This may win the award for the strangest Broken Sports story. And, as with all of these stories, it is incredibly sad.
From Wikipedia:
On January 27, 2011, a man going by the name of Al and claiming to be from Dadeville, a town 30 minutes from Auburn, called into Paul Finebaum‘s sports talk radio show. “Al” admitted to poisoning the trees with a herbicide called Spike 80DF (Tebuthiuron) the weekend following the 2010 Iron Bowl, an away game the Tigers played on Friday, November 26, 2010 in Tuscaloosa; the Tigers came back from a 24-0 second-quarter deficit to win 28-27. He said he did this in retaliation for photos that he claimed to have seen in the Birmingham News that depicted Auburn fans rolling Toomer’s Corner after announcement of former University of Alabama head-coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s death in 1983 as well as pictures of an Auburn #2 (number of 2010 Auburn quarterback Cam Newton) Under Armour t-shirt taped to Bryant’s statue earlier in the
2010 season. He ended his call by saying, “Roll damn Tide!” An exhaustive search of newspapers found no evidence of Toomer’s being rolled upon Bryant’s death.[14][15]
These trees were cut down today.
