A STARKVILLE FLYOVER: CRANK UP THE SOPWITH CAMEL!
by Orson on Nov 13, 2007 10:54 AM EST
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PrintMississippi State owns their country attitude: cowbells in the stands, a buttoned-down gameday decor, and that entire section of the stands reserved for those who've lost limbs in gruesome farm injuries. (Not true! That's actually a section in Kinnick Stadium in Iowa.)
How much do they really own it, though? So much so that the flyover for the Alabama game was done by what appears to be a crop duster or the Baron Von Richtofen himself flying all the way from Hell for the game.
Gadzooks! Was that the dashing Wiley Post? Or the rakish Jimmy Doolittle? Or perhaps Amelia Earhart, who overcomes the crippling handicap of having a vagina every time she bravely enters an aircraft! O, those wily aviators! Someday, might they fly to sun?
The little hysterical WOOO! at the end may be one of the most nuanced crowd noises we've ever heard: part shame, part acceptance, and part ironic barbaric yawp. Whatever--they can tie weather balloons to pigs and let the recreational shooting crowd loose on them as long as Mississippi State keeps winning. Bowl-eligible means you can fly whatever you want over the stadium, even if it does sound like a motorized go-cart with wings.
A clarification: From reader Bulldog, who invites us to eat him.
That was our President, retired Air Force commander Gen. Robert H. "Doc" Foglesong. It is his Mississippi State biplane. He always buzzes over the stadium before the game. So eat me and the rest of the bulldog nation.
Their president buzzes the stadium in his own biplane? Is he a botanist/humanitarian with a penchant for archaeology, arctic exploration, and jujitsu? Does this man have limits, we ask?
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First you treat your kite, like you treat your woman!
by Odell 51 on Nov 13, 2007 11:05 AM EST reply actions
real deal “crop dusting”…not the kind i like to do in crowded rooms.
by gerry dorsey on Nov 13, 2007 11:07 AM EST reply actions
God bless the State of Mississippi and all their aerial displays of exuberance!
by Out of Conference on Nov 13, 2007 11:13 AM EST reply actions
That was our President, retired Air Force commander Gen. Robert H. “Doc” Foglesong. It is his Mississippi State biplane. He always buzzes over the stadium before the game. So eat me and the rest of the bulldog nation.
by Bulldog on Nov 13, 2007 11:22 AM EST reply actions
Oh no, horrifically biased officiating? Looks like OSU is the reverse LSU (and not just because we can read up here).
by Beardguy on Nov 13, 2007 11:39 AM EST reply actions
For those of you who remember the SAT analogies section, if:
Biplanes:Mississippi State
Autogyro: ?
by rusty on Nov 13, 2007 11:41 AM EST reply actions
NC State 31 – UNC 27.
Cow colleges 1 – Liberal arts schools 0
Texas A&M, Miss. St, Auburn, Clemson, and Va Tech need to step up now.
by Herb on Nov 13, 2007 11:44 AM EST reply actions
I just became a HUGE Mississippi State fan.
by Bobby Decatur on Nov 13, 2007 11:50 AM EST reply actions
CoachOgonnashoodatmuthadownwittabigolroamincandlecracka!
by Allahver Fist on Nov 13, 2007 11:50 AM EST reply actions
It’s like ‘Combat’ for the Atari 2600 come to life!
by SMK on Nov 13, 2007 11:50 AM EST reply actions
Beardguy,
I don’t know what makes you guys more insufferable, the constant whining when you lose or the belief that Ohioans are intellectually superior to southerners.
by Biggus Rickus on Nov 13, 2007 11:55 AM EST reply actions
Mizzou easily beats that: we’ve had 2 flyovers this year, one from a B-2 stealth bomber (those things just look like they’re coming all lazy and quiet…then you hear a massive aftershock) and from a F-18.
But you also Croom teams, so I suppose we’re even.
by El Hombre on Nov 13, 2007 12:04 PM EST reply actions
Baby steps, guys. That’s what you’re seeing here. We spent our Fighter Jet Flyover budget on booze and smokes after the Auburn and Kentucky wins… who knew?
And to answer the question as to whether our president has any limits, the answer is no. He runs marathons, and has been known to do wind sprints with the football team.
by msuce99 on Nov 13, 2007 12:11 PM EST reply actions
Beardguy, we really, truly do not give a Foglesong-flying fuck. This post is all about fun, baby. Evil Richt-endorsed countertop-dancing little-brother Bulldog fun.
by Bobby Decatur on Nov 13, 2007 12:20 PM EST reply actions
Fogelsong was escaping from his nemesis, the wealthy industrialist V.E. Pennypacker.
by PeteJayhawk on Nov 13, 2007 12:27 PM EST reply actions
Mr. Foglesong says, “Stay thirsty my friends.”
