re: Question for Auburn fans (or anyone)

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accountant...

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Got it.

Must have got tired of hearing crickets on the dawg rant??

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why it took such drastic action to get Bama to Auburn.

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It's simple, were better than them. /thread

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WTF is this?

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EDIT- It makes sneaking up on sheep a lot easier?

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what i don't understand is why it took such drastic action to get Bama to Auburn. Why didn't AU just say, 'ok, this is our home game. the game is going to be played in auburn.' ?Bama shows up or gets a forfeit.

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Because there was an agreement from back in the day that said the game would played at Legion Field.

Auburn and Bama didn't play for a period of what, 30 or 40 years because they couldn't agree on some very trivial issues. One was the amount of meal money allowed to each player. Another was the number of players the teams were allowed to bring to the game. It took the state legislature threatening to take action at that point to even have the two programs play each other.

I do not know exactly why the two teams could not play.

The name calling here is in jest, I hope. Auburn is a "backwoods rathole?" Compared to where? I have lived in Tuscaloosa and Auburn. As for the smell thing, that must be some insecurity issue. Tuscaloosa smells...it is kind of like asphalt. Auburn has no odor. You never hear Auburn people ragging T-Towners about that fact. Ask anyone who actually has lived in both places. Thugs pistolwhipped and robbed my neighbor and her boyfriend in Tuscaloosa.

Bump.

Just want to say the Farkage here is the best on the net!

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what i don't understand is why it took such drastic action to get Bama to Auburn. Why didn't AU just say, 'ok, this is our home game. the game is going to be played in auburn.' ?Bama shows up or gets a forfeit.

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For decades, Alabama football enjoyed a higher profile than their cross-state rival, both in Alabama and across the nation. Auburn always had their share of success, but the perception was that the Tigers were the No. 2 team in their own state. Legendary 'Bama coach Bear Bryant even referred to Auburn as "that cow college on the other side of the state."

But by the 1980s, an ascendant Auburn program was making waves, and as the program’s stature grew, the Tigers’ home field, Jordan-Hare Stadium, grew along with it. Eventually the stadium had outgrown even Legion Field, and in 1987—after an increasing sense of injustice among the Auburn faithful that the Iron Bowl had never been played on their turf—Auburn officially requested that the game be played at Jordan-Hare every other year.

That long-time wish among Auburn fans—to get Alabama at home—was eventually granted and, on Dec. 2 1989, the Alabama Crimson Tide took the field on the campus of Auburn University for the first time. It has been called the greatest day in the history of Auburn football.




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