What Auburn Students Are Really Up To!

The following video was made by a couple of Auburn students. They never imagined what a success it would be. Read the article below! I also included the lyrics cause I had trouble understanding some of it myself. ENJOY!

Teixeira tribute hits the airwaves

By Mike Tankersley

A few weeks ago, a couple of self-described average college kids were fooling around on the guitar, and now -- to their amazement -- they have a cult following.

And the best is yet to come.

Tyler Crawford and Andrew Hall, who have been roommates at Auburn University for about a month, sat down one night in early August and, off the top of their heads, wrote a tribute to Mark Teixeira, a player the Atlanta Braves acquired July 31, the major league trading deadline.

For a lark, they decided to write a song about the new player. It took about 30 minutes.

"Once we wrote the first line," Crawford said, "the rest of it kind of just came to us."

Crawford and Hall recorded the song onto the voice mail of Hall's cell phone so they wouldn't forget the tune.

"We couldn't stop laughing," Crawford said.

A few days later, they borrowed a camera with a video function, and in about four takes produced a video. They first posted it to Facebook.com, then a day later put it on YouTube.com.

"We only posted it so our friends could see it," said Crawford, who strums the guitar throughout the catchy song that so far is titled simply "Mark Teixeira Tribute."

"We were just goofing around," Hall added. "We thought our friends would get a kick out of it."

What followed amazed Crawford and Hall.

Michael Brouder, director of marketing and on-air promotions for SportSouth/FSN South in Atlanta, discovered the video.

"It made the rounds in the office, and we thought it was great," Brouder said.

He got an idea. The video, he thought, might be a creative way to pump excitement into the network's late-season Braves broadcasts.

Brouder tracked down the students through You-
Tube.com.

"I actually created my own YouTube account to send them an e-mail," he said.

In the e-mail, Brouder asked Hall and Crawford if they wanted their video seen "by 11 million viewers in the Southeast."

Hall and Crawford were blown away.

"Fifteen minutes later, we heard from them," Brouder said.

SportSouth played a clip from their video during Sunday night's game. Teixeira followed the act in style, slamming a pair of two-run homers. TBS, which also carries Braves games on TV, also played some of the song.

The fuse had been lit.

"At first, there were maybe two comments and 100 hits," said Crawford, who hails from Chelsea. "We were watching it on YouTube and we thought it was so cool so many people had watched it."

By the end of the weekend, more than 47,000 people had viewed the video. That number had ballooned to 56,000 by Monday night.

"It's really blown up," said Hall, an Athens native.

Hall and Crawford are realistic. They know the song won't bring them a fortune. But the effort has produced plenty of excitement.

Today they'll record the song at the SportSouth/FSN South studio in Atlanta. The plan was for the two to record the song again for use in the Atlanta pregame show, "Braves Live," before tonight's game at Cincinnati.

But Jeff Genthner, Senior Vice President and General Manager for FSN South, has other ideas.

"If they nail it in rehearsal," Genthner said Monday, "we're going to have them play it live. Hey, the Braves play baseball live, not live on tape."

To say Genthner loves the song is an understatement.

"When I saw it, I immediately thought, this is what SportSouth is," Genthner said. "It's two guys sitting on a couch singing a homemade song about the Braves.

"It has catchy lyrics. These guys are really talented."

SportSouth already has turned the video into two on-air promotions that began airing during Monday night's Braves telecast. (FSN South and SportSouth are both owned by Fox).

On Aug. 31, as guests of the team, Hall and Crawford will perform the song live in the plaza at Turner Field before the Mets-Braves game. And they'll get to meet Teixeira.

"We're the filler act for when they switch sets for the bands," Hall said. "I mean, we've got just the one song."

Hall and Crawford aren't taking themselves too seriously. But they're enjoying the moment.

"This really is a dream," said Hall, who is engaged to Crawford's sister, Emily. "This is one of those things where you just have to take advantage of where it takes you.

"And if all we get out of it is playing the song at Turner Field and playing it once at SportSouth, well, I figure it's a story we can tell for the rest of our lives."


LYRICS:
VERSE 1
Four and a half games back and I don't Te-care-a
You know why we got Mark Teixeira
Got a new Braves jersey that I'm gonna wear-a
And written on the back is Mark Teixeira
The Mets are scared cause their lead's gonna narr-a
They're lookin' over their shoulder at Mark Teixeira

Chorus:
We got Fred McGriff back in '93
Hampton's out cause of injury
Schuerholz smiles cause he is happy and Bobby says,
"Let's go Mark T."

The National League it just ain't fair-a
The Atlanta Braves got Mark Teixeira
Chipper and Andruw make a mighty nice pair-a
Let's make it a trio add Mark Teixeira
A side effect is mild hysteria
The medical reason is Mark Teixeira

Chorus

Bridge:
Scott Thorman stinks and Julio is old
What did Shuerholz do? Must've sold his Sooouuulll

Pitchers beware cause he's gonna scare ya
Throw him a strike now if you dare-a
He could probably steal on Yogi Berra(NOT Yogi Bear-a)
Biggest thing in Georgia since Scarlet O'Hara
If I were a woman I'd probably Marry ya.

And that's not Gay cause its Mark Teixeira