saniflush 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 This started on another board in a thread and thought it might be interesting to see how widespread our folks are. Best one I got was in Subic Bay, Philippines in 1989. Was a lance corporal stationed there with Marine Barracks. I was running down the road one day with and AU shirt on when a vehicle passes me and pulls over in front of me. A navy Captain is driving and rolls his window down. Typically Navy Captains (equivilent to full Colonels ) DO NOT talk to lowly lance corporals unless they are in BAD trouble. I came to attention at his window and he just gave me a big "WAR EAGLE" to which I responded "WAR EAGLE sir". He continued on his way after we spoke for a few minutes about Auburn and mutual people or families that we knew. Kinda brought back a feeling of being home. (especially since I wasn't there for the first buttwhipping in Jordan Hare). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWK 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Montego Bay, Jamaica. After a snorkeling/party cruise that toured Mararitaville and the reefs, I was walking in the tourist shops downtown and i had my Navy Blue AU shirt on, An older man(who was apparently also a tourist) gave me a big War Eagle from about 50 feet down the road. It made my day, that and the Rum punch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrnfanatc 6 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Not an exotic place, but while on my honeymoon in Jackson Hole, Wyoming my new bride and I were touring Yellowstone park and walking away from the Yellowstone version of the "Grand Canyon" we heard a War Eagle and saw another couple also wearing their Auburn attire. They were actually from Michigan but had grown up in East LA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarDlowe 39 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I have had many random War Eagles said to me, and it has always made my day to see the Auburn family wherever I am. The one I'll share happened just last week actually. I was in Athens, GA on Tuesday night at a concert, obviously filled with UGAy types. I always wear my blue Auburn hat wherever I am, and Athens didn't stop me from doing that. About midway through the show someone very far behind me saw the Tiger Eyes on the back and yelled War Eagle! I of course yelled it back and paid no attention to the sideways looks the UGAy folks were giving me. That prompted another War Eagle from somewhere on the other side of me. After the show the guy who I assume said it to me came up behind me and shook my hand. It's great to be an Auburn Tiger, no matter where you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GalensGhost 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Best one ever? Last year I was in New York City on business. With one of my employees who is, sadly, a bama fan. We were in Times Square and he had just finished explaining to me for at least the hundredth time how "we would always be Auburn and alabama was the national this and that..." Three times within ten minutes I was greeted with a War Eagle. Once from across the street, once from a well-dressed woman who passed us, and once from a guy out the window of his cab. My friend was there for four days in his bammer cap and we heard nary a RT. He's still fuming over that. Makes the excuse that Bama fans don't act like that in public because there are so many of them. Calls AU a cult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texaubie 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 US Open in Pinehurst Many an airport. I had an hour long conversation with a guy at an airport bar in Denver. Another in Mexico City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerOne 1,307 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Best one ever? Last year I was in New York City on business. With one of my employees who is, sadly, a bama fan. We were in Times Square and he had just finished explaining to me for at least the hundredth time how "we would always be Auburn and alabama was the national this and that..." Three times within ten minutes I was greeted with a War Eagle. Once from across the street, once from a well-dressed woman who passed us, and once from a guy out the window of his cab. My friend was there for four days in his bammer cap and we heard nary a RT. He's still fuming over that. Makes the excuse that Bama fans don't act like that in public because there are so many of them. Calls AU a cult. 196315[/snapback] Sounds like you need an unexpected layoff. Don't you want your company to reach it's full potential? If AU is a cult then why is all the kool aid at the crapstone? stupid bammers, I'm glad we will always be Auburn that is the difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saniflush 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 Best one that I initiated was this past Summer in Spain. My girlfriend and I were in Salamanca touring around and came across some exchange students who had just gotten there. ( you knew this because they were all VERY wide eyed) One of them had an Auburn hat on so I shouted a War Eagle at him. Half the group shouted back. I think they decided right then and there that there were friendlies/auburn folks everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wesfau 