By Jeff Shearer
AuburnTigers.com
ATLANTA - When he enrolled at Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1947 on the GI Bill, John Keith was a 21-year-old U.S. Navy World War II veteran.
On New Year’s Day 2018, 71 years later, API’s name had long since changed, but Mr. Keith’s devotion to Auburn remained the same.
“I had season tickets for a number of years when I lived in north Alabama,” said Keith, overlooking the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl from the top deck of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. “When I lived in Atlanta for a good while, I went back to most of the games pretty regularly.