WE'RE BEYOND FLATTERED: THE EDSBS LICENSE PLATE

by Orson on Mar 1, 2007 10:45 AM EST

Reader Mr. Baddley wrote us around a month ago with this question:

Orson/Stranko,

My car tag is due. I am going to be getting a personalized Auburn plate. EDSBS is available; can I get your permission to take it?

Thanks,
TB

PS....Do I get any sponsor money? :-)

No on the sponsor money, but we were flattered nonetheless, especially since he's going to have to go around with EDSBS on his car tags long after we've sold the domain to a Mexican bootleg pharma site. (Mexican Viagra! Now with added powdered donkey penis for flavor and potency!)

So we said what the hell--sure. After all, if any fan of any team could legally lay claim to owning a site written by Florida alums, it's an Auburn grad in 2006. Plus it's a sentiment any college football fan must by definition agree with: every day should be Saturday, really. It's a transcendent message that disregards team affiliation.

The story comes full circle now as Mr. Baddley's got his license plate. We can honestly say it's the most beautiful thing we've ever seen, including newborn infants, the sunrise over the Gulf of Siam, and Ike Hilliard's "Brake 'n Shake" touchdown versus Florida State in 1996.

The plate is still available in 50 out of 51 license plate-issuing principalities. Hurry before supplies run out!

Excuse us, while we wipe a tear away.

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I dont know if this has already been got to your notice –
Apparently Arkansas baseball players are watching too much soccer, faking injury and all -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26axJdDKYWw

by AUgrad on Mar 1, 2007 10:50 AM EST reply actions

Quick note—I nearly got my ass kicked by Ike Hilliard when I was 18. He did not take kindly to me blocking him out at his kness during a summer league basketball game in South Louisiana…he then said to me, “If you go at my knees again, I’m gonna fuck you up.”

I stayed clear of his knees after that. He was nice to me after the game, though.

by RaginCajunRebel on Mar 1, 2007 10:58 AM EST reply actions

That’s my uncle’s license plate! WDE!

by TB's Neph on Mar 1, 2007 11:14 AM EST reply actions

Nice video, AUGrad. The future fan’s signs are limitless!

by Aerobab on Mar 1, 2007 11:17 AM EST reply actions

“every day should be Saturday, really. It’s a transcendent message that disregards team affiliation.”

Yes, sir…yes indeed…

by KT on Mar 1, 2007 11:18 AM EST reply actions

a barner pimpin a gator blog?

by mfdoom on Mar 1, 2007 11:52 AM EST reply actions

Great license plate. Must suck having to live in Alabama on all those days we wish were Saturday.

by doreblogger on Mar 1, 2007 11:58 AM EST reply actions

I’ve got dibs on Virginia, so all the other SEC expats in the Commonwealth can back off. Now, to just get to the DMV before some other rat bastard gets it.

by Newspaper Hack on Mar 1, 2007 12:09 PM EST reply actions

I think the real competition starts when there’s one in several states, then who has the baddest pimpmobile with the plate. Who gets more points, Subcommandante Wayne, in his Trans Am, or Doug in his Honda Civic?

by Southern Papa on Mar 1, 2007 12:38 PM EST reply actions

I would race you, Newspaper Hack, but I’m moving in July.

I CALL NC!!

by CouchBurnin'Girl on Mar 1, 2007 1:04 PM EST reply actions

That’s a thing of beauty, yes sir.

I call dibs on the CA plate.

by Signal to Noise on Mar 1, 2007 1:14 PM EST reply actions

AUgrad – funny vid, but really, really old news. If it’s not last season’s antics, it’s from the season before that.

by Out of Conference on Mar 1, 2007 1:17 PM EST reply actions

doreblogger, The state of Alabama probably comes closer to living the sentiment than any other state. That’s why a fan from Alabama was the first to do it.

In Alabama, it might as well always be Saturday, because everyone is drunk and watching football every day of the year anyway.

by PeterPumpkinhead on Mar 1, 2007 1:27 PM EST reply actions

Hate to rain on this particular parade, but I don’t think you can get a personalized Auburn plate in Georgia. Either an Auburn plate or a personalized plate, certainly, but not both on the same tag.

I could be mistaken on this, but I don’t think so. I was on the board of the Atlanta AU Club when we started the drive to get those plates made, and I recall a clause saying you can’t personalize one of these special-interest plates.

by Will Collier on Mar 1, 2007 1:30 PM EST reply actions

Well, crap on me. I didn’t even see that he’d already done it.

Way to go, TB, and don’t pay any attention to the uninformed naysayers like, er, me…

by Will Collier on Mar 1, 2007 1:33 PM EST reply actions

Oh, for the love of… he’s not in Georgia.

Orson, for God’s sake, ban me from this site before I botch this thing even further…

by Will Collier on Mar 1, 2007 1:35 PM EST reply actions

Hmmm…I’m guessing hundreds of people in Florida will start applying for this tag…

by TJ on Mar 1, 2007 1:50 PM EST reply actions

Eject! Eject! Eject!

by drogue on Mar 1, 2007 1:52 PM EST reply actions

#12. I dont watch baseball, let alone NCAA baseball. And I am sure most of the people on this website dont either (I might be wrong). So I am sure, it was new and, as you said, funny for them.

by AUgrad on Mar 1, 2007 2:58 PM EST reply actions