Did I drive my Delorean too fast to work again today?

Who’d of Thunk it Dept:

The Klan showing up at an Ole Miss game in full regalia? Oh my.

Where is LSU Kevin? – I need to know how the hell to pronounce the name of the article writer:

Contact Xerxes A. Wilson at xwilson@lsureveille.com

“Zerksays”? “Zee-err-excess”?

The only “winner” in this whole fiasco? Mississippi. State recruiting.

This is going to interrupt Uncle Verne’s pregame drinking in The Grove. Not cool. Everyone knows Verne is better with a few Old Fashioneds in him.

ESS EEE SEE speed?!?

Could this be the re-rising of the South that I’ve been hearing about??

A word from their spokesman:

http://www.breastfedmoonshine.com/home/2009/11/12/whoopsi/

Is you is, or is you ain’t, my constituency?!

And by the way, the Clayton Bigsby bit is an all time fucking classic.

Maybe becoming another liberal sodomite college will get them into tier 2:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/best-colleges/2009/03/03/athletic-conference-breakdown-sec.html

the leader of the North MS KKK is known as the mighty titan? there’s your comedy, OS.

Chappelle’s Show was the funniest thing ever. I use mudbutt in a sentence at least once a day. I try to use the “I wish I had more hands cuz I’d give them titties four thumbs down” as much as possible but the context arises less often.

@3 – I will fill in for LSUKevin. zerk-sees. Some asshole named Herodotus wrote a really boring book about him. And he was featured prominently in the sit-up porn flick “300”

“’We are coming to Ole Miss to say enough is enough on attacking our Christian, southern heritage and culture, and it’s time for every person to have a right to freedom of speech," Tate said.”

Except, you know, non-whites and non-Christians.

I’ve always wondered if there’s anything in my life where I’m as completely delusional like this, because there’d be no way to know.

Oh that’s right, I don’t think Big 10 football is inherently inferior to the SEC or Pac-10. That’s about as crazy.

When push comes to shove, I am taking the sodomites and giving the points.

Also, God damn the KKK to hell. somebody call the Mayor and see if he’ll selectively suspend the First Amendment for few hours on Saturday. Also, I am pretty sure that the chant was “go to hell LSU, go to hell” (which I kind of like) and not “to hell with LSU”. Why the fuck are these fuckers fucking ever thing up?

While we’re at it can we get someone to ban that “we just beat the hell out of you” cheer at Bama? or at least make it have a margin of victory trigger?

?! Dept:

How can the Klan-jobs be football fans? Someone tell them that many players on all teams are——Black!

I wonder what the Klan chapter will think about all of the non-white people on the field for Ole Miss…

Fandom vs. Biggotry… powerful forces to bring to bear against one another.

… aaaaand SKLM beats me to it in a photo finish…

SKLM…not sure the Klan has issues with appreciating the physical prowess of black men…as long as there’s no miscegenation going on!

Ah, say, Ah say, The War Between the States is still alive and well after 145 years. Iffen you don’t like that go on back up north.

(Set “Sarcasm” dial to “MAX”)

Bamsters Dept:

I suggest leaving Bama out of this discussion, given that the Bear began to recruit Blacks right after USC whalloped them in their own segregated South years ago. You see, before Pete Carroll showed up at USC, USC was doing all sorts of humanitarian things, like showing the South what was right, and it took Bama getting a beating by a USC team made up of Black and White players – led by Sam Bam Cunningham – for the Bear to see the light.

The ‘O, Brother’ scene is priceless: “The color guard is colored!”

Whatever SKLM…you’re just another sad fan of a directional school.

If Ole Miss is really worried about people associating their school with being an “advocate [of] a revival of segregation” why don’t they stop pussyfooting around and change their mascot from the Rebels? Don’t want to start the “Civil War was about slavery not it wasn’t yes it was!” arguement, but slavery was a huge issue. Their colors are the same as the Stars and Bars (whether they banned the actual flag or not) and they sing about Dixie.

soooo glad the Volunteer nickname came from a less controversial war

also, +1 for me for using “pussyfooting” in a comment

@ 12:
 
     Herodotus? Try Xenophon. He makes a cameo in Herodotus’ Histories. But he dominates Xenophon’s account of the Persians’ efforts to invade Greece.

