![]() Going into Iron Bowl week, Alabama was coming off a Thursday victory over FCS opponent Georgia State, with an extra day to prepare for the Iron Bowl, which was played on a Friday that year. So it just had that sickening feeling of the possibility of that happening, and how much they would relish it." "If we were going to beat them, we were going to beat anybody. And then out of nowhere we have this miracle man pop up, and we have this season where we were on the verge of matching that, and they were going to be the last people with a chance to stop it." "We've got Cam, and (Alabama fans say), 'He's the reason they're doing so good, and it's totally unfair, and obviously they're cheaters.' It gets lost now after the fact, but for us to have somehow matched it was like the moon slowly eclipsing, the sun setting, the-winter-is-here kind of thing. "For them, it was going to be this thing where they're going to totally try to spoil everything," Henderson said. I felt like a lot of Alabama fans were pretty confident, but were also kind of scared at the same time." "I felt like there was a lot of buildup coming into the game. "I remember we were supposed to have a great team coming off the 2009 championship, had a couple losses and then Auburn wasn't supposed to do as well as they had," Deer said. "The Iron Bowl always does, because you just don't want to lose. "It had that weird, kind of sickening feeling to it," Henderson said. This is a rivalry game, there's no friends, no helping them up after a hit-none of that."įor fans, the regular, stirring feelings leading into Iron Bowl were even further amplified by the national hype, controversy, and implications surrounding the 2010 Iron Bowl. People that I work with now, they're like, 'Oh, I'm from Alabama, and I can cheer for the other team when they're not playing each other'-no. When you're in Alabama you have to choose at an early age what you're going to be. You really can't explain it. To finally get the opportunity to say, 'If we win, we know where we're going.' Just to be in the situation made you anxious to play and made it a bigger game than anything." The way we had beat LSU, we had all the momentum. We knew we had a chance to do something great. There are no professional teams, so this is the Super Bowl. "Because football, that's all we know down here in Alabama. "It was just really trying to get the state back," Means said. Going into the game, Alabama had won two straight over Auburn-a fact that was certainly not lost among Tigers players, even in the midst of their undefeated season. Jeremy Henderson, from, was in the stands in the Auburn section and Alabama student Charlie Deer was in the Tide student section. Opelika-Auburn News sports editor Mike Szvetitz and Tuscaloosa News sports editor Cecil Hurt, were in the press box, they will provide the media's version of the game. He will take us inside the locker room and behind the scenes. ![]() ![]() While other editions may have been able to rival the game's grandeur and national hype, the 2010 Iron Bowl remains the most bitter meeting between the teams to date.īleacher Report has tracked down the men who were closest to the action and asked them reveal what it was like to be in the thick of the game that has become to be known as 'The Camback.'įormer Auburn safety Ikeem Means was on the sidelines that fateful day at Bryant-Denny Stadium. The 2010 Iron Bowl may not have featured two undefeated teams, like in 1971, and it may not have featured two teams ranked in the nation's top four as it will in 2013-but this was the Iron Bowl that inspired the passions of the fans, reduced Harvey Updyke to poisoning the famed trees at Toomer's Corner, and had Alabama staffers playing "Son of a Preacher Man" and "Take the Money and Run" to prod Newton.
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