AUBURN: THE MOST QUOTABLE TEAM IN THE NATION
In the midst of a comedown season from their undefeated '04 campaign, Auburn hasn't been making much in the way of news, save for missing 23 field goals in the LSU game and having their coach sniping at booster's lunches about ESPN and the BCS. They have, however, grown in one key area: quotability, suddenly becoming the best sound bite a blogger could ask for.
Exhibit A: The Irons Brothers interview. David and Kenny both go to Auburn, and both are evidently black belt insult artists, African-American school of fighting. We're not paying for a subscription, but the full article is available on Scout.com. David gets the best backhands in on his brother, though, as seen in this excerpt. (Courtesy of readers whose names will go unpublished to avoid punishment at the hands of the Scout overlords. You know who you are.)
Do you and Kenny have any competition with stats?
I just tell him to keep running like that and keep on running to the jungle. I told him Id buy him a seesaw and monkey bars so he can swing around like a banana tree. Hes doing real good running to his jungle. I told him the end zone is his zoo and if he runs to the end zone he can be with all of his little animal friends. I just told him to treat the football like a banana. You treat the football like a banana and you wont let anybody at the zoo take your banana peel. He was like, Yeah, thats true. And I was like, Kenny, but its not yellow, its brown. Just think of it as an old banana and youve had out for weeks like you did at the house and its turned brown. Run with it and dont let people strip it. Hes been running like a crazy wild child.
Do you think he looks like a monkey?
He looks like somebody hit that kid 10 times. When Halloween comes around on Monday, hes already got his costume. Hes already himself. I hope when kids come up to the door they dont get too scared. Im going to hang him up somewhere on the wall so everyone can see our Halloween decorations.
Quality stuff, but not the only Auburn player turning out quality print these days. The "Talkin' Smack" column in The Auburn Plainsman struck gold in their one-on-one with Stanley McClover, the monstrous dreaded-up DE with more than a passing resemblance to the Predator. A sample of the whole goodness:
Whos the scariest player?
Troy (Reddick). Hes just a big ol black dude. Big black dude stuck all up in his pads.
OK, so whats your biggest fear?
Pertaining to what?
Anything.
Frogs.
Alright, explain that.
Im scared of frogs. For real. If ones sitting on my doorstep, I dont go in the house. Im scared of frogs.
We want that on our tombstone: Orson Swindle, Big black dude stuck all up in his pads...
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…you don’t have to! Seriously, these guys are awesome. We can’t stop laughing about the phrase “stuck all up in his pads.”
by Orson Swindle on Oct 31, 2005 2:03 PM EST reply actions
Uh, yeah, I hate when frogs are sitting on my doorstep, too.
And the time I came home and found a couple cows playing bocce in the backyard, I was totally freaked out.
Must be a southern thing.
by tony on Oct 31, 2005 2:15 PM EST reply actions
tony, you’d be surprised at just how often that happens down on the plains.
by Todd on Oct 31, 2005 2:31 PM EST reply actions
Cows playing bocce, Todd? Acid in the water in Birmingham?
by Orson Swindle on Oct 31, 2005 2:34 PM EST reply actions
The Athens Georgia PetSmart has placed three different orders for more frogs in the past 2 hours.
350 were purchased and are planning on being let go on the Auburn sideline midway through the first quarter.
by Ryno on Oct 31, 2005 3:22 PM EST reply actions
Are you kidding me?? Do you guys have anything better to do than to take quotes made by football players who are being asked jokingly to really mean anything other than playing around.. I mean come on, the players were being asked dumb questions, so what do you expect a dissertation on why the earth’s axis has changed in the past 60 years?? Get a life!
by Nov.19 'nuf said on Oct 31, 2005 4:30 PM EST reply actions
Auburn should be investigated by the NCAA – there is now way that these guys should be in college – someone is obviously doing their school work for them.
by chuck on Oct 31, 2005 4:32 PM EST reply actions
Do you guys have anything better to do than to take quotes made by football players who are being asked jokingly to really mean anything other than playing around(?)