“… including the black student body president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college."

i have been to ole miss, mr. tate, and i can assure you that ship has already sailed.

Perhaps Sarah Palin can do a book signing at Ole Miss, just to make it a complete circus?

Amazon Dot Com Dept:

Here is the book and blurb from Amazon.com:

Turning of the Tide: How One Game Changed the South (Hardcover)
 
Don Yaeger (Author)

New York Times bestselling author Don Yaeger tells the electrifying story of the game that broke down the last racial division in college football.

The first integrated football game in Alabama was played on Crimson soil in September 1970, and the two teams that met represented two distinct faces of college football: legendary Alabama coach Bear Bryant’s Tide was the all-white national powerhouse in the SEC; and the USC Trojans, coached by John McKay, featured an all-black starting backfield that reflected the social changes that were sweeping the nation. Bestselling author Don Yaeger, teamed with USC fullback Sam Cunningham and defensive captain John Papadakis, tells for the first time the complete story of what transpired during this historic game.

Especially the sodomy part (which by definition includes plenty of hetero contact.)

Just fucking greeaaaat. Now my dilemma is:

1) Do I go to the game and the Grove, worrying that these white-robed yahoos will cast a pall over the festivities?

2) If I decide to be brave and go, would it be funny or douchey to throw purple and gold paint on them so they look like LSU fans? My rational, compassionate self says douchey…I may hate LSU but I don’t hate them THAT much.

3) Over/under Michael Houdec is under one of those robes?

4) Just…..fuck all I hate it when they pull that shit. That being said if Dan Jones had handled this better and well, not so publicly the fucking KKK and segregationists wouldn’t have jumped on the bandwagon. This is why as much as I love Ole Miss we just need to get rid of all the Old South symbolism NOW and move on, otherwise we can look forward to a white supremacist march every 5-10 years or so each time we tug on the Band-Aid a little more. Sorry, but what WE think doesn’t matter, what EVERYBODY ELSE thinks, does.

@12 and 26 – interesting.
The only thing I really know about Greece is that most hookers on Craigslist charge you extra to visit there.

Not Sad at All Dept:

@ # 24, zzgator: I am actually not sad at all, given how USC’s season has turned out. Feelings are closer to mad. Seems USC could not reload this year after sending most defensive players to NFL, and the D ran out of gas, and the Offense cannot get it going (too young, too many injuries) But, I am sure the team will get better and watch out…Next year USC will make a nice run at the BCS (ooooops, now I am sounding like a Notre Dame fan) :-)

Broads Dept:

Is it just me, but, isn’t Sarah Palin one of the sexiest women out there?

@26 – this explains why I should never attempt to recite anything from memory.

A few things:

First of all, fuck.

Secondly, the Klan has done this before. When Barack Obama visited campus for the presidential debate they said they’d march… They didn’t. The Klan is full of pussies.

Thirdly, @22, false. Bear Bryant tried to recruit black players while he was at Texas A&M but the university administration wouldn’t allow it. Look it up. USC didn’t have a Goddamn thing to do with it.

Finally, @25, don’t be so damn obtuse. Yes, “Rebels” is somewhat controversial, but nobody seems to take issue with the UNLV Rebels.

And furthermore, the red and blue colors have NOTHING to do with the Confederacy. Red and blue are indeed present on the confederate flag, as they are on the American flag, British flag, Norwegian flag, French flag, etc. Flags don’t have a thing to do with this. The red and blue color scheme for Ole Miss is a combination of the colors of Harvard and Yale according to William Hemingway, the first captain of the Ole Miss football team (Mind you, he said this in the 1890’s. If a white Southern man in the 1890’s wanted to pay homage to the Confederacy he would have done it without any need for subtleties).

Honestly, if the Rebels REALLY wanted to harken back to confederate imagery, they’d have gray uniforms…. kinda like UNLV.

They’s miscegenated!

LSU fans, do your duty. Drink as much of your homemade party liquors as possible and turn those KKK taintwipes into tigah bait.

That student they quoted, Christopher Cox, sounds like he is a pretty reasonable person and is being level headed about this. I can’t believe they decided to use his quote instead of dumb college kid quotes on either side of the issue.

As we like to say in South Carolina (and most other southern states) THANK GOD FOR MISSISSIPPI!

@36

Maybe if Ole Miss isn’t interested in celebrating Confederate imagery, they could drop the name “Ole Miss”. Just a thought.

