Here's the 1975 version of the "Wreck Tech" Parade.

Normally everyone would be in pajamas as they marched toward the pep rally.

The story: The first time Georgia Tech game to Auburn for a game, in 1896, Auburn students greased the railroad tracks so the train couldn't stop at the station. Once the engineer finally got the train stopped the Tech players had to walk back to Auburn for the game. After a five mile hike Tech was beaten badly and vowed never to play Auburn again if that's how they'd be treated.

Fair play won the day, but the pajamas commemorate the ancient late night prank. Except for this particular year, the Glomerata reports, the temperature dipped to 40 degrees, so people chose their bell bottoms instead.

Auburn doesn't play Georgia Tech regularly anymore -- at the time they were conference rivals -- but the parade is recreated when they do meet. It seems funny to anyone of my generation to see so much effort put into Tech, the big-time rivalry feel was re-directed toward other programs, but no one else gets a parade.

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