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Who Has The Best College Football Traditions · Run After Cast: The College Football Podcast

• Ryan: So I thought if you didn't decide to name your kid some with a T, I can just call him little P. The little T. Aaron: Little Tyrone? RAC Chandler: We lost you. Aaron: Nope. Ryan: Go to Makura. What happened? What was that? Why did you change my view? Aaron: Upset with you there. Ryan: What actually just happened? Am I fine? RAC Chandler: You're good, dog. Aaron: Yeah, we'll have to move the camera ⁓ slightly. Ryan: Think. Aaron: They like zoom out on you. Ryan: Yeah, so RAC Chandler: Whoa, he's picking up the stadium! Aaron: That's crazy. All right. Mike's hot. RAC Chandler: Now let's Ryan: Is it Aaron: All right. RAC Chandler: Welcome back to Run After Gaps. Aaron: Welcome back to Run After Cast, the college football podcast. I'm Aaron, joined as usual by Ryan and Chandler. Ryan: Hey guys. RAC Chandler: on our gentleman Aaron: And we're here today in a very quiet week of college football preseason, still waiting. I think even last week we were like, we don't even know what we're gonna talk about yet. But this week we came up with the idea we want to talk about after. We came up with the idea after some weeks of the Soresby drama, everything going on. We wanted to bring some of the stuff we love of college football into the show. And the way we were gonna do that is talk about our favorite college. Our favorite college football traditions today. So we've each picked a couple. We're gonna get into ⁓ after we take a quick break over at the Raction News Desk. So take it away, boys. RAC Chandler: Is my thing flickering? Aaron: No, it looks fine. Ryan: Not for me. RAC Chandler: It's like, the stadium is like flickering. Like it's like the lights are pulsing in the stadium or something. Ryan: Not for me. I'm surprised you have lights for how many day games you play. ⁓ Aaron: No, it looks normal. RAC Chandler: Also my fans on is it gonna be a problem? Aaron: That might be why it looks like it's flickering. RAC Chandler: But if you don't see it slickering, then I would love to stay cold. Aaron: You can it's gonna be fine. Yeah, like it w it won't be i any trouble. RAC Chandler: So Ryan and I got together for the quick Sworesby edit that you guys have seen on our short form content on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, wherever you see our clips and we appreciate the support on those. Been going great. ⁓ But we jumped on when when Brendan Sworesby entered himself into the supplemental draft and decided to part ways with Texas Tech. So we wanted to kind of tie a bow on that on the podcast as well and get Aaron's opinion because he wasn't a part of Ryan and I's real quick. jump on and record to kind of catch the train of the news. So Aaron, what's your opinion on it finally coming to an end? Aaron: It felt relieving. Like it felt like a collective breath across college football. Just like everybody was like, ⁓ good, okay. ⁓ I think it still is a crazy story. I think it was a crazy week. I think Texas Tech took so many unnecessary lumps, some unforced errors here. And the resolution to it being I I'll give them credit. They did kind of step up and do the thing they needed to do. Maybe not. In the way they should have done it from the very beginning. I think we can have that critique and say no matter the injunction, they could have immediately come out with that opinion. I get they had to play the money game side of it, but at the end, they did come out and say, you know, we're gonna go in different directions. And I respect that. But it took them a little while to get there, and they had some crazy statements before that that did offset it a little bit. But at the end, at least we don't have to worry about the foundations of college football burning down too heavily around us this season. RAC Chandler: So as a Browns fan, I was like, this would be the place that he would go to in a slow draft. Like the Browns, that's going to be their guy. But shockingly, and I was, I was very glad to see them make a smart decision. Uh, it was an informal announcement, but I think somebody in the inside of the Browns media team went out and said that their coaching staff is not interested in giving a pick in what third, fourth, fifth round, whatever they decide on. Aaron: Ha ha. RAC Chandler: or would have decided on to get him. So I'm glad that he's not going to go to the Browns hopefully, but where do you guys think he would get picked up to? I mean, I don't, I don't think the NFL deals with that kind of stuff even more than college football does. Like I think they're a lot less lenient on it than college football does. Ryan: Sony is a bad quarterback. Aaron: No, I do think I think we are seeing that. Like this week I did see a lot of speculative. Like, how how far is he going? Is he a first pick or something or first round in there? I I think I agree with you here. I think this was such a like bloody nose generator for college football. NFL does not like controversies if they can avoid them. ⁓ they have plenty of them without any help. So I don't know if anybody's in such dire straits that they would take this risk. Because the other part is we don't know how far separated. As we have said, I do hope Source B gets help. He obviously has an issue. I hope he gets that. I hope he gets better for it. I don't know if he's been through a program strong enough or he's worked with somebody close enough to. be in that point where he could say, ⁓ I can go professionally in sports and not feel temptation to continue gambling. I that's a completely personal journey for him that we are nowhere near having any insight into. But I could see if you were a legal team for an NFL to have that speculation on the airing on the side of caution. So Ryan: No, I take that back. ⁓ I think the obvious answer would be Las Vegas. But they just rooted Gatchy Fernando, so you can't go there, so I don't really know who's gonna get him. But someone'll pick him up. Someone got Pavia, so RAC Chandler: I think the media is too hot and heavy on Brendan Sworesby in a negative manner. Like, Pavia, yeah, has his ebbs and flows in the media and people have their different differentiating opinions, but they're not all negative like it would be around Brendan Sworesby. Aaron: I I it is crazy to say, but it is true. ⁓ I mean Pavia to me is just more he's a quarterback with this online presence of a wide receiver. And ⁓ like yeah, it's just something where it's like he's boisterous, he talks trash. Is it professional? No. Is it something where it's gonna get him into trouble in the news? Sure. But is it gonna be something that like the league has to step in on? RAC Chandler: Like a Johnny Menzel. Aaron: Probably not unless he goes off some weird deep ends. But gambling, that's an immediate like, uh-oh. That's a that could be an issue and how much do they know and how much are they willing to watch to make sure they don't know anything that comes back to. RAC Chandler: Okay, that's all I had if you want to transition us over to our segment. Ryan: Does that look weird? Can I turn it back up? I think I looked too white. Aaron: I think it looks like RAC Chandler: That's just a, that's just a you think. Ryan: Does this look less white? Does this look too less white? RAC Chandler: The white shirt definitely doesn't help, but... Aaron: You got the That might be why you thought it looked too white is yeah. Ryan: No, y too bright. Does it look too dull right now? Okay. RAC Chandler: No, no, you look good. Aaron: It looks fine. It is it is less lit than normal, but it does it still looks fine. Like no. Ryan: ⁓ Did I turn it back up? Aaron: You could I I believe in ya. ⁓ to look normal for this recording. So ⁓ Ryan: ⁓ there, ⁓ no, sorry. Aaron: Which yeah, I believe I can speak for all of us here, as well as the rest of college football, that I'm happy the story is behind us. Like it was a wild adventure. We went plenty ups and downs with it. I do feel like we have gotten some relief and closure on the story moving forward. Now it's the NFL's problem, no matter how that works out. So we can continue on looking forward to our next football season. And to get into that, let's start off with. Favorite college football traditions. So what are you boys looking forward to seeing this season? RAC Chandler: Ryan, you or me? Ryan: You can go. RAC Chandler: Are we just gonna go one, one, one, one, one, one, like all the way around? Okay. Okay. So I would be remiss if I was not, you know, to flaunt Ohio State's traditions out the gate. So I'm gonna have. Aaron: Yeah, yeah, we'll just kinda we'll just rotate. Can we can we just all collectively agree that without knowing each other's favorites, that we all picked our school's tradition for the very first one? Because I know you guys did and I know I did, so Yep. RAC Chandler: you Ryan: Yes, yes. RAC Chandler: Of course, of course, of course. So I have two actually on my list from Ohio State. So I apologize in advance if you guys want to skip through those viewers. Just find my third one. So my first one is actually displayed behind me. Let see if I can. The Ohio scripts for the band, they come out. The best damn band in the land comes out to the script Ohio. And how are we saying that? Seuss? Seussaphone? Aaron: Yeah, don't worry, we'll let him out. RAC Chandler: And a senior sousaphone player comes out and dots the eye. So that's, it's just a very formal situation in the beginning of the game. It's right before the game starts, the last band performance, they come out, they dot the eye. It's just a dramatic dotting of the eye. When he comes out and runs, leans back super high, does the high leg kicks, comes down, dots that thing, crowd erupts. Great to see in person. So I've always loved that tradition. It dates back to like the 1930s and it's stuck around ever since. They do it. every home