Auburn football: Best gameday tradition? Experience different for every Tiger fan
Tiger Walk, Toomer’s Corner, the eagle flight. All three of these traditions are regarded among the best in college football and each one of them is unique to Auburn football
Tradition is deeply rooted in the heart of Auburn and plays a key role in every gameday.
Picture it: every Auburn football Saturday as told by an alumni.
You wake up early morning, immediately get ready, and throw on your best orange and blue. With your best friends or family in tow, you head to your tailgating spot. While tailgating you stuff your face with hors d’oeuvres and watch everyone on College Gameday pick against Auburn. Having this good karma on your side you make it just in time to the Tiger Walk which then ends in a mass exodus of thousands entering Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Finally getting to the stadium is when every emotion takes over. Pregame hype videos will prepare you to run through a wall, the eagle flight will give you chills, and the band will make you cry. Once the team takes the field your mood will become dependent on the performance of the team. Example moods: Auburn vs Alabama 2013, great mood. Auburn vs Texas A&M 2014, bad mood.
If Auburn wins: go to Toomer’s Corner, get food, Sky Bar (or other post-game celebratory option), sleep?
Must Read. The reasons Auburn will beat LSU on Saturday. light
If Auburn loses: cry, question your emotional investment in sports, eat sadly, Sky Bar (or other post-game safe sad space), sleep?
So my Auburn Saturday features every major Auburn tradition but probably is different than yours. Some fans do Saturday differently, so to see all sides of gameday I took to the internet.
I’m not even going to lie: The band video is one of the only things that gave me enough strength to wake up on Saturdays in 2012.
The band video. Please tell me there is still a band video!!!
— Sallie Keene (@SallieKeene) September 10, 2018
WHY DON’T WE DO THIS???
You know what would be awesome? If they'd pipe in rod bramblett's play by play through the PA system during the game.
— Eventuality Factor (blue check) (@JHWareagle73) September 11, 2018
James Spann just compared Jordan-Hare to an oven? Cool. Hey Barning Hard, is it hot outside?
Besides finally acknowledging her by saying “Yeah it is” after the 8th time that my mother mentions that it’s hot out, I’d have to say that the pregame eagle flight is my favorite experience.
— BARNING HARD (3-9) (@IAMBARNINGHARD) September 10, 2018
ALWAYS AND FOREVERRR.
Winning.
— Brooke Whisnant (@wareagleblonde) September 10, 2018
A unique tradition shared by many but not for the faint of heart.
I am forever depressed that I graduated before I could participate in this.
https://twitter.com/jperkins_13/status/1039225950330920960
Storm the field at your own risk, the hedges have THORNS.
On the field with entire fam after kick 6!
— stephen moorhead (@Steve_Moorhead) September 11, 2018
Does your vendor cut you a deal?
Because I’m a little stitious, not superstitious, I buy nachos and a coke from the same vendor before every game. That, and lucky underwear, equals an Auburn win every time.
— David McCaghren (@aupolebean) September 11, 2018
I use my nervous energy to light every candle in my house and panic.
Harry Caray voice: “POLISH THE RIBS OFF WITH A NICE BUDWEISER.”
If you haven’t seen the video where Stephen Fry attends an Iron Bowl at Jordan-Hare then finish reading this and go watch it!
I’d say 1st is tailgating with friends and family in Auburn. But a close 2nd is inviting people who have never been to a college football game to their first game and it happen to be an Auburn game. Watching them amazed by the pregame pageantry is fun.
— Keith Redding (@keithredding) September 10, 2018
I can’t just choose one either 🙁
The whole dang day!!! Cant choose one, from tailgate to ALL the videos, eagle, band and rolling toomers! WDE!
— WarDamnEagle!🧡💙🦅🐅 (@dsw4au) September 10, 2018
Shivers following in footsteps of great smaller Auburn RBs. dark. Next
We are so lucky as fans to call a place so rich in tradition our home. If you’ve experienced Auburn then you’ve felt it. On a fall Saturday in Auburn, fans will come together as one to root for complete and total destruction of the opponent.
When it’s all said and done, Auburn football fans will return home taking a piece of Auburn with them.