[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
Auburn fans on the receiving end of Tide for Toomer’s have started Toomer’s for Tuscaloosa to support their tornado-stricken rivals at Alabama. It’s a very small thing amid all the overwhelming, tragic devastation – now 272 dead and counting, seemingly putting yesterday’s tornado outbreak on track to become one of the Top 5 deadliest U.S. disasters of the last 60 years, trailing only 9/11, Katrina, and a pair of heat waves in 1980 and 1995 – but it still makes me smile that college football rivals, in the SEC no less, can come together at such a time. And then again, of course they can: they’re human beings, after all. But it still makes me smile.
The SEC: it can come together in PEACE!!!
The title, by the way, comes from a bunch of Facebook comments that I saw on this topic, expressing both sentiments together – “War Damn Eagle and Roll Tide Roll,” sometimes shortened to “WDE & RTR.” At any other time, that would be blasphemy, but today, football means nothing to folks in the South (and that’s saying something).