if anyone ever tell you "the game" is better than the iron bowl, just take a deep breathe, look em dead in the eye, and say, "the game? Harvard and Yale aren't even that good at football anymore..."
There are a few rivalries I believe to be larger than that. I think “The Game” and “Red river” are both up there but I wouldn’t have a problem with people putting “iron bowl” at 1. “Eternal enemy derby” in soccer is up there. I’m not a soccer fan by any means but god damn that rivalry is something else. “Superclasico” in Buenos aires is also up there. It really is hard for our american sports to compete with these other soccer countries it means so much to them. As for American sports I think bruins vs canadiens is clear number 1
@@uuttkk8829eternal enemy is the one in serbia right? Huge soccer fan here, but college rivalries really have got nothing to envy from our rivalries. Your pro rivalries are a joke though.
@@antoniocampen Its the Greek one. Olimpiacos vs panathinaikos. It really isn't a competition. Soccer in countries just means so much more. Like entire politics and future of countries can be decided by a soccer game. It really isn't the same in any US sport. College or Professional
@@hydn.I think it's fair to say it's the fiercest rivalry in US sports. International soccer rivalries, particularly some of the stories I hear out of South America, probably surpass it. And personally I'd disagree that a fiercer rivalry is better. I find rivalries more entertaining when yes, bragging rights are on the line, but nobody involved actually wants the other dead. Bonus points if neither school really cares about sports outside of the rivalry. Which is to say I'd much rather go to a Harvard -MIT game
I went to the Vandy vs Auburn game this year as a Vandy Supporter with my dad and brother. The Auburn fanbase was extremely welcoming to us before the game. The thing that surprised me the most and just drove home to me what a true rivalry Auburn has with Alabama was the fact that we were THANKED no less than 10 times for beating Alabama this year even AFTER Auburn lost the game. I can quote one guy who immediately after the clock hit zero stood up to leave from a few rows in front of us said "Good game. Sucks we lost, but thank you for beating Bama." and then walked away. Best Rivalry In Sports Ever
Discovered his channel with that death penalty video, and I gotta say I love his video style so much and I’m completely fresh to anything to do with american football haha
It's A good video but one of his weaker ones in terms of production quality. Multiple blips, repeated lines, and awkward pauses. But that's saying something cuz this channel has an extremely high bar
I grew up an Auburn fan and still am to this day even tho I go to Arizona. I was at the Miracle at Jordan Hare. I was 9 years old and I went to school in Georgia. I got bullied constantly for being an Auburn fan. Right before that 4th down I was crying to my mom saying I didn’t want to go to school that Monday because of the harassment I’d face. That play happened and it was the loudest I’d ever heard a stadium. A man who had overheard the conversation tapped me on the shoulder from behind and yelled “SON I WANT YOU TO GO TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, AND YOU LOOK THOSE KIDS IN EYE AND TELL EM WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!” That 2013 season, and beating Alabama in that way has made me a life long Auburn fan. No one understands the rivalry until your a part of it. I’d take beating Alabama and Georgia for 10 years straight over winning 3 national championships any day of the week. Thank you for making this video, it was exceptional and no one has covered this quite like you have. You’ve got great potential and this video made my night reliving these memories. So thank you, you’ve earned a subscriber.
Lifelong auburn fan here. Was at the 2013 iron bowl. Probably the most amount of joy I’ve ever experienced in a single moment. Indescribable feeling, still get chills everytime I think about it. It’s really all a blur it happened so fast all I can remember is my mom hugging me so tight I thought I was gonna explode. Probably will be the best day of my life I seriously don’t know how something could top it
‘This isn’t a life or death situation. It’s far more important. It’s the Iron Bowl.’ Outstanding. Reminds me of Jon in The Bob Emergency - ‘What did we learn? Nothing. Less than nothing. That’s just the way I like it.’
One event missed, in 2016 the replacement oak trees were set on fire If I had a nickel for every time this rivalry resulted in environmental terrorism, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice
As a student at Auburn right now, I certainly didn't expect this video to show up in my recommended today. I bore witness to the tragedy that was 4th and 31, with #8 Alabama only barely beating Auburn, a team that ended that season 6-7. Which I think really speaks to the madness that can occur at these games. Great video, and I do agree, I wouldn't have this rivalry any other way.
Yeah, I was with the Million Dollar Band with Alabama in that game. The stadium got so quiet for that play there. I swear years were lost off my life in that singular moment.
Another great video man. Keep it up! I got an idea that I’d love to see you do. “Sports rules that are named after people”. You could dig into plays/players that did something that wasn’t illegal in the sport at the time, but was added to the rule book.
Also: Things that everyone just sort of assumed you couldn't do until it got air budded into existence. Like the basketball concept of dribbling or the baseball concept of stolen bases
@@jessehammer123Also gotta mention the Ross Chastain rule in NASCAR. (look up Ross Chastain Video Game Move, watch the footage, then realize he did that on a real car, on a real track, with his real body inside it)
@@hydn. The Max Verstappen rule, which remade the whole F1 ladder because a 17 year old getting an F1 seat was a completely outrageous move by Red Bull. He also briefly made it illegal to move under braking because he was a bit of a menace on track during his first year.
Thank you so much for this video. I give campus tours to incoming freshmen at Auburn and this has certainly filled me in on some Auburn lore I hope to share with future generations.
I grew up (well still am technically) in Alabama, and I have been here my whole life. Here’s a POV of an Alabamian who couldn’t care less about college football, or football as a whole for that matter. I’ve always been fascinated by the lengths people here go to about this rivalry. I remember my first day of kindergarten, someone asked me whether I go for Alabama or auburn. I told them “what’s that?” And then they proceeded to attack me right in front of a teacher. I was uninjured but the kid who attacked me was expelled instantly. Fast forward about four months to the 2013 bowl. Like I said, I don’t care about football at all, but my parents hated the crimson tide (more specifically nick saban) with a passion, so as the tiny little 6 year old I was, I just believed what they did and rooted for auburn, and they won. I remember going to school the following Monday and quite literally laughed in the faces of all the Alabama fans. Today, I don’t hate Alabama quite as much as my parents did, but I find their fanbase to be some of the most annoying people of all time. I still root for auburn today. That concludes my yapping session. If you read it all then great job. Have a good rest of your day/night!
