Nice hat...It'll be even sweeter if Lutzenkirchen is wearing it while...

[The Prowler]

doing "The Lutzie".  Or Nick Fairley doing the Ric Flair "Strut" Woooo!!!

http://www.warblogle.com/2011/01/02/football/if-auburn-wins-they-will-wear-this/

[Godfather]

doing "The Lutzie".  Or Nick Fairley doing the Ric Flair "Strut" Woooo!!!

http://www.warblogle.com/2011/01/02/football/if-auburn-wins-they-will-wear-this/

Whats up with the fuckin houndstooth lookin shit on the sides

[JR4AU]

Whats up with the fuckin houndstooth lookin shit on the sides

Was thinking the same thing.

BTW, I've seen what Golden Flake will put out on a commemorative tin, if Auburn wins...pretty cool. 

[Tiger Wench]

Was thinking the same thing.

BTW, I've seen what Golden Flake will put out on a commemorative tin, if Auburn wins...pretty cool.

If good things happen, would someone please locate one of these for me?  I will be glad to reimburse you plus S&H.  I am jonesing for some Golden Flake anyway...

What I want to know is this:  Will this year's winner have to do a Wal Mart photo op?

[JR4AU]

If good things happen, would someone please locate one of these for me?  I will be glad to reimburse you plus S&H.  I am jonesing for some Golden Flake anyway...

What I want to know is this:  Will this year's winner have to do a Wal Mart photo op?

If things go our way, I'll get you one. 

I don't think Wall Marks will be an option.  I was in there the other day...place is chock full o bammer shit, and has little Auburn stuff. 

[Godfather]

If things go our way, I'll get you one. 

I don't think Wall Marks will be an option.  I was in there the other day...place is chock full o bammer shit, and has little Auburn stuff.

I heard we were going to showcase it at Harry's

[Snaggletiger]

I'll have to give the Dicks here credit.  (I love Dicks) Last year after Bammer won it all, the entrance to the store was wall to wall crimpsum gear.  This year, they've had the windows all painted up in orange and blue and the entrance is just the opposite.  Obviously capitalizing on what's hot right now but there are some stores here, like Target, who won't even carry Auburn stuff.  They've got a few racks of Bammer gear but anything AU doesn't exist.

[djsimp]

Will this year's winner have to do a Wal Mart photo op?

Actually, I think Auburn will. Can't remember where I heard or read this but I do remember think "shit, after all the smack I talked to bammers about them touring the crystal at the Wal-Marks". 

Actually, now that I think about it, I believe I heard this on JOX not to long ago.

[Token]

If things go our way, I'll get you one. 

I don't think Wall Marks will be an option.  I was in there the other day...place is chock full o bammer shit, and has little Auburn stuff.

That's because, as much as you fuckers hate to admit it, there are a shit load of people coming out of the woodwork and buying all of that Walmart shit. 

[djsimp]

That's because, as much as you fuckers hate to admit it, there are a shit load of people coming out of the woodwork and buying all of that Walmart shit.

Yeah, even in Eufaula. Seriously, no Auburn nowhere at the local Wal-Mart establishment. Now, well its all hanging in from of the bammer shit. Even got posters, book bags, key chains, etc. You'd think Eufaula had changed their mind about things even after Auburn University made them take their Tiger emblem off the HS football uniforms. HAHA!

[Token]

Also, if Dr Pepper is the sponsor again this year, you can bet on a Wal-Mart presentation of the trophy.  And if there is a Wal-Mart presentation of the trophy, you can bet on my having a shit ton of pictures.

[Buzz Killington]

Also, if Dr Pepper is the sponsor again this year, you can bet on a Wal-Mart presentation of the trophy.  And if there is a Wal-Mart presentation of the trophy, you can bet on my having a shit ton of pictures.

I'll be there with my pleather National Champs jacket.

[AWK]

Also, if Dr Pepper is the sponsor again this year, you can bet on a Wal-Mart presentation of the trophy.  And if there is a Wal-Mart presentation of the trophy, you can bet on my having a shit ton of pictures.

However, unlike Alabama fans last year, Auburn fans won't have to leave the cash register for their 15 minute break to view the trophy.

[JR4AU]

However, unlike Alabama fans last year, Auburn fans won't have to leave the cash register for their 15 minute break to view the trophy.

To the moon Alice! 

[Token]

However, unlike Alabama fans last year, Auburn fans won't have to leave the cash register for their 15 minute break to view the trophy.

For that, I'll make damn sure to get a picture of an employee with Auburn shit on posing for the picture.

[Snaggletiger]

For that, I'll make damn sure to get a picture of an employee with Auburn shit on posing for the picture.

Mods....ban him.

