Auburn has a long, proud tradition of creatively trolling the Tide before the Iron Bowl. In 1961 (the year Alabama finally won a national championship), “ingenious Auburn students… scored a success at the University of Alabama” by spelling out “War Eagle” in winter grass seeds that quickly sprouted behind Denny Chimes. A similar stunt was pulled after the 2010 Iron Bowl. And in 1993, this happened.
What happened Friday night, though—an “00:01” writ large on both sides of Haley Center with the illumination of classroom lights—was, quite simply, art.
I interviewed The Artist.