Here's a little something to start off Iron Bowl Week

This is Auburn football....

• It is the 1/2 national championship in 113 years of playing football
• It is sharing a mascot with numerous junior high and pee-wee football teams
• It is the smile on Ben Leard's face after throwing an interception that lost the 1998 Virginia game
• It is the feeling of anticipation during the walk down Wire Road from your trailer to "The Jungle"
• It is having a cute little nickname like "The Jungle" for Jordan-Hare
• It is putting up a banner for losing the tie-breaker for the Western Division title
• It is throwing a parade for finishing second
• Again, it is throwing a parade for finishing second
• It is and always will be about "Keep it down home, cuz"
• It is about having a cute slogan like "AttitUde" or "AUdacity" in order to fire up your fans
• It is the hope that one day; Auburn will win a national title without sharing it or being on probation.
• It is knowing that if the Tigers finish second, it will be OK because they will throw a parade anyway
• It is living up to every stereotype about Auburn by letting the players ride on hay bails during that "victory" parade
• It is accepting the National Title from the only person who will give it to Auburn, a 16 year old kid with an AOL account
• It is Terry Bowden
• It is Eric Ramsey
• It is having a head coach who used to cook catfish for a living
• It is Napoleon Syndrome
• It is Little Brother Syndrome
• It is the Red Headed Step Child Syndrome
• It is believing 2 Heisman Trophies = 2 National Championships
• It is knowing that only one other school in the NCAA has been put on probation more times
• It is using Toilet Paper to celebrate a victory and wondering why the world treats Auburn like No. 2
• It is canceling the Florida State game a month before the season
• It is calling the 1989 Alabama game "The Mountain Top," instead of using that title for a championship game
• It is yelling "Punt Bama, Punt" 30 years after that chant outlived its cleverness
• It is the 1/2 national championship in 113 years of playing football
• It is having a runningback who couldn't pass a third grade English test
• It is constantly correcting people that Auburn is in Alabama, not Georgia
• It is drawing national attention as a barn burns down next to the stadium during the LSU game
• It is having a bovine research center less than a mile away from the football stadium
• It is the look on Terry Bowden's face as he's about to pass out at the Flora-Bama
• It is the plane ride to Louisville
• It's 13-0 =#2
• It is having the same amount of SEC championships as Georgia Tech, who left the SEC 40 years ago
• It is the probations
• It is the trailers
• It is the cows