game or away game, that's always their staple piece of the band. So I've always loved to see that. Ryan: love dotting the eye and that that's one bendy fellow there, you know, bending back like that, touching his head on the ground. RAC Chandler: It is, mean, so my dad and I for the semi-final game in Atlanta when they played Georgia for the midnight, you know, missed kick ⁓ for Ohio State when Georgia went on to play TCU and beat them by a hundred and thousand points. ⁓ We got to meet the guy that was dotting the eye at that game. They were doing like the crowd walk into Mercedes-Benz stadium and he like came over before it was their turn to walk in. was like, I'm dotting the eye. Aaron: Ha ha ha. RAC Chandler: And my dad just happened, we're standing right there and we're like, ⁓ my gosh, that's crazy. We took a picture of them and it was pretty cool. Ryan: I love it. Aaron: It is it it's a fun tradition. I th that is something I actually have later in my list, not specifically for Ohio State, but I do have some band stuff because I I do think as we get into that, it that's a great part of college ball. Like bands, everything like that. So I think it's a great pick. I I think you guys do it. I think it's fun. It's definitely something it's a pr you know, pre game hype crowd, getting everybody on the same page. I think it works. RAC Chandler: ⁓ boy. Absolutely. It's also crazy coming from how small compared to most high schools, like in the higher divisions, ours was, seeing the band there versus like a band at that high of a D1 program, how vastly different they are from the energy and atmosphere from a high school to college scene. So it is cool that they can make that much of a jump up and be that impactful in a game. Ryan: We did have a pretty decent band. They're pretty huge for high school. But yeah, it is like a lot different. RAC Chandler: Yes. Yes. Yeah. It's a lot different. So what you, what you got, Ryan? What's your, what's your number one? Ryan: You know, I have another little pregame, ⁓ pre game one here. So I made my list like ⁓ top five, you know. So this is my fifth one, but I had to put Auburn on there. Chandler's gonna hate this, but I put this is the bottom of my list, but I had to put an Auburn one on there, you know? Aaron: Ha ha ha. RAC Chandler: Wait, this is your fifth, like bottom of the list? You're Auburn better be on number one, too Ryan: Okay. But this is the Auburn Mike Man and his chance. So Aub Aaron: I n I feel why I see why you started with it now. Yeah. RAC Chandler: Yeah, I actually agree with the position. Ryan: It's a little lower. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: Channeler hate this. The mic man. Every single game, the cheerleaders, the mic man run the field. And the mic man will come out there and he'll sing chants. He sings Bada Geta, classic, and he sings track ⁓ And they didn't do track ⁓ with the Iron Bowl last year. And some lady behind me, I even heard her, she kept saying, Are we track him? Are we not gonna track him? You know? And everyone knows Badagetta. And then track him, just track ⁓ tigers, just like Beagles. You know, so the Chandler is a Beagle, so we always say that one. It's his favorite. So Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: I had to put that on here for my fifth. And I it's it's like kinda cringy, but it's like a wonderful tradition. RAC Chandler: Are you ready? ⁓ Ryan: Ready. Aaron: I I do feel like that is a tradition only an Auburn fan loves. It is one that like doesn't it's not one that other schools respect. It's not one that we go in and are like, you know, I'm really excited for them when they do this. It's just like it's your guys' weird little thing. Ryan: Mm-hmm. Yeah, so I'd I had to throw a ⁓ sorry. RAC Chandler: I will say though that home game stadiums like they like it's like it's electric atmosphere when that when that guy comes out and does all that stuff like the whole like from the top deck down it they're they're loud so it is cool absolutely Aaron: ⁓ yeah, like it you guys love it, yeah. Ryan: We all know it. We're all doing it. You know? Great. And it kinda like it's a weird one, but I had to throw it on here. You know, it's a great tradition to me. I know there's a lot of traditions in football, but it's one of my favorites. So I put it on here. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. And I do love those though. I think that is part of college football is when you have those really specific that like when you explain it to somebody that's not a college football fan, you have to really be careful and like like walk them on so you don't sound weird ⁓ or like part of a cult. I have some d cult like ones later that we'll talk about. But ⁓ yeah. ⁓ yeah. So but RAC Chandler: This is A ⁓ Aaron: That rounds me up to my first pick for favorite college tradition for my school. I'm gonna say if we're talking about impacts of traditions, this is the biggest one. And that is the cowbell for Mississippi State. I think no school has anything quite like it. I think if you're not a Mississippi State fan, it's probably annoying. It doesn't make any sense. I think as a Mississippi State fan, I could say, is it fair? Probably not. Is it something that has a aggressive home stadium advantage that you get? Yeah, you can just have a team hard of hearing at Mississippi State at home every year because it's loud. It's great. But from my first game in the stadium, I fell in love with it. It's like as soon as they put a cowbell in your hand, you're shaking it the whole time. You're like, this is the greatest thing. I get to, I'm participating with my cowbell. So y'all have to yell. We don't. We just get to sit there and be very, very noisy without having to do Ryan: I love how obnoxious it is. Like in a good way. It's so amazing. Like, I don't know. Aaron: It is. But it also it's it's funny to me when you're there because if we're happy, the cowbells are going. If we're upset, the cowbells are going. So there's not like the the pulse of the crowd where it's like, ⁓ you can lose the energy because we're just gonna rattle them. You know, it's like a crowd full of children that have this in their hand. RAC Chandler: Fun fact. Ryan: Yeah. RAC Chandler: So fun fact about Mississippi State fans, are the leading college football fan base of youngest fans with hearing loss and tinnitus in their ears because of the cowbell. So that's pretty cool. Aaron: ⁓ yeah, it's really loud. ⁓ it's it is something where you're like it's not that bad, but it RAC Chandler: You hear it the night when you go back to the hotel, you're just like, hell yeah, it's still rigging. Aaron: I was telling y'all before recording that I was like, ⁓ I needed to go grab my cowbell so I could have it here as a physical prop. I can't bring it in the recording room because it can't be anywhere near my microphone. It will wake up my entire house if I just move it slightly. It's so loud by itself. You throw in thousands of them. You can't hear anything else. There's no conversations happening. You have to like leave the stadium. Ryan: See, I love that though. So great. Aaron: I do. I it it is something that it is it creates a unique environment in football. When you are doing stadiums, I even the best teams I think can go to Mississippi State and be thrown off. I think you can have a young quarterback who snap counts go wrong, lines start behaving weird. I it it is an oppressive amount of noise. RAC Chandler: That's good. So my number two, I apologize again. This is the last Ohio State one I have. Every other one is not Ohio State. ⁓ But this one, if it wasn't for like how traditional the script Ohio performance was, I would have this one number one. And I do think it's like, it's a situational kind of tradition. So this one is for the rivalry game every year when they play Michigan on November 30th. All of the campus in Columbus, in the stadium. In this facilities, they all cross off the Ms on every single thing that has an M on it and red duct tape. So if you go around the city of Columbus, you go like eat pizza at some restaurant, the M is going to be off. Right. If you go walking around the campus, all the Ms and all the street signs, all the campus signs, all the building signs, they're all crossed off with an M. So I think that's a cool tradition that just kind of roots the hatred of the Michigan fan or Michigan game versus the Ohio state. I think that kind of, it brings the fans together on the hatred of that game. And it's not just something that the team does. It's something the fans can get involved with around wherever they are in Columbus. So it's cool to see just walking around Columbus during that time of year and they just start doing it and like all the students are involved. They go out and do it. So it's, it's, it's a good time. So that's, that's my second favorite. Yeah. And it's cool. Ryan: Love it. I love it. And that's one of those things you think about like those kids from college and you're you're like, ⁓ let's all go out at night and like cross all of the M's, you know? It'd be so funny. And I love the Yeah, and I love the hatred part. I wish we could do that to Alabama. We just have too many A's and Auburn and stuff. We couldn't do it. It's a big syllable, you know. RAC Chandler: Yeah, even on social media and stuff, it's all crossed off. Yeah, it's cool. Aaron: Yeah. I I I do like it because there's part of it that feels still like a prank that it is really kind of inconveniencing y'all, ⁓ but it is still like it's fun that y'all get behind it. It has it has that student section vibe to it that everybody's behind. I feel bad for anybody named like Mike Masters or something up there that like has to fix his office door every year. RAC Chandler: Yeah, like a senior prank in high school. Ryan: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: course. Aaron: That seems like inconvenient, but for everybody else, I bet that's a blast. Ryan: every guy Mr. something. Like if your name was like mist Mr. Mimmers or something, a lot of M's right there. RAC Chandler: It's cool. ⁓ Well, it was cool too, because last game, like with the snow and they went to Ann Arbor and beat them. ⁓ Brutus went out like after one of the quarters and he like crossed off the ⁓ in the Michigan end zone and like he dragged his foot through the snow and it was, was, and he drew like a script, Ohio underneath it. It was pretty cool. So it's, it's cool that not just the team gets involved with everybody that gets involved in Columbus with it. