all people remember but that year belonged to Auburn. Titles are such popularity contest if Auburn had been given that title as it deserved who knows what might have happened later in the 1980's.

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I agree. However we beat Michigan 9-7. It wasnt exactly an exciting offensive show for the rest of the country to see. At that time it was all subjective voting.

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When my dad enrolled at API in 1955.

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Similar for me, although my dad enrolled a few years earlier. Actually started paying attention when my Dad talked about the Sullivan-Beasley Junior Varsity games. Totally hooked listening to the radio in '72. Then obsessed after the Punt Bama Punt celebration at Toomer's Corner.

I may be banned after my story but my journey was a process. I grew up an obnoxious Bammer to the core. I called Coach Dye and AU war chickens after AU tied Syracuse in the 1988 Sugar Bowl by not going for 2 after a late TD. Later that year my mom married a really cool Auburn man so I stopped hating Auburn so much over the next 5 years. I became an actual AU fan in the '93 no tv season. I love underdogs and Auburn was just put on probation and was not given a chance to do anything by anybody. Combine that with hearing Jim Fyffe call every AU game and having to visualize each play and you have a very rich experience. I taped the Florida and Bama games on audio cassette and still have them...Well 1996 rolls around and I'm looking at colleges. I visited both AU and Bama. The admins and people involved with initial contact at Bama acted like they did not care if I went to school there. AU was a different story. I was a nobody, just barely over AU's acceptance standards. I visited the AU campus at it was a complete different story than Bama. They gave me a guided tour and made me feel very welcome and showed great interest in me. They made me feel like a 5* recruit. I fell in love with and chose AU that day because AU chose to care about me.