Traffic on SR-81 increases significantly on Saturdays when the Auburn Tigers football team is playing at Jordan-Hare Stadium.
Ross grew up in Tuscaloosa; his brother Ronnie played football for Auburn, but he was too violent for football, according to a childhood friends, and picked fights on the Tuscaloosa streets before turning to amateur boxing on the advice of a Tuscaloosa County deputy sheriff who, himself an amateur boxer, had seen Ross beat up on people in bars and parking lots.
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The airport was notably used by then-University of Louisville football head coach Bobby Petrino for clandestine meetings with officials from Auburn University in 2003 and the University of Notre Dame in 2004 regarding those schools' head coaching jobs (ultimately, he would stay at Louisville through the 2006 season).
The stadium is named for Ralph "Shug" Jordan, who has the most wins as head coach of the University's football team, and Cliff Hare, a member of Auburn's first football team as well as Dean of the Auburn University School of Chemistry and President of the Southern Conference.
On December 18, Stoops was rumored to be a candidate for the Iowa State head coaching job, which eventually went to Auburn assistant Paul Rhoads.
The following season, new head coach Tommy Tuberville replaced Bironas, the preseason All-SEC kicker of the football team, with the punter, Damon Duval.