I’m not much of a college football kind of person, but I’ll never forget the Kick Six. November 2013. I was at the airport, I forgot which one, heading towards my gate. On the way there was a bar, and I looked up at their screens, which were airing the Iron Bowl. The game was tied in the 4th quarter, with the Alabama kicker lining up to score the game-winning FG. “Oh, great, Alabama wins again,” I said to myself, annoyed by their seemingly-inevitable success, and kept walking. Not ten seconds later I hear people starting to make noise, so I looked back just in time to catch the returner dodge the last bit of traffic and make his way to the endzone. Touchdown, game over, Auburn wins. I stayed to watch the replays, which I remember felt as if from a movie or something, and the people at the bar were losing their minds. “Heh,” I said to myself, and went on my way. Stuff like that just stays with you.
I'm an Alabama fan, born and raised from Tuscaloosa. Excellent video on this rivalry. When you stopped talking and let the full Kick 6 play run, I muted the video and looked away from the screen. That play still haunts me. A lot of my friends were actually rooting for Auburn to beat Florida State to maintain the in-state national title streak. I went to school the day of the game doing the FSU Chop and saying "Roll 'Noles". Roll Tide
Glad to see such a masterful retrospective on a rivalry I've been apart of my whole life. My family is from Alabama, and my half are Auburn fans while the other is Alabama. When I was little I remember fierce arguments between my cousins about the better team. Nowadays, I may be an Auburn fan but it's like watching a fly take on...well, an elephant whenever they play against each other. Alabama has dominated the SEC for so long it hard to remember a time when they didn't. But it is funny to se how dedicated both fans are whenever I go to visit family in Alabama. I bet more fights have started in that state from screams of "Roll Tide" & "War Eagle" more than anything else.
As an Auburn fan, I can confidently say you did a great job explaining the history of the rivalry and hitting the highlights. I skipped my stepsister's wedding reception to go watch the 2013 Iron Bowl 😂 And it was a glorious win! RIP Rod Bramblett, he was a wonderful commentator and I can still recall every nuance of his call of "Auburn's gonna win the football game! He ran it back 109 yards, they won't keep them off the field tonight!" The special thing about Auburn is that they pull off miracle wins or they suck. And Bama fans will scream in your face about how much you suck whether they win or lose, all while wearing their Sunday best. Or yell 'Roll Tide!' as they're being shoved into the back of a police car. It's just sooo easy to hate them! One thing that really contributes to the importance of the rivalry is that we have a serious high school football farm system to create college football players. Saraland's school system was built from the ground up to create college football players under an NFL coach and they're quickly taking over 6A. By the time kids are out of little league, they've chosen their college (often with a lot of familial pressure) and everything they do from then on is aimed towards getting onto that college football team. Again, you did a fabulous job on this video. WDE! 🐯
As an Alabama fan, there are two things we can at least agree on. You're setting yourself up for failure with a Fall wedding. You're setting yourself up for a no-show if the Fall Wedding coincides with the Iron Bowl. Roll Tide
love the videos for real man, but I've noticed a few typos in the videos, they've been pretty minor usually but having it spelled "tusacloosa" is a little more noticeable lol, maybe you can find a reviewer or someone to look them over before posting? (I'd love to do it if nothing else)
This guy just wants to watch your videos early! A smart move, I'll admit. But typos can drive engagement. People on the internet love nothing more than to point out flaws in people's work.
Born in Auburn, lifelong Auburn fan with parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, cousins who all went to AU! (I was the black sheep of the fam and chose a small private school in Bham) From practically birth I bled orange and blue and passionately cared about football way more than the average kid! I was at Miracle in Jordan Hare with my dad as a 13 year old and was openly weeping in the 4th quarter because I was so distraught at the idea of losing to Georgia. Then we scored and I was still sobbing but it was tears of joy! It is one of my absolute favorite memories with my dad that I will always cherish. It truly just means more. For someone on the outside looking in you did a great job. I learned things about our rivalry history I didn’t know! Gained a 🧡💙 sub.
I GREW UP IN NE ALABAMA!!! This literally is the biggest game of the season. When we first moved there, first question ever asked to us, “Are you an Auburn or Alabama fan?” This is the pinnacle of football within the state.
As a lifelong Auburn fan, I either personally remember these games in great detail or were told stories of them by either my parents or grandparents. I can probably tell you in detail what happened in every game since 2010, and I'm 21. This was a great walk down memory lane and also a good opportunity to rehash the history again. One of my favorite videos to watch this year. War Eagle!
Amazing video. 10/10 as usual. Only thing I have a slight gripe with was that Auburn didn’t tie the 2013 iron bowl with a deep pass, rather a quick RPO read option bass that had completely broken coverage.