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I've received them in: Vegas, San Diego, Seattle Best was in the Bahamas. Best I've given...anytime I greet my Dad on gameday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KunzelTiger 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Last year in Giants Stadium for the Giants/Steelers game right before the Sugar Bowl. I was wearing my RB #23 jersey and I got a nice big War Eagle from a couple of fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTim 3,532 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 BEST ever recieved.....Two years ago.....President George W. Bush! Best ever given.....Each and every gameday when I speak with my two Daughters that live in Auburn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigermike 3,840 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 While hiking the 33-mile-long Chilkoot Trail. The trail begins at the Taiya River bridge near the Dyea townsite and travels over the Chilkoot Pass to Lake Bennett. It took us 6 days to make the hike, but we were not in a hurry and looked around quite a bit. Any way while we were in the Chilkoot Pass we met up with a group of 4 hikers. I was wearing an AUBURN sweat shirt and one of the guys let out a big WAR EAGLE! He was an AU grad living on Kodiak Island and they had come over for the hike. If any of you remember the movie White Fang, the scene where they were climbing up the mountain of snow and using ropes to pull themselves up. That was the Chilkoot Pass. Or supposed to be, I have no idea where they actually filmed the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saniflush 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 If any of you remember the movie White Fang, the scene where they were climbing up the mountain of snow and using ropes to pull themselves up. That was the Chilkoot Pass. Or supposed to be, I have no idea where they actually filmed the movie. 196343[/snapback] Thanks... i was going to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubie7 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Some of the best: Eiffel Tower Auckland, New Zealand Venice, Italy Sydney, Australia Amsterdam But the best are always by my family on Saturdays in Auburn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weaglewagon 1 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 man, those are some cool places. looks like i need to get out more. WAR EAGLE TO ALL OF WEN! BEAT ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgufcm 4,109 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 best given: yelled it from the top of the spanish steps in rome. got it back from someone at the bottom who came up to talk. best received: sleeping in sheep's meadow in central park. a guy woke me up just to say war eagle. liked the sleep, but i liked the war eagle better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cumming Tiger 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I took my wife to New York City a few years ago (more than five) on a business trip. One night we went to see the Yankees play the White Sox. We walked into Yankee Stadium as they opened the gates. The Sox were taking batting practice at the time and Frank Thomas was standing behind the cage goofing around with some of the other guys. I asked the usher if I could go down and talk to Frank becasue we graduated together (we didn't really). He said, "if you can get him to call you down you can go." So I let out the loudest WAR EAGLE! I could, Frank turned around waved and yelled War Eagle back to me. But the guy still wouldn't let me go down to the field. I told him that was Franks way of saying come on down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbwau95 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Florence, Italy. A jogger ran past me in a T-shirt from a Birmingham restaurant, so I took a chance and yelled "War Eagle!" He turned back and yelled, "War Eagle," only with an Italian accent. It was great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big dude 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Just this past spring at the FedEx St. Jude Classic Golf Tournament Pro-Am, I got to give (and receive) two of the biggest War Eagles that may ever occur in my lifetime. I got to meet and get my picture taken with Tommy Tuberville on the practice green. Also, while Bo Jackson was at the driving range, I yelled out a big War Eagle to him and he turned around and gave it right back to me. What an incredible day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAR EAGLE!!! 0 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 On my 13th birthday, my dad told me I could go anywhere I wanted to go for lunch and he would take me. My favorite restruant at the time was Fifth Quarter in Montgomery so off we went. As we were walking in, there was another gentleman walking across the parking lot and my dad turned to me and said, "there is Jim Fyffe." My father and Jim were friends so as we got closer my dad called his name. Sure enough, when I heard the man's reply and actually heard his voice, I thought that I had known him forever...I was standing there with the man that I heard on the radio calling the games of the team that I loved so much...even as a 13 year old boy! As my father and Jim talked and as I stood listening in amazment to the voice I loved, my dad mentioned it was my birthday. Jim Fyffe then told me Happy Birthday. I said thank you and asked Jim, "can you please say TOUCHDOWN AUBURN!!! for me for my birthday?" All of a sudden, as if Lawyer Tillman had just run around the end, Jim Fyffe bellowed, TOUCHDOWN AUBURN!!!!!! right there in the middle of the parking lot of the fifth quarter. It was an awesome experience! Oh yeah...then we said War Eagle to each other so that was cool(and the point of the thread and my story) but not as cool as Touchdown Auburn!