Auburn Vs. Ball State Halftime Rehearsal

Auburn Vs. Ball State, halftime show Rehearsal! September 26, 2009! Some of the best Cheerleaders and Dancers were invited to go to Auburn to put the halftime show together!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V88rig9HHNs&hl=en

Win FREE 2010 Iron Bowl Tickets to watch Alabama vs. Auburn in person!

facebook.com - SSSSHHHHHH! Please keep this from my wife. I am giving Alabama residents the opportunity to WIN TWO FREE TICKETS to the 2010 Iron Bowl between The University of Alabama and Auburn University set for Friday 11/26/2010. We are extending the chance to win to any Alabama resident that contacts our insurance agency for a Homeowners, Auto, Life, Renters Insurance, or... just about ANY insurance quote until 1 week before the game. We are also extending this to our referral partners! Know of someone who needs to save money on insurance while maintaining proper coverage limits??? Send them our way! Go to facebook.com and complete the short "Get A Quote" or "Refer A Friend" forms to be entered to win! (Must be a resident of the state of Alabama and speak with us to obtain full Home/Auto/Renters/Life/etc insurance quotes to be entered to win... No Purchase Necessary) WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGhDaD1O3E&hl=en

DC Alumni sing Rammer Jammer vs Auburn 2008

The National Capital Chapter of the University of Alabama gather together for football games during the fall at Old Dominion Brewery to watch the Crimson Tide take on a new team each week. This particular week was the state rivalry with Alabama-Auburn, and 'Bama's chance to break Auburn's winning streak. And, 2008 was Alabama's year. It worked, and in fact, we celebrated by singing Rammer Jammer not once, but twice. :) Roll Tide Roll!



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fWRvlOuyYc&hl=en

Auburn University (AU) Tigers Football Players Taken in the 2010 NFL Draft - Two Selected

There were two Auburn University (AU) Tigers football players taken in the 2010 NFL Draft that was held in New York City in April. The two men from the Alabama based campus selected by National Football League (NFL) Teams are:

• Ben Tate (running back) who was picked by the Houston Texans in the second round with the 58th overall pick
• Walter McFadden (cornerback), selected with the 138th overall pick in the 5th round by the Oakland Raiders

Ben Tate hopes to follow in the footsteps of other successfully Auburn running backs that have entered the NFL in the last few seasons. Most recently that list includes impact players Ronnie Brown of the Miami Dolphins and Carnell "Cadilac" Williams of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. When football fans go further back in time they notice that the great Bo Jackson was actually a running back product of the Auburn football program.

Ben Tate, born is 1988, is listed as a 5'11" 218 pound back that has a desirable combination of power and speed. Originally from Woodbridge, Virginia Ben grew up in Maryland and attended Stephen Decatur High School where he set a high water mark for the state in terms of rushing yards for a single season with 2,886.

After earning all-state honors his junior season Tate transferred to Snow Hill High School (also in Maryland) for his senior year of high school. As the tailback for the Snow Hill Eagles he led the squad to a second place in the state finish for the football team. Tate chose to follow up his impressive prep football career with the Auburn Tigers after declining athletic scholarship offers from powerhouse football programs the University of Florida and Penn State just to name a couple.

Walter McFadden was selected by the Oakland Raiders to play cornerback and while Walter has no relation to Raiders running back Darren McFadden (a 2008 first round draft pick by Oakland) Walter does have an older brother in the NFL. The older brother of Walter also plays cornerback.

Walter is the younger sibling of Bryant McFadden who played his college football at Florida State University before being selected in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft to play cornerback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bryant was on both Steelers teams that won Super Bowls after the 2005 and 2008 seasons.

The younger McFadden is a 6'0" 177 corner with quick feet and an upside that the Oakland Raiders are excited about. The Raiders expect to find some versatility in Walter as an asset both on defense and on special teams during his rookie season.

Bo Jackson - Auburn

Bo Jackson is probably the best athlete to come out of Auburn University and is arguably one of the greatest athletes of the twentieth century. Were it not for a horrific January, 1991 hip injury the Heisman Trophy winner with world class sprinter speed who was an All-Star in both the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB) might have gone on to truly rewrite the definition of an all-around athlete. As an aside few people realize Jackson was also a state champion decathlete in his youth.

