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Apple CEO Tim Cook Leads Acceptance Speech with Iron Bowl Joke

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNEafGCf-kw

Apple CEO and Auburn alumnus Tim Cook recently accepted a lifetime achievement award from AU's College of Human Sciences. And in an effort to assure Silicon Valley had not fully taken the Alabama out of the CEO, he opened his acceptance speech with a joke about the Iron Bowl.

Fast-forward to the 1:00 minute mark for the joke in question:

Now I'm going to make my comments brief, but I may ask for one extra second at the end, because we all know how much of a difference that can make.

Good thing Nick Saban just signed that extension with Alabama, or he'd probably be gunning for the top job at Microsoft right about now.

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