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re: The "firehoses incident" at Auburn has been mentioned several times this week
Posted on 10/5/21 at 9:22 pm to RD Dawg
Posted on 10/5/21 at 9:22 pm to RD Dawg
Now, that War Eagle Reader (love their stuff) article does give some credence to the story that the water was pointed into the stands at some point:
Somewhat amusing his name was Conner.
The comments on that article are hilarious. Some great stories that may or may not be true and of course it devolves into UGA and Auburn fans calling each other liars.
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Conner: They were grabbing at the turf. They wanted a piece of the grass. Only a few of them got out there, but some of them got real wet in the stands, some who weren’t leaving. They didn’t like that. It took a while to get them out of there. Some of them in the stands shook the rails loose on one end. They (the cannons) turn 360 degrees. You could turn them all the way around, you know. We didn’t have full pressure on them ‘cause there wasn’t enough pressure to run all of them.
Somewhat amusing his name was Conner.
The comments on that article are hilarious. Some great stories that may or may not be true and of course it devolves into UGA and Auburn fans calling each other liars.
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Posted on 10/5/21 at 9:29 pm to BrerTiger
War Eagle Reader also has Lewis Grizzard's (RIP) commentary on the whole incident:
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This appears to be the source for the elderly man slip and fall claim.
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As fate would have it, the columnist was scheduled for a speaking appearance at Auburn the following January. He opened with a hoses joke.
“Well, it’s not as wet as it was the last time I was here,” he told 4,400 folks in Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum before calling the Auburn-Georgia “one of the greatest examples of sociological progress” he’d ever seen. You know, because a black man was operating one of the water cannons. And most of the Georgia fans on the field were white.
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This appears to be the source for the elderly man slip and fall claim.
This post was edited on 10/5/21 at 9:31 pm
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