Great video! I loved hearing some stories and tidbits I haven’t heard before even with growing up on this rivalry. The Iron Bowl is a thing of beauty too, it probably sounds strange if you’ve never been part of it but those plays and moments are etched into our memories. It certainly helps that every year seems to have things that just wouldn’t happen in any other stadium with any other pair of teams. I’m not from Alabama, my dad worked there for years and ‘bit the bug’ and became a Bama fan for life and passed it onto me. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting with him watching Bama play together. I remember the Cam bowl even though I was about six at the time and how it seemed like we were so close. I remember the kick six too, we were at my grandparents and after it he was just in disbelief and walked outside. We stared at the sunset and he said it was the craziest thing he’d ever seen, we ended up driving about four hours to get home, we were stunned because of the game but in a weird way he seemed happy that I was so into it too, that’ll always be special to me. The rest of the family doesn’t really get it, nobody in this part of the country really seems to either, I suppose it’s just something you’re born with. Growing up in the Saban era, we were sure spoiled, six national championships and a high standard of success that I doubt anyone has or will equal. At the same time, it didn’t matter how many five stars we had, how many first round draft picks or heisman candidates either, every year the Iron Bowl was a flat out war. There’s something about that game that makes the improbable seem routine, plays that don’t happen in the rest of the sport seem to happen left and right. It didn’t matter how many games auburn had lost or what shape they were in either, those games were always nail bitters and no other teams on the planet could get that same performance out of each other. The Iron Bowl feels magical in a way few things can claim to be and none can equal, it’s probably the best view into the sport itself and maybe the country too. Up north they have “The Game” between Michigan and Ohio every year, and it’s special, of late it’s usually signified national championship hopes for the winner, truly a cornerstone of culture. There’s the Army Navy game, a matchup that’s so special it gets its own week alone to be played with no other game to distract, with military academies being involved too it’s as unique as they come. There’s rivalries everywhere, USC UCLA, the Holy War, the Apple Cup, the Red River showdown, every school has at least one that gets circled every year. But none have the same spirit the iron bowl has, they have their passionate fans sure, but they don’t have the all out vitriol and spite the Iron Bowl carries with it each and every year. It’s chaotic and nail biting, no other rivalry better epitomizes the concept of the records and rosters not mattering in the slightest, and it’s all the more fun for that. It doesn’t matter how well they did or how poorly we’ve done, that game is always worth the entire season and it’s easily one of the best parts of the year. My dad passed a few years ago, but seeing 4th and 31 last year I felt like he was right there celebrating with me. Saban might be gone now, neither team who wins this will probably play for a national championship, and it’s still the best game of the year. It’s got a bad reputation, but the truth is it helps bond generations and families together and gives us memories we cherish. With that being said I hope that cattle barn gets put in its place, Roll Tide
9:26 Clemson-South Carolina has to have a case for this. Ole Miss-Mississippi St as well. The list trails off in how good at football they are, but also qualifying on the first two would be Iowa-Iowa St, Kansas-Kansas St (unless you count Sporting KC, but the other Kansas City teams are in MO), Louisville-Kentucky, and Virginia Tech-Virginia. I'm not saying those are as good of rivalries (though I'm a Clemson fan and partial to hating SC), but at the very least, at times these games fit the criteria (and Auburn has some real bad seasons sometimes, so even the Iron Bowl only fits the criteria sometimes)
Even though I'm not from Alabama and I was 13 or 14 at the time, I still remember the kick six and it was the greatest ending to a football game I've ever seen. Couldn't wait to hear about it in this video.
I live in Alabama. Auburn was my dream school but I can’t attend due to cost. I’m now going to Alabama. This is a secret I will hold to the GRAVE, or until I transfer.
The Iron Bowl is definitely one of my favorite rivalries in sports; My #1 Favorite Sports Rivalry ever is Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens in it's absolute peak like in the 60s to 80s and Early 2010s
Alabama fan here. I'd seen your History of the NFL, I Guess video and thought it was pretty good. This video is an excellent coverage of the rivalry. You've earned a new subscriber.
Slight correction for you, the USFL, now the UFL, is technically a professional football league, and has been dominated by the Alabama based Birmingham Stallions for the last three years So to say that there are no professional sports teams in Alabama isn't completely accurate Great video!
As a native Alabama fan who is a current UA student, I came into this video hoping to not be disappointed by not learning anything and I was not disappointed. This was so good, I learned a lot
Love your channel! I lived in Auburn during the 2013 iron bowl. You could feel the stadium from the whole way across the city. It was truly electric, especially cause we have a track record of losing that game.
From Alabama. Life long Bama Season ticket holder. This is a great video...and yes, I hate that cow college across the State. Although I do disagree about both being powerhouses. Alabama has always been for most of it's existence. 18 National Championships and 30 SEC Championships. Auburn has 1 and a half NCs and 8 SEC titles. We are not the same
In terms of the three factors why this rivalry is so fierce: Those factors also applied to the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry pre-1988 when the Hornets were founded. And much of the time after, considering how lousy NC's pro sports teams are most years (except the Hurricanes, but when the Hurricanes won the stanley cup in 2004 my part of the state reacted with a resounding "We have a hockey team?!") I think the reason the Duke-UNC rivalry didn't heat up as much as Alabama-Auburn is, partly, that they play minimum twice a year, often three times and potentially four, which means the regular season matchups mean less.
I think that UNC vs Duke isn’t limited to just basketball. When UNC plays, no matter the sport, I will absolutely root for UNC. I hope that it becomes massive to the point where it needs to be played in a neutral site, in all sports.
this rivalry transcends just the state of Alabama. i've got a friend from canada who happens to be a bama fan and we end up arguing about football just about every day.
My family is a transplant to the Birmingham area, my dad from Cleveland, OH, and my mom from upstate New York. I was 5 when we moved here. The first Iron Bowl that my dad watched was at a work colleague’s house, a house divided. The husband was a Bama fan and the wife, an Auburn fan. Bama won that game. When the game went off, the wife went and grabbed bedding and the husband asked the guys to leave because he had to go to sleep on the couch. We’ve picked to be Bama fans (before the Saban era).
As an european, i really love the atmosfere on thosw college games but got say that here the fanbase of a football team ( soccer for you my americans ) is divided o 2 types : 1 Normal/tryhard fans 2 Ultras. This last , the ultras, are normally dangerous, dont care about the other team and if is an "El Clasico" type of game be ready to have the most scary field you ever seen
i didnt expect to watch a documentary about American football,i was half expecting some manufactured mls style stuff, not on the level of English Birmingham football derbies ..but i was quite surprised, i enjoyed this greatly
Shooting someone who is a fan of the same team you support because they weren't upset enough after a loss is wild behavior. I guess it does mean more in SEC land.
My whole family is from Alabama and they are pretty equally split between Bama and Auburn. I was born in Virginia so I never got sucked in by either team (my team is Virginia Tech and it has been a long time since I've been happy). During Clemson's big years I decided to support them in national championship games because I was sick of Bama's dominance and wanted to see some ACC success(RIP). I'll never forget Clemson's win on the pick play. I watched the game live sitting next to my dad. On that final play I leaped into the air in celebration while my dad slammed his fist on the dining table.
Grew up in a hard core auburn family. Not kidding when I say that saying “Roll tide” was treated just as severely as any other curse word when we were kids 😂
Love this video man. As a someone who lives far from the South but likes football, it's fun to witness these Southern All-Classic rivalries as a neutral observer (except I kinda hata 'Bama so go Auburn I guess).
