To see College Gameday on campus for the first time ever. To see the team you were raised to hate held to FOUR (4) YARDS RUSHING in the second half. To see their QB eat grass five times. To see them held scoreless for the last forty-eight minutes. To see signs like “Everyone’s SEC Pushover No more!” and “MY BUTLER WENT TO AUBURN” and “THE GEEKS SHALL INHERIT THE TURF” and “4-0 NOT JUST OUR GPA ANYMORE.” To see Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit throwing up the VU sign. To beat Auburn for the first time since 1955. To be 3-0 in the SEC for the first time since 1950. To be 5-0 for the first time since 1943. To be all alone, undefeated, at the top of the SEC East, for the first time in history.
To have the phone blow off the hook in the last three minutes with phone calls, text messages, voicemail, Twitter. To see that score, 14-13, flashing across the screen, and know that from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, from San Francisco to Mobile to Virginia, people are thinking of you and your team.
You can wait an entire lifetime for a day like this. Thankfully it’s only taken me 14 years.
(13) AUBURN 13
(19) VANDERBILT 14
FINAL
NO ONE ON THE CORNER HAS SWAGGER LIKE US
DYNAMITE GO VU!!!!!!!!!
Having Auburn be the true coming-out victim has to be icing on the cake.
There is something innately satisfying about watching one’s alma mater, especially one typically known far more for academics than athletics, hand it to a big-time football program. I once saw someone sporting a “We’re Also Better Engineers” sign at a Tech-Auburn game. Also seen: “Yes, I would like fries with that.”
Congrats. Even though the party was for the Bama game, your team put on the show for us in Mobile last night. There will be significant contributions to the glass pile at the recycling facility as a result.