re: ESPN to televise Auburn's final rolling of Toomer's

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Good for the Aubies. I know a lot of people think "it's just a tree", " throwing toilet paper at trees is stupid", etc but it's a tradition so let them have it. I mean if we go through every tradition at each of our schools, I'm sure there would be some ridicule too. The whole thing of some nut case from a rival school "killing" the tradition because he couldn't handle the fact that his team lost, is much more ridiculous than toilet papering a tree. Traditions are what make college football so much more interesting than the pro game, visiting a rival's campus & seeing some of their traditions has always been one of the things I love about road games. I'll probably watch it for the sake of SEC nostalgia

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And it was so much more than just trees. It was a gathering place after the game for fans to come together and all celebrate the win. It was a sense of community. My grandfather rolled those trees with my mom and aunt, and I would have loved to have been able to take my now 11 month old and told him this is where his great grandfather(who played baseball there and was roomates with Shug Jordan for a time), grandmother and father rolled the same trees after we won a game.

Is it just throwing toilet paper in trees? Sure, but it's also much more than that. It's a shame that piece of history is going to be taken away.