Interesting story Bucktrot and it got me to thinking...As a young kid I used to play football in the yards of our neighborhood, pretending to be the Crimson Tide running the triple option out of the wishbone. #22 Johnny Musso was a hero of mine too.
My father was GT grad and mother UGA grad and later would get a masters at AU, so I really had no other influences toward Bama except for watching them play on t.v. and some of my friends. But, when I found my sweetheart on the first day of entering high school my fate was probably sealed to be born again in Orange and Blue. After all, her family were all Auburn grads and her father played on the '57 championship team. Of course she and I married after both graduating AU and now we have had one child graduate from AU and the other is a senior this fall.
There were some awfully hard years to be an Auburn football fan (Barfoot years) during my indocrtination, but in some ways I think I have always been a champion of the underdog. These things I've mentioned along with the discovery of Auburn traditions, history, and special moments spent in the shadows Jordan-Hare have made me the tried and true blue, WDE, AU fan I am today. That and I HATE any shade of the color red. Always have! I will not wear it, will not drive it, can't even look at it too long. I've never been a fan of houndstooth either. Even as a kid I always wondered why Bear Bryant wore that funny little hat.

"Never met a deer that I didn't like" - QDMAV8R