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: Yeah, it's great. Aaron: And that that's some of the things that like I think is somebody like especially some SEC focused like I was when I kind of first got into college football. You know, you kind of start looking at the rivalries in the SEC and you're like, ⁓ these are intense. And then one day you discover Ohio State and Michigan. You're like, ⁓ we like each other beers. Like you guys won't do that. ⁓ that's it is a crazy intense rivalry. Like that is something that there's dislike for your rivals, and then there's whatever y'all got cooking up there. Ryan: I love that. RAC Chandler: Yeah, they have a 365 countdown timer. It says like the game in their locker room and then it has down to the second, like when they play their next game. Then they'll have like, their scout team will go on, put the Michigan stuff on and yeah, it's good. It's fun. Ryan: Is the ⁓ sorry. Do they have the ⁓ crust off on that? On the game? Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: Or just the week of. Okay. RAC Chandler: They do during the week. It's a good stuff. I like it and they have like all the video animations on it. Everything's pretty cool Ryan: See, I wouldn't want to put the team up north stuff on if I'm the scout team there. RAC Chandler: Especially because you know everybody get hit. It's like the four string quarterback just getting leveled. He's always sick that week. It's like, no, I'm not coming out. Ryan: Yeah. Number fourteen's live RAC Chandler: So what you got in your two slot, right? Or your four slot if you're going backwards. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: Alright, yes, this is my four. I had to put another one Auburn here. I'm really sorry. This one's just so good. The Tiger Walk. Tiger Walk. So so everyone is like, ⁓ the team walk, you know, back into their stadium. But Auburn is actually the first person, the first team to ever have a team walk. This is the most copied tradition in college football. In nineteen sixty, there was some kids outside Sewell Hall that were trying to get like high fives and autographs of stuff from the team when they were leaving. RAC Chandler: Yeah Aaron: Five Auburn's RAC Chandler: Yeah. Ryan: And now like thousands of fans will line up on Donahue Drive on the way into the stadium and all the people will line up on the sides. They'll have the band and the cheerleaders come through. There's a guy on a ladder, it comes up and you play a couple songs every now they're chanting and singing the song and then the team walks through and everyone's all happy and stuff. And we've had like the biggest one was in nineteen eighty nine before the first home iron bowl, 'cause we had the whole thing where they couldn't ⁓ play each other at home to home. And we beat number two Alabama, thirty to twenty. Of course, they were undefeated, upset. Yeah, happened a few times, but there was twenty thousand people just on that street. It's like a huge deal. Everyone goes and sees Tiger Walk two hours before the game. And all the other schools thought it was so great that they copied it and they all have a team walk. RAC Chandler: That's crazy. Aaron: Will say I didn't know that wasn't like an Auburn original. Like I it is a cool tradition that I've taken part in. It could have been a really good trivia question. but I think I think the results showed that we were better for the ones we got. ⁓ but no, it like it is a cool moment. Like I I have been hyped up doing that, and you know, you are just catching a glimpse of the RAC Chandler: That could have been a trivia question. Ryan: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Aaron: The band, the team, but there's this celebration behind it, no matter what school you're at and you're taking part in it. So that's cool. I like I wouldn't have guessed that Auburn was the OG walk in. Ryan: Yeah, it's crazy th because everyone has like a team walk. It's hard to think that like one once had to start it and you know, all the it hypes all the players up, it gets them in a good mood. Charles Barkley might touch you on accident. You know? Aaron: But ⁓ yeah. RAC Chandler: Yeah, I will say it's one of those things where you're like, ⁓ yeah, like how good can it be? And then I have the luxury and benefit of being able to go to a lot of Auburn games because you know, I married into a diehard Auburn family. So we just hop in the car, get up there. And that's always what we do is like two hours before we'll go to Tiger walk. And it actually is like, it's the hype around that street is going toe to toe with what it is in a stadium. it, like it's, Aaron: Whisper words of wisdom into your ear. RAC Chandler: loud, it's aggressive, like everybody's into it. I mean, it's a lot of fun. Aaron: I have never been. So I've actually never been to the Auburn Stadium. So that'll be one one day that we will have. I I'm excited to go. But I even like the team walk as a whole. ⁓ when I one of the Mississippi State games that I went to, you know, it was one that the Mississippi State, you it's very close, it's normally not as crazy. But that was one of it was Mike Leach's final season that I got to go in and see Mike Leach and do the walk and everything. And that's a memory now that RAC Chandler: We'll have to do it. Yeah. Aaron: I'm like, ⁓ that's cool. So like I said, there's that is such a cool tradition at the college level where it's a little more accessible. Where I think like you think of the the pros and things like that, and then ever how locked off everything is, where I don't know if Auburn's the same way, but the ones that I've been to at other stadiums, you know, it's really like the fans. There's an order to it. There, you know, there's a couple people that'd be like, Hey, don't walk in the middle, but ⁓ we kind of we we hold it and everybody's just excited to be there. Ryan: Yeah. We have like metal things down the whole street that they walk up and they come up and all the way down the band will come play and stuff. It's really good. It's really good. RAC Chandler: What's your two spot, Aaron? Another Mississippi State. We're just going to all of our schools. Aaron: my no but I actually this one is my because I was thinking of like what traditions college football what's important to me about college football and this is a non-team specific it actually goes with ⁓ you're dotting the eye in Ohio I picked just overall halftime band performances I think that's something that when we think of other sports we don't we have people come out and perform but specifically a marching band perform When you're in stadium is awesome. Like it's just no matter which team you're seeing, what's going on, it is something that the home viewer we don't necessarily get. If we're just watching it on TV, when you're in the stadium, you're hearing it, it's loud, the fans are there, everybody's excited. I just think that's part of it. Like it is bringing everybody together, no matter what team you root for, what you got, you have a band that is your cheer section. RAC Chandler: Let me ask you this question, How do you get your hot dogs and tasty beverages while the band's playing at halftime? That's your only time to go. Ryan: Yeah, I kinda l ⁓ sorry, keep it on. Aaron: See, see that that's that's where you gotta be old like me. And you know you don't go get your beverages and hot dogs at halftime because everybody does. You wait and you get ⁓ you get ⁓ towards that like first quarter, second quarter little downtime. So no, no, ⁓ another reason I have to put this up here is my wife was in the Mississippi State band. So but it that she was telling me about like all the experiences she got for the band, ⁓ you know, she got to go to college. RAC Chandler: There you go. That's awesome. Aaron: Grew that opportunity for being in the band. So it is something that, like, outside of just what football's bringing, it's some of the good. We talked about how NIL and all these things that we worry about. There's part of college football that's giving kids opportunities outside of being able just to play. It's just here's you get to be here, you're playing, you're part of the team, you're part of the environment. And I think that's great. And now I will say as a whole, I think we need to dress our college bands a little better. I think we can leave some of the nutcracker aesthetics alone for a while. We had them for a while. ⁓ we can go back and we can let them dress with dignity. But ⁓ I do love to see it. I think every time they come out, and especially if you're a long term fan and you love your band, and hearing when you get there the next season, the different ⁓ you know, la ⁓ different track lists and everything that's playing for halftime, I think it's cool. Ryan: Yeah. They do look like nutcrackers. That's hilarious. But I mean your favorite nutcracker. Are you ⁓ but I love the bands though. Like, where else in the world are you gonna go watch a marching band? You know? When they're in the stands, super obnoxious, you know, super loud and everything. And they go play their good stuff during halftime. Make it sound nice for you, you know? And everyone has their their team ⁓ their team song that they play. Aaron: Yeah, yeah. ⁓ RAC Chandler: Shout out Jin for making the episode. