By J.M. Comer
I was going through my morning Google checks of Auburn news, when I came across an Alabama history article in The Montgomery Advertiser about Marine Corps Gen. Holland “Howlin’ Mad” Smith. He retired from service 62 years ago this month as a veteran of World War I and World War II, and considered [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Features’
August 19, 2008
“Howlin’ Mad” at Auburn: Runnin’ and Readin’
August 16, 2008
Actor’s new memoir zooms in on deleted scenes of southern football integration
By J. Henderson
[You'll pick up pretty quickly that I mostly wrote this for an audience mostly unfamiliar with Auburn football. So forgive the explanation of the Iron Bowl, Punt, Bama, Punt, etc... and full disclosure, as they say - I helped Thom with some of the research for the book. Fuller disclosure: this is long, [...]
February 20, 2008
TOUCH(ing)DOWN(loads)
By J. Henderson
When Jeff Fuller sits down at his desk and prioritizes his day, the fact that he’s been kept from making it back for a game since the 2003 season-opening humbling by USC is surely in the back of his mind and surely factors into his decision to pour so much time and energy [...]
February 6, 2008
Streaking at Auburn
By J. Henderson
Photo by B. Ashmore
If you’ve ever taken the time — and who hasn’t — to click on and glance at The War Eagle Reader’s “Stories Wanted” page, you might have noticed a reference to Auburn’s experience with the streaking fad, which began in codified earnest in the winter of 1974. In this regard, [...]
February 4, 2008
Re-Krootin’!, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Big Brother
By Big Sexy
It’s official — Auburn has yet again been proven to be the little brother in the state of Alabama. Yep, the celebration of the latest in a long series of highly dubious yet much lauded national championships for the Crimson Tide will begin in earnest this weekend, although the party has been rockin’ [...]
January 28, 2008
Tre Smith Tells All!
By J. Henderson
I had the chance to meet Tre Smith this weekend, yes, at the AAFL Draft event in Birmingham. Tre, Kody Bliss and Karibe Dede are all “locked” players for Team Alabama. More on all that later.
Karibi Dede, Kody Bliss, lovely Auburn fan, Tre Smith at the Wynfrey Hotel
Tre was pretty loved by Auburn [...]
January 8, 2008
The Emperor’s Old Houndstooth
By J. Henderson
My first memory of Paul Finebaum — sports columnist, radio talk show host, man, legend — is of listening to Tommy Charles and John Ed Willoughby mock him on the radio in, I believe, 1990. I was in middle school and, for a time, a regular caller to the TC and John Ed [...]
October 25, 2007
Bjork Damn Eagle
By J. Henderson
It has been just four days since Auburn’s tragic loss to LSU. Today, we have only our anticipation for a victorious remainder of the season in which to drown our sorrow; in 1988, after a similar Auburn loss resulted in a small, localized Baton Rouge earthquake, we had an extra something else, [...]
October 18, 2007
Footneauxts of ‘88
By J. Henderson
The Auburn Tigers have an interesting relationship with the LSU Tigers, a relationship marked by unique commonalities beyond their virtually identical official nicknames and adjacent complementary school colors schemes. For instance, the team that succeeded the 1957 Auburn team as national champions (our first time) was LSU (their first time), a scenario that [...]
October 9, 2007
Australian Butter, Reid McMilion, and other emotional miscellany surrounding the Arkansas game of ‘93.
By J. Henderson
Here is a strange story appropriate for the week of the Arkansas game.
The year? 1993. The new restaurant that had Birmingham hoppin’? Outback Steakhouse. It was late October on Hwy 31. A Friday Night dream!
It was also my great grandfather’s last birthday, last he would celebrate rather. I was in high school, a [...]
