I know he liked whipping our ass while he was at Southern Miss.
I tried my best to hate Favre, but couldn't. I was in the stands the day we kicked four field goals and he led them back for a late TD to ruin homecoming. I wanted so bad to hate him....
But I couldn't. Admired the guy's tenacity.
That was the day my wife became an Auburn fan. She was born and raised into a Bryant-worshipping family. She grudgingly went to that game. As we were leaving she watched the Auburn fans interact with each other and with the Southern Miss fans. We congratulated them and they us. We still greeted each other with War Eagles. She was puzzled that there wasn't any complaining, people weren't screaming at each other and cursing the team and the coach, we weren't throwing things at the Southern Miss fans or flipping them off. She understood for the first time what the term "Auburn family" meant. And she turned right then and there. We left Auburn with her in possession of her first Auburn shirt. She's 100% one of us now. Can't believe she was ever one of them.
But that was a long time ago. I don't know that the same attitude exists at Auburn any more. David Housel is shoved aside. We've got Bamma-holes in orange and blue clothing like David fucKing Ward running around and thinking they have the right to speak for Auburn when they are completely clueless about what it truly means to be an Auburn man. Merely attending school there does not qualify you. We've also got tons of bandwagoners like PCChamp -- who admittedly chose Auburn in 2004 because the football team was doing well. He also presumes to lecture people on how the Auburn family should act. I guess we've gotten spoiled. The days when we could shrug off a loss to Southern Miss and still enjoy being in Auburn with Auburn people have been replaced. We're not David Housel's small-town charm and friendliness, we're Jay Jacobs' pompadour pomposity. Toomer's isn't a friendly corner drug store, it's a merchandising vehicle. We've got a segment of the fanbase -- again heavily populated with former Bammers -- pledging loyalty to a MAN rather than the team, which if you think about it is how they grew up anyway. It's all they know. I love Auburn. Always will. I'm not so sure I like what it's becoming, though.