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. RAC Chandler: Disney World. Ryan: No, and it's so great. You're placing you're on the college football game and it's playing all the team sounds in your head and you're like, That's pretty good, you know. Aaron: Yeah. RAC Chandler: on the same music vein, but not from the band. My three slot is over in the ACC. We got the Virginia Tech, the Inter Sandman. I think that is the most electric entrance that you could have in a stadium. mean, the fact that that, the whole stadium is rocking, they're jumping to it, there's smoke going, I mean, they reportedly haven't actually experienced it. Aaron: Yep. RAC Chandler: But supposedly the stadium actually shakes because of everybody like jumping around at the same time. So, I mean, that would just be as a player in that tunnel, like seeing all that energy surrounding you, that song from Metallica, InterSandman is just rocking in there. that would get you fired up. Like, I mean, you're ready to go run through a wall for that game. So I think that is an awesome tradition. It's fun to watch. They play it like on TV if you're watching theirs too. So, I mean, it's cool to kind of... live through the TV, but I wish we could go see it in person. That's always been a cool entrance for me. Aaron: Yeah, I think that is one that like if we're talking about absolute stadium capture, ⁓ especially because like a lot of stadiums have their song. ⁓ and I think a lot of people would argue that theirs is the one I think you have to fight. Like you might place yourself in the top seed for the playoff of best song. Virginia Tech's gonna be your opponent every time. I think you're right. I think it is something it it was in my list. for just how much a crowd gets hyp Inner Sandman. I think that is just one that like whether it's a good year, bad year, whatever's going on with Virginia Tech, it does not matter because that crowd is there for it. And, you know, if you're thinking, if you've got something you can do for your team, participating like they do, you know, how could you not be hyped up to get out there and play? RAC Chandler: i mean unfortunately it's probably been the the best part of every game recently with uh... their success but i think i think that uh... Aaron: Yes. Yeah, ⁓ it's not But they got something. You get some you get your value for your ticket. Ryan: Yeah, and you're probably picking up a theme here. I love all the things that give you a bunch of energy and hype. And that one's just so good. It gets you running through a wall before the game, you know? I love it. Yeah. Literally. RAC Chandler: ⁓ yeah, you ready to rock and roll. I mean, can you imagine being a collegiate athlete like in your first start? this is like your time to shine. It's a home game. The stadium's fully maxed out. mean that, whoo. Yeah, you ready to rock and roll? Aaron: I I will say it's one of my hype points because it's such a good tradition that this season that's I'm look I'm gonna watch James Franklin's first game where they get to do that. Cause that's gonna be one of those moments where you're like, how's he gonna fit in this program? And that that game, after seeing him, when that all starts, his reaction, how he how pumped up he gets for it is gonna tell us a lot of what we need to know about. RAC Chandler: ⁓ yeah. Aaron: Virginia Tech's future, I think, in college football. RAC Chandler: What you got, Mr. Ryan? Ryan: Really sorry. I did one more auburn one here. This this one's also Auburn. This one's also Auburn just because it's such a great tradition. I put my number three, Rolling Tomorrow's Corner. Aaron: I hope at this point I hope they're all five offering because Ryan: I put rolling number Tumors Corner as my number three. So Tumors for the people that don't know, Tumors Corner is the center of town where all the roads interconnect. And right there on the corner, there's the tumors drug store, which is everyone goes in there and gets lemonade, and it's the middle of town. All the restaurants and everything are up there. It's right next to the school. So everyone goes up there. And in the 1890s, they used telegraphs and they had a thing called ticker tape, which was like they would type stuff on the telegraph to let people know. Aaron: Number three. Ryan: that they won an away game and the only telegraph in town was in tumor drugstore. they go out and throw it up on the trees, like the power line to let people know they won. And they threw it up there. But in the mid nineteen hundreds, it like was like less common. So they switched to toilet paper and then we like beat Alabama in nineteen seventy two and it just kinda peaked there. So then now after every win we just go and throw a bunch of toilet paper up there. But the guy tried to poison the trees in like two thousand ten after we beat Alabama with Cam Newton. So he that he tried to kinda take that away from us. But it's like so great. It looks like a blizzard. It's like everything's white. It looks so good at night with the light shining up on the trees and stuff. And it's just so nostalgic for me. I could just picture like the smell of like all the trees and toilet paper. It smells so good. It like sounds crazy. But like it's such like a nostalgic like thing for me. That like I can just put myself there. It's so nice. RAC Chandler: You So how does, how does the, who cleans all that toilet paper out? Like, do they just like spray down the trees? Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like that, that would be an awful job. Like talking about the Ms, that would be, that's up there too. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: I think they hose it down. Yeah, they like hose it down. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: Yeah, but Aaron, you need to see it. It's like crazy. The entire town is covered in white. Like it's nuts. Aaron: I I bet that is a sight. And I mean we're all here from the south, you know, we're we're from south of there. We know you don't get a lot of snow, ⁓ but we've seen it like once in a decade. So seeing it kind of close to a a snowstorm up there. I don't at any point in my life want a joyous memory of smell to be toilet paper for me. So I'm gonna like just yeah. Ryan: Dude, it I know that sounds crazy. Like the wet like oak trees and like toilet paper and stuff, it smells so good. That sounds crazy. Dude. You've gotta be there. It is such a nostalgic thing. Like I don't know how to put my finger on it. It's like sounds crazy. RAC Chandler: You Aaron: ⁓ it's not helping. It's not helping. RAC Chandler: just some wet paper, some wet downy. Aaron: No, I I could I could see it being very cool. ⁓ like I think the event is cool. The idea of saying the smell makes me happy of yeah, it that is the insane part here that I think i it's it is very college football that it allows you to say such an insane statement and mean it so wholeheartedly. So I respect it. ⁓ but ⁓ RAC Chandler: It smells what really brings it back. Ryan: But also when but also when you're ⁓ sorry. Aaron: I'm not buying a toilet paper handle anytime soon. Ryan: Yeah. But also when you're like a little kid, you're out there like rummaging on the ground trying to find one that fell off a tree. You gotta throw it good and you I would have tried to like try to see how far I get through I just chuck it up in the air. You know, it's so fun too as a little kid. It's it's ⁓ RAC Chandler: He goes around on the ground and then grabs the roll, smells the roll as he's throwing it, and really gets the full scent of the lifted toilet paper. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: You gotta throw it. There's a thing called a clean fuego that we'd throw at baseball. There's essentially a baseball with the sides cut off, it has a spin smooth. And you have to get good spin efficiency on the toilet paper for it to actually go and have it like roll behind it. RAC Chandler: If it's too wet though, it's not run rolling. Ryan: That's not wet. It on the ground is wet and it creates like a wonderful aroma. Aaron: I'm gonna have to smell this one day. Because right now, and I think like many rack listeners here are gonna be in my camp of like, I've smelled porta potties before, and that's my idea of wet toilet paper. So that's a nightmare. Ryan: Dude, it's great. Like it sounds so crazy. RAC Chandler: It It's a wonderful aroma. Ryan: No, that just no no no no. But okay. You're like a little kid, you beat number one Alabama, and then you go walk down there and you just smell that toilet paper and you're throwing it and stuff, it's like dude, it's nothing. Like there's thousands of people there. Y'all know what I'm talking about. Aaron: Yeah. I'm so excited for the future of Auburn fans, of being like there was nothing better as a child than when that War Eagle Mobile chime would come in to let us know that we won the way game. Ryan: Yeah, it's like the instead of little ticker tape we have the ⁓ the War Eagle mobile chime. RAC Chandler: you Aaron: Your toilet paper. RAC Chandler: So I've been here multiple times and done such rolling and I couldn't tell you what it smells like. So maybe my nose, maybe like the allergies in Claretin wasn't kicking in, know, but I can put myself there too. Aaron: Ha ha ha. Ryan: Dude. It's nostalgic for me. I can put myself there. Aaron: I love it. Ryan: You literally can't w walk. It's like hanging out on the trees and you're like going like this through it trying to like walk around. RAC Chandler: Yeah, but that has nothing to with the smell. Like, I can see it. I've been there. But I don't know what it smells like. Me too. But not the nose. Ryan: I like putting myself there right now. I'm putting myself there. I can picture I can picture it. I can picture the smell. I'm there. Aaron: He's in his happy face. Smiling. I I I can't wait to experience this. I'm definitely gonna throw toilet paper. Like I'm I will not bat this down. I just think y'all are crazy. Auburn Auburn has a special breed of crazy for their traditions, so RAC Chandler: you Ryan: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: It's good. It is a cool atmosphere to see. mean, the band comes, Obby comes and stands on the little corner, like the brick area, and they are all chanting and getting hype. It's good stuff. Ryan: ⁓ yeah. He rides the back of a golf cart down the thing and everyone's like obviously And then ⁓ yeah there's like the big the big sign But like the big sign that like all the pictures have like a picture of like this is Auburn University, the trees like Stanford Hall in the background and the sign, he like climbs up on top of it and all the guys are up there like singing chanting and stuff with the toilet paper in the background. Yeah, it's a great tradition. I had to put it on. RAC Chandler: ⁓ man. ⁓ man. That's good. That's cool. ⁓ Did you not have the eagle flying around as one of your things? Ryan: ⁓ we'll see. RAC Chandler: You said that was your last Auburn tradition, so either you're lying to us. