How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?

[Buzz Killington]

Just trying to get the median age...

My first was 1981, I was 11.

[AU_Tiger_2000]

1997 I was an 19 year old freshman.  Auburn was 1 and 3 in the Iron Bowl while I was in school.  Way to go Tater Tot!

[AUChizad]

My first that I actually went to was in Tuscaloosa when I was an 18 year old Senior in high school in 2000. Can't remember how we scored the free tickets. I believe Taylor was there. I've done a lot of drinking between then and now, so I'm fuzzy on the details.

[djsimp]

I've yet to be at one.

[Jumbo]

I was 25 and we lost.

[The Prowler]

I went to the '84 or '85 IB, I can't remember.  I was a bammer back then, didn't know any better, I was only 6.  My Dad almost killed a guy because he cused at me for wearing an Auburn hat (it was very sunny that day and my dad didn't want me to burn my head, so he gave me a hat to wear).  I stopped being a bammer that day when I saw how rude their fanbase was.....Best decision I ever made.

[AUChizad]

I went to the '84 or '85 IB, I can't remember.  I was a bammer back then, didn't know any better, I was only 6.  My Dad almost killed a guy because he cused at me for wearing an Auburn hat (it was very sunny that day and my dad didn't want me to burn my head, so he gave me a hat to wear).  I stopped being a bammer that day when I saw how rude their fanbase was.....Best decision I ever made.

Oooh.

This makes sense.

[jmar]

13, it was in 1971 at Legion Field.

[Townhallsavoy]

2003.

I was a freshman at Auburn. 

2002?  I was an LSU fan.  I grew up in New Orleans, so I naturally rooted for LSU. 

Then in 2003 when LSU and Auburn played, I thought it would be a win-win situation for me since I rooted for both teams.

I received four phone calls from family members after LSU blew us out.  Uncles and aunts.  People I had looked up to all my life as loving family members who I spent time with at Thanksgiving. 

They said things like, "How bout them LSU Tigers?  Dey knows how to play some football.  You sure you decided right to go to a school like Auburn?  Geaux Tigers!" 

If you know anything about people from Louisiana/LSU fans/people from New Orleans, you know they are extremely smug and prideful about where they come from.  It's not so much what they say to you but the tone of their voice and the connotation of their words.  It comes across as, "I am better than you because I am from New Orleans." 

That night, I said fuck LSU and became a true Auburn fan. 

Wait...got off track.

2003.  I was a freshman.  I was 5-0 in Iron Bowls as a student.

[JR4AU]

I didn't grow up an Auburn fan, or around any family Auburn Alum or fans.  It wasn't until my best friend took me to an Auburn game in about '79 or '80 that I became an Auburn fan. 

My first Iron Bowl?  Don't really recall actually, some time in college (I went to UAB).  The first one I have memory of was late 80s or early 90s.  Sitting to the side and below one of the upper decks, and seems like maybe in the student section if there was one....and before the game there was a kid (10 or 12 years old maybe) yelling at Auburn fans from off the upper deck..."Row Tahd" the little greasy redneck fucker yelled from his perch safe above us all...loud and long enough to get the attention of quite a few folks...and the chant "jump, jump, jump" grew to a crescendo from our section. 

[AUChizad]

2003.

I was a freshman at Auburn. 

2002?  I was an LSU fan.  I grew up in New Orleans, so I naturally rooted for LSU. 

Then in 2003 when LSU and Auburn played, I thought it would be a win-win situation for me since I rooted for both teams.

I received four phone calls from family members after LSU blew us out.  Uncles and aunts.  People I had looked up to all my life as loving family members who I spent time with at Thanksgiving. 

They said things like, "How bout them LSU Tigers?  Dey knows how to play some football.  You sure you decided right to go to a school like Auburn?  Geaux Tigers!" 

If you know anything about people from Louisiana/LSU fans/people from New Orleans, you know they are extremely smug and prideful about where they come from.  It's not so much what they say to you but the tone of their voice and the connotation of their words.  It comes across as, "I am better than you because I am from New Orleans." 

That night, I said fuck LSU and became a true Auburn fan. 

Wait...got off track.

2003.  I was a freshman.  I was 5-0 in Iron Bowls as a student.

My fiance graduated from high school in New Orleans in 2003 and transplanted to Auburn that fall. She went to Dominican.

inb4 "I thought she was Puerto Rican, not Dominican".

[Ranger12]

First Iron Bowl was 1999 at Auburn and I was 26. On the sidelines as a photographer for the Cullman Times.

[Tiger Six]

I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?

[Buzz Killington]

I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?

Dabbie?

[The Prowler]

I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?

rws

[Tiger Six]

You people suck at trivia...

There can be only one...

[GH2001]

1989 - 13 yrs old. Been to everyone ever since at Auburn.

[The Prowler]

I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?

Cam Newton

[AUJarhead]

I received four phone calls from family members after LSU blew us out.  Uncles and aunts.  People I had looked up to all my life as loving family members who I spent time with at Thanksgiving. 

They said things like, "How bout them LSU Tigers?  Dey knows how to play some football.  You sure you decided right to go to a school like Auburn?  Geaux Tigers!"

I feel your pain, I always get the "You went to Auburn, and you're from New Orleans?  Couldn't get into LSU?" line.  To which I respond, "Actually, I didn't even apply to LSU, all I got was a letter telling me I had been accepted into the incoming freshman class.  But I already had a high school education from the state of Louisiana."

First Iron Bowl, freshman year, 1992 at Legion Field.  0-0 at halftime, and we lose 17-0.  Pay Dye's last game.

[GH2001]

I feel your pain, I always get the "You went to Auburn, and you're from New Orleans?  Couldn't get into LSU?" line.  To which I respond, "Actually, I didn't even apply to LSU, all I got was a letter telling me I had been accepted into the incoming freshman class.  But I already had a high school education from the state of Louisiana."

First Iron Bowl, freshman year, 1992 at Legion Field.  0-0 at halftime, and we lose 17-0.  Pay Dye's last game.

Just for the record if you needed ammunition against Corndogs - If you could get into Auburn, LSU wouldnt be a problem to get into seeing as how Auburn is perpetually a Top 50 Public University and LSU is not.  I think you knew that though....Just saying.