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News While waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the Jan. 10 championship game between Auburn and Oregon, the mind tends to wander. Last week, we wrote about how college football in Alabama is taken very, very seriously. This week, we note one more example from the video archives of the state's football passion. Below is a much-watched chestnut from December 2008, in which one very distraught ...   More

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News A public service announcement for my fellow Oregon Ducks football obsessives in Portland: Don't swerve off the road when you see the Morrison Bridge lit up in Auburn's colors this weekend before the championship game Jan. 10. The wife of an Auburn grad has paid the Willamette Light Brigade to light the bridge up in Auburn's blue and orange (or dark blue and autumn gold, as she calls them) to ...   More

News If I had been lucky enough and wealthy enough to be at tonight's national championship game in Arizona between Auburn and Oregon, I would have spent some time before the game with friends outside the stadium in what's known as the "Jägermeister circle." This circle welcomes all Ducks football obsessives such as myself, the idea being that everybody predicts the final score after taking ...   More

News  While waiting (and waiting and waiting) for the Jan. 10 championship game between Auburn and Oregon, the mind tends to wander.Last week, we wrote about how college football in Alabama is taken very, very seriously. This week, we note one more example from the video archives of the state’s football passion.Below is a much-watched chestnut from December 2008, in ...   More

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