I think Shepard Smith needs to go down there and cover this story.

Oh come on, they weren’t forced to stop waving the Norwegian flag at football games.

Aggies Dept:

JayCutler’s Ghost – I was referring to Bama, not Texas A & M. No offense, but I would take the word of a NY Times award winning writer over yours (and mine) on this matter.

Is the KKK not familiar with the reputation LSU fans have? He says he’s not looking for trouble. Sorry, man. That’s precisely what LSU fans look for on a gameday at an opposing team’s stadium. Kicks are gettin harder and harder to find, but it looks like the KKK just lobbed me a softball.

“a college without sodomy is no college at all”

and a college with only sodomy and no standard-issue sexing is Notre Dame

#36
thank you for opening my eyes to the truth that the actual racists of college football are in las vegas, a university that for far too long has been giving a free pass on the despicable way in which it clings to the racist, slave-owning, lynch-mobbing past of nevada

Yeah…cause the NYT is beyond reproach cough Jayson Blair cough.

@39

Outside of modern contexts, sure, Ole Miss is iffy. But literally the only people who know and continue to mention what Ole Miss meant (notice, past tense) are Arkansas fans (like yourself), State fans, and the like whose sole purpose in their pathetic lives are to make Ole Miss look bad.

In modern contexts, Ole Miss means “The University of Mississippi.” That’s it and that’s all. Words and phrases lose and gain meanings all of the time. This happens in language all the time. Get over it.

And if you want to make Ole Miss look bad, just leave that to us. We’re gold medalists in shooting our proverbial foot.

@43

Did you catch that! Quickly! It was the point you missed, go get it!

@ Gamecock Tony

Zurk-SEES

I will tigerbait the hell out of these guys. My big italian nose and funny sounding last name mixed in with my olive complexion and nappy hair will drive these fuckers crazy.

@36 -

I believe the Bama-USC game opened the door for Bama fans, boosters, administration, etc. to be more open to the school recruiting black players. Bryant already wanted to do it, and this game gave him the opening he needed. The way I heard the story, Bear arranged the game with that purpose in mind. Granted, it’s all been word of mouth, but that’s my understanding.

@42,

Don’t you fucking patronize me. I know exactly what you were talking about.

Barra, Allen (2006). Bear Bryant’s Biggest Score. American Legacy Magazine. p. 58.

Look it up. Youll see that "Bryant attempted to integrate the Texas A&M squad. ’We’ll be the last football team in the Southwest Conference to integrate,’ he was told by a Texas A&M official. ‘Well,’ Bryant replied, ‘then that’s where we’re going to finish in football.’ "

Point remains. Bryant also tried to integrate Kentucky when he coached there. Like I said, he didn’t fucking need USC to prove a point to him.

Well, Houston Nutt better hope the crowd boos the shit out of this ridiculousness. And out-protesting it. And people getting arrested for attacking some of these tools. To quote uber-preachy Aaron Sorkin’s “The American President”:

America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, ‘cause it’s gonna put up a fight. It’s gonna say "You want free speech? Let’s see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who’s standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country can’t just be a flag; the symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the “land of the free”.

As a white man born in the South (note the capital S there. Fuck you, Texas), I am deeply disturbed by Ole Miss’ desire to remove my culture from their traditions. Mine is a culture of such luminaries as Newt Gingrich, Sonny Perdue, and George Wallace. A culture with a long history of not counting beyond my god-given digits (yet more proof women ain’t as smart as men: can’t count as high). A storied tradition of spinnin’ racist yarns about “the colored feller in town”.

Why cain’t we all just get along?

This is going to be a complete disaster… Here’s hoping haley doesn’t call in the national guard

FREE CARL LEE

@13:

I think they covered their bases with “person,” since non-whites and non-Christians would be considered chattel, maybe women too, but I may be wrong. It would be nice to get a commenter on here from the KKK to explain the depth and breadth of their bigotry. I would not be above hiring said commenter for a spot on Ole Miss’s weekly post-game TV show… and on Bama’s… and, well, every SEC team’s show other than Florida. Transparency and openness and all that jazz… I’m sure it would be great for recruiting.

I honestly did not know there were people who would publicly admit to being affiliated with the KKK.

Our own little corner of the third world, indeed.

