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Delusion In Their Own Words....LOL

The Littlest Dynasty

Pluck and Grit

By Matt Scalici

September 23, 2005

Eight months.

That's exactly how long the "Auburn Dynasty" lasted. After three straight years of beating Alabama and building a program worthy of being declared "The People's National Champions," the Auburn Tigers are right back where they started: playing second fiddle to the Crimson Tide.

How is it possible to lose such an enormous amount of national respect and clout in such a short period of time? If anyone knows how to do it, it's Auburn.

In 1957, Auburn won its first (and only) national title.   The Tigers were on top of the football world in a time when the sport was becoming America's new national pastime.

So did Auburn capitalize on this opportunity and turn into the next big thing in Southern football? Not exactly. It would be 26 years before Auburn would even win its conference again.

Let's check out the next banner in the Auburn hall of fame, the 1993 season. Terry Bowden led the Tigers in his first year as head coach to a perfect 11-0 record and was triumphantly carried off the field after beating Alabama for the first time ever at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

Auburn's time had finally come. Except for one thing: The Tigers were on probation and had no chance to compete for a conference or national title.

And of course, we all know about 2004, Cadillac "The School That I Had Chose" Williams (Gee, slamming an 18yo kid, His Mama must be sssooo proud!) and the last-second touchdown by Spencer Pennington that might have kept the Tigers out of the national championship game. That being the Alabama highlite for the last two years....

So how do these three instances, the three greatest moments in Auburn football history, explain how far the Tigers have fallen in just one summer?

In Terry Bowden's words, it's all about "AttitUde." There are programs that know how to act when they're on top - places like Notre Dame, Michigan, USC and, not so long ago, Alabama.

Auburn is not one of those schools. Whenever the Tigers have been given a chance at success, an opportunity to finally eclipse the mighty Crimson Tide in the way of national prominence and respect, the results are always the same: They inevitably blow it. FFFOOOUUURRR Eagle! Wish you guys would quit ruining our SOS too.

Alabama has been down and out for half a decade. The Tide has been forced to deal with an embarrassing 2000 season, devastating NCAA sanctions, a gutless betrayal by a head coach, a trashy scandal by his replacement and finally the utter humiliation of losing for three straight years to Auburn.

Auburn had the crown of Dixie handed to it on a silver platter coming into the 2005 season. Three games in, it appears that Auburn has missed the chance for coronation once again.

The Tide outranks Auburn in both major polls and is two weeks away from what is being hyped as one of the biggest games of the year against Florida. Meanwhile, Auburn's name won't be uttered again until the middle of October when the team plays its next real opponent (sorry Tigers, Western Kentucky High School for the Blind probably won't attract the GameDay crew).

Such is life in the Loveliest Village on the Plains, where fans chant, "We're No. 2," where it's tough to be seen in the shadow of Alabama and where losing is just a way of life.FFFOOOUUURRR Eagle! Is our chant Phallus-Noggin...

What is sssooo funny to me is that this guy is about to graduate from Nortport Community College and obviously has lerarned absolutely ZERO and certainly has learned no class.

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The Auburer makes fun of this here.

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Should we laugh or feel sorry for them???

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The Auburer makes fun of this here.

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WDE to the Auburner! Hilarious!

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AUsome!!!

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I don't know what you can see on The CW's website, but I'm behind enemy lines and get to see the real thing every day. Last Monday's was great...on the front page in big letters it said SHELLSHOCKED and had a big picture of the UA bench late in the game, with a little blurb on the game. On the right side of the page was another article. It said AUBURN WINS CANNED FOOD DRIVE then went on to talk about how AU has won the food drive six years straight. Talk about rubbing salt in the wounds...it was great.

Oh, and the last article on the page said something about drug arrests being up at UA in the last year. Tough week