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Yep. That stood out to me, too. I wondered if he'd watched the video on YouTube.

If this is true, I hope there is a morality clause in his contract. Any more “funny business” and he’s out the door with no buy out.

Yes!

I recall listening to this game on the radio with my dad. Good times!

The more I learn about Sanders, the better I like him. He seems to be an excellent recruiter and motivator, and he really seems to care about his players and assistants. Plus he is as competitive as the day is long. I think we would be fortunate to get him.

" I’d be a fool and a liar to tell you I wouldn’t entertain those things because I am." "I am"? Not I would? That present tense might be a Freudian slip. I hope he has been contacted, at least, and is giving it serious consideration.

My Halloween is really starting to look up! 😙

In addition to being a great punter, Baumgartner was also the back-up quarterback. Anyone remember his coming off the bench in 1975 to beat Kentucky with a 72-yard pass to Jeff Gilligan?

I'm not the oldest AE member (born 1/26/57), but I've enjoyed reading this thread. Since someone many pages back asked about the Kopper Kettle explosion and today is the 34th anniversary of that event, I'll share my memories of that day. It was a cold Sunday morning, just a bit after 8:00, when a loud blast woke me up. "What was that?" My roommate sleepily replied, "thunder." (Ha!) Later that day we tried to go through downtown on our way to get something for lunch. The streets were closed off and there were fire trucks and police cars everywhere. We thought there had been a fire at one of the businesses. When we got to Shoney's (out on Opelika Rd, some of you will recall), we heard people talking about the explosion. Then we realized what had happened. After lunch we walked downtown to see the devastation. Downtown looked like a war zone. Debris littered the streets and hung in the trees. Broken glass from windows of businesses and the methodist church was everywhere. Mannequins from shops across from the Kettle hung from windows in macabre fashion. The Kettle was just gone! It is a miracle that no one was seriously injured. Had the explosion occurred on a weekday, I'm sure there would have been fatalities. Had it occurred even a couple of hours later, the church would have been full of people. There was a law office behind the Kettle and the lawyer was in the habit of working a few hours on Sunday morning, but he was not there that day. There was also a small apartment either over the Kettle or the law office, but the student who rented it was away for the weekend. Someone had actually smelled gas and called the gas company, but when a guy came out to check on it , he thought the smell was coming from another direction and had walked off to see. We were very, very lucky that day. That day stands out as one memory of my college days I'll never forget.