Something I noticed during this video is the fact that almost every time one side did something crazy it was Alabama. Every time somebody died or got seriously injured.
I would love a video essay about the "one offs" of college football. The teams that had 1 year of success, and hasn't been able to reach that level since. 2007 Kansas, 2008 Texas Tech, 2017 UCF, 2018 Cincinatti, just to name a few.
There was a big thunderstorm where I was when we were watching the Iron bowl in 2013, heavy rain and power outages all throughout the game, didn’t see the last half of the fourth quarter, excluding the kick, after he ran it in, power went out for the night. It was like the universe wanted us to watch all we needed to
I attended my only Iron Bowl for the 6th consecutive Auburn win when the guy that drinks UnSweet Tea was there. You could've got a great punch line in with that.
The iron bowl is so good because no matter how good one team is and how bad the other is, it’s always an amazing game, one could be undefeated, number one in the nation, and the other could be horrible, yet they still find a way to take it down to the wire, while Georgia tech and Georgia, or the red river rivalry, or even Ohio state Michigan could turn out as blowouts if the teams have lopsided rosters
I've been saying this rivalry was way better than "The Game" because The Game nowadays is mostly one sided. The Iron Bowl has almost always been competitive. My family is from Alabama so this is one of the only games all of my family comes together to watch.
As an Auburn Alum who loves this team more than is good for my health, amazing video. I do wish you had gone more into the "sibling-ness" of the rivalry. The petty name calling, the fighting, the screaming and shouting online, but at the end of the day, whether we like it or not, we're cut from the same cloth. Harvy Updike was banned for life from both campuses after his actions, Auburn helped raise money for Alabama after tornados devestated the campus, Alabama has so many law students from auburn that they have a whole club dedicated to it. That's what makes the rivalry the best in sports, it's hate, it's love, it's football. War damn.
Live in Colorado but born and raised in Alabama. Still getting use to no one out here caring about the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I was watching on my phone cheering it on while my roommates who wouldn’t know what a first down is checking to make sure I’m ok. Die hard Alabama fan and without any pro teams in the state you cheer for college. You’re either a Bama or Auburn fan with the far north having a couple of Tennessee fans and far south Florida. Know married couple who attended rival schools and the Saturday of the Iron Bowl won’t speak to each other. Seen fights break out during watch parties and SM is full of smack talk from the winning side after the game. Many times one team will play spoiler to the other possibly winning a national championship. Could lose every game but beat the rival and the coach will keep their job. Have a 10 win season but lose to your rival you’re on the hot seat. Hard to explain to non rivalry fans but this is a way of life for us.
I live in mississippi but my dad’s side of my family’s from alabama and i’ve gone to my aunt’s house in birmingham every thanksgiving for my whole life. We are die-hard auburn fans. my stepdad’s a die-hard alabama fan tho. I’ve only recently really gotten into sports, and to me fortunately it’s not a huge deal, but i could never root for alabama. to me, they’re like the evil team in a sports movie. their red color scheme is very antagonistic (the whole crimson tide thing makes me think of them bathing in their enemies blood, which def has evil vibes). I always felt like auburn’s the underdog, and I’m proud to root for them. I’m also proud that one of the few memories I still have from 2013 (i was six at the time) is the Kick Six. I remember sitting on the couch and petting one of my aunt’s dogs (he’s gone now, love you Binx) and hearing the announcers and everyone going crazy and shouting. I looked up and watched them score the touchdown, it was so cool.
if anyone ever tell you "the game" is better than the iron bowl, just take a deep breathe, look em dead in the eye, and say, "the game?
Harvard and Yale aren't even that good at football anymore..."
(it's all in good fun, you are welcome to disagree, please do and let me know why)
There are a few rivalries I believe to be larger than that. I think “The Game” and “Red river” are both up there but I wouldn’t have a problem with people putting “iron bowl” at 1. “Eternal enemy derby” in soccer is up there. I’m not a soccer fan by any means but god damn that rivalry is something else. “Superclasico” in Buenos aires is also up there. It really is hard for our american sports to compete with these other soccer countries it means so much to them. As for American sports I think bruins vs canadiens is clear number 1
@@uuttkk8829eternal enemy is the one in serbia right? Huge soccer fan here, but college rivalries really have got nothing to envy from our rivalries. Your pro rivalries are a joke though.
@@antoniocampen Its the Greek one. Olimpiacos vs panathinaikos. It really isn't a competition. Soccer in countries just means so much more. Like entire politics and future of countries can be decided by a soccer game. It really isn't the same in any US sport. College or Professional
@@hydn.I think it's fair to say it's the fiercest rivalry in US sports.
International soccer rivalries, particularly some of the stories I hear out of South America, probably surpass it.
And personally I'd disagree that a fiercer rivalry is better. I find rivalries more entertaining when yes, bragging rights are on the line, but nobody involved actually wants the other dead. Bonus points if neither school really cares about sports outside of the rivalry.
Which is to say I'd much rather go to a Harvard -MIT game
This isn’t a sports rivalry.
It’s a personal beef with a football intermission
Glad to see Jon Bois has had a positive affect on new content creators
Just watched his Reform documentary yesterday. Excellent work, although it was kinda funny watching it after the elections.
@@darkcheaker lmao some of his best work. Makes you think though about how many very stupid people had access to that type of power and money
@@darkcheakerjon bois non sports videos are lowkey his best work 🫣
@@fartin_barton yeah, sadly I can't find anything else of similar quality on US politics. Any suggestions?
@@darkcheakeryes, @josebird , very good content
this is the best sports channel since jon bois got eaten by that giant bird
I… there is no way I already know the context for this joke, please explain
Dee Reynolds?
@@realconquerorchen1609there is no context, rip jim girls😔
I went to the Vandy vs Auburn game this year as a Vandy Supporter with my dad and brother. The Auburn fanbase was extremely welcoming to us before the game. The thing that surprised me the most and just drove home to me what a true rivalry Auburn has with Alabama was the fact that we were THANKED no less than 10 times for beating Alabama this year even AFTER Auburn lost the game. I can quote one guy who immediately after the clock hit zero stood up to leave from a few rows in front of us said "Good game. Sucks we lost, but thank you for beating Bama." and then walked away.