His beard is now recruiting in Florida, but it wants you to die a flaming miserable death, Mr. Orson.
by War Eagle on Nov 13, 2007 12:32 PM EST reply actions
all you need to know about Foglesong;
1) retired Air Force general
2) a proud Mountaineer
not only would he bomb your house, he would steal your couch and burn it, too
by wvjgrad69 on Nov 13, 2007 12:49 PM EST reply actions
I can’t be the only one who expected a gray-haired Sean Connery to come parachuting out of that thing, clutching a fedora while the theme music from “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” blares from out of nowhere…
Okay, maybe I was the only one expecting that…
by Papa Lou BSU on Nov 13, 2007 12:51 PM EST reply actions
Mississippi State has now harnessed the power of “flight” and electricity…this is a major cause of concern for the rest of the SEC. Me thinks we should sacrifice a virgin at the alter of Croom lest we want to run the risk of pillaging and looting the likes of which we have ever seen. The mustache must be appeased and the power of indoor plumbing kept secret.
by Teddy Dupay on Nov 13, 2007 1:44 PM EST reply actions
That biplane was powered by the EDSBS Server.
by Allahver Fist on Nov 13, 2007 1:49 PM EST reply actions
Wait ‘til the Ole Miss game, Doc is planning on flying over in Wonder Woman’s plane. Top that Mr. Indoor Plumbing afficianado!
by lance harbor on Nov 13, 2007 3:04 PM EST reply actions
The last time I went to a Bama/MSU game in Starkfuckingvegas, they had 2 parachuters swoop in. The only problem was 1 of them “landed” with a wicked 50 mph thump and had to be carted off to the ER and the other parachuter ended up on top of the Chi O house about 2 blocks away.
by EZ on Nov 13, 2007 3:18 PM EST reply actions
Man – Did you hear that HUGE fart right at the end of that video? What’s that? It was the plane?
BWWWWAAAAHHHHAAAAHHHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!
by CLT Dawg on Nov 13, 2007 3:20 PM EST reply actions
EZ, you think that second parachuter didn’t plan that or something?
by Clemson327 on Nov 13, 2007 3:50 PM EST reply actions
Well at least the new president upgraded to a Bi-plane…the old president had a hot air balloon, and those “float-overs” took forever….
by Mr Pelican Pants on Nov 13, 2007 4:15 PM EST reply actions
#24. Ah, the 1996 game. Remember kids, aerial hijinks=State win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMup0JXRX8c
by jakldawg on Nov 13, 2007 4:19 PM EST reply actions
“not only would he bomb your house, he would steal your couch and burn it, too”
And then display it on his front lawn.
by James S on Nov 13, 2007 4:38 PM EST reply actions
so am I to understand that MSU’s president is Indiana Jones?
by PK on Nov 13, 2007 5:24 PM EST reply actions
Give me a break, Hombre. Texas had three Apaches and a Blackhawk fly over this past weekend, four F-18s fly over a few weeks ago, and then two B-2 bombers for our season opener. You’re right, though, those things are unbelievably loud.
by Chris on Nov 13, 2007 9:27 PM EST reply actions
Jesus, am I the only one that could tell that it was the freakin Red Barron Pizza plane???
by Sam on Nov 13, 2007 10:25 PM EST reply actions
Indiana Jones is based on a weekend trip of Mr. Fogelsong’s.
by War Eagle on Nov 14, 2007 8:08 AM EST reply actions
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You forgot the PhD in Chemistry from WVU. His dissertation was on improved ways of distilling moonshine.
The Orgeron should be relieved that the game is in Starksville this year. Doc had the biplane outfited with twin Fokker machine guns and planned on strafing The Grove and obtaining the Nobel Peace Prize in the process.
by yoyofutbawl on Nov 14, 2007 12:17 PM EST reply actions
Sorry Bulldog, but Doc Foglesong was never Chief of Staff of the USAF. He was Commander USAFE (US Air Forces Europe). I have friends who served under him in Europe, and the disdain mentioned in his Wikipedia profile is but the tip of the iceberg of things he did based on their accounts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H.%22Doc%22Foglesong
by Sleepless Dawg on Nov 15, 2007 5:15 AM EST reply actions
Sorry to burst your collective bubbles…but that was obviously Launchpad McQuack flying Uncle Scrooge and the boys.
Arguments in regards to Doc Foglesong are moot
by Geoff on Nov 13, 2009 10:35 AM EST reply actions
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