“We like our coffee hot, our homosexuals FLAMING”

Simpsons did it…

The thing that irks me the most about these bastards showing up is that everyone – even student newspapers at other schools – reports all about these bastards threatening to show up. They never actually have, mind you, but the last time a related bastard – Richard Barrett, leader of the “Nationalist” movement – showed up, there was a full-scale protest. Everyone reads “KKK” and “Ole Miss” and assumes they have a damn tent every week. HEY JOURNALISTS, NO ONE INTENDS TO SHOW THESE BASTARDS ANY HOSPITALITY. And note, please, that these bastards are showing up BECAUSE OLE MISS IS DOING THINGS THAT PISS THEM OFF! We get to wallow in these “Mississippi is racist and backward” slings and arrows because we’re trying to do something progressive.

You all do know that the unofficial motto of West F’in Virginia is “Thank God for Mississippi!”, right?

@45

So, UNLV wearing gray costumes is a reminder of Confederate military culture, but a nickname implying a slaveowner’s wife needs to be looked at in context.

Say, what’s the context of the Klan rally, or the comments of your esteemed peer Msgr. Hudec? And the students who chant “The South Will Rise Again”, is there an additional context through which to view that? One other thing, since I’m not native Missuhsippan, when you folks use the “n-word”, is that the racist version, or is there a Mississippi context which makes it perfectly acceptable?

I agree. This does not look good for the student who want to chant “TSWRA.” I mean literally, ther KKK has the Ole Miss student section’s back on this.

Yeah, I was pissed when LSU banned Tiger Rag because we chanted asshole to the other team and I was pissed when they stopped playing the owweeow song because we added you suck. But thank God that the KKK didn’t see it as a rallying cry to come and protest.

@17: That’s because they are some of the “good ones”.

In other news, for 145th consecutive year, South Fails to Rise Again. Sadly, The Onion (source for this headline), is blocked by my work computer. Must be those damned libruls.

@58

You’re trying to do something progressive? Really? Not defiantly claiming that the Confederacy will rise again is progressive now? Hey, my girlfriend argued with me this morning, and I didn’t punch her! Look at me, I’m a progressive everybody!

Any Notre Dame recruits reading this thread should disregard okiedomer @44. There are lots of fun carnal activities to partake in at Notre Dame with a wide selection of gorgeous females. Also the weather is beautiful 365 days a year in the Greater Michiana Area.

/shameless lies

- “Hi, you’ve reached Jimmy Sexton, I can’t answer the phone right now but please leave me a message”

- Jimmah, its Houston, get me the same-hell blotarkus slackflick shizzicorn outta here."

@Hurtty

I was not suggesting that UNLV is some sort of racist institution. Their name and imagery is, however, a very deliberate reference to the Confederacy. I am not trying to accost UNLV for anything, nor am I attempting to imply anything. I am simply demonstrating a very obvious double-standard.

And don’t be a motherfucker. I don’t use the n-word, I don’t chant TSWRA, I don’t wave the confederate flag, etc. The people who do, whether your ignorance will have you believe it or not, are in the minority, even in Mississippi.

And, as Ivory Tower pointed out, the Klan isn’t showing up because we invited them. They’re showing up because we’re doing shit which pisses them off, i.e. BEING PROGRESSIVE.

@63:

Pretty sure the commenter meant that Ole Miss, as a university, was trying to stop “the south will rise again” from being chanted at games, which is what the protest is over. Not saying I agree, but I think the point was that OM is damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Let the students chant it? What a bunch of hicks! Try to stop the students from chanting it? Look, the KKK is going to protest at Ole Miss!

Also, I’ve very much enjoyed the stereotypes of people from the South being thrown out by some of the commenters. Don’t forget to go fuck yourselves.

And that goes for the KKK as well.

Well, I was wondering if my first trip to Oxford would be a memorable one. I guess if these stem cell rejects show up it will be. Being NOLA borned and raised with a family tree that’s more of a shrub, I know my way around racism, blatant and otherwise. Wonder how many of my LSU brethren are up for a mighty Klan ass-whuppin’? I’m a drinker, not a fighter, but I’ve been around enough family reunions to know how to break up a fight. Although…I got a $20 that says these chicken-shits don’t show up.

hey, Ghost of Jay Cutler…

Dude, you’re working really hard to defend the indefensible. Changing the meaning of the word “Ole Miss” to suit you is no different than advocating continued shouting of “The South Will Rise Again.” Hell, you probably drive an old pickup truck with a confederate flag bumper sticker proclaiming “Heritage, Not Hatred”. Like someone else said, it’s not about what YOU think. It’s about what EVERYONE ELSE thinks about you. This isn’t what Mississippi State or Arkansas is doing to your university. This is what your dumbass university and dumbass fans are doing to themselves.