Best Rivalry In Sports Ever
1hr vid on college beef, what did we do to deserve this delicacy
Beef made of college buildings
the 2 hour masterpiece was less than a month ago man take a break😭
Discovered his channel with that death penalty video, and I gotta say I love his video style so much and I’m completely fresh to anything to do with american football haha
It's A good video but one of his weaker ones in terms of production quality. Multiple blips, repeated lines, and awkward pauses. But that's saying something cuz this channel has an extremely high bar
Jeez Louise you can’t please some people
I grew up an Auburn fan and still am to this day even tho I go to Arizona.
I was at the Miracle at Jordan Hare. I was 9 years old and I went to school in Georgia. I got bullied constantly for being an Auburn fan. Right before that 4th down I was crying to my mom saying I didn’t want to go to school that Monday because of the harassment I’d face. That play happened and it was the loudest I’d ever heard a stadium. A man who had overheard the conversation tapped me on the shoulder from behind and yelled “SON I WANT YOU TO GO TO SCHOOL ON MONDAY, AND YOU LOOK THOSE KIDS IN EYE AND TELL EM WAR DAMN EAGLE!!!”
That 2013 season, and beating Alabama in that way has made me a life long Auburn fan. No one understands the rivalry until your a part of it. I’d take beating Alabama and Georgia for 10 years straight over winning 3 national championships any day of the week.
Thank you for making this video, it was exceptional and no one has covered this quite like you have. You’ve got great potential and this video made my night reliving these memories. So thank you, you’ve earned a subscriber.
Lifelong auburn fan here. Was at the 2013 iron bowl. Probably the most amount of joy I’ve ever experienced in a single moment. Indescribable feeling, still get chills everytime I think about it. It’s really all a blur it happened so fast all I can remember is my mom hugging me so tight I thought I was gonna explode. Probably will be the best day of my life I seriously don’t know how something could top it
‘This isn’t a life or death situation. It’s far more important. It’s the Iron Bowl.’
Outstanding. Reminds me of Jon in The Bob Emergency -
‘What did we learn? Nothing. Less than nothing. That’s just the way I like it.’
One event missed, in 2016 the replacement oak trees were set on fire
If I had a nickel for every time this rivalry resulted in environmental terrorism, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird that it happened twice
This should be required viewing in Alabama public schools
I was born at the university of Alabama hospital so I’ve hated Auburn since my first breath.
I can’t believe it, a free video about the defining conflict of my homeland
As a student at Auburn right now, I certainly didn't expect this video to show up in my recommended today. I bore witness to the tragedy that was 4th and 31, with #8 Alabama only barely beating Auburn, a team that ended that season 6-7. Which I think really speaks to the madness that can occur at these games. Great video, and I do agree, I wouldn't have this rivalry any other way.
Yeah, I was with the Million Dollar Band with Alabama in that game. The stadium got so quiet for that play there. I swear years were lost off my life in that singular moment.
Def a play we tell our children about 😂❤
Another great video man. Keep it up!
I got an idea that I’d love to see you do. “Sports rules that are named after people”. You could dig into plays/players that did something that wasn’t illegal in the sport at the time, but was added to the rule book.
great idea! just put it on my top list.
@@hydn.The Posey rule and the Tejada rule are good ones from baseball. As a Mets fan, that slide in 2015 made me so frickin’ angry.
Also: Things that everyone just sort of assumed you couldn't do until it got air budded into existence. Like the basketball concept of dribbling or the baseball concept of stolen bases
@@jessehammer123Also gotta mention the Ross Chastain rule in NASCAR. (look up Ross Chastain Video Game Move, watch the footage, then realize he did that on a real car, on a real track, with his real body inside it)
@@hydn. The Max Verstappen rule, which remade the whole F1 ladder because a 17 year old getting an F1 seat was a completely outrageous move by Red Bull. He also briefly made it illegal to move under braking because he was a bit of a menace on track during his first year.
Thank you so much for this video. I give campus tours to incoming freshmen at Auburn and this has certainly filled me in on some Auburn lore I hope to share with future generations.
the perfect job to be dropping some of these facts lol
The BobbyBrocolli of sports returns
Literally what I thought when I found him.
The Jon Bois of sports
@@SuperNuclearUnicornJon Bois is the Jon Bois of sports?
This better be a joke I swear to god
@@BobbyBroccolino way
I grew up (well still am technically) in Alabama, and I have been here my whole life. Here’s a POV of an Alabamian who couldn’t care less about college football, or football as a whole for that matter.
I’ve always been fascinated by the lengths people here go to about this rivalry. I remember my first day of kindergarten, someone asked me whether I go for Alabama or auburn. I told them “what’s that?” And then they proceeded to attack me right in front of a teacher. I was uninjured but the kid who attacked me was expelled instantly.
Fast forward about four months to the 2013 bowl. Like I said, I don’t care about football at all, but my parents hated the crimson tide (more specifically nick saban) with a passion, so as the tiny little 6 year old I was, I just believed what they did and rooted for auburn, and they won. I remember going to school the following Monday and quite literally laughed in the faces of all the Alabama fans.
Today, I don’t hate Alabama quite as much as my parents did, but I find their fanbase to be some of the most annoying people of all time.
I still root for auburn today.
That concludes my yapping session. If you read it all then great job. Have a good rest of your day/night!
holy shit I feel old. Reading a comment about someone talking about when they were in kindergarten in 2013
@ im 17 lol
I’m not much of a college football kind of person, but I’ll never forget the Kick Six.
November 2013. I was at the airport, I forgot which one, heading towards my gate. On the way there was a bar, and I looked up at their screens, which were airing the Iron Bowl. The game was tied in the 4th quarter, with the Alabama kicker lining up to score the game-winning FG. “Oh, great, Alabama wins again,” I said to myself, annoyed by their seemingly-inevitable success, and kept walking.
Not ten seconds later I hear people starting to make noise, so I looked back just in time to catch the returner dodge the last bit of traffic and make his way to the endzone. Touchdown, game over, Auburn wins.
I stayed to watch the replays, which I remember felt as if from a movie or something, and the people at the bar were losing their minds. “Heh,” I said to myself, and went on my way.
Stuff like that just stays with you.
