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• How much of the history do you capture?

"We have to talk about the 1926 Rose Bowl, when the Bama team upset Washington in the game that put Southern football on the map."

"And what about the Crimson Tide's Tommy Lewis coming off the bench to tackle Rice's Dickey Moegle in the '54 Cotton Bowl, explaining it as being 'too full of Bama?'"

"We have to talk about Punt, Bama, Punt. too."

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• This needs to be more than just football-specific stuff. It must have gravitas.

We focus on every detail of the past two crazy years we can think of: Bama overtakes Florida. Ingram wins the Heisman. Bama beats Texas. The Crimson Tide is the favorite to repeat in 2010. Cam takes over at Auburn. The Cecil Newton scandal breaks. The NCAA investigates. "Scam Newton," as Bama fans call him, leads the Tigers to the biggest comeback in Auburn history in the Iron Bowl. He wins the Heisman. His father is barred from attending. Auburn wins the BCS. His father is barred from attending. Updyke calls into Finebaum show taking credit for poisoning Toomer's Corner. Updyke does another hour on Finebaum's show after his court appearance. More chaos.

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We examine our list of people to drive the narrative:

"We need to reach out to Finebaum."

"We gotta get Cam. Have to."

"I think we can get Bo Jackson to sit down with us."

"What about Mark Ingram and Greg McElroy? They're great talkers. And Shaun Alexander! Also, (Joe) Namath and (Ken) Stabler."

"I want famed magazine writer and Alabama grad Gay Talese in this."

"I think we need to get Charles Barkley."

"How about Robert Gibbs from the White House? He is a huge Auburn guy."

"Bill Curry is a great storyteller. Put him down . (will we hear about the brick again?)

Same with (Pat) Dye and (Gene) Stallings."

"We gotta get Terry Henley [the early 70s Auburn star] since he's the guy most Tiger historians credit for launching the Toomer's Corner tradition."

"We probably should try and get Updyke in this ..." and

Will everyone judge all Alabama fans because of one nutjob?

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I googled photos of Harvey Updyke and come across a shot of the 62-year-old former Texas state trooper lingering, hands in pockets, a few feet away from a crowd of fellow Crimson Tide fans. Harvey's got one of these stuffed-animal elephant head hats on with the tusks flared out and a six-inch-long trunk pointing straight up in the air above his face. He's wearing a crimson and white 1950s letterman-style coat with patches representing each Bama national title running up the sleeve.

Wow.

This is going to be about the poor trees and the evil Alabama fans that destroy the traditions of the poor Auburn fans.

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We proceeded to delve into the most venomous rivalry in sports and how it had become Ground Zero for college football fans for essentially the previous 500 days. Two BCS titles. Two Heisman Trophy winners. Two classic Iron Bowl games for the ages. One epic story about an on-going NCAA investigation that surrounded Auburn's superstar quarterback Cam Newton and his father Cecil. Hours before kickoff, when Newton and his teammates take walk out onto the field in zfor warm-ups, they are greeted by the Alabama PA system blaring the song "Take the Money and Run," while the Crimson Tide student section showers the Tigers with Monopoly money. Newton's response? He carries the Tigers to the biggest comeback win in their school's history.

Again, the evil Crimson Tide employee and the students doing that to Cam, but he comes back like a hero and overcomes the adversity.

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But as we were trading ideas, the story down in Alabama took a stunning turn. On April 27, the same day I'd sent Joe my outline, tragedy struck. Some of the most powerful tornadoes in the state's history ripped through Alabama, devastating Tuscaloosa. Football didn't seem so important any more. Instead of the dispatches you got from the Deep South about the twists and turns of the Alabama-Auburn rivalry, we were hearing about the magnitude of the destruction that rocked an area as proud and passionate as any part of our country. And then, in the wake of the tragedy, the pride and the passion and the shared history that has fueled the most venomous rivalry in sports manifests itself in a different fashion. Relief efforts such as Toomer's for Tuscaloosa are formed and spring into action (there was also the "Bama Rising" concert that came together with the help of a group of country music stars).

And now they will talk about how great AU is to collect money for Tuscaloosa, probably not even mentioning the Tuscaloosa for Toomers fund that collected thousands of $ from Bama fans for the trees. Probably the only good thing about this show.