I am sitting here thinking about all the things I need to be doing, yet I am still sitting here. Funny how that happens. =o) I have laundry to do, 2 bathrooms to clean, dishes to wash and baking to do and well, you get the idea. I have a zillion things to do but yet I'm sitting here drinking coffee at my computer.
I also am thinking back to Thanksgiving 2010. In some ways it seems like a lifetime ago and yet in some ways like it was just last week. We had 6 people living here and 2 visiting. Thanksgiving dinner therefore, consisted of 8 people. It was really cold that week. Michelle was working at Starbucks at Peterson AFB and Michael at Walmart. Kevin was still working for Infocrossing and working from home. In a years time all three are doing something else. Michelle is in AF technical school at Keesler, Michael works at Penney's and Kevin for 1st Bank. During that time Chris took a math class at PPCC and I had surgery. Fastforward to the current Thanksgiving and there are 3 people living in the house and the temps the next 3 days are going to be in the low 60's! Crazy.
Which brings us to football and this year's Iron Bowl. Again, what a difference a year makes!! This time last year we were sitting at 11-0 going into the Iron Bowl. Cam Newton and the tigers seemed unbeatable and we...were....loving it!! After 2009's heartbreaking loss at Jordan-Hare to Bama in.the.LAST.2 minutes, here we were sitting at an unbelievable 11-0 going into Bama territory for the Iron Bowl. The game started and we were, well, there really is only one word to describe it, "stunned"in the first half. Stunned. Bama showed up ready to play and it was obvious to everyone. But, things started to change in the 3rd quarter. Actually, it started really with one play in the 2nd quarter followed by an Auburn touchdown, but anyhoo, things changed. Boy did they change. Except this time, it was the Bama Nation that was stunned. The Cam Newton that we had known all season, that seemed to not be in attendance the 1st half, showed up big time in the 2nd half. And we DID IT! Auburn pulled it off and we won. Oh my gosh it was magical and one of the best Iron Bowls EVER! There we were 12-0 with the SEC Championship coming up. And so on and so on and we all know that Auburn won and thus went on to the National Title game and came out National Champs 2010. What a magical and wonderful season it was for us Auburn faithful.
Fast forward to the 2011 season and things are, well, a little different. People said Auburn would be lucky to win a game. The people that be put us ending the season at 5-7. Here we are the week of the Iron Bowl and we're sitting at 7-4. Considering what we lost with all the players leaving, I think that's a pretty darn good record. I am proud of my tigers! We have a really young team though, and some really great players on said young team. Auburn is poised to become a monster team again, and soon. No, this isn't our year, but we knew it when the season started. And man is the BCS in a weird way this year, but how cool is it that the top 3 teams in the nation are all SEC and not only SEC, but SEC West! With the way things are looking now, something beyond stupid weird would have to happen for the 2011 National Champs to NOT be an SEC team. Pretty cool if you ask me. :)
But back to this year and the 2011 Iron Bowl. I don't know what team will walk away with the W. The entire world seems to think it will be Bama, but looking back to last year, they did then, too. :) The Iron Bowl is the one game that no one seems to ever be able to correctly predict. We've seen so many upsets in that game. I do know that we are so fortunate to be Alabamians with two wonderful schools like Auburn and Alabama and two pretty awesome football teams. Both schools showed great humanity for lack of a better word with each other over the past several months. With the poisoning of Toomers Oaks to the devastating tornados in T-town. I think both the Auburn AND the Bama faithful showed the world that while on the field.....it's war baby, but off the field, we're all family. Family of the great state of Alabama! And with THAT said...........WAR EAGLE BABY! I hope we beat the poo outta Bama Saturday. =o)
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