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Title: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Buzz Killington on November 24, 2010, 04:27:00 PM
Just trying to get the median age...

My first was 1981, I was 11.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: AU_Tiger_2000 on November 24, 2010, 04:41:05 PM
1997 I was an 19 year old freshman.  Auburn was 1 and 3 in the Iron Bowl while I was in school.  Way to go Tater Tot!
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: AUChizad on November 24, 2010, 05:46:22 PM
My first that I actually went to was in Tuscaloosa when I was an 18 year old Senior in high school in 2000. Can't remember how we scored the free tickets. I believe Taylor was there. I've done a lot of drinking between then and now, so I'm fuzzy on the details.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: djsimp on November 24, 2010, 06:04:04 PM
I've yet to be at one.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Jumbo on November 24, 2010, 10:25:37 PM
I was 25 and we lost.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: The Prowler on November 24, 2010, 11:25:00 PM
I went to the '84 or '85 IB, I can't remember.  I was a bammer back then, didn't know any better, I was only 6.  My Dad almost killed a guy because he cused at me for wearing an Auburn hat (it was very sunny that day and my dad didn't want me to burn my head, so he gave me a hat to wear).  I stopped being a bammer that day when I saw how rude their fanbase was.....Best decision I ever made.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: AUChizad on November 24, 2010, 11:50:25 PM
I went to the '84 or '85 IB, I can't remember.  I was a bammer back then, didn't know any better, I was only 6.  My Dad almost killed a guy because he cused at me for wearing an Auburn hat (it was very sunny that day and my dad didn't want me to burn my head, so he gave me a hat to wear).  I stopped being a bammer that day when I saw how rude their fanbase was.....Best decision I ever made.
Oooh.

This makes sense.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: jmar on November 25, 2010, 06:10:08 AM
13, it was in 1971 at Legion Field.

Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Townhallsavoy on November 25, 2010, 08:46:15 AM
2003.

I was a freshman at Auburn. 

2002?  I was an LSU fan.  I grew up in New Orleans, so I naturally rooted for LSU. 

Then in 2003 when LSU and Auburn played, I thought it would be a win-win situation for me since I rooted for both teams.

I received four phone calls from family members after LSU blew us out.  Uncles and aunts.  People I had looked up to all my life as loving family members who I spent time with at Thanksgiving. 

They said things like, "How bout them LSU Tigers?  Dey knows how to play some football.  You sure you decided right to go to a school like Auburn?  Geaux Tigers!" 

If you know anything about people from Louisiana/LSU fans/people from New Orleans, you know they are extremely smug and prideful about where they come from.  It's not so much what they say to you but the tone of their voice and the connotation of their words.  It comes across as, "I am better than you because I am from New Orleans." 

That night, I said fuck LSU and became a true Auburn fan. 

Wait...got off track.

2003.  I was a freshman.  I was 5-0 in Iron Bowls as a student.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: JR4AU on November 25, 2010, 10:19:25 AM
I didn't grow up an Auburn fan, or around any family Auburn Alum or fans.  It wasn't until my best friend took me to an Auburn game in about '79 or '80 that I became an Auburn fan. 

My first Iron Bowl?  Don't really recall actually, some time in college (I went to UAB).  The first one I have memory of was late 80s or early 90s.  Sitting to the side and below one of the upper decks, and seems like maybe in the student section if there was one....and before the game there was a kid (10 or 12 years old maybe) yelling at Auburn fans from off the upper deck..."Row Tahd" the little greasy redneck fucker yelled from his perch safe above us all...loud and long enough to get the attention of quite a few folks...and the chant "jump, jump, jump" grew to a crescendo from our section. 
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: AUChizad on November 25, 2010, 01:01:23 PM
2003.

I was a freshman at Auburn. 

2002?  I was an LSU fan.  I grew up in New Orleans, so I naturally rooted for LSU. 

Then in 2003 when LSU and Auburn played, I thought it would be a win-win situation for me since I rooted for both teams.

I received four phone calls from family members after LSU blew us out.  Uncles and aunts.  People I had looked up to all my life as loving family members who I spent time with at Thanksgiving. 

They said things like, "How bout them LSU Tigers?  Dey knows how to play some football.  You sure you decided right to go to a school like Auburn?  Geaux Tigers!" 

If you know anything about people from Louisiana/LSU fans/people from New Orleans, you know they are extremely smug and prideful about where they come from.  It's not so much what they say to you but the tone of their voice and the connotation of their words.  It comes across as, "I am better than you because I am from New Orleans." 

That night, I said fuck LSU and became a true Auburn fan. 

Wait...got off track.

2003.  I was a freshman.  I was 5-0 in Iron Bowls as a student.
My fiance graduated from high school in New Orleans in 2003 and transplanted to Auburn that fall. She went to Dominican.

inb4 "I thought she was Puerto Rican, not Dominican".
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Ranger12 on November 25, 2010, 06:01:24 PM
First Iron Bowl was 1999 at Auburn and I was 26. On the sidelines as a photographer for the Cullman Times.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Tiger Six on November 25, 2010, 09:42:16 PM
I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Buzz Killington on November 25, 2010, 09:45:08 PM
I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?

Dabbie?
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: The Prowler on November 26, 2010, 06:09:07 AM
I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?
rws
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Tiger Six on November 26, 2010, 07:37:50 AM
You people suck at trivia...

There can be only one...
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: GH2001 on November 26, 2010, 08:15:42 AM
1989 - 13 yrs old. Been to everyone ever since at Auburn.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: The Prowler on November 27, 2010, 01:11:42 AM
I was there February 22, 1893.  I was 375 years old. 

Who am I?
Cam Newton
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: AUJarhead on November 27, 2010, 09:58:31 AM
I received four phone calls from family members after LSU blew us out.  Uncles and aunts.  People I had looked up to all my life as loving family members who I spent time with at Thanksgiving. 

They said things like, "How bout them LSU Tigers?  Dey knows how to play some football.  You sure you decided right to go to a school like Auburn?  Geaux Tigers!"

I feel your pain, I always get the "You went to Auburn, and you're from New Orleans?  Couldn't get into LSU?" line.  To which I respond, "Actually, I didn't even apply to LSU, all I got was a letter telling me I had been accepted into the incoming freshman class.  But I already had a high school education from the state of Louisiana."

First Iron Bowl, freshman year, 1992 at Legion Field.  0-0 at halftime, and we lose 17-0.  Pay Dye's last game.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: GH2001 on November 27, 2010, 10:01:04 AM
I feel your pain, I always get the "You went to Auburn, and you're from New Orleans?  Couldn't get into LSU?" line.  To which I respond, "Actually, I didn't even apply to LSU, all I got was a letter telling me I had been accepted into the incoming freshman class.  But I already had a high school education from the state of Louisiana."

First Iron Bowl, freshman year, 1992 at Legion Field.  0-0 at halftime, and we lose 17-0.  Pay Dye's last game.

Just for the record if you needed ammunition against Corndogs - If you could get into Auburn, LSU wouldnt be a problem to get into seeing as how Auburn is perpetually a Top 50 Public University and LSU is not.  I think you knew that though....Just saying.
Title: Re: How old were you when you went to your first Iron Bowl?
Post by: Tiger Wench on November 27, 2010, 11:43:25 AM
I have only been to one - at Legion Field in 1990(?).  Terribly cold game.  We lost.  But we got some damn good BBQ from the people who let us park in their yard.  $5 for a rib meat sammich and a Chek cola - and it was FABULOUS.

I don't know if I would ever want to go to another one, even if AU was a lock to win.  Too stressful.  Prefer to watch them at home.