The Auburn Elvis Blog

ESPN has a nice article on a growing sports fan trend - the Green Man. And folks think I’m crazy for donning a homemade Elvis costume. At least you can’t see my junk.

Man, it sure looks like Auburn is their own worst enemy right now. Well, that and a murderously back end-heavy schedule. But really, who’s schedule in the SEC isn’t murderously back end-heavy? I say, if you want to be the best, you gotta beat the best (out-of-conference doesn’t count, right?).
Auburn used to be that date […]

That college education is finally starting to pay off.

I recently worked out an arrangement with the good folks over at The War Eagle Reader to write a semi-monthly (fortnightly?) column featuring famous Auburn Alumni who use social media (like Facebook and Twitter). It called “fAUllow Friday. Today, my first article posted.
In the inaugural article I […]

For the first time in my life, Kentucky beat Auburn in football. Great. How historic. Actually, there was very little about Auburn’s loss that you couldn’t have seen last season - ineffective offense, overworked defense, sputtering special teams, and making an otherwise beatable opponent look BCS-worthy.
Seeing Auburn regress so thoroughly to last year’s pitiful station […]

Well, the shock of losing last week is almost past. And now, two days from Saturday, I finally begin to turn my attentions the Kentucky game. Before the season, this looked like a real benchmark game for both programs. However, as the season progressed, the chances of Kentucky seriously testing the Tigers became more-and-more remote… […]

Um… I thought the days of not having a team ready to play were long gone. There’s no excuse for the giant step back Auburn took this weekend. No excuse.

And when it was over, Auburn had won.
The game lasted about two and-a-half quarters longer than it should have, but I’ll take it. Auburn constantly left UT standing when they could have knocked them out, but I’ll take it. By the end of the game, Auburn was just trying to get off the field, but […]

The last time Auburn traveled to Knoxville (2004), the Chattanooga Chapter of the Auburn Alumni Association arranged for the Marching Band to put on a pep rally downtown. Well, this year there was no such pep rally. At first, I was pretty bummed about this. Then an idea struck me: if I could find out […]