[AUChizad]

What I want to know is this:  Will this year's winner have to do a Wal Mart photo op?

http://www.thewareaglereader.com/2011/01/an-open-letter-to-the-au-administraton-regarding-the-proper-venue-for-displaying-the-coaches-trophy-spoiler-its-not-aisle-7/

Open letter to the AU administraton regarding proper venue for Coaches Trophy (spoiler – it’s not Aisle 7)

Written by thewareaglereaderFootball, SportsJan 4, 2011

In an open letter to Auburn University administrators sent to TWER (and currently en route to media outlets around the southeast), Auburn alum Jim Magruder (’83), father of our own John Magruder, urges a by-all-means-necessary approach – including the threat of legal action – to maintaining the Walmart-less dignity of Auburn’s potential national championship.


This is not Jim Magruder.
January 4, 2011

An open letter to:
Dr. Jay Gogue ‘69, Ph.D, President, Auburn University
Jay Jacobs ‘85, Athletics Director, Auburn University
Bobby Poundstone ’95, President, Auburn Alumni Association

Dear fellow Auburn grads:

WAR EAGLE! from Virginia, where the blood is often blue, there is no football to speak of, and (thankfully, or we would move) there is Verizon FIOS.

I presume that many of the letters you receive from alumni begin in the same fashion – by recounting how our families have been associated with Auburn University for many years.  I will do the same, but very briefly.  My family became an Auburn family not long after the school became Alabama A&M, and many of my family and extended family have graduated from Auburn.  I graduated in 1983 with a degree in industrial engineering, and I am a proud Life Member of the Auburn Alumni Association.  Auburn has been good to me, my family, my home state of Alabama, my employers, and my country, and a day never passes that I am not grateful for what Auburn has done for me and for so many other people.  Because you are also Auburn alums, I know you feel the same way.

Unfortunately for Auburn University and its alumni, we are often compared to, even “lumped in with” a certain “institution” (taken in the broadest sense) in northwest Alabama due to our proximity to same.  While Auburn’s record over the years certainly is not pristine, I can safely say that we are rank amateurs compared to “those people” when it comes to unethical and disgusting behavior.

So, you will understand that it was painful to learn that all of their sordid history was rewarded so richly when the University of Texas failed to roll back the Unwashed Nation last January in the Rose Bowl.  While that was and still is difficult to bear, it was shocking to learn that upon arrival in Tuscaloosa, the “Unavursdi” promptly carted its national championship trophy down to a couple of local Walmart stores for display.  [One need browse People Of Walmart only once to understand why Walmart isn’t a suitable venue for such an occasion.]  The national news networks immediately picked up on the story, of course, and the (so-called) “University” of Alabama became a national laughing stock – one more time.  I thought the LSU fan where I work would have to be hospitalized he laughed so hard.  [The Bammers claimed that there was a contractual requirement to do the promotion… and yet they never sought a remedy…. go figure...]

The state of Alabama needs fewer black eyes – not more – and unfortunately, it will be many years before the “Walmart Trophy” debacle is forgotten.  For the state’s sake, I pray that this pathetic scene is never repeated, by any school.

As to the purpose of my letter: I must ask you a question, and I assure you, I’m deadly serious.

I need to know that our University – upon earning a prestigious honor such as a national championship in football – would never stoop so low as to display the trophy at a Walmart store – or a truck stop, a Burger King, a Greyhound bus station, an outhouse, etc.  Please PLEASE tell me that the state’s premier University would only display said trophy in the most appropriate and dignified way – not in front of piles of second-tier soft drinks, motor oil, and diapers.  PLEASE tell me it will  never ever happen.

Please tell me that if Auburn University wins the BCS national championship in the Fiesta Bowl Monday night, on Tuesday morning you will send a wealthy Auburn alum to Bentonville, Arkansas with this message:

“We understand that you paid a sum of money for the right to display Auburn University’s national championship trophy in a promotion at Walmart, and that you negotiated in good faith.  However, on behalf of Auburn University, I am here today to tell you that will never happen – not today, not tomorrow,  NOT  EVER –  and that we will reimburse you for your expenses to date.  If you persist, you should know that you will have to sue us in open court, and that will take many months.  I also remind you that possession is nine tenths of the law – and that even if you were to prevail in a lawsuit against the University, I can say with absolute certainty that our trophy will  NEVER  be displayed in such a fashion – not for a day, not for an hour, not for even one MINUTE.

“Now… if you will sign this release form, please… how much should I write the check for?”

So I ask you: will Auburn University trade its dignity, its pride, and its reputation for a few dollars?  Are the accomplishments of this great university and its alumni so insignificant that we’re willing to be the “town idiot” on a national stage for a decade?  Please tell me you will do whatever is required to prevent our alma mater from becoming a national laughing stock.

I look forward to your reply.  And again, War Eagle!

Sincerely,

James L. Magruder ’83

Glen Allen, VA

[The Prowler]

So....K-Mart or Bargain Town?

[Tiger Wench]

I would donate to that legal defense fund. Dear LORD, deliver us from aisle 7.

[djsimp]

I'm hoping for at least worse being Target.