Nice to see Auburn and Alabama give their fans a reason to smile

Andy Burcham is the voice of the Auburn Tigers, but it wasn't his voice that caught my attention this time. It was his eye for detail and perspective.

Burcham posted a short video on Twitter/X at 2:58 a.m. Sunday morning of a drive through the heart of Auburn. It looked like a blizzard wrapped in a catharsis inside a high school homecoming prank at the history teacher's house.

In short, they rolled Toomer's Corner after Auburn 24, Kentucky 10. 

In brief, the text of Burcham's tweet said, "Nice to see this again."

Indeed.

It was so him, saying little but saying a lot. Auburn hadn't TP'd the corner after a football victory in 42 days. A long-suffering fan base needed those familiar moments of reckless Charmin abandon, even as a fleeting return on its emotional investment, and tell your smart-mouth analysts - guilty as charged - to stuff their asterisks in a sock. 

It didn't matter that the Tigers went full JABA at the end of the first half per usual to botch a chance at points in a 10-10 game. Or that too many AU fans spent halftime imagining what new and excruciating ways to lose a winnable game the Tigers might invent. Or that Kentucky is a bad football team that's now lost 11 of its last 13 SEC home games.

A win is a win. A win by any margin or method is a reason to celebrate by the tradition of your own choosing, especially when you've lost four straight games and you're tied for last place in the SEC and Diego Pavia's coming this weekend with bad intentions to film "A Nightmare on Donahue Drive Part Deux." ...

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