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: I said I said I had one more. Aaron: I th I think he's lying to us. I think these are five Auburn traditions. I RAC Chandler: No, no, no, no, no, no, Ryan: I said sorry no no no. I said sorry I have one more. Aaron: I would be able to answer you if he didn't tell me about the loving nature of the smell of toilet paper. That ⁓ wiped every single thing we've said prior to this part of the episode. Yeah. Yeah. RAC Chandler: And the aroma, the aroma. So 4 out of 5 on the list, or 5 of 5 are Auburn, okay. I was going be very disappointed if the eagle was not on there. continue Aaron, take us away. Ryan: Might be. Aaron: So my number three is the most cult-like behavior that we have in college football. Next to maybe the smell of toilet paper. ⁓ at this point. Might have dethroned it for me. But I'm going the midnight yell for Texas AM. I I think for everyone else. Ryan: Yes Yes. Aaron: At its core, it's goofy. It's it's weird. It's ⁓ you know, the yell leaders coming in and doing all this. It's bizarre. And like I said, it feels cult like. But the fact they do it at midnight, even on away games, is something that I like. If you're part of that fandom, that is cool. Like it's cool to be that into it that you're it's like we're going out at midnight. We're gonna stay up the night before a game. Probably a lot of them have driven in for away games. ⁓ I haven't been to one at Kyle Field, so I'm sure that's another level of insane. But I just think it's a little like we're that into this. We are that supportive of the team that we're gonna show up for it that I respect it. I think it's it is something that you're getting out there doing, and I think I respect it more as a man in my late 30s to know what a commitment it is to get up and do something after midnight. So ⁓ I I appreciate it. RAC Chandler: I think all these traditions are really, as we're talking about them, it just reassures me that college football is second to none in sports in the world. It's so great. It's incredible that you talk to a Texas A ⁓ fan and everything else that any other program does is insane and theirs is normal. So it's fantastic. Aaron: ⁓ yeah, of just like being insane. Yeah. Ryan: Hmm. Aaron: I I will say that Texas AM fans, I don't think they think it's normal. I think they think it's rational. I think they can justify it. But I think they also know that everything at Texas AM fans are some of the craziest ones I've ever met in terms of just pure passion fandom for their team of like there is no second guessing. It's like our Christmas decorations have to be Texas AM. Our every part of our life is influenced by Texas AM. RAC Chandler: Well, maybe not normal, but yeah, yeah. It's justifiable. Aaron: And I I guess if you're gonna love something with your whole heart, love it with your whole heart and they do. So I I do appreciate that for them. RAC Chandler: Absolutely. Ryan: Aaron, I'm so glad you put this on your list. I was really counting you two. But I think it's so great. Cause it's it's like a little bit of like you have like I get to go do something like I'm having the game two days in a row. I get to go have some fun, I get to go to the game the next day. But it's also like a lot of the stadiums, like you're not just playing the team, you're playing me. You're playing the fans. And Auburn tries to like say that a lot 'cause like we've they've said we've had like a tough stadium. But like a lot of times I think they say it during the game. I like it. I I don't think anyone's actually gonna get loud because that guy in the jumbo tron just said, You're playing us too with the Texas Stadium. You're practicing for the next day to throw them off and have like a terrible time in your stadium and I love that. Aaron: Yeah. You're getting you're getting warm up reps at midnight before the game as a like your fan time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. RAC Chandler: Yeah, it's the 12th man. Ryan: Yeah, I love it. I love it. I love it. I wish we did that. I want our fans our fans are pretty into it. I w ten percent more. You know, just get the extra Aaron: And I think it's really squeezing the experience out for you. Like you are going to get the full thing. Cause then you you're gonna get up that next day. You're going tailgating. That's gonna be incredible. That's gonna be a fun time. And it's like that night before you're getting with your crew, and the AM fans are all getting together. You can make plans, you can hang out, you can talk, you can share stories. I think that's fun. I think that's an extra little level of like this is a community. Ryan: Mm-hmm. Aaron: not necessarily just a fandom. And I I think if we're talking traditions, that one to me just it speaks of like we're real. We we care about our team. Ryan: Yeah, you wanna be a part of this game for as many days in a row as you can. The tailgating thing that's a great thing. Wait, when I was a kid, we would like ride cardboard boxes down hills and stuff and the c throw football, you know, tailgating too is great. That whole thing you're doing that for like twenty four hours straight. Midnight, tailgating, go into the game, you know, if y'all have like a little after game thing and you win, you know, it's great. Aaron: Yeah. Yeah, tailgating was one that I thought about. I was like, that is a tradition, but I also didn't feel like it's not quite college football enough. But it is part of the experience. So it is an honorable mention for me of like ⁓ the tailgating of a team as an away team, as somebody traveling to them, I think is something that it's like that's an art to it. ⁓ you know, when you have like if you're going to LSU for tailgating, ⁓ incredible host. Like they they love that. So it's like now. Ryan: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: Buckle up. Aaron: Wear neutral colors. This is a warning. ⁓ you either wear ⁓ show up as an away, don't tailgate in your team. ⁓ you tailgate for LSU. But I just think it's like it's an incredible experience. Like you it's a whole day that you are gonna have fun doing. ⁓ you know, sorry noon kickoffs, but you know, you get that RAC Chandler: You know, we were having this conversation at the gym today. said, you know, that's a horrible tradition because I don't know when I wake up in the morning, am I eating breakfast with my kickoff or am I eating lunch with my kickoff? I don't know. I don't know what meal to even decide on. It's not like, ⁓ it's dinnertime. Let's get the burgers going, the brats go and let's get the, you know, I don't even know what meal to have when our kickoff happens. So, you know, let's get rid of Fox and Big Noon and all that mumbo jumbo. Aaron: Yeah. Ryan: tell you I'll tell you what Aaron: Big nooncake. I can't even imagine when you're there that like you are like is your tailgating like coffee and donuts? Like it's rough. Yeah. You gotta be in your seat like before lunch is even on the menu. RAC Chandler: Yeah, and like eggs and bread, bacon and eggs and like bagels. Ryan: Yeah. Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: Yeah, I mean the Texas and Ohio State game last year was at 12 and this year it's at 630 because it's not on Fox. I mean come on man. Aaron: Because like how many games? Like I, you know, like I said, I haven't been to Auburn, but I'm sure Auburn's the same way. If you get that like seven o'clock kick, ⁓ you are still there at like nine, ten in the morning, and that whole day you're just wandering. You're just from one conversation about football to the next, the next little thing going on. There's an event, you can go catch something, you're waiting for the team to get there. It's incredible. RAC Chandler: Well, the other big thing about tailgating is like, if you have a late kick and you're going around to all these different groups and meeting people and talking to people and just sharing the passion of you have with the sport with somebody else, it's fun to have the environment of watching a game on this big TV that they have there as well and not watching game day. Like I understand game day is great, but the energy around watching a like another ranked game or another great game on TV while you're getting ready for your game is a lot better than watching game day happen at like one o'clock in the morning. Aaron: I I will say I completely agree that the best version of it is if you have a late kickoff and your rivals have an earlier kickoff and you get to watch a rival's game with all the rest of the fans it at the stadium, you know, with drinks, food. it there is just nothing that like you've got the audience of how many people are around, hundreds of people just in your little area watching the game with you, screaming, yelling. RAC Chandler: Yes. Yep. Aaron: you know, cheering every time your rivals do something dumb. It is incredible. Like it you it just makes a day so much fun. RAC