.... does not come from West Lafayette, In., where Purdue and Indiana battle for the Old Oaken Bucket and a berth (presumably) in the DotCom Chicken Sandwich Lawn Implement Bowl, or from Ann Arbor, Mich., where Michigan and Ohio State fight it out in the annual Battle Of Two States That Border Indiana.
(The Blob has always thought the loser should get Indiana in the custody settlement. An equitable judgment, if you ask this native Hoosier).
Anyway ... today's rivalry moment comes from Auburn, Ala., where Auburn and Alabama play in college football's most psychotic rivalry, the Iron Bowl.
I say "psychotic" because not too long ago a deranged 'Bama fan name Harvey Updyke, galled by Cam Newton leading a dramatic comeback for the Tigers, poisoned two iconic live oaks that stood at Toomer's Corner, an Auburn landmark. The perp actually did jail time for killing the trees.
Anyway, ESPN Gameday is on site for this one. And so of course, among the proliferation of signs that regularly sprout behind the on-site set was one that read "An Alabama Fan Poisoned My Other Sign."
Priceless.
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