Auburn fans - before, because of the love they have for their team. LSU fans - afterward, because of the annihilation they drove 9 hours and sat in the rain to witness.
Before, sounds kind of lame to cry before the game.........hmmmm Well look on the bright side, you can cry before and after this year!
Well, his name is Tiger! We have been the Tigers since we started fielding a football team. It's how we chose our colors (though they decided navy blue was better looking than black). The name (for the town of Auburn and the Tiger nickname) comes from the Oliver Goldsmith poem "The Deserted Village" where it says: Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain... Where crouching tigers await their hapless prey. This was also where some newspaper writers got the idea to sometimes refer to us as the Plainsmen. But that has never been any kind of official name, battle cry, mascot, or anything. War Eagle (as the legend goes) comes from a story of a Confederate veteran who was left for dead on a Civil War battlefield. The only living things in his sight were him and a baby golden eagle. He picked himself up and the eagle, and made it back home where he and the eagle were nursed back to health. Years later, at Auburn's first football game against Georgia, the eagle broke loose from the soldier who by now was an Auburn graduate, and circled the field while Auburn was rallying for the win. The students started shouting "War Eagle". The eagle died shortly after that game. The tradition stuck. Now, I realize some of that story has to be made up, but I think the Confederate soldier/AU grad owning a golden eagle that came to the early football games is accurate. There you go...more than you ever wanted to know about our nickname, mascots, and other traditions.
Man, there is a national title for everything. I don't think they call it that though. He was named "Collegiate Mascot of the Year" or something like that.
There you have it. The genesis of all this drivel is that we're confused. Are you the Tigers or the Eagles? Is your mascot a Tiger or is your mascot an Eagle. So, apparently you're the Tigers and your mascot is an Eagle?? Stick with one and then we can talk about football.
LOL...................You know some schools out there might claim it as a national title..........:dis:
You won't get any argument from me on that point. Ahem. Nicknames and mascots are not the same thing. Reread the part where I alluded to Army's mascot being a mule, even though their nickname is the Cadets and North Carolina has a ram (or is it a goat?), but their nickname is the Tarheels. Oh, and Texas A&M's nickname is the Aggies, but their mascot is that miniature collie. It's an old college tradition that some schools held on to and others didn't. Auburn did. Thus, we have a golden eagle as a mascot and our nickname is "Tigers".
