FIRST TIME EVER

<p>Some said it would never happen. On December 2 1989 it DID happen.</p><p>Undefeated and second-ranked Alabama did something they'd sworn they would never ever do: They came to Auburn to play the Iron Bowl.</p><p>How it happened after years of threats and lawsuits and refusals to even discuss the possibility is a story as riveting as the game that unfolded on the field that Saturday afternoon.</p><p>Van Allen Plexico and John Ringer co-hosts of the AU Wishbone Podcast trace the greatest rivalry in football from its dawning in Birmingham to the epic showdown on the Plains.</p><p>Along the way they expose the roots of the animosity between the two universities the numerous ways Alabama has tried to get its way in every dispute with Auburn--and the consequences when it didn't.</p><p>Then they break down the game itself--what happened play-by-play how and why--from Tiger Walk to Toomer's Corner and beyond. </p><p>Some said it would never happen. On December 2 1989 it DID happen. This is the story of that day--possibly the greatest day in Auburn football history--as only the AU Wishbone can tell it.</p><p><br></p>