I'm an Alabama fan, born and raised from Tuscaloosa. Excellent video on this rivalry. When you stopped talking and let the full Kick 6 play run, I muted the video and looked away from the screen. That play still haunts me. A lot of my friends were actually rooting for Auburn to beat Florida State to maintain the in-state national title streak. I went to school the day of the game doing the FSU Chop and saying "Roll 'Noles". Roll Tide
Glad to see such a masterful retrospective on a rivalry I've been apart of my whole life. My family is from Alabama, and my half are Auburn fans while the other is Alabama. When I was little I remember fierce arguments between my cousins about the better team. Nowadays, I may be an Auburn fan but it's like watching a fly take on...well, an elephant whenever they play against each other. Alabama has dominated the SEC for so long it hard to remember a time when they didn't. But it is funny to se how dedicated both fans are whenever I go to visit family in Alabama. I bet more fights have started in that state from screams of "Roll Tide" & "War Eagle" more than anything else.
27:44 argument so intense he had to say it twice
As an Auburn fan, I can confidently say you did a great job explaining the history of the rivalry and hitting the highlights. I skipped my stepsister's wedding reception to go watch the 2013 Iron Bowl 😂 And it was a glorious win! RIP Rod Bramblett, he was a wonderful commentator and I can still recall every nuance of his call of "Auburn's gonna win the football game! He ran it back 109 yards, they won't keep them off the field tonight!"
The special thing about Auburn is that they pull off miracle wins or they suck. And Bama fans will scream in your face about how much you suck whether they win or lose, all while wearing their Sunday best. Or yell 'Roll Tide!' as they're being shoved into the back of a police car. It's just sooo easy to hate them!
One thing that really contributes to the importance of the rivalry is that we have a serious high school football farm system to create college football players. Saraland's school system was built from the ground up to create college football players under an NFL coach and they're quickly taking over 6A. By the time kids are out of little league, they've chosen their college (often with a lot of familial pressure) and everything they do from then on is aimed towards getting onto that college football team.
Again, you did a fabulous job on this video. WDE! 🐯
As an Alabama fan, there are two things we can at least agree on. You're setting yourself up for failure with a Fall wedding. You're setting yourself up for a no-show if the Fall Wedding coincides with the Iron Bowl. Roll Tide
I very much appreciate you used the OG Alabama and auburn logos, they’re iconic
love the videos for real man, but I've noticed a few typos in the videos, they've been pretty minor usually but having it spelled "tusacloosa" is a little more noticeable lol, maybe you can find a reviewer or someone to look them over before posting? (I'd love to do it if nothing else)
This guy just wants to watch your videos early! A smart move, I'll admit. But typos can drive engagement. People on the internet love nothing more than to point out flaws in people's work.
we know what side he's on
Born in Auburn, lifelong Auburn fan with parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, cousins who all went to AU! (I was the black sheep of the fam and chose a small private school in Bham) From practically birth I bled orange and blue and passionately cared about football way more than the average kid!
I was at Miracle in Jordan Hare with my dad as a 13 year old and was openly weeping in the 4th quarter because I was so distraught at the idea of losing to Georgia. Then we scored and I was still sobbing but it was tears of joy! It is one of my absolute favorite memories with my dad that I will always cherish. It truly just means more.
For someone on the outside looking in you did a great job. I learned things about our rivalry history I didn’t know! Gained a 🧡💙 sub.
I GREW UP IN NE ALABAMA!!! This literally is the biggest game of the season. When we first moved there, first question ever asked to us, “Are you an Auburn or Alabama fan?” This is the pinnacle of football within the state.
i won’t argue about the biggest rivalry but osu vs mich and army vs navy would feed families
I love this John Bois-type style. Especially for a college rivalry. I love it, keep up the great work!
Nope it's hdyn style
As a lifelong Auburn fan, I either personally remember these games in great detail or were told stories of them by either my parents or grandparents. I can probably tell you in detail what happened in every game since 2010, and I'm 21. This was a great walk down memory lane and also a good opportunity to rehash the history again. One of my favorite videos to watch this year. War Eagle!
Amazing video. 10/10 as usual. Only thing I have a slight gripe with was that Auburn didn’t tie the 2013 iron bowl with a deep pass, rather a quick RPO read option bass that had completely broken coverage.
Great video! I loved hearing some stories and tidbits I haven’t heard before even with growing up on this rivalry.
The Iron Bowl is a thing of beauty too, it probably sounds strange if you’ve never been part of it but those plays and moments are etched into our memories. It certainly helps that every year seems to have things that just wouldn’t happen in any other stadium with any other pair of teams.
I’m not from Alabama, my dad worked there for years and ‘bit the bug’ and became a Bama fan for life and passed it onto me. Some of my earliest memories are of sitting with him watching Bama play together. I remember the Cam bowl even though I was about six at the time and how it seemed like we were so close. I remember the kick six too, we were at my grandparents and after it he was just in disbelief and walked outside. We stared at the sunset and he said it was the craziest thing he’d ever seen, we ended up driving about four hours to get home, we were stunned because of the game but in a weird way he seemed happy that I was so into it too, that’ll always be special to me. The rest of the family doesn’t really get it, nobody in this part of the country really seems to either, I suppose it’s just something you’re born with.
Growing up in the Saban era, we were sure spoiled, six national championships and a high standard of success that I doubt anyone has or will equal. At the same time, it didn’t matter how many five stars we had, how many first round draft picks or heisman candidates either, every year the Iron Bowl was a flat out war. There’s something about that game that makes the improbable seem routine, plays that don’t happen in the rest of the sport seem to happen left and right. It didn’t matter how many games auburn had lost or what shape they were in either, those games were always nail bitters and no other teams on the planet could get that same performance out of each other.
