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The Hello and welcome to the Saturday Down South podcast. He is Chris Marler. I am

kind of purer. Marler we are finally doing an iron bowl for it just meant more. Can you believe it?

Yeah, I can. You know, I didn't think it was going to be this specific Iron Bowl, but I knew it was going to be one similar to this specific Iron Bowl

We are talking today

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Bow over the top a game that has lived on for 38 years and is probably going to be on

SEC network once a week for the rest of time.

Maybe it's up there for the single most famous games that we have done.

I think we can say it.

And it's the oldest game that we've done as well if I'm not mistaken. We've talked about older subjects.

No, the South Carolina Georgia game.

We didn't do that for it just meant more that we did that for debates down south.

Oh, you're right. Okay, yeah, this is the oldest one. And go figure. It came after I said,

oh yeah, we're going to do like a newer game or something like that. We'll do it came for the last few years. But the death of the late pat die was one of the reasons that we

wanted to be able to do this game the the former Auburn coach athletic director

this was such a huge moment for him to be able to beat Bear Bryant, the coach that he used to work under during his days at Alabama.

It was a you've arrived moment for him to be able to end the streak of nine straight years of losing to Alabama

and of course this game had an ending that has stood the test of time with one of the great college football

players ever.

Yeah, it was like so for the most part the the game itself wasn't super exciting because it was it has like the

the score does have this whole back and forth like feel to it like you it looks like

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