The Murder of the Oak Trees

Sports fanaticism taken to an extreme.

The Murder of the Oak Trees

 

By Elton Camp

 

Perhaps in even in nobody’s wildest dream

Could sports fanaticism become so extreme

Supporters of Auburn or the Crimson Tide

Have made it a point each other to deride.

 

A man who has attended neither school

May make himself into some raging fool

The competition has taken a turn of late

That goes all the way into senseless hate

 

The state is buzzing now that one of these

Claims to have poisoned some Auburn trees

The accused was promptly thrown into jail

And fifty thousand dollars set as his bail

 

An Auburn ex-athletic director did mention

Trees could be saved by divine intervention

Seems to me God has more of which to see

Than to step in and keep alive some old tree

 

Of course it would only be a deranged rat

To take sports competition as far as that

Let’s hope that fans of each state school

Will do nothing and allow tempers to cool