These Days, Football Season Never Ends
By Jay Coulter
jccoulter@gmail.com
I can remember not too many years ago having to drive 20 miles to find the Sunday Birmingham Post-Herald. The same for the Montgomery Advertiser. It was a fall football tradition following a big Auburn win. To get your Auburn football news you had to look for it.
I remember grabbing the papers and reading columns by Clyde Bolton and Alf Van Hoose. It was many times the only real Auburn coverage we’d get all week.
How times have changed.
Today, thanks to the internet there are numerous choices when it comes to Auburn football. There are the pay services of AUTigers.com and Auburn Sports.com, which are worth every penny. All the newspapers are online and of course, there’s YouTube where you can get instant highlights.
But as you’d expect, the places I like to visit the most are the blogs. In my opinion, this is where you gauge the true climate of Auburn fans. It’s a place for fans to write and for fans to respond.
There are no filters. I’ve read on more than one occasion where Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs has bad mouthed blogs. He knows it’s a place where the truth is told. It’s a daily editorial page and I’m sure he’d just assume it go away.
Thankfully that’s not happening with Auburn fans. When I started my first blog, Football Saturday in the South nearly four years ago, I was about the only one blogging about Auburn athletics.
Jerry Hinnen came shortly after with The Joe Cribbs Car Wash. His site still has the most creative name of all the blogs in the country.
Today there are several, relatively new top-notch blogs that you need to bookmark and visit every day.
My friend, Jeremy Henderson has launched an awesome site called The War Eagle Reader and he updates it daily. It’s an awesome read and it’s one of the first places I visit each morning.
Today, I discovered another new blog, The Corner of Wire Road and Shug. It’s very new and shows promise. It has a great look to it.
And then there’s The Auburner, which is less of a blog and more of a general interest Auburn web site. The guys who write for it are hilarious. It’s true comedy.
And as you know, the newspaper guys have gotten into the act. The best is without question Phillip Marshall of The Huntsville Times. He should quit his job and start a pay site. He’d get rich.
There’s also Charles Goldberg, Christa Turner and Jay G. Tate who do blogs as beat writers for their respective newspapers. They are must visits.
If you haven’t already, make sure and check out these sites. You get a lot of different perspectives from many different view points. And most of all, it means never having to say that football season is over.
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On some, I agree, some...
.....should find a job shoveling something! Most notably, Charles Goldberg. He needs to distance himself from the Scarbinsky school of hysteria. Luckily, this winter, those guys are too busy savaging Mike Gottfried and Nick Saban. The bloom's off the rose, over in T-Town. The Saban kool-ade has fermented, and is now diabolical ACLU, soft-on-crime hooch. Doesn't play well, in the murder capital of the South. Hey, maybe they could put THAT on the marquee of Legion Field...
.....Christa and Phillip Marshall are awesome. I hope the papers are paying them well. I don't particularly like reading some of the comments on Marshall's blog, though. Nasty crowd! Cribbs is probably the most literary of all of us. It's nice to see someone who's apparently as tightly wound on gameday as I am. I love his recaps!
.....The Auburner is a strange site. However, you had to love those Sonic-ripoff commercials, this past fall. "Iron Bowl's got it, others don't!" This here Track 'EM blog has said a lot of hard things that needed saying. Somebody needed to tell it like it is, on Jay Jacobs, and Tuberville contract/Muschamp botching. Keep up the good work!
.....I'll have to check out the new entry. There's always room in my feed reader!
by Acid Reign on
Feb 27, 2008 7:50 PM CST
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As always Acid...
You are point on. I agree with all your observations. How quickly recruiting season has been forgotten at Bama.
Jay
by Jay Coulter on
Feb 27, 2008 8:47 PM CST
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Thanks
Thanks for the plug, Jay... War Eagle...
by thewareaglereader on
Feb 27, 2008 8:23 PM CST
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Disagree on one point
While I love the Joe Cribbs Car Wash, and think it is also a very clever name for a blog, the best blog name I've seen by miles and miles is "We Must Ignite This Couch" which is very obviously a West Virginia blog. I think it's the culmination of the pseudo-rhyme to the Under Armor commercial and their number one victory celebration tradition that does it for me.
by PowerOfDixieland on
Feb 27, 2008 11:02 PM CST
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WDT Vortex
I've turned WarDamnTailgate.com into a blog that sucks in all good Auburn sites that have a feed. I call it the WDT Vortex, a one stop shop for all Auburn blogs/sites (that provide rss feeds).
I had all the sites you mentioned except "Wire Road and Shug". Adding that now. Here's the link.
by WDTrey on
Feb 28, 2008 7:46 AM CST
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Question
by PowerOfDixieland on
Feb 28, 2008 11:42 AM CST
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Okay POD
You made me look. Where is this picture again? On this blog? I can't see it anywhere.
by War Eagle Atlanta on
Feb 28, 2008 12:01 PM CST
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Solid Point, POD...
Even though we lost, I was fascinated with this picture. Especially the fact that if you saw this, you would have thought that Jerraud knocked it down. So, to me, it's more that the picture was fantastic versus the outcome of the game.
by WDTrey on
Feb 29, 2008 7:27 AM CST
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Good Work Trey...
I like what you've done. You were one of the pioneers and have always enjoyed your site.
Jay
by Jay Coulter on
Feb 28, 2008 10:21 PM CST
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Blogdom in general
Thanks for all the new great sites, Jay. I've seen the links, but rarely do I go over and visit. There's only so many hours in the day, and some of those have to be devoted to work. I'm sure they're all good, though.
I think all of us should guard against becoming total homers where all we do is sample the Auburn stuff. Go to some other sites--other teams' or general CFB blogs. That way you know what the rest of the country is up to, and what they're saying about our team. That way, later, we can track them down and hurt them! :-)
by War Eagle Atlanta on
Feb 28, 2008 11:50 AM CST
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More musings
On the blog Corner of Wire Road and Shug, the main page shows a nice picture of....College St., in from of Sanford Hall. Hello? Google maps...
At least none of the Auburn bloggers have named their babies after some girl they still lust for 15 years later, like Hey Jenny Slater or Kissing Suzy Kolber. That's just creepy. I wonder how many stalkers actually do go into blogging...
If I ever publish an Auburn blog, which I won't because I'm just too damn lazy, I'm calling it "Hey Auburn, I graduated still owing you for three parking tickets. How do you like them apples, 18 years later?"
A bit lengthy, but I think it'll catch on...
by War Eagle Atlanta on
Feb 28, 2008 12:13 PM CST
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Can we vote on who should go away? :)
" ... I’ve read on more than one occasion where Auburn Athletic Director Jay Jacobs has bad mouthed blogs. He knows it’s a place where the truth is told. It’s a daily editorial page and I’m sure he’d just assume it go away. "
Jay, thanks for the updated list of blogs. I think we've hit most of them at one time or another. The War Eagle Reader is an awfully friendly site and stood out. The best though ... well, that would be Track 'Em Tigers. We appreciate the great work Jay!
by Tigerz on
Feb 28, 2008 3:43 PM CST
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I hope....
that Jay Jacobs and Lowder take the time to read the blogs, if for no other reason, just so they can know they are being scrutinized for their actions. As for favorites Trackemtigers of course and Turnerloose, Phillip Marshall is a close third. The Auburner can be entertaining and Goldberg needs to find another occupation. Most of all I like the ability to vent my frustration, share my exhuberance, ask questions, and get my Tiger fix when there is no national or state news to speak of. Thanks Jay and keep up the good work.
by Todd92 on
Feb 29, 2008 10:08 AM CST
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