Game Day: 2011

(This is the song for the 2011 Intro Video for Auburn's football team)

I never particularly cared for football when I was growing up. Being from Charlotte, I was a Carolina Panthers fan & I watched games when I had time, but I never took time out of my day to sit down and watch the whole game. I was a busy kid, with tons of extracurricular activities. I went to all my high school football games my senior year, and I started getting into it. I went to a few college games during my senior year of high school, most notably the UNC-Maryland game in 2007.

Nothing prepared me for Auburn Football, the Auburn Experience. The first game I went to, I got goosebumps when the eagle flew around the stadium, when I watched the drum majors and band run out onto the field, and heard the crowd roar as the team took the field after the intro video. It was a moment unlike any other for me, and I cannot describe how it makes me feel. Once you experience it, you know what it's like. Until then, you'll wonder at why people gush over the experience of a Saturday on The Plains.

I was not an Auburn fan before I started at Auburn University, I was not an avid-Alabama hater, and I still am not. I will always hate Duke more than I hate Alabama, it's just a fact of my life. Growing up a UNC fan, I just could not understand why everyone loved Duke. They were annoying to me. Cocky, self-righteous... And I was a kid thinking this! I watched UNC basketball, and I remember where I was when UNC won the NCAA tournament in April 2005. That season I watched all the basketball games at the same house, in the same spot on the floor. When UNC was doing poorly, I would change my spot or the way my head was tilted or what I was drinking.... It was a great season for me.

Now, I do the same thing for Auburn football games. I watched the National Championship game at my friend's house & almost had a heart attack at the end of the game. I watched the 2010 Iron Bowl game with Reuben at my house & bore a hole into the carpet with my pacing. I took myself outside and walked around my front and back yard trying to calm down (my mother didn't like me yelling so loudly at the tv, it scared her...).

I would never have been this crazed about any football team if I had not had the experience at Auburn University. I may hate the stereotypical Alabama football fan like every other Auburn-lover, but one-on-one with an Alabama football fan, I could never be rude or nasty to them.


Auburn/Utah State Highlights

This weekend was the first game of my "Senior" year of college. As I am staying for another year (yay CO-OP!), it's not my last season. However, for the majority of my friends, it is. It's not going to be a pretty season, but that's ok by me. I just hope we don't have a repeat of 2008, when we lost to Vanderbilt...

War Eagle.