The Iron Bowl feels magical in a way few things can claim to be and none can equal, it’s probably the best view into the sport itself and maybe the country too. Up north they have “The Game” between Michigan and Ohio every year, and it’s special, of late it’s usually signified national championship hopes for the winner, truly a cornerstone of culture. There’s the Army Navy game, a matchup that’s so special it gets its own week alone to be played with no other game to distract, with military academies being involved too it’s as unique as they come. There’s rivalries everywhere, USC UCLA, the Holy War, the Apple Cup, the Red River showdown, every school has at least one that gets circled every year. But none have the same spirit the iron bowl has, they have their passionate fans sure, but they don’t have the all out vitriol and spite the Iron Bowl carries with it each and every year. It’s chaotic and nail biting, no other rivalry better epitomizes the concept of the records and rosters not mattering in the slightest, and it’s all the more fun for that. It doesn’t matter how well they did or how poorly we’ve done, that game is always worth the entire season and it’s easily one of the best parts of the year.
My dad passed a few years ago, but seeing 4th and 31 last year I felt like he was right there celebrating with me. Saban might be gone now, neither team who wins this will probably play for a national championship, and it’s still the best game of the year. It’s got a bad reputation, but the truth is it helps bond generations and families together and gives us memories we cherish. With that being said I hope that cattle barn gets put in its place, Roll Tide
9:26 Clemson-South Carolina has to have a case for this. Ole Miss-Mississippi St as well. The list trails off in how good at football they are, but also qualifying on the first two would be Iowa-Iowa St, Kansas-Kansas St (unless you count Sporting KC, but the other Kansas City teams are in MO), Louisville-Kentucky, and Virginia Tech-Virginia. I'm not saying those are as good of rivalries (though I'm a Clemson fan and partial to hating SC), but at the very least, at times these games fit the criteria (and Auburn has some real bad seasons sometimes, so even the Iron Bowl only fits the criteria sometimes)
Also you might want to spell check Tuscaloosa
As a bama fan, from bama, i can only say this video pushed my hatred toward auburn even more. Thank you for the works, roll damn tide
Even though I'm not from Alabama and I was 13 or 14 at the time, I still remember the kick six and it was the greatest ending to a football game I've ever seen. Couldn't wait to hear about it in this video.
I live in Alabama. Auburn was my dream school but I can’t attend due to cost. I’m now going to Alabama. This is a secret I will hold to the GRAVE, or until I transfer.
@hydn
Go to the Iron bowl. Sit somewhere. Anywhere.
You will never feel the same energy again.
alabama's copywrite lawyers deleted 50:50 -auburn alumn
The Iron Bowl is definitely one of my favorite rivalries in sports; My #1 Favorite Sports Rivalry ever is Boston Bruins vs Montreal Canadiens in it's absolute peak like in the 60s to 80s and Early 2010s
8:40 dud forgot the Birmingham stallions :skull:
And Birmingham Legion
8:04 less a foreign idea, more a foreign experience. we're aware that the US (for some reason) has fighter jets fly over college sports games.
It's fucking sick I wish we did it
These videos are insanely good, nice to see that you're growing. Subbed at like 7-8k i think
This is very well made. Very Job Bois-esce. I hope you can keep making these kinds of videos!
You have extraordinary talent. Loving the videos, keep it up!
Alabama fan here. I'd seen your History of the NFL, I Guess video and thought it was pretty good. This video is an excellent coverage of the rivalry. You've earned a new subscriber.
Slight correction for you, the USFL, now the UFL, is technically a professional football league, and has been dominated by the Alabama based Birmingham Stallions for the last three years
So to say that there are no professional sports teams in Alabama isn't completely accurate
Great video!
3:49 took me a second but that was brilliant 😂😂
As an auburn fan this was a great video I learned a few things about both schools. Thank you keep up the good work.
I’ll be at this game tomorrow! Awesome video. It’ll be my first iron bowl
I need to see your channel blow up man. More people deserve to see these masterpieces!
24:38 HOOKEM we shoulda been the national champions that year damn it. My grandpa still is bitter about it.
Just subscribed. Fantastic content, my guy! It's... Pretty Good!
As a native Alabama fan who is a current UA student, I came into this video hoping to not be disappointed by not learning anything and I was not disappointed. This was so good, I learned a lot
Love your channel! I lived in Auburn during the 2013 iron bowl. You could feel the stadium from the whole way across the city. It was truly electric, especially cause we have a track record of losing that game.
From Alabama. Life long Bama Season ticket holder. This is a great video...and yes, I hate that cow college across the State. Although I do disagree about both being powerhouses. Alabama has always been for most of it's existence. 18 National Championships and 30 SEC Championships. Auburn has 1 and a half NCs and 8 SEC titles. We are not the same
You should make a video on Georgia vs Georgia Tech. People on campus will wear merch and actively cheer for whatever team Georgia is facing that week.
In terms of the three factors why this rivalry is so fierce: Those factors also applied to the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry pre-1988 when the Hornets were founded. And much of the time after, considering how lousy NC's pro sports teams are most years (except the Hurricanes, but when the Hurricanes won the stanley cup in 2004 my part of the state reacted with a resounding "We have a hockey team?!")
I think the reason the Duke-UNC rivalry didn't heat up as much as Alabama-Auburn is, partly, that they play minimum twice a year, often three times and potentially four, which means the regular season matchups mean less.
I think that UNC vs Duke isn’t limited to just basketball. When UNC plays, no matter the sport, I will absolutely root for UNC. I hope that it becomes massive to the point where it needs to be played in a neutral site, in all sports.
Bama Vs. USSR sounds absolutely electric
You truly give amazing quality videos essays. I’m not into sports but your videos are always great
You are my UA-cam discovery of 2024. Your videos are nothing short of wonderful
Love the use of the Verdi Requiem (marching band version) towards the beginning!
The Scrabble and 3D point differential elements look awesome man. Great work as usual! 😎
this rivalry transcends just the state of Alabama. i've got a friend from canada who happens to be a bama fan and we end up arguing about football just about every day.
This auto-played after a Josh Pate video, and it wasn't until 45 minutes in I looked over and realized this isn't a Secret Base video. Well done!
i am an alabama fan, roll tide amigos and thank you for this video.
i know you will bring up the pain of 2013 *sigh*
My family is a transplant to the Birmingham area, my dad from Cleveland, OH, and my mom from upstate New York. I was 5 when we moved here. The first Iron Bowl that my dad watched was at a work colleague’s house, a house divided. The husband was a Bama fan and the wife, an Auburn fan. Bama won that game. When the game went off, the wife went and grabbed bedding and the husband asked the guys to leave because he had to go to sleep on the couch. We’ve picked to be Bama fans (before the Saban era).
