Before games at Auburn the football team takes the short two block walk to Jordan-Hare Stadium from the athletic department. They’ve been walking down this hill for years and, at some point in the 1960w this became a very organic, ground-up tradition. Young fans would line the road and greet the team, cheering them on to victory even before they were in the stadium, even before they were in their uniforms.
Fans still re-create the tradition. Tiger Walk is two hours before kickoff. The picture above was taken an hour before that. Far up that street is where the players begin. And, as the coaches said yesterday, for young players Tiger Walk itself can almost be like playing another game.
Here’s the video, shot from my iPhone at the end of their walk, just as the players are about to enter the stadium.
Travis Williams, a former Auburn player who is now a graduate assistant for the team, produced a video that they played in the stadium just before the game. It is OK here, but best seen on a screen 30-by-70 foot screen inside the stadium.
More videos, pictures and such later. War Eagle.