Nope, not really.
by Orson Swindle on Oct 31, 2005 4:36 PM EST reply actions
Seriously, you guys ask some football players the kinds of questions that leave them pondering whether you are Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. You’re gonna get stupid answers to fenoike questions. The Irons bros do bust on each other a lot though.
by Death Lobster on Oct 31, 2005 5:06 PM EST reply actions
That’s the best part—the Irons brothers could do a comedy act. Nice use of the work “fenoike”, Death Lobster.
by Orson Swindle on Oct 31, 2005 5:08 PM EST reply actions
In the Dye days Auburn used to GRADUATE players who turned out to be functionally illiterate. Looks like nothing much has changed down on the farm.
I think little Kenny is going to have some trouble staying eligible.
by Johnny on Nov 1, 2005 12:02 AM EST reply actions
“there is now way that these guys should be in college”
Priceless…
by Darryl Hannah on Nov 1, 2005 1:10 PM EST reply actions
THE university of alabama sucks ass. everyone knows that big companies tend to pick auburn grads over bama because auburn has the smarter people. why do you think you have to be a stupid ass to get into bama and actually have some brain cells to get into auburn…i think its cause the people who work in admissions up in “t-town” know that their students get their kicks from snorting the cocaine all the time so they dont have any brain cells.
by john on Nov 2, 2005 7:23 PM EST reply actions
and by the way…dont get too excited over yalls 8-0 season….the only reason yall are undefeated is because yall happen to get lucky in the last few seconds of yalls games
by john on Nov 2, 2005 7:25 PM EST reply actions
John, thank you for your kind words regarding my alma mater, Alabama. In the few clear moments that I’m not snorting uncut Charlie off the neck of a Tuscaloosa debutante, I scan the Internet for quotes from Kenny Irons.
Enjoy:
Q: What is your favorite Auburn tradition and why?
A: The rolling of Toomer’s corner because I had never experienced something so amazing in my life. When I came to Auburn I saw all of these people huddled around this tree and I was like, What is this?’ You have all of these people and they have all of this toilet paper. They have soft toilet paper and every kind of toilet paper and they are all throwing it at a tree. I was like Why are they throwing all of this toilet paper at a tree?,’ and they told me that they were rolling Toomer’s corner. I asked who is going to clean all of this mess up and they told me that the wind would blow it all away or the rain would wash it down. They said sometimes they have people come clean it up and I said that I wouldn’t want to have to clean up all of this toilet paper.
Q: What is your best talent outside of football?
A: Drawing. I like to draw, if you consider that a talent. I like to disguise myself as other people, too. I call that a talent. I like telling people that I am somebody else. I tell people that I play water polo and if they ask me what position I play I tell them right water . I don’t even know if that is a position but I tell them that I play right water .
Q: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
A: In ten years from now I see myself being on the beach just lounging. I just want to lounge around in a nice beach house and I will have a four-wheeler on the beach so I can drive around. I just want to be able to hang around and have fun. I also see my traveling around the world. I want to go to little islands that are just out there somewhere far and I would also like to go to Europe. I’ve never been to Europe or Paris. I want to go somewhere like Fiji or Tahiti.
by JC on Nov 3, 2005 10:58 PM EST reply actions
I think it’s only fair that Au football players get their chance to repudiate the reputation they developed of illiteracy – James Brooks ring any cowbells? – they developed during past regimes. Certainly, they play good football judging by a sparkling record over the last few years. But, if the movie Idiocracy is an accurate forecast of the future, Stanley McClover could run for president eventually. And the Irons brothers – well, move over Wayans Brothers! Or maybe Dumn and Dumner could feature their antics at the theaters, in a genre-defining movie.
I don’t know about being afraid of the endzone, but I was pretty frightened of the Predator, who DOES bear a striking resistance to Stanley McClover – and neither of them looks human to me! As I recall, the Predator was all stuck up in hispads too.
by Bama Bill on Apr 10, 2007 1:54 PM EDT reply actions

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