You know me, I always come back from T-town with a story or two.<\/p>\n
There were so many Auburn fans in Tuscaloosa last Saturday you’d have thought it was Iron Bowl weekend. They were driving around with their orange and blue flags, holding up their very premature 7-finger salute, and generally hootin’ and hollerin’ like it was feeding time down at the ol’ trough. Since they were playing the Bulldogs in Starkville and had a 6:00 pm start time as well, they were passing through around lunchtime on their way to their game. And what a game that turned out to be!<\/p>\n
Numbers One and Three and I ate our traditional pregame meal at the quintessential Tuscaloosa eatery, Dreamland Bar-B-Que. We’d just finished polishing off a couple slabs of ribs and were heading out the screen door when a carload of lily-white Barners pulled up, yelling “War Eagle!” acting cocky and looking pretty dang smug, just like Head Farmer Tommy.<\/p>\n
“Do you think they’ll serve them?” asked Number Three.<\/p>\n
“Good question,” I replied. “Let’s see what happens.”<\/p>\n
Number One had been searching for a lid to his sweet tea and was a little behind us. As he was coming out the door, the interlopers had just gotten into line and were being greeted, so to speak, by the Crimson-clad partisans who were ahead of them. About that time, the African American security guard, the one with the shiny Glock on his belt, walked up.<\/p>\n
He grinned at Tommy’s farmhands and said, “We’ll let you in and even sell you some food…as long as you say the password…”<\/p>\n
Honestly, I’m not sure if that bunch of Barners got anything to eat that day or not.\n<\/p>\n
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