The SEC is *full* of these kinds of rivalries, but The Iron Bowl is one of the more high-profile of them.
As an european, i really love the atmosfere on thosw college games but got say that here the fanbase of a football team ( soccer for you my americans ) is divided o 2 types : 1 Normal/tryhard fans 2 Ultras.
This last , the ultras, are normally dangerous, dont care about the other team and if is an "El Clasico" type of game be ready to have the most scary field you ever seen
i didnt expect to watch a documentary about American football,i was half expecting some manufactured mls style stuff, not on the level of English Birmingham football derbies ..but i was quite surprised, i enjoyed this greatly
Shooting someone who is a fan of the same team you support because they weren't upset enough after a loss is wild behavior. I guess it does mean more in SEC land.
best channel on here by far, thank you
My whole family is from Alabama and they are pretty equally split between Bama and Auburn. I was born in Virginia so I never got sucked in by either team (my team is Virginia Tech and it has been a long time since I've been happy). During Clemson's big years I decided to support them in national championship games because I was sick of Bama's dominance and wanted to see some ACC success(RIP). I'll never forget Clemson's win on the pick play. I watched the game live sitting next to my dad. On that final play I leaped into the air in celebration while my dad slammed his fist on the dining table.
I hope you know that a lot of people are going to fight you over that title.
Grew up in a hard core auburn family. Not kidding when I say that saying “Roll tide” was treated just as severely as any other curse word when we were kids 😂
Love this video man. As a someone who lives far from the South but likes football, it's fun to witness these Southern All-Classic rivalries as a neutral observer (except I kinda hata 'Bama so go Auburn I guess).
You could say this rivalry is… Pretty Good
This video deserves way more views
I just watched an hour long video on something I didn't care about at all before watching. Bravo.
Something I noticed during this video is the fact that almost every time one side did something crazy it was Alabama. Every time somebody died or got seriously injured.
I would love a video essay about the "one offs" of college football. The teams that had 1 year of success, and hasn't been able to reach that level since. 2007 Kansas, 2008 Texas Tech, 2017 UCF, 2018 Cincinatti, just to name a few.
Alabama has played Tennessee more than they've played Auburn, would love to see a video on that rivalry.
This deserves more views this is gold
fun fact Chris Davis is a die hard alabama fan and used to joke that if he played alabama he would just lay down if they threw it to his side.
There was a big thunderstorm where I was when we were watching the Iron bowl in 2013, heavy rain and power outages all throughout the game, didn’t see the last half of the fourth quarter, excluding the kick, after he ran it in, power went out for the night. It was like the universe wanted us to watch all we needed to
I attended my only Iron Bowl for the 6th consecutive Auburn win when the guy that drinks UnSweet Tea was there.
You could've got a great punch line in with that.
The iron bowl is so good because no matter how good one team is and how bad the other is, it’s always an amazing game, one could be undefeated, number one in the nation, and the other could be horrible, yet they still find a way to take it down to the wire, while Georgia tech and Georgia, or the red river rivalry, or even Ohio state Michigan could turn out as blowouts if the teams have lopsided rosters
This deserves way more than 50k views
Good channel, got recommended to me via the algorithm.
Go Blue 💛💙
Love the education statement with Tuscaloosa misspelled on the graphic 👍
Auburn fan here.
As best I remember, we’ve never devolved to tear gas, but then, we do nominally respect each other’s fields.
I've been saying this rivalry was way better than "The Game" because The Game nowadays is mostly one sided. The Iron Bowl has almost always been competitive. My family is from Alabama so this is one of the only games all of my family comes together to watch.
As an Auburn Alum who loves this team more than is good for my health, amazing video. I do wish you had gone more into the "sibling-ness" of the rivalry.
The petty name calling, the fighting, the screaming and shouting online, but at the end of the day, whether we like it or not, we're cut from the same cloth. Harvy Updike was banned for life from both campuses after his actions, Auburn helped raise money for Alabama after tornados devestated the campus, Alabama has so many law students from auburn that they have a whole club dedicated to it. That's what makes the rivalry the best in sports, it's hate, it's love, it's football. War damn.
“There is no clearer way to convey disgust and distain for your opponent” - Woody Hayes might have a thing or two to say about that
0:30 i was getting pissed at michigan losing yet again to osu in the real greatest rivalry in sports
It took me longer than I’d like to admit to get the “Yale” joke
Live in Colorado but born and raised in Alabama. Still getting use to no one out here caring about the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I was watching on my phone cheering it on while my roommates who wouldn’t know what a first down is checking to make sure I’m ok. Die hard Alabama fan and without any pro teams in the state you cheer for college. You’re either a Bama or Auburn fan with the far north having a couple of Tennessee fans and far south Florida. Know married couple who attended rival schools and the Saturday of the Iron Bowl won’t speak to each other. Seen fights break out during watch parties and SM is full of smack talk from the winning side after the game. Many times one team will play spoiler to the other possibly winning a national championship. Could lose every game but beat the rival and the coach will keep their job. Have a 10 win season but lose to your rival you’re on the hot seat. Hard to explain to non rivalry fans but this is a way of life for us.
My friend (still to this day) stabbed me with a pencil in the 4th grade bc we were fighting over the iron bowl. (The camback year)
I live in mississippi but my dad’s side of my family’s from alabama and i’ve gone to my aunt’s house in birmingham every thanksgiving for my whole life. We are die-hard auburn fans. my stepdad’s a die-hard alabama fan tho. I’ve only recently really gotten into sports, and to me fortunately it’s not a huge deal, but i could never root for alabama. to me, they’re like the evil team in a sports movie. their red color scheme is very antagonistic (the whole crimson tide thing makes me think of them bathing in their enemies blood, which def has evil vibes). I always felt like auburn’s the underdog, and I’m proud to root for them. I’m also proud that one of the few memories I still have from 2013 (i was six at the time) is the Kick Six. I remember sitting on the couch and petting one of my aunt’s dogs (he’s gone now, love you Binx) and hearing the announcers and everyone going crazy and shouting. I looked up and watched them score the touchdown, it was so cool.
This channel is criminally underrated