Monday, September 1, 2014

The Things You Didn't See on TV at the Iron Bowl

 If you are from the state of Alabama, you are either for Auburn or Bama. That's the unspoken rule. The Iron Bowl, 2013 is one of the greatest games in football history. I was there to witness it first hand.
On the day of the Iron Bowl I was with the best people in Auburn to watch the game. We stood outside of the stadium for two hours before the gates opened (a total of four hours before the game started). Time flew by as the anticipation grew. Then the game finally began. We all know how this goes so there's no need for me to give you a play-by-play. Of course there's always that one Bama fan that sits in the Auburn student section by himself and he always finds a way to sit right behind me. So every time Auburn made a mistake, he would start singing some Alabama song in my ear and I would turn around and glare at him. When Alabama messed up, I managed to sling my shaker extra hard and give him a little taste of orange and blue in the face! He sat behind the wrong girl that day. 
SPOILER ALERT: Alabama decided to try a 57-yard field goal to win the game with a freshman kicker but fell short. Auburn's Chris Davis fielded it nine yards deep into our end zone and sprinted 109 yards for a touchdown and a 34-28 Auburn win. 
When that happened everyone around me started crying and screaming, the ground trembled. You would've thought Jesus was coming back! Before I knew it every one was pushing toward the field.

After falling over the thorn bushes we were finally on the field. Oh the sweet Pat Dye Field. Stepping on that field does things to people. Grown men were skipping around. Others were crying. While I picked off a piece of the field to keep, I saw one man on all fours eating the grass. Someone even dumped a loved one's ashes on the field! There was even an Auburn Santa on the field. It was a crazy night. Everyone took home branches of the thorn bushes as souvenirs. It was a surreal feeling storming the field. I stayed on the field for at least an hour, until security with the leaf blowers started yelling to leave.
Leaving the field I immediately went to Toomer's Corner to celebrate. People were making "snow angels" in the mounds of toilet paper on the ground. People  young and old celebrated at the corner for hours. It goes down as one of the best days of my life.

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