Chandler: Mm-hmm. Ryan: Yeah, like last year me and Chandler at Ball State Auburn and we were watching Byron Brown beat Florida on the jumbotron, like I can't believe this and little did we know he's gonna be our quarterback this year. You know, and yeah, like when I was talking to Chandler at the gym, I was joking as if night games could be a tradition because you all don't get any. Then I like, Do I have permission to say that big noon is like a tradition? But like yeah, it's like you say like the all day thing. There's like so much to stuff to do. Like we go to a six thirty Auburn game and me Channel are like, ⁓ we wanna go to the gym, we have to go at seven in the morning. RAC Chandler: course. Aaron: Ha ha. RAC Chandler: Fantastic. Ryan: We'd get out and go at seven in the morning before everyone gets up 'cause they wanna go in at nine thirty, walk around, go to the bookstores, go to Guthrie's and then we walk to Tiger Walk at four thirty and then go in the game, you know? Aaron: Yeah. RAC Chandler: I mean, we're flowing this great for my list. I really appreciate all this, all this planning for me. So speaking of just electric fans and the fan base being, you know, incredible for the stadium, I would argue, and it pains me to say that Penn State's whiteout is second to none in a night game atmosphere in any stadium. Having a hundred thousand plus fans in that stadium, all wearing white. Aaron: Ha ha ha. I agree. RAC Chandler: Especially if it's a ranked game. Just rockin', I mean, they're loud the whole time. like, zoom view of the stadium looks insane, because it's all white. mean, the letters on the end zones are white. Like, it's incredible. The atmosphere is nuts. And it just, the aesthetic is great. Loud. Fantastic. Ryan: Yeah, and I don't know how they do it so good, but yeah, it looks different when they do it. And they are so electric, especially the beginning of it. And there's just one clip, I think it's 'cause the team up north that I always see come around. And they're walking on the field for the first drive and everyone's singing Mo Bamba and screaming and they can't even get the playoff. And it's like that is like so great. You're playing the crowd. It looks so cool. You know? RAC Chandler: It looks great. And it makes it better that it's not like a Mercedes-Benz stadium that has like 65 or 70,000 people. Like it has 105,000 people in that stadium. So that's lot of people all wearing white. Aaron: Yeah. It's very impressive. It is something that like when you first hear about it, like if you were told this is a tradition, you'd be like, ⁓ what's the deal? What's it what's it matter? Like they're wearing white, what are they surrendering? Like you don't you wouldn't feel it, and then you see it. And the coordination, I I think that's the thing that's just so telling of the fandom, how much this means to them, this particular game. Because nobody quite pulls this off like they do. Like everybody else that has tried something like this or organized something like this, it they do a pretty good job. There's an impact from it. Nothing like it Penn State's is flawless. I mean, you see it and you're like, This looks like somebody set this up for a movie shot where all the elements are being controlled, not just a bunch of people showing up here for football. Ryan: Mm-hmm. RAC Chandler: And what's your next Auburn one? Ryan: I have to half time, I have to pee real quick. Sorry. RAC Chandler: That's Ryan's favorite tradition. Next, Aaron, your turn. Aaron: During halftime. Yeah. Gotta get his his glizzies and his drinks. It's halftime. Yeah, it's true. RAC Chandler: You can't even eat them. Aaron: What number we're on four, right? Four. RAC Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: There's no RAC Chandler: You didn't write them all down? I have a Google Doc that I just look at every time. Like I have it pulled up on my screen. Aaron: No. ⁓ see, I I like to keep mine I keep ⁓ so I can flow with like the conversation. ⁓ in terms of like, ⁓ does this one need to be four down? Does this fit the flow better? ⁓ so I'll just change the order willy-nilly. because I knew Cowboy was number one, the rest were up for whatever order they fit. This is quite good. Actually, I really like this. ⁓ this is a great topic. RAC Chandler: Yeah, yeah. Aaron: Like I said, I think this will be some killer clips. Ryan: Yeah, I kn ⁓ sorry. Yeah, I know you're talking about the band thing at halftime, like when else you can go pee in a trough. Aaron: True. The worst, the worst, the worst way we could have come up with an idea to Yeah. It's the smell. It's the smell of the troths from my childhood. That's terrifying. RAC Chandler: Yours truly, Ohio State Stadium. C-DEC. Ryan: Well they put urinals back. No, okay. No, no, no, no. I do know that smell. It's like less nostalgic 'cause it's not that good, but ⁓ but like there's a bunch like year they a bunch of urnals in it, Jordan Hare and all the guys are in a huge one, ⁓ they need to put the drops back. What are we doing? You know? RAC Chandler: Nothing beats just locking eyes with an old fellow across the way just sharing a stream together. Aaron: Can i can I be honest? Here's here's the worst thing about the trough. Men are animals. I think we've all had people piss on our legs. Like, because of the like they're peeing directly into the flat wall and it's just splattering everywhere. I hated the troughs. I was like, don't pee on me. Yeah. See, this is like beer-fueled peas into a trough that like there's just not enough care that ⁓ Ryan: Some splatter. RAC Chandler: takes a shower from the knees down. Ryan: Yeah. Aaron: I'm like, give me a urinal. Let my let my genes be safe. RAC Chandler: Ryan, what's your four? Or your two? Ryan: Alright, this is my second favorite. Sorry, one more auburn. So sorry. Aaron: No, these are all five of it. I it's g yeah RAC Chandler: One more after this or one more including this? Ryan: One more here, one more here, one more here. At least one more here. I did the Eagle flying at Auburn. So okay, so for Auburn, I did the Eagle Flying and our War Eagle. It kinda goes hand in hand. So every game, you know, we have an eagle that flies around, circles the stadium, and we all go, Whoa and then when it flies down to the center we go, Eagle, hey and it's like the whole stadium's like roaring. It's awesome. That I was gonna give a little history lesson, y'all, because everyone's like, Why why is that the Tigers and the War Eagles? What are you talking about? So the only reason we have this eagle too, so there was a soldier that came from Alabama that in the Civil War, during the Battle of the Wilderness, he found a wounded eagle, like on the battlefield. So he took it in and he cared for it and he nursed it back to health. And a few years later He was previously an Auburn student, but he came back to Auburn as like a faculty member. So he'd always bring it around and people would always see him with the Eagle on campus and he'd bring it to all the events. So of course he's gonna bring it to the first Auburn game. So the first Auburn game was against Georgia, because we have the oldest rival in the South again in 1892, and he brought the Eagle with him. But during the game, the Eagle broke free from the soldier and started circling around the stadium. But Auburn happened to start driving down the field and score. So the fans got all excited and they started screaming War Eagle, War Eagle, during the thing. And then we won. And the Eagle dove into the center of the field and died. So we always say War Eagle. Aaron: I love this list because this is this is a me and Chandler College tradition of like, hey, here's some comf cool football stuff. This is like shattering my mind for how Auburn fans exist. Like I wasn't ready for this roller coaster. RAC Chandler: What an electric statement that was. Ryan: Yeah, it sounds fake. It sounds fake. And now we use it like in like the the Auburn fan base is so great. It's like we use like it's a greeting. It's like ⁓ hello. ⁓ hey, War Eagle. You're wearing orange and blue, War Eagle, you know? And in our kickoffs, it's another thing. We kinda do the same thing. Everyone goes, whoa, and then rightly kicks the ball, Eagle, hey! And then like the hay is like so piercing through the stadium, like it's awesome. RAC Chandler: and died. Aaron: Yeah. Let me follow this up with as a non-Auburn initiated person. So from the very beginning, the the War Eagles been a thing in the football program. And you guys kept the tiger part. The part that isn't that important and doesn't have a really cool story of death on the field. You were like, we're gonna keep both. I thought this was like a recent thing, that it was like, okay, historically we're the tigers. Ryan: The first game. The first game. Yes. Aaron: But you know, in the sixties there was this part of it that like it it became but it was for just from the beginning. Like y'all could have changed at that point. Cause yeah, which is original, ⁓ not not the not the third tiger of one conference. ⁓ why haven't y'all done that? What is the what is keeping the tiger part around? RAC Chandler: You could have been the Auburn Eagles. Ryan: No, we've even changed the name of our school. We were like the Auburn's men's school of like something, and then we changed the API, and then we turned to Auburn. So we changed our name like three times, and we were always the Tigers, and we always had this eagle. But it's like I'm sorry I keep picking Auburn ones, but it's like we just have such like great rooted traditions that are so old. And I'm not even trying to just pick Auburn. They're like in my head. I'm like, these are just so great. And they seem so crazy. Like this seems so crazy. This guy just had an eagle that was flying around. You win, and they're like, ⁓ there's like a some like Aaron: You should ask you. Ryan: like superstitious thing that we need to fly an eagle around our stadium every single game now so that we can win. 