The treasured oaks at Toomer’s Corner are a storied landmark in college football housed at Auburn University. A simple tradition fans have is covering them in toilet paper to celebrate stuff. Yeah, it’s kinda weird, but it works. After the Cubs clinched the World Series, you bet Cubs fans in the deep south got to rolling.
The Cubs celebration extended to Auburn with fans rolling Toomer’s Corner
Chicago catcher David Ross is a TIger.
We should note that Cubs catcher David Ross played baseball at Auburn. This was technically his third World Series. He played for the Boston Red Sox, but also went to a College World Series while he played for the Tigers.
Legendary running back and Heisman winner Bo Jackson also played baseball at Auburn before an eight-year professional career in the Majors along with an NFL run that was cut short due to injury.
The Toomer’s live cam is here, but depending on when you read this they may have cleaned the place up.
For the uninitiated, the tradition doesn’t have an official start date, but the school says it may have begun in 1971.
The intersection, which marks the transition from downtown Auburn to the university campus, is known as Toomer’s Corner. It is named after former State Senator “Shel” Toomer (a halfback on Auburn’s first football team in 1892) who founded Toomer’s Drugs in 1896. Toomer’s Drugs is a small business on the corner that has been an Auburn landmark for over 130 years.
Over the last few years, the trees have seen some hard times. In 2011, an Alabama fan named Harvey Updyke poisoned the trees after Cam Newton’s Auburn team beat the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa.
The school replaced them, and everything was copacetic. Then, earlier this year a man set one of the trees on fire after an Auburn win. It’s unlikely if the tree will live, but at least we have one to roll. While they may not have flown a W down in SEC country, they showed their appreciation for the Cubs anyway.
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