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarDlowe 39 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 On my 13th birthday, my dad told me I could go anywhere I wanted to go for lunch and he would take me. My favorite restruant at the time was Fifth Quarter in Montgomery so off we went. As we were walking in, there was another gentleman walking across the parking lot and my dad turned to me and said, "there is Jim Fyffe." My father and Jim were friends so as we got closer my dad called his name. Sure enough, when I heard the man's reply and actually heard his voice, I thought that I had known him forever...I was standing there with the man that I heard on the radio calling the games of the team that I loved so much...even as a 13 year old boy! As my father and Jim talked and as I stood listening in amazment to the voice I loved, my dad mentioned it was my birthday. Jim Fyffe then told me Happy Birthday. I said thank you and asked Jim, "can you please say TOUCHDOWN AUBURN!!! for me for my birthday?" All of a sudden, as if Lawyer Tillman had just run around the end, Jim Fyffe bellowed, TOUCHDOWN AUBURN!!!!!! right there in the middle of the parking lot of the fifth quarter. It was an awesome experience! Oh yeah...then we said War Eagle to each other so that was cool(and the point of the thread and my story) but not as cool as Touchdown Auburn!!! 196412[/snapback] This may be the coolest one yet.... this thread makes me so proud to be an AUBURN TIGER!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proud Tiger 4,261 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Best Given: 1. Sitting on the bama bench (10 ft. behind Bear Bryant) at the bama vs. Vandy game whem Joe Namath was a senior. Granted I said it quietly but I said it 2. To bama coach Gene Stallings when I ran into him in a restaurant in Fairhope. Best Received: 1. In Nairobi, Kenya 2. In Frankfort, Germany airport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Points 2 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 My Dad got it at the great pyramids in Egypt in 1943 during WWII. He thought it was the greatest thing......................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger in Spain 0 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Best Given: At the main train station in Rome, Italy. This gentleman and his wife were exiting a train as I was headed back to Naples with my mother. He and his wife had the biggest grins on their faces. Best Received: The one I got from Coach Tommy Tuberville himself, right after he reenlisted me back into the navy in April of 2001. Thanks, Tommy! The picture still hangs in my office.....and it always will! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarTim 3,532 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 On my 13th birthday, my dad told me I could go anywhere I wanted to go for lunch and he would take me. My favorite restruant at the time was Fifth Quarter in Montgomery so off we went. As we were walking in, there was another gentleman walking across the parking lot and my dad turned to me and said, "there is Jim Fyffe." My father and Jim were friends so as we got closer my dad called his name. Sure enough, when I heard the man's reply and actually heard his voice, I thought that I had known him forever...I was standing there with the man that I heard on the radio calling the games of the team that I loved so much...even as a 13 year old boy! As my father and Jim talked and as I stood listening in amazment to the voice I loved, my dad mentioned it was my birthday. Jim Fyffe then told me Happy Birthday. I said thank you and asked Jim, "can you please say TOUCHDOWN AUBURN!!! for me for my birthday?" All of a sudden, as if Lawyer Tillman had just run around the end, Jim Fyffe bellowed, TOUCHDOWN AUBURN!!!!!! right there in the middle of the parking lot of the fifth quarter. It was an awesome experience! Oh yeah...then we said War Eagle to each other so that was cool(and the point of the thread and my story) but not as cool as Touchdown Auburn!!! 196412[/snapback] What a GREAT memory. Thanks for sharing. On a side note, when my oldest daughter was only 12, we attended the A-Day game. We ran into Jim crossing the road beside the stadium. She looked at him as if he were royalty.(Having been raised by her father, that is probably not a stretch.) He looked at her and walked over as if he had known her forever. He reached down to shake her hand and she hugged him. He smiled and said "That is the best thing that has happened to me today." When Jim passed, she called me to remind me of that memory we shared. We both cried. I have said it before and I will say it again, I will miss Jim, each and every AU Gameday, until I die. Then, I can get one of those "TDAs" in person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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