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re: Spin off: Why hasn't bama ever rolled toomers corner?
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:15 pm to TideJoe
Posted on 12/7/16 at 11:15 pm to TideJoe
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Because the locals would lose their shite.
all the more reason to do it
why it hasn't been done yet is beyond me. I'd pay good money to watch auburn fans lose their ever loving minds
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Posted on 12/8/16 at 1:58 am to TideJoe
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Because the locals would lose their shite. That's sacred to Auburn..... it'd be like the away team running through the T at Neyland.
Turnabout is fairplay, IMO
Posted on 12/8/16 at 6:49 am to MNW
Many Bama fans consider Updyke a hero. The rolling of the trees did not hurt Bama or any other team. It is fun, it is a gathering place to celebrate victories. some
Bama fans hate the tradition because they hate everything Auburn.
Bama fans hate the tradition because they hate everything Auburn.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 7:30 am to allin2010
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Many Bama fans consider Updyke a hero. The rolling of the trees did not hurt Bama or any other team. It is fun, it is a gathering place to celebrate victories. some
Bama fans hate the tradition because they hate everything Auburn.
I have no issue with Toomer's Corner. Rolled it my fair share of times growing up in an Auburn family, and my heart broke when I heard the tree was poisoned.
I just enjoy reminding Auburn fans of the time they brought cowbells to Starkville in 2014. I collected several from trash cans and friends/relatives after the game.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 7:34 am to BillBrosky
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I'll meet you at Toomers, whip dat arse, and MAKE you go buy the toilet paper.
got an internet tough guy here.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 7:41 am to hawgfaninc
Harvey was on to something when he poisoned those trees. Ever since I read about the cult ring ceremony with curses and spirit water and shite, I drew the line on ever entering lee county.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 7:41 am to SECdragonmaster
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got an internet tough guy here.
If you knew me you wouldn't think or say that. I'm a big old, dirt old, teddy bear.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 7:43 am to allin2010
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Many Bama fans consider Updyke a hero.
TOTALLY false! Most thought it was despicable. Classless.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:31 am to hawgfaninc
Auburn police enforce some kind of no roll rule if Auburn doesn't win. First time Bama beat them at home in a long time after the Shula years, there was warnings from Auburn police department not to try and roll the trees if Auburn lost.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:35 am to South Alabama Tide
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I drew the line on ever entering lee county
Good
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:37 am to allin2010
I don't know a single Bama fan that thinks that way of updyke. Not sure why so many Aub fans love that narrative. Hell, Bama fans donated money to replace the trees.
Furthermore, Bama fans dont hate the tradition of rolling trees. We just think it's dumb.
Furthermore, Bama fans dont hate the tradition of rolling trees. We just think it's dumb.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:39 am to ChoadieMcSmalls
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Not sure why so many Aub fans love that narrative. Hell, Bama fans donated money to replace the trees.
I think that was the case when it first happened. As time goes buy, he's grown into a cult hero for many. He caused such a disruption at a home softball game with fans taking pictures that he was asked to leave.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 9:40 am to ChoadieMcSmalls
quote:clearly. just look at this thread.
I don't know a single Bama fan that thinks that way of updyke. Not sure why so many Aub fans love that narrative.
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Harvey was on to something when he poisoned those trees.
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We poisoned it once, that's better than rolling it 1,000 times.
Posted on 12/8/16 at 10:53 am to DirtyDawg
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but if I was an Auburn fan and saw some jackass rolling the trees after beating Auburn I would probably clock em
Problem is most allbarn fans are non violence wimps. Hell you could burn their tiger can and they still want none
Posted on 12/8/16 at 11:26 pm to ChoadieMcSmalls
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Auburn police enforce some kind of no roll rule if Auburn doesn't win. First time Bama beat them at home in a long time after the Shula years, there was warnings from Auburn police department not to try and roll the trees if Auburn lost.
That true?
Enacting laws to prevent others from putting toilet paper on their trees is like the ultimate little bro move
Posted on 12/9/16 at 3:14 pm to joeyb147
I don't know them...
That said...a lot of the shite people say on here is hyperbole and nothing more than inflammatory bs to try and rustle jimmies.
That said...a lot of the shite people say on here is hyperbole and nothing more than inflammatory bs to try and rustle jimmies.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 3:38 pm to TailbackU
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We now have snipers on the roof.
I don't know why but that cracked me up
Posted on 12/9/16 at 3:56 pm to Cobb Dawg
quote:I have heard two different stories of how the tradition started, with both being that it wasn't the trees initially that were the target.
I've always wanted to ask an Auburn fan this. Why do you roll your OWN trees after a win?
1) Way back in the day before TV, and before radio broadcasters travelled everywhere with the teams, the only way to follow the progress of a road football team with over the AP/UPI wire feed, which came in on the ticker. The Auburn wire feed came in to Toomer's drug sore (or one of the buildings near by) and so the townspeople would gather there to follow the game. If Auburn won, they would gather up the spent tickertape and toss it over the utility wires in downtown Auburn. When the ticker went away, people resorted to using toilet paper in its stead.
2) I believe it was the 1972 (Punt Bama Punt) game, Bama was #1 in the country. The joking slogan in Auburn was "Beat the #2 out of #1" and people had rolls of toilet paper to wipe away the #2. When Auburn won, there was a huge celebration and the TP was thrown over the utility wires.
Either way, the original rolling was done over the utility wires downtown. When the wires were all moved underground (late 80s/early 90s) the only thing left to throw the TP on was the trees, and what better trees than those two large oaks at the corner.
I have no idea if any of that is true, but that is what I have heard.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 7:57 pm to bama will rise again
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Lol y don't arky fans celebrate at Wal-Mart after a win?
They won't ever win a national championship to do so.
Posted on 12/9/16 at 8:50 pm to hawgfaninc
Why bother? Waste. Of good paper!
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