If I am correct in my alcohol-damaged memory, it started waaaaaaaaay back in the Sloan days. I hated it then, and I hate it now. I was on staff at the (old, odd, broadcast only on cable service and receivable only with a splitter distributed by the university Housing office when you got your dorm key) campus radio station.

Our call letters then were WCBH, which our program director explained meant “We Can Be Heard.” {those riotous old Ole Miss administrators! ALWAYS so CLEVER in their slogan selections!!!} He told us he was trying to kindle support for “WAOM” which, natch, stood for “We Are Ole Miss.”

Unclever, and less marketable than a football bat.

I felt certain that when Sloan was jettisoned, we’d drop that lame cheer, but here we are nearly 30 years later still watching the cheerleaders awkwardly prance about the field slinging signs around trying to get us to quit sipping our respective drinks long enough to show “spirit.”

[Best old cheer kept for a while, in my opinion: during the Billy Brewer years…jingling the keys toward the end of the game (if we’re winning). Sloan suggested that Hotty Totty was (no, really…I’m SERIOUS here…he actually believed this) too LEWD AND RACY for young people to chant during ballgames, so he suggested students pull out their keys and jingle them signalling it was time for the visitors to start the car and go home…an effort to emasculate the beaten foe. Students didn’t take the bait…in droves. However, when the winning started under Brewer, they DID start to do it for a few years just to spite Sloan.]

That guy with the mic is the worst idea I’ve ever seen. They copy Bama, Florida, and the numerous other schools. It’s flat out annoying and he looks like a fool! At worst put a hot chicky cheerleader in charge of it. Now that will fire people up!

The We are Ole Miss is as bad as the red, blue they get people to yell also. Why not just play the “With a Rebel Yell” on the loud speaker in full to get everyone pumped and take up the whole horrible 2 minutes of that loser on the mic???

We can then sip on our drinks with the fist pumped in the air to Billy Idol and then let out with a Hoddy Toddy…..

BIB

Goddammit, I’m sick of every win getting pissed on and every loss being the End of Days. What the fuck, exactly, does Ole Miss have to do to earn any lasting respect?

Here have been the most common memes after every Ole Miss game this season:

Rebs 45, Memphis 14: Sloppy thumping of a terrible C-USA school. Meh.
Rebs 52, SELA 6: Get to South Carolina already. Double-meh.
USC 16, Rebs 10: Ole Miss was the most overrated team in the country. They deserve to be crucified. Sowell needs a team beating like Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket. Same ol’ sorry Rebs. Vandy’s going to be tough because they always play hard against Ole Miss. Rebs have very real chance to start SEC 0-3.
Rebs 23, Vandy 7: Hey, even State beat Vandy. Snead’s still bad. Meh.
Bama 22, Rebs 3: Season is all but over now; Snead is hopelessly lost; A thoroughly disappointing Ole Miss team should now be worried about a sneaky-good UAB team that, you know, really ought to be undefeated right now.
Rebs 48, UAB 13: UAB is just another terrible C-USA team. Meh. Did you see the Hogs? They almost beat Florida! They score a ton of points and they’re defense is getting better every game! They’re going to roll over us like the doormats we’ve always been. It could get ugly.
Rebs 30, Arkansas: 17: Hogs were overrated and flat after heartbreaking loss at Florida. They have the worst defense in the SEC. Meh.

So, I predict going forward:
Rebs beat Auburn: Auburn is tail-spinning anyway and out-of-condition. Meh.
Rebs beat N. Arizona: Who? Triple-meh.
Rebs beat Tennessee: Ole Miss held serve at home against a mediocre team that’s rebuilding this year. No surprize here. Meh.
Rebs beat LSU: LSU was almost as overrated as Ole Miss was. Hell, State should have beaten them. Meh.
Rebs beat MSU: So you beat up the second-worst team in the league. Meh.

Rebs beat Ohio State/Iowa/Wisconsin in Capital One/Outback Bowl: This game meant everything to Ole Miss and nothing to the Big 10 school. Whoever we play is overrated and probably bummed they didn’t make it to the Rose Bowl anyway. Meh.

Final record: 11-2
Final rank: Top 12
Final opinion: Ole Miss will certainly take it, but with that easy schedule, meh, they should’ve been even better.

That’s the way it fucking seems sometimes.

…and I can remember being at games with my older brother when he was a student. We’d be ahead two or three td’s and he’d be screaming, “What the hell? How can we leave all those points on the field! We need to beat the HELL OUT OF THEM!!!!{**notedrool at that point running down the chin and veins bulging from his forehead}”

Before AND after the polls came out he was talking down our boys. I think, since he is a child of the 50’s, he is trained to expect as little as possible from the Rebels so as to lessen the pain of a loss (he always expects) or raise the eletion of a win (ne NEVER expects).

Our dad was a student at Ole Miss in the 40’s and enjoyed the successes of the meat of Johnny Vaught’s invincible squads.

Being first generation Post-Vaught, Brother has taught himself that we will never have the successes our father’s Rebels enjoyed, so don’t even try to expect it.