'Cause we beat Georgia a hundred and fifty years ago. Aaron: Yeah, k it which is it's cool. Like that's a cool tradition. I do think the War Eagle as like if we were putting traditions up there, I think it is a top one. I think it is something I like when teams have a mascot that ⁓ like a live mascot ⁓ that they participate. I think like FSU with riding in, I think the the Sooners when you got that going through. That that stuff's always cool me. There's just something hype that you'll see the fandom do it, and I think War Eagle is up there for those. RAC Chandler: It is... Aaron: But I do want to start a petition. I think we need to get the Auburn fans together with the with the directors and say, look, we can we can make this change. I think we can all switch over. We can say you guys are the Auburn War Eagles. That is the coolest merch in college football. You could have the cool I mean, if you had your choice, as an Auburn fan, if you had the choice between the War Eagle mascot and the Tiger mascot, who are you picking? Ryan: You don't like Obby? He always wins like the he they have like some I don't know. Well, at this point, Obi's so big. Like, he wins like the mascot national championship thing. He goes to some contest and wins that sometime. I don't know. I'd have to do both. RAC Chandler: It is crazy though because I'm doing so I'm getting my masters there and I did the whole orientation and it's called like the War Eagle Way orientation. So like it's funny because it Aaron: I legitimately didn't know they were the Tigers for the first couple seasons I started following football. I was like, when when somebody was referencing, I was like, ⁓ it's the Auburn Eagles. And I was like, that's cool. Like a unique mascot. We don't have a lot of Eagles. So very cool. They locked that one in. ⁓ yeah, and then later on, like, it's like, ⁓ no, they're the Tigers. And I was like, I don't think so. Like, yeah, I don't see any tiger representation there. I see a lot about Eagles. RAC Chandler: What is this tiger running around in the field in the orange and blue? Yeah, you're wrong. Ryan: Yeah. Aaron: So Ryan: Yeah, and we're we're orange and blue like a tiger. I'm just kidding. That doesn't make ⁓ yeah, but something I like the yeah you're talking about they all have like a mascot, like a live one. But some about an eagle. It's like so American, so patriotic. And when you let it loose, it's not like you're like riding the horse. It's like the eagle could just like fly away, you know? And it's just like he's like he's like he's supporting us. He's supporting us. He's gonna fly around the field, he's gonna come back. Aaron: Yeah. Yes, he could fly into the middle of the field and die. Like nothing stopping him. Yeah. Ryan: Someone's gonna stand on the sideline with him on his on their wrist the whole game, like a AP little eagle, you know? Like yeah. Aaron: It's cool. Like I said, I I am all for rebranding Auburn as the War Eagles. Like I think we can make that happen. So it'll be a rack initiative. RAC Chandler: What's your four slide, Mr. Aaron? Ryan: Not sure fans would be too happy. ⁓ sorry. Aaron: My fourth slot is also another generalized college football, but one of my favorite things that we get see. And I'm going with the third down sounds for stadiums. I think as somebody, my team or someone else's, if I'm watching a game, third down sounds for me, get me hyped up. If your team has a good one, it is awesome. There's something where it just has that. Ryan: Mm. Aaron: that moment of like, ⁓ we rolled into third down. It's game time. The crowd gets loud. I just, I love the integration of it. And I think there are some teams that have some really, really good ones. Ryan: And again, Aaron, you keep speaking my language here. I'm all about this super high energy stuff. There's nothing like it. Those defensive guys, those are energy driven guys. They're getting all hyped up. They're playing the music. You're rolling. You're loud. It's so great. There's nothing like a nice third down at a football stadium. And you stop ⁓ you know, it's like crazy, you know. Aaron: ⁓ yeah. You 'cause you're already like w hyped. And w like for my Mississippi State fandom, when we had Mike Leach, we had the air raid, like when you have the air raid claxon going off, that's cool. Like it's just a moment where you're like, That's my team. Like this is what we we're getting ready. Now it's for me to do my part. I gotta start bringing back Al Bell Arter. But you know, like ⁓ I think when we have things like ⁓ Alabama's like fan of the opera. Ryan: Yeah. Aaron: And stuff like that. I think that's cool. I think those are those like it you know who you're playing when you go against, especially when those teams are doing good and your team, you're you're playing against them and you're away at their home stadium. You there are some of those that you kind of like dread the sound of that where you're like, ⁓ no, I know they're gonna do it. So I it just is something that I think it resonates with me harder. I just enjoy it so much. I just think it's it's such a fandom defining thing. Ryan: Mm-hmm. It was a great pick. A great pick. RAC Chandler: So my fifth one, I'm back in the ACC. I did a little research on it because I didn't know the full history behind it. So it was actually a cool read when I was in middle of doing a lot of pull downs at the gym with Ryan and I did a little research on the old fifth slot. we got Clemson in their whole running down the hill intro of their beginning of the game. So Frank Howard, a former coach in the 60s, was given a rock by one of his friends from Death Valley, California. Just a random rock. that his friend found gave him this rock, right? So he puts it in his office and for like six years it was a doorstop. That's all it was. It was just a doorstop in his room. like six years later, he went in, was cleaning his office and somebody told him, it's like, you got to get rid of that rock. Like, what, why is it still here? So I mean, it could have been out of spite. I don't know. That GPT was not clear, but ⁓ He put it on a pedestal and put it at the top of the hill up for this rock. So the first game it was debuted, all the players would go out, they rubbed the top of the rock and they went out, ran down the hill. They won by 18. So from then on, it was like a symbol of like coming together in unity and like just giving your all like 110%. Like, so everybody really rubs the rock and they run down the hill. So Frank, it's called Howard. Aaron: Now did this rock die at the end of the game in the middle of the field? RAC Chandler: This is not quite as cool. That's where the story gets a little rocky. It's called the Howard Rock still after Frank Howard, but they still have that same rock up in a pedestal. At the top of the hill they rub it, run down, and they do their thing. So that's pretty cool tradition. Aaron: Okay. So so we're not changing it to the Clemson Rocks, ⁓ for the season. Ryan: This rock is not a meteorite that landed in the center of the field on after they won the game. RAC Chandler: It is not, no, it is not from Stranger Things that like came from another planet through, you know, so no. Aaron: No, it's just a Ryan: Mm. It is kinda funny though. It's like funny that he just kinda put it up there. It's crazy they like r run down the field down the hill though. You know, me and Joe and Joker like they how do they not fall down? RAC Chandler: just a random rock. I'm shocked that like I've never seen him just like tumble. Yeah, just like Aaron: It I I do always worry a little bit. Like I think about him like, did it has anybody like ever torn something like just it because it is it is a hill. ⁓ it's I will say it is cool. I think pointing it out, like putting it on the list, I think it is justified because it is like here. I didn't know the story behind it. I just was like, they got that rock and they touch it, then they run down a hill. Good energy. Knowing that the story behind the rock is just being obstinate. RAC Chandler: Yeah. Yeah. Aaron: Is even better for me because it is another one of those college football things of like it does occur naturally. Like, ⁓ you just kind of one of these things happened, you know, if somebody told me to get rid of the rock that I had as my doorstop, I put it in the way, and then now everybody touches it, and now it's gotta be there. Like now our our foundation and culture depends on that rock. And I love that. Like that is just something of superstition that we get. RAC Chandler: Yeah. Aaron: so involved in his college football fans. Like it it just shows that passion of like if you try to explain all these stories as Ryan has tried to do, ⁓ it makes it crazy for us. RAC Chandler: No, I mean, I wore a Nashville Predators hockey pullover to the national championship because that was the pullover that I wore for every single playoff game from Ohio State's national championship run. And during Texas, I did not wear it I was like, I don't want to wear a jacket inside of Mercedes Benz. And it's like going to be a thousand degrees in there. So I got to change it now so they can get a win. Keep going. Halftime wasn't looking good. Went upstairs, put it on. Jack Sawyer scoop and score. Bada boom, bada bang. wore it to Atlanta. So I mean, superstition is that could be its own tradition in college football. But I mean, that goes NFL as well. But I mean, it's there's a lot of crazy ones. mean, they got to wear the same socks, same hats, all kinds of stuff. Ryan: Yeah, it's so crazy. I gotta touch this w rock so I do good. Like it's hilarious that like I love how each team just has these weird little things that they do. That's just like it makes college bullets so good. Aaron: Yeah, and and like, you know, fifty to a hundred years of just combining the weird little things that the the players before them did. It just it's it's so cool