Please Let This Be a Cruel Rumor
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jul 29, 2009 10:31 AM EDT
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At this stage, it's only a rumor, but who wouldn't be shocked if this were the case? "From Dixie With Love," a marching adaptation of Elvis Presley's "American Trilogy" which has become a gameday favorite for fans throughout the SEC, may be no more.
All because some people thought it cute to shout "the South will rise again" in favor of the original "His truth is marching on." To those people, I have but one thing to say:
You wanted to fit in. You wanted to be different. You wanted to "stick it to the man" or some shit. Well, now the man stuck it to you all of us you selfish dolts. I'm like your mom right about now: dissappointed in and ashamed to be affiliated with you.
Do us all a favor and pull your heads out of your asses next time, alright?
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We all know the real person responsible
Ivory Tower. Why does he insist on destroying my traditions?
Wow...
“They” (being whomever has the power to do this) are taking Ole Miss out of the University of Mississippi, if the rumors are true. I’m sort of just shocked… I don’t even know what to say.
-goose
NOOO
Please let this be a cruel joke.
by fat MSU cheerleader on Jul 29, 2009 11:23 AM EDT reply actions
To Hell with LSU
… shamelessly stolen from UGA (toward Georgia Tech), but I don’t care. It’s my suggestion.
Real live, top-notch alums who give actual money complained VIGOROUSLY to the administration after that 2006 game where CBS broadcast TSWRA to the world. I don’t mean “liberal” alumni or people who, somehow, aren’t “real fans.” Notable alums that you would expect are “good” Rebels like yourself have been letting the Chancellor hear it for years.
I think the embarrassing tag-line has died down some over the last few years, which is why I think this is nothing more than message board s***stirring.
Destroying your traditions since [YEAR REDACTED].
Need something new to yell at the end of FDWL
Next time you see some idiot chanting TSWRA, punch them. The gentle newspaper and blog suggestions don’t work with drunk morons. If people feared getting cold-cocked in the bleachers, maybe we could keep the song.
In the alternative, a marketing person (Not the Ole Miss sports marketing people: Red Alert, I’m in, etc.) should come up with something other than TSWRA to yell at the end of the song. There is a build up of emotion and fans need a release.
We make it hurricane, y'all make it drizzle.
How about "Ole Miss will win again"
after a victory and “Ole Miss will rise again” after a loss? Or what about “Piss off Ar-kan-saaassssssssss?” “Dan//Mullet\bad spread\NECK?”
I also like Ivory’s suggestion of “To hell with L-S-U.”
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Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jul 29, 2009 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions
No.
This is a false rumor. The school has decided to post the lyrics to the song while it is being sung to encourage EVERYONE to sing. They hope that is enough to drown out the idiots.
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Blame the Baptists.
by Juco All-American on Jul 29, 2009 12:08 PM EDT reply actions
I hope so.
I’m a lot bigger fan of this new rumor that Juco has started than the old one where we lost “From Dixie with Love.” Thanks.
Scene: Houston Nutt at large student gathering
“Uh, Hey, whoo! How y’all doin? Stop saying The South will Rise…makes gettin them boys that play with their HEART to come to Ole Miss, and I love Ole Miss, giggidty!”
Boom. Problem Solved.
Well, well, well said Ghost.
As a life-long Mississippian...
…I understand the social dynamics that prevent any consensus interpretation of TSWRA.
But as a student who has benefited from an affordable public education, I will never understand the reasoning of people who share this poster’s opinion:
“If Ole Miss is not proud of what It is I am sorry but I will never support it financially again.”
Where does this disconnect in people’s logic come from that their primary association with the University is not academic but athletic? Would you really look 15,000 students in the eyes and say, “Until I can hear that song 11 times a year at a football game, FUCK YOU AND YOUR PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE!!!!!!!!11”
I think that anyone who says that probably is coming to the realization that Ole Miss is in reality not what THEY thought it was. That individual has been living under the illusion that Ole Miss is somehow inherently connected to TSWRA, which is a tradition stupid, moronic act of buffoonery that has been going on for oh about… 5 years. If someone like that cannot separate their own ideas and opinions from a grand institution like Ole Miss they can keep their money… You know why. We’ve sold 45,000 season tickets already. That idiots seat will be filled in however long it takes for someone to give their credit card number to the ticket office. And their donations will be replaced by the smart people who attend the University because it is progressing away from idiocracy like TSWRA.
At least that’s my opinion.
by unidentified black male on Jul 29, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah, you're right.
Granted, you hate to lose any financial backing, but in the end, continuing to enhance the image of the University will garner new and greater support from elsewhere. This is a pronounced lesson (and hopefully a legacy that will endure) from the Khayat era. With no statistics to quote, I would wager that there are individuals and organizations that have in fact NOT given to Ole Miss solely because of negative (albeit increasingly incorrect) assumptions about our institutional views on race and class.
Campus-wide it feels like we are at a mid-way point in transition. The new, progressive, and in some arenas nationally-recognized and respected programs and initiatives of the University are at odds right now with the insecurities of an increasingly irrelevant system of archaic, patriarchal, planter-class ideals.
As far as all the illiterate boosters on the spirit board go
They all said the same thing when they took the battle flags away and again when they took Col. Reb out of the stadium. If it were between the options of From Dixie With Love with the redneck mantra affixed and no FDWL at all, I choose the latter.
And to hell with all boosters. They’ll deal.
maybe that was harsh.
damn the lack of “edit post” option!
by RedHighHeels on Jul 29, 2009 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions
My buddy emailed Pete Boone about it this morning...
This was Boone’s repsonse to him:
“Adam, I mentioned to Chuck Rounsaville this morning, I am not aware of any directive regarding the discontinuance/or reduction of playing
opportunities of “From Dixie With Love”. Hope this helps. Pete"
Give An Inch Take A Mile
I’m not surprised at all by this. It’s just a matter of time before they try and do away with “Ole Miss.” We better be ready for that fight.
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