re: 35 years ago today one of the greatest finishes to a college game

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No, the Wrong Way Bo game was the year before, 1984

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Getting old.. you are right. I was at wrong-way Bo but watched here-comes-Van-Tiffin on TV in Berwick LA.

Iron Bowl in Birmingham had a unique feature throughout its play. Auburn issued its students assigned seats while Alabama just had a 15,000 seat area blocked off and first come got seats.

Well, you could just slip the gate attendant a $20 and he would let you in.. the gate attendants usually split $30-40,000 after an Iron Bowl... and the several thousands who bribed their way in, and the all the ones with fake AL student IDs (me... had one until I was 40 years old) all went to sit in the AL student section... That section was thus chock full to bursting with people, all aisles, everyone standing because there were not enough seats, every one drunk, and it was riotous... much more out of control than the neatly organized Auburn half of the stadium.

To leave the stadium the biggest exit was through the south end zone... and the AL student section occupied the tiered bank of seats one side of that exit... and I remember one year in the 1970s drunk AL students pissing down from high-up seats onto the crowd of Auburn fans leaving early because of a blowout score... I was not proud of our fans at that moment..