Saturday, April 09, 2011

This Week's Profile

Although known by many Run Campers as the leader of his beloved Radiators, Darrell Harden is much more famous as a devout fan of the Auburn Tigers and their juggernaut football team. It explains his frequent poses as the Heisman running statue, as Auburn has more Heisman trophy winners than any other SEC team, including the reigning Heisman winner and three times as many as their arch-rival, Alabama. Harden, who works for the Illinois Department of Transportation (but commutes, as he is dating a Kalamazoo girl), was riding high this fall as Auburn captured the national championship. Like other Auburn grads, he is at a loss to explain why the school motto is a tiger, but the school battle cry is "War Eagle."

"Beats me," he explains.