The War Eagle Reader · Nov 25, 2019
Before the First Time Ever, Pat Dye tried to get clever
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It’s the 30th anniversary of the ’89 game, so you’re going to see a lot about the First Time Ever, about Dye the Liberator, and everything. And yeah.
But you probably won’t hear much about the wacky way Dye wanted to go about righting the rivalry when he first got here.
Turns out that, back in 1981, minus any movement on bringing Bama to Auburn, Dye’s initial idea wasn’t for Auburn to establish its own home-field advantage in the Iron Bowl—it was to neutralize the Tide’s.
How?
By playing more games in Birmingham.