Southern Intercotee Meet!?!?

[tinkerbelle75]

I think an Intercot Christmas party in Foley sounds like a GRAND idea!!!
I don't think crowds would be bad at all around the 1st week of December...

[SgtTigger]

I'm gonna sit right in front of you and yell and scream for a roll.... when they throw it, I'm gonna duck and let it hit you in your big old head.

You're never happy unless you're stirring up trouble, Bret. Now you've got all 3 of us involved in this thread, me, Angel and Beth.

Whatcha gonna do???????

Ooooooooooo

Me Stirring up trouble????????? you must be thinking of Someone else........

So when is this going to be?????? I need time to plan against angel and jeanne... I mean plan a trip.........

[tinkerbelle75]

Is everybody agreed that we want to do a Christmas party? Somebody throw out some dates. Looks like Foley would be the place.

[pixiesmimi]

[QUOTE=MsMin;1417120]Shopping? Did I hear Shopping? That sounds like fun.

Are we talking about after the Intercot meet?

Football Schedule
Oct 20th
Auburn is @ LSU
Florida plays Kentucky and
Alabama plays Tenn.
USF @ Rutgers
Not too bad, Anyone an Auburn Fan? [QUOTE]

WAR EAGLE!!!

I think a Christmas meet around the first of December in Foley would be good. I've never been there so will need directions but I think that will be fun. The football schedule until after Thanksgiving (AL vs AU Thanksgiving Day) is pretty heavy and will be difficult. Heaven forbid we miss a game!

[SgtTigger]

WAR EAGLE!!!

Wait a minute.... Are you a war eagle or are you a tiger?????????? one week it is the eagles one week it is the tigers....

At LSU we are the TIGERS...........



Oh yea this is going to be a fun meet........

[MsMin]

I will cheer for Auburn against Alabama. You know it's all who they are playing.
Bret I do agree that Yea! War Eagles but our mascot thing is a little confusing. Shhhh! I think they have some identity issues but don't tell them. At least they don't bring cow bells to the stadium
So Dec. 1st and 8th are the first Saturdays in Dec. Thanksgiving is early.

[Natazu]

We might be able to come down. It sounds like fun.

Go Vols!

[pixiesmimi]

Wait a minute.... Are you a war eagle or are you a tiger?????????? one week it is the eagles one week it is the tigers....

At LSU we are the TIGERS...........



Oh yea this is going to be a fun meet........

Well, we are the Tigers but our battle cry is WAR EAGLE! :
Here is the reason why:
Auburn has only one nickname; Tigers. That comes from a 1770 poem by Oliver Goldsmith's, "The Deserted Village" in which "where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey...".

The battle cry is "War Eagle", which is no different than a Bammer yelling "roll tide", or "sooie pig" at Arkansas. You never hear Arkansas refered to as the Arkansas Sooie Pigs or the Alabama Roll Tides and calling Auburn the Auburn War Eagles is just as incorrect. But, the Eagle came to be through a legend that in 1892, at the Auburn - Georgia football game, a confederate soldier who was wounded at the battle of Wilderness in Virginia in 1864. He was left for dead and found himself alone with a wounded baby eagle. He managed to get back to friendlies and brought this wounded eagle with him. He domesticated it and both recovered from the injuries. He moved back to Auburn (where he had been a student) and later became on faculty there. At the previously mentioned Georgia game, he and the eagle were at the game. When Auburn scored their first touchdown, the eagle broke free and sored over the field. The Auburn fans recognizing the eagle statred to yell "War Eagle" as it was known by which it had come into the soldier's possession. And, thus, the tradition of yelling "War Eagle" at Auburn games which grew into a common greeting amongst Auburn fans, not to mention the coolest pre-game tradition in college football, the Eagle flight.

Just thought you might be interested.

Actually we are originally Razorbacks. Just Auburn transplants.

Oh, yeah, this is going to be a fun meet!

[tinkerbelle75]

A Gator is a Gator...we have no identity issues.
So somebody got a history of why the Crimson Tide has an elephant?
Great Job on the AU history, Diane! I had no idea......
Can we make a rule for the meet??
Nobody is allowed to bring roadkill,ok?

[SgtTigger]

So somebody got a history of why the Crimson Tide has an elephant?

Must be an Alabama thing huh???????

[Iluvpooh]

But perhaps the most widely recognized story of the red elephants' origin at Bama is that of sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal, Everett Strupper. The story goes back to the 1930 season when Tide head coach Wallace Wade had assembled a powerhouse of a football team that would eventually post an overall 10-0 record, win the Rose Bowl and the National Championship.

Strupper wrote a story on the Alabama-Mississippi game. In that article, Strupper marveled over the sheer mass and power of the Bama juggernaut:

"That Alabama team of 1930 is a typical Wade machine, powerful, big, tough, fast, and aggressive. When those big brutes hit you, you go down and stay down.

"Coach Wade started his second team that was plenty big and they went right to their knitting scoring a touchdown in the first quarter against one of the best fighting small lines that I have seen. For Ole Miss was truly battling the big boys for every inch of ground.

"At the end of the quarter, the earth started to tremble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bellowed, 'Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,' and out stamped this Alabama varsity.

Strupper and other Atlanta newspapers grasped onto the term, and continued to refer to the Alabama linemen as "red elephants," the color referring to the crimson jerseys.


ROLL TIDE ROLL!! I actually plan our trip each year in October for Bama's bye. We are going October 28th-November 2nd. Between the UT and LSU games.

Christmas shopping in Foley sounds like a great idea. I am outside Mobile.

[pixiesmimi]

Thanks, Belinda! I've been very well educated by my SIL who was born and bred in Auburn and never plans to leave it. The Alabama story was good too. I've always wondered about the elephants. Actually I'm from Arkansas and can't tell you why they have a red pig as a mascot. I'm sure I've heard but...

Let's get down to the date and time for this thing so we can plan. And where. I'm looking forward to it if we can make it.

[tinkerbelle75]

Ok I will throw a date and time out....How about December 8 at 2:00?
The Lambert's menu looks really good and sounds like a fun place.
So who can make it then??

[MsMin]

Hmmm. Have ya'll been to Lamberts? The seating is very very tight. All bench style booths. It would be fun to go there but what about all booking the same motel or someone getting a condo? Not that we would all want to have a slumber party but a place we can eat all day and visit Can we bring our Mascot MikeVI ? He's just a baby?

[tinkerbelle75]

Never stayed over in Foley... where's a good place for us to book?
Of course you can bring the mascot!

[tinkerbelle75]

Mascots welcome, mine will be with me too!

[MsMin]

When you go to Foley you are only 10 min from the beach if you take the toll road. I know there is a big motel near the shopping center too. Last year I went w/ a group and we got a block of rooms @ the Holiday Inn Express for only 89 a night w/ tax.
It's a pretty slow time of year so maybe we can get a good deal. I'll check some stuff out. Anyone want to try to get a block of rooms?

[tinkerbelle75]

Sounds great to me!!! The Holiday inns usually have group rooms too so that would be great. Let me know what you find!

[pixiesmimi]

I was just going to say that I would have my friend down there check out some things for us before I read these last posts. I'll still try to get some ideas from her.

[pixiesmimi]

The Holiday Inn Expresses don't have breakfast or restaurants, do they? Unless they have changed recently. Are there any Comfort Inns around there? They usually have free breakfast buffets and sometimes have meeting rooms. Whatever we find will be fine with me.