OLE MISS GETS NEW TEE-VEE
Ole Miss is refurbishing in more than just the coaching department, skipping past the $1200 flat-screen you likely chose for your homestead and going to the $6 million Daktronics HD set. You would have gotten that one if you had any balls, but let us tell you that it’s not all it’s purported to be: once you sweat the $6 mil, you’ve still got to pay for all the broken windows you’ll have–hordes of bugs are trying to get to his thing, and they’re not letting a little double-insulated glass stand in the way of orbiting their LED-fueled light-god.
Did we mention we haven’t slept in a month, and that it heats your living room to a cool 142 degrees Fahrenheit? You should see Animal Rescue Houston on this thing, though. The mange is mind-blowing.
It’s about time Ole Miss made the upgrade, though. The old scoreboard was starting to look a bit antediluvian. (Pic contains one suggestive image of a sexual nature in tiny, tiny detail. Be advised.)

It was worse before the beer coozy-shaped hot tub with Cooper Manning in it was removed from the board’s top prior to the 2005 season. (HT: Ragin’ Cajun Rebel.)









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Allahver Fist says:
Hot damn, I’m calling my relatives out in Yalobusha County. We gonna get that old scorebox set for the fishin’ camp out theres in Water Valley.
JumboCatfishaTronZilla!
Is the new set firework proof?
June 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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Joshua says:
Why would Ole Miss want a bigger scoreboard? So aliens could now see them get skulldrug by LSU again?
June 11th, 2008 at 11:31 am
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NativeSon says:
I heard Miss. St. was looking into the same model, but worried the Sopwith Camel might get hung up in the antennae during the flyover.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:38 am
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David Puddy says:
Houston Nutt has been listening to Dire Straits again, and he obviously took “Money For Nothing” to heart…
THA DIA STRAIGHTS PLAYA GOOD ROCKN TOON FA DA OLE MISS! WE GOTTA COLAH H-DEE TEVEE!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:39 am
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S&K Mens Wearhouse says:
While we’re upgrading the stadium how bout adding some
indoor plumbing. Last year I was forced to crap in my blazer
which I then gave to my pledge brother to hold.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:50 am
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the croominator says:
Ah, but thanks to Doc Foglesong’s little hissy-fit (not to be confused with Ron Polk’s bigger hissy-fit) and the like, the Sopwith Camel has been grounded.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:55 am
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Bunkie Perkins says:
Will there be a daytime fireworks show at the unveiling?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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Craig says:
It really speaks volumes about Coach O that making Ole Miss jokes about “the merely insane” Houston Nutt seems like a let down.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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GamecockTony says:
To most Ole Miss fans, the “sexually suggestive” part is the Confederate Flag.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
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Anonymous IV says:
“The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.”
June 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
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John says:
“Suggestive image” Orson, you damn tease.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
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Charles says:
@3 – golf clap.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:
I only just noticed the “suggestive image” after going back and looking after the last couple of posts….Freek is very, very sneaky sir.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
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sonofsamford says:
Nice to have another Lemsday with da Coach O. The fact that nobody around me understands what I’m doing when I sometimes spontaneously breakout into orgeronspeak makes it even better.
June 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
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kt says:
Allahver Fist,
I’m gonna have to get my folks over in Water Valley involved here too…
KT
June 11th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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MorningBeer says:
When did Mississippi get electricity?
June 11th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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kt says:
It would be a dang fine addition to the Watermelon Carnival too!
Those were a lot of fun!
June 11th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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Crabapple Buck says:
The only thing LSU Freek missed was the aluminum foil between the rabbit ears. Excellent work sirs.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
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Garrett says:
HAHA, that was funny AND original, MorningBeer!!! Let me guess, either you are from another SEC school, which means your state has little room to talk or you’ve never been to MS? Either way, kiss my ass.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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Billy From Baton Rouge says:
Garrett’s just upset because he knows not of this “electricity” of which MorningBeer speaks.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
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Allahver Fist says:
KT comes from good stock. Swindle got an invite to the fishing camp last year before the Florida/Ole Miss game. Fishing and a low country shrimp boil. Homeboy will never know how close he could have been to God’s country.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
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kt says:
I can’t believe Orson missed out!
I love that area (mom and dad from there) and I miss the summers of my youth in Water Valley, Mississippi!
I loved the church baseball league. I would be a Methodist one year, a Presbyterian one year, a Baptist a couple of times. All depending on who had room on the roster by the time the Alabama schools let out for summer!
June 11th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
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Jayson Blair says:
@16 – Kudos on your originality.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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S&K Mens Wearhouse says:
#16, Mississippi has had electricity for years but they don’t let
everyone know about it so that they can keep the nigras from
acquiring said resource.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
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hunglikehussain says:
@18
Crabapple, I can tell you are a transplant to the South by your reference to “aluminum foil”. TIN foil my man, TIN!
June 11th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
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TheGhostofJayCutler says:
We like to call it the PoweTron in honor of everyone’s favorite 6′4″ 360lb, illiterate DT.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
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Big & Rich Brooks says:
To 16
1920 and then only for white people until 1995.
June 11th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
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Jerrell Powe says:
26
nott koowl
June 11th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
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The Deuce says:
Let’s see only 60,850 in attendance….$6 Million TV….hell that’s almost $100 per person!
June 11th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
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MorningBeer says:
Garrett, are you conference profiling? You football racist, you.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
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Mr ippi says:
I heard this J-tron is amazing and that is can actually shrink the font of the away team the higher their score gets. Hope we got an upgrade of that feature.
June 11th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
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Garrett says:
MorningBeer, I can’t help it if I’m a SEC-supremacist…My dream, my hope is to lead the nation to a point where the SEC champ has automatic bid to the Nat. Champ game
June 11th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
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TD says:
Why do Ole Miss fans want to look at their horrible plays a second time?
June 11th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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intellidouche says:
Morningbeer, you said
“are you conference profiling? You football racist, you.”
I believe the correct term is conferencist.
June 11th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
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Charles says:
@24: +100 cocktails for “nigras,” a ‘euphamism’ that my ultra-bigoted grandmom from Selma still uses to this day. EXCELSIOR!!!!
June 11th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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Who framed Freddie Fairchild? says:
Bear in mind that one of the more positive developments during Houston Dale’s time at Arkansas was the installation of a jumbotron. I see a pattern. I would imagine some Nutt brother is involved in the stadium screen business. Have to pay that text message bill somehow…
June 12th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
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Brian says:
I’m just happy to see Cooper Manning get some props in there.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:58 pm