Truly sad & angry

coppcw08

I know there aren't many 10-10ers from the southeast, so y'all may not know/ care about this, but I'm legitimately upset. I've posted multiple times that I'm a HUGE Auburn football fan. My whole family is. It's something that brings us all together. My three year old niece sleeps with a stuffed Aubie tiger & could sing the entire fight song by the time she was two.  Basically, we're a family of alumni & die hards.

One of the oldest & most famous/ exciting traditions for Auburn is "rolling Toomer's corner." When Auburn wins a football game, students take toilet paper & roll these two giant oak trees in the middle of town. The trees are 130+ years old, so they're huge and beautiful, and have been absolutely iconic for generations.

Some unbelievable sixty-two year old redneckass DOUCHEBAG poisoned them. He put some crap in the soil that was WAY more than enough to kill them, and then called a radio station to brag about it. Why did he do it? Well because he's an Alabama fan of course, and Auburn (Bama's biggest rival) beat them in the Iron Bowl this year & went on to win the National Championship.

 Are you effing kidding me? This might seem like a silly thing to be sad about, but I am in such a funk about this. We have so many family pictures from my entire life of all of us on Toomer's corner, with the trees, sometimes with the toilet paper, sometimes not. Those trees are a symbol of something that has meant so much to my family & hundreds of thousands of other people for generations. And some crazy old backwoods Bama fan took that away from all future fans for what? And then bragged about it on the radio? I'm sad and really, really angry.

http://ocm.auburn.edu/news/oaks.html

hz80408

Aw! Righfully upset!

How awful to try to ruin such a cool tradition!  I love the pic!  That would be awesome!

alecat9

That pisses me off too, and I grew up an Alabama fan. Beyond the sport team rivalry, that is a terrible thing to do to trees in general, especially ones that have lived for 100+ years and have such history behind them. From an environmental standpoint I am just sort of flabbergasted someone would do such a thing, especially over football.

OceanHutt

I heard about this...thats awful I'm so sorry that a tradition was worth less than someone's jealousy and stupidity

jonigringa

Wow.  That is really horrible.  I belong to a family of Gator fans (my older bro is an alum), so I understand what you mean by the tradition and how special it was for so many people.  Some people, very sadly, just do not know where to draw the line.

Sapphire1002

I live in ATL and there are tons of Auburn fans here.. it definitely made the news several times.   It's just so wrong on so many levels.. matters not what school or location, the fact is, it was pretty senseless. 

Mia2700

I work with an advisor that used to coach there and I'm scared to call him.  Our first conversation was all football and every time we speak it comes up so I'm afraid to hear his heart broken.

I can't believe this rival has gone this far.  I mean, it was bad enough before this incident but now it's just plain sick.  The hatred has gone too far.

I'm sorry this history is ruined for all the people with memories of it, and I'm also very sorry that future generations will never be able to experience this.