The Alabama native born Vincent Edward Jackson was described as a restless child with qualities not unlike those of a wild boar with an abundance of energy. Over time the comparison to a wild boar stuck and as Jackson aged the nickname was shorted simply to Bo. Growing up in McCalla, Alabama Bo excelled at sports with perhaps his most notable prep level accomplishment being that in his senior baseball season he hit an astounding 20 home runs in 25 games. Projected over a 162 game major league baseball season that rate would produce a mind blowing 130 home runs (roughly doubling the current record).

Despite being a second round draft pick by the New York Yankees right out of high school Bo Jackson instead chose to attend Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama located about 120 miles west of his McCalla home. During his stint at Auburn University from 1982 to 1985 Bo not only excelled at baseball (batting.400) and football (winning the Heisman Trophy) but even gave thought to becoming a member of the US Olympic track team when his times in the 100 meter dash indicated that he could have a promising career as a world class sprinter. Ultimately the notion of pursuing sprinting was dropped because it did not offer the same type of financial incentives as football or baseball.

After serving as an exceptional athlete at Auburn during the first half of the 1980s Bo Jackson would go on to take the professional sports world by storm throughout the remainder of the decade while playing baseball for the Kansas City Royals as an outfielder and football for the Oakland Raiders as a running back. The year 1989 was the pinnacle of the sports career of Bo Jackson when he was selected to the MLB all-star game (where he won the all-star game MVP award) and the NFL pro bowl in recognition of his accomplishments on the grid iron during the 1989 football season. Sadly a NFL playoff game hip injury on January 13, 1991 eventually resulted in the need for a hip replacement and although Bo made a short comeback in baseball for all intents and purposes the injury ushered in the end of what might have otherwise been the most prolific athletic career in history. Due to his career shortening injury Bo Jackson is often only a footnote in sports history but when considering his collegiate and dual sport professional success it is fair to say Bo Jackson was the American athlete of the 1980s just as Michael Jordan was of the 1990s and Tom Brady or Tiger Woods arguably were of the 2000s.

In May of 2009, twenty years after his illustrious 1989 sports year when Nike "Bo Knows" advertisements were everywhere, the Alabama son came home to Auburn to pass along the lessons he learned during his lifetime to a new generation by giving the commencement speech to the 2009 graduating class at Auburn University.

Tiger Walk - Most Popular Football Tradition at Auburn University (AU)

Auburn University (AU), located in Alabama, is known for many things including a rich history of traditions. Perhaps the most popular and cherished tradition at this particular college campus is something current students, alumni, and people local to the area are very familiar with that is known as the Tiger Walk, named after the school mascot which is a tiger.

Auburn usually has six or seven home football games every year that are played in their home football stadium that is named Jordan-Hare Stadium which holds over 87,000 people. The tradition known as the Tiger Walk involves the football players walking from the dorm known as Sewell Hall (a dorm specifically reserved and designed for athletes) to the stadium hours before kickoff. While the football players walk to Jordan-Hare Stadium literally thousands of loyal fans cheer them on in as both a way to show their appreciation and in an effort to get the team pumped up for a strong performance.

The history of the now infamous Tiger Walk dates back to the 1960s when young children would approach football players on their way to the stadium in an effort to collect autographs from their idols. It was former head coach Doug Barfield (head football coach at Auburn from 1976-1980) who is individually credited with encouraging fans to come out and support their players before they arrived at the stadium. Although a number of schools have since taken up some form of this tradition involving cheering on players as they enter the stadium (including SEC rivals the University of Tennessee and the University of Florida) it is Auburn that is credited with developing this popular pregame ritual.

During a typical football season AU usually has about eleven football games on their fall schedule. In addition to the eleven or so games scheduled during the regular season there is potential for as many as two extra games if the team is having a successful season. After the regular season play is completed there is a conference championship game played. As a member of the SEC (Southeastern Conference) West division of the SEC the Auburn Tigers have an opportunity to play in the SEC championship game against the winner of the SEC East if Auburn can win the difficult SEC West. In addition to the SEC Championship game if the Tigers win at least six games the team is bowl eligible which means they will likely be invited to play in a post season bowl game against an opponent from another conference.

The Tiger Walk has become so popular with fans that they emulate it with fewer numbers at road games where the tradition has expanded to cheering on the Auburn Tigers when they walk from the bus into a visiting stadium.