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Gourmet hot dogs. Cheap bottled water. Better WiFi. If you make it with infinitely better picture quality than their plasma at home — if you actually describe the sound it will produce as not something they will hear but something they will “feel” — they will come. And they did. Sold out. For a game against Jacksonville State.
Sure, it was the home opener. But fans didn’t come to the stadium just to watch Auburn football. They came to the stadium to watch Auburn football on a $13.9 million dollar TV.
Auburn’s eagle eats the rat after flying down to the field before kickoff. (Jeremy Henderson)
Jeremy Henderson is a writer and historian. He edits The War Eagle Reader and co-hosts a weekly “guerrilla Auburn history” radio program called It’s Pronounced Jordan. Follow him on Twitter: @wareaglereader.
