🏈 Orange Out? LOL!

[TerryP]

Your memory is just a tad off.

The game you recall was in 1978, with Doug Barfield at the helm. And the contest was against Georgia.

I KNOW. I was a recruit on the sideline when the team warmed up in the regular blue jerseys and returned to the field in orange. I remember the crowd going wild.

Auburn, with a backfield of three future NFL stars - Cribbs, Brooks, Andrews, barely broke even for the season.

Funny aside. Auburn scored late in the game to tie Georgia 22-22. I was jumping up and down on the sideline all excited. Larry Blakeney, a then AU assistant charged with my recruitment, asked me why I was SO excited. I told him that by tying Georgia that opened the door to Alabama going back to the Sugar Bowl if they beat Auburn in two weeks. I NEVER heard back from him or Auburn after that day. Go figure.

(Note: At that time the SEC had a most-recent-appearance tie-breaker rule for which team went to the Sugar Bowl if two teams tied for the SEC. Alabama had gone to the Sugar Bowl following the 1977 season. Also, Georgia that year was undefeated in the SEC up to that last game versus Auburn, but lost about four OOC games. It would have been a farce for a 10-1 Alabama team to lose out on the Sugar Bowl to a 7-4 Georgia team by such a silly rule. I think the SEC abandoned that rule after that very season as a result.)

Great story Tim. Thanks for sharing!!!

I stand corrected...but, still think it's a Dye suggestion. No one on the staff (or compensated firing) has any connections with Barfield that I know of...

I can't say it was Chizik. It doesn't fit his personality. I wouldn't put it past Taylor...

 

[UAgrad93]

Haven't you guys heard the news? Lee County is putting on a massive deer hunt before the game. They don't want anyone getting shot.

 

[alagator]

Great story Tim. Thanks for sharing!!!

I stand corrected...but, still think it's a Dye suggestion. No one on the staff (or compensated firing) has any connections with Barfield that I know of...

I can't say it was Chizik. It doesn't fit his personality. I wouldn't put it past Taylor...

Your welcome with the personal story.

I would lean more toward this being either a marketing ploy by AU's supplier (Underarmor?) or something dreamed up by the Looper-Trooper combination.

I have heard/read where they are calling for the fans to all wear orange, but has it been reported the actual team is going to do likewise? Anyone.

 

[TerryP]

Your welcome with the personal story.

I would lean more toward this being either a marketing ploy by AU's supplier (Underarmor?) or something dreamed up by the Looper-Trooper combination.

I have heard/read where they are calling for the fans to all wear orange, but has it been reported the actual team is going to do likewise? Anyone.

Let's define "reported." Estes put it up on his twitter account last night. So, at this point I wouldn't call it a report.

Now, Chizik holds his presser Tuesday's...I'm betting it comes up as a question in a little while.

It's a good question. Ole Miss had a "blue out" but wore their traditional red that game.

 

[Kozlowski]

Dye has mentioned on Finebaum a few times this year that if you have to motivate kids by uniform change youre already behind. Players wins games not uniforms Pauuul.


Im thinking this is strictly a fan deal not a uniform situation

 

[Ump]

Well ladies and gents this is a great time to be a BAMA fan. Bama is a powerhouse again and both Auburn's and Tenn.'s football programs are being run like a circus side show by buffoons!!! Great times I tell ya!!

 

[bamadezz]

Well ladies and gents this is a great time to be a BAMA fan. Bama is a powerhouse again and both Auburn's and Tenn.'s football programs are being run like a circus side show by buffoons!!! Great times I tell ya!!

It would seem that way! I was over in Montgomery a couple of weeks ago and decided to run in one of the local Wal Marts and noticed all the AU crap was all marked in the clearance section! I got a laugh out of it honestly, cause the last time I was in this particular Wally world I was hard pressed to find any Bama merch as it was ALL AuBARN. That was only about a year and half ago.

 

[#1TideFan19]

anic: OH NO NOT AN ORANGE OUT!!!!

UGA-Blackout-41-30 Bama

See where I'm goin? :a:

 

[bigdaddy51200]

to all the auburn fans , those ugly orange stains in your uniforms is nothing a little TIDE won't take out !!!

Can someone please explain to me why teams must use uniform gimmicks to get the players ready to play a football game , if you can't get them up to play your in state rivial then your not much of a coach . Thank GOD even during the rough years Alabama didn't jump on the uniform gimmick band wagon , and I hope we never do .

I hope we the TIDE destroys the auburn tigers !!!!

 

[bamafanNky]

i will stick by one of my favorite shirts in my collection

 

[dga248]

All Auburn All Orange is a program. Wearing the official "All Auburn All Orange" shirt is part of it.

http://www.allauburnallorange.com/about.html


We have several other "AU-AO" events in football and other sports.


This is nothing new and has been going on for years.

That being said. We DID have a "Navy Nightmare" on Halloween against Ole Miss. Yes, that was a textbook "(insert color here) out".

The default color for us to wear to games is orange. So, its always orange unless we have a "blue out"

Our jerseys will not change. We, like Alabama, take pride that our scheme doesn't change with the season. I love the tradition with our jerseys.

 

[kc]

haven't you guys heard the news? Lee county is putting on a massive deer hunt before the game. They don't want anyone getting shot.

lol

 

[ROLL TIDE ROLL]

when do teams realize these "gimmicks" dont work against us.

 

[CrimsonPirate]

Their whole program is a gimmick. :rofl:

Auburn fan, "I have an idea, lets throw toilet paper in a tree downtown"

Wouldn't it be poetic justice that, as soon as they finish rolling Toomer's Corner, the whole town is hit with a severe case of diarrhea?

 

[rick4bama]

Wouldn't it be poetic justice that, as soon as they finish rolling Toomer's Corner, the whole town is hit with a severe case of diarrhea?

Won't be any TP in any tree tomorrow. So I guess all will be safe to use it.