to like see it and then hear about it. I think that's like even as a non fan of a team, you come to it and you're like, ⁓ yeah. Like that's cool. Like, love that you guys are doing that. You know, here's our weird thing that we do. RAC Chandler: Alright Ryan, what's your fifth Auburn one? What you got? Ryan: Alright, this is number one on my list. My favorite college football tradition is the Iron Bowl. Kind of less of like a weird little nitpicky thing we do, but the Iron Bowl the Iron Bowl is the greatest rivalry in sports, in my opinion. I know you're gonna disagree. In my opinion, it's the greatest rivalry in sports. And it's because it's not just about football, it's about more than football. And I'm gonna give you another history lesson why. So after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction period They made a thing called the Moral Act of eighteen sixty-two. And this pretty much just provided land grants to for higher education. So they just give land and money to colleges. And Auburn was running low on money and they really, really needed it. So it also kind of made sense that they would get it because it's more of like an agricultural kind of school. We have that and like engineering and stuff. So it makes sense that we need land. We need money because we're kind of out of it. And the Alabama state legislator ⁓ was like Super heavily influenced by Alabama alumni, and they wanted all the money for themselves, and they want to be the sole premier college of Alabama. So they were kind of fighting us for it. And you can call it a miracle. We've had plenty of miracles get against Alabama. But after four years, they finally gave it to us in 1872. And the state legislator still tried to hold the money throughout the 1870s and the 1880s. Didn't want to give it to us because they're from Alabama. But Auburn really needed the money. So they had to fight for their survivors of school against this already established like Alabama school and their corrupt alumni. So we had our first game on February twenty second, nineteen or eighteen ninety-three. And even then, we won thirty two to twenty two and the s disputes already began. You know, we said that that was the first game of the eighteen ninety three season, but they were like, ⁓ it's in February. It was the last game of the eighteen eighty two season. So we're already disputing there. And if you go on both of our websites right now, it's still like that. Like we have it listed as different days. And we played till 1907. But after that game, we disagreed so bad on things like player expenses and revenue disputes and like where we should get the refs and how much to pay them. And also the players and even the fans would get such bad fights during the game that we just stopped playing for 41 years. And we started playing again in 1948. And they agreed to play at a neutral site. But Alabama, you know, knowing Alabama, the neutral site was Legion Field, and they already played most of their games at Legion Field anyway. So it wasn't even a neutral site. We were just playing at Alabama's stadium, essentially. But in 1989, we finally got to play the home-to-home series like we were talking about. And as I mentioned earlier, we won at home against an undefeated number two Alabama. And this is made for huge games like the Punt Bama Punt, the Bow Over the Top. The fear of the thumb when we won six years in a row. And we had the camback, which is the comeback in 2010 where the guy r ⁓ ruined our trees and put the spike eighty DF in ⁓ or whatever. And then we had the kick six. We always had huge upsets and stuff. It's just so much history in that game. And it's just more than football. It's like a whole foundation of our schools or like against each other and everything that they believe in. Aaron: When say the least surprising thing about the history of that is that most of the arguments stem from being bad at math and date management. And it seems like as Alabama schools, that's unsurprising to outside of people. RAC Chandler: I'll see. I view it as like a 1A, 1B kind of thing. I think you can't have an argument of like any other teams being a top rival in the sport. ⁓ But I think where you guys could have a lead, not saying you do, but is that you are in state as well. Aaron: Yeah, I I I will say the Iron Bowl is I'm not gonna give you the best rivalry game. Because I'm gonna, of course, argue that the egg bowl is the best rivalry game in the history of that is our trophy was so ugly that ⁓ we tried to make it a football and it looks like an egg. So it's an egg bowl. I like that. That's very Mississippi state coded. but I do think the Iron Bowl has a certain environment to it that it like Alabama can be playing at the top of its game, Auburn can be playing like it is now, and you still don't know who's gonna win. ⁓ like it is something that it is always up for debate. You cannot count the Iron Bowl no matter how good one team or the other's doing, it could go either way. so I I will say that as bowl games go, the Iron Bowl is one that I watch every year. So it might be on record if it is on Ryan: Mm-hmm. Aaron: During some of the other ones. It's not my top, but it is on my list of watched rivalry games. Ryan: Yeah, and for tradition wise, it's like of course I love the game, but it's just rooted in such history and such tradition that I had to put it as number one on my list. And I know you're gonna disagree, Chandler. Aaron: I mean it did sound like the history and and tradition was we disagreed over government funds and so it's it's not as exciting as ⁓ Ryan: Yeah, and they're they're still trying to Yeah. They're trying to steal all the money, choke us out as a school, you know, still trying to put us down to this day. You know, it's not gonna happen. RAC Chandler: All right, Aaron, close us out. Aaron: So I for my number five, I also had the Virginia Tech. So we have covered, we we did talk about it, ⁓ which thinking of like do we have a do we have a throw in that I could like do an honorable mention here. So I I'll go ahead and say So because we already talked about Virginia Tech, I'm gonna do an honorable mention here to piggyback Ryan off of yours and say, I think rivalry game weekend for college football is something that I think is a special tradition of ours. Because, like, you know, when we talk NFL, you still have your rivalry games, you still have those things. But having them all go down on one weekend, that I think is is something that it's like it's the most exciting weekend of college football because anything can happen. It's right before like we get to the championships for the different conferences. Like it is kind of a make or break moment for a season and you're going against the team you want to beat the most. So I do love the spirit of that week. And I I don't know if there's a lot of other sports that you get that same excitement for regular season games like across the board. Ryan: Yeah. RAC Chandler: Agree. Aaron: Ha ha ha. RAC Chandler: you Ryan: I mean, yeah, I love rivalry games. I mean, of course I'm gonna be a little biased 'cause I'm an armor fan, but the game for Ohio State team up north is also pretty good. The egg bowl's always good. And you always gotta make sure you always gotta make sure to watch all of the games, you know? And I missed out on a few when I was younger 'cause if you made it the championship for the Turkey Bowl is always on a Saturday, so that always throw a little wrinkle and things. But other than those few little years there RAC Chandler: Pretty good. Crazy. Ryan: And literally, you know, I watch all the games, try to go to the Iron Bowl if I can. Aaron: Yeah, it's just it's it's just such a fun weekend, especially 'cause it is that Thanksgiving weekend that it's like you just have nothing else slated. You're just like, We're gonna be watching college football rivalry games. You know, you eat turkey, you do some shopping, and you watch rivals. Ryan: Yeah, and even if everyone sucks, it's still like fun. Like every single game is so fun. The crowd's like so into it, even if they suck. It's great. Aaron: Yeah. And and really it's like when you get a surprise, when you get the upset, when you get the rival team coming in, like the unranked rivalry ⁓ a rival taking on the ranked team and coming out on top. I there's something special about that. Like, you know, those when people rush the stadium, you're like, All right, yep, we got it this time. Ryan: Yeah, and you have Chandler, you know, y'all have the y'all have Brutus crossing out the ⁓ Last year everyone was stealing Trinidad Channel's jersey. Just the little shenanigans going on. It's just hilarious. Yeah, right. That's like it. The refs let ⁓ Yeah, and the refs just let ⁓ play a little bit. You know, I like it. Rough ⁓ up a little. Rough ⁓ up. Aaron: Yep. The fights. More than likely gonna get a fight on that weekend. Yeah. It is like it is it is agreed that it's like our physical weekend. Like we have the restraints, but it seems like across conferences everybody's like, We'll let it get it out of their system a little bit. So we good, we good for me to start that wrap up? All right. Do we have a topic for next week? Is that where we are? College football. All right. Yep. Yep. Badtil season comes on. Yeah. Okay. RAC Chandler: this out. Ryan: College football. I'm just kidding. Sorry. RAC Chandler: Yeah, just say we're talking about college football next week. We can just make that our new thing. Yeah, yeah. So next week, by popular demand, we are talking about College of All. Ryan: Yeah. Great. I love it. It's really stupid. It's alert. Sorry. Aaron: So So this was fun. I actually really enjoyed this. I I can't I want to deep dive on some more traditions. So if any of you listeners out there have some weird traditions for your team, if you love the smell of toilet paper in the morning, let us know. 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