"Rolllll Eagle!"

For the ones of you who don't live in Alabama, or near it, you may not know that today is the Iron Bowl. This is the day each year that Alabama and Auburn meet up to fight it out in what is commonly dubbed "the game of the year" with the winning team winning bragging rights for the next year. (although I haven't really heard much bragging among anyone other than grade schoolers in years)

Anyway, I am not exactly a die hard, dress up in team colors, go to every game, decorate my home and car kind of fan, and I generally pull for both Alabama & Auburn throughout the year..... except in this game. I want Auburn to win. Mainly because many Bama fans tend to bear a striking resemblance to a certain team a bit north of here who wear orange and white, as far as the level of obnoxiousness goes, when things are good in T' town.

As most of you know, Auburn has won for the past 6 years (maybe that's why there has been no grade school type bragging? hmmm...not sure.) which leads me to my point. See that picture above? That's from Channel 19. I generally watch that station for news and have seen that picture along with hearing the bone jarring voice that says "Iron Bowl 2008, Perfection vs. Redemption" at least a thousand times in the past week or so. While I know that it's referring to the far less than perfect season that Auburn has had and the perfect season (as far as wins at least, not perfect performance by any means) Alabama has had so far this year, it's still really annoying.

As far as facts go, Auburn has actually won the "Iron Bowl" more times than Alabama has and has had multiple winning seasons over the past several years while Bama has performed far less than perfect for quite some time now, at least until this year. One bad season and AU is seeking redemption? Riding Tuberville out on a rail? Please!

Anyway, whoever wins today's game, I'm pretty sure I'll not loose any sleep over it. Carter and I usually spend our time in front of the TV on game day watching for Uncle Chris & Aunt Crystal on TV at the game....we'll be watching for Uncle Chris today wearing his Crimson & White (and you know we'll find him in 100,000+ people!)

I thought about dressing Carter in his Bear Bryant hat and his Auburn shirt...lol! We have said both "Roll Tide" and "War Eagle" so many times this year, he's adapted his own shortened version of both now, which his dad, grandparents and everyone else of "Tide" descent just love ...I'll leave you with it...

"Rollllll Eagle!!"


That's my boy!