Your school will always struggle to compete in the SEC because stuff like this hurts your recruiting. And you continue to allow it to happen anyway. You should’ve listened to Tuberville way back when and changed your name to the Mississippi Flood. Yeah, that would’ve made you a laughing stock, but not as much of one as you are now.

@Hurtty… again.

God fucking damnit you’re the most illogical, antagonistic cunt on here (aside from perhaps yours truly).

“You’re trying to do something progressive? Really? Not defiantly claiming that the Confederacy will rise again is progressive now?”

You are equating a portion of the student body doing something retarded with some sort of official university action. The University of Mississippi DOES NOT CONDONE THE CHANT NOR DID IT EVER. It was not started by the univeristy. It was never sponsored by the university.

Just because a few of our students are fucking idiots doesn’t mean you can accost the university administration or institution, ESPECIALLY when active, progressive measures are being taken to curb such idiocy.

@Hurtty

That’s cute (in an antagonistic/obsessive kind of way), but you’re not that dense.

@69

You’re a prejudiced asshole. Try this on for size: I don’t own a car. I take a bus. Holla.

I still agree with the comment on the original posting a while back that “The South Will Rise Again” doesn’t necessarily refer to the OLD South rising, so much as a rebirth of the New South as we know it today.

Maybe if Ole Miss didn’t have to be so hyper-sensitive to this kind of stuff then the Klan wouldn’t have to show up all angry because the administration has to appease the media that immediately thinks OLE MISS, SOUTH, BIGOTS!

If you change “progressive” to “less regressive”, I think people will take less offense (rather, amusement) at your statements.

I wonder what Jason Whitlock thinks of all of this.

Holla??? Who are you, Stuart Fucking Scott? If so, that certainly explains the douchebaggery.

Says the poster with the handle “fresh”.

@69 again,

Also, minority students at Ole Miss tell people they’re students at Ole Miss. They don’t say “The University of Mississippi.” They say “Ole Miss.” They don’t, however, shout TSWRA. Comparing the two is pretty asinine.

Furthermore, if Barack Obama doesn’t have a problem with owning and using something with the script Ole Miss logo on it, then the whole “the term Ole Miss is offensive” argument is more or less bunk: http://www.time.com/time/politics/whitehouse/photos/0,27424,1882378,00.html

Like I said, “Ole Miss” is only offensive in an archaic context. Pull your head out of your asshole.

To all those douches who wish to extrapolate this incredibly horrible event to something to further a completely non-related political topic, you sirs/madams are douche bags. And you douches know who you are. Stop inserting your political beliefs, douches. Nobody cares about your douche-y political slant.

Haterz from the West!

I have to say…as a born and bred “Southerner” who could rightfully join the DAR (and undoubtedly the UDC)…I never knew that was a possible meaning of “Ole Miss”. It makes sense to me, but I’ve never heard that in relation to the university…guess we Florida Crackers are sheltered or sumthin.

As a black man who lives in Philadelphia, you’re all a bunch of crackers to me. Some of you are ignorant hillbillies, some are insufferable guidos and some inbred peckerwoods, but, at the end of the day, take solace in knowing that I truly hate you all equally.

But Harris…don’t you love us white women?

What we really need to do is find a couple of suit-wearing, sunglass-sporting, blues-singing, possibly coked out gents who would be willing to drive a souped-up police cruiser through the crowd of racists.

Harris:

Pumps fist!

@ zzgator: You got me there. Damn.

But, in my defense, part of that is my own little “Fuck you” to The Man.

throws hands up

You know what? Fuck this shit. Hey Haley, I have an idea to save the state budget…merge State, Ole Miss and Southern and we can ALL be mother fucking Bulldogs! THERE. “Inoffensive” enough for y’all? Or do we need to dig up Whiskey Smith’s corpse to come with his torches and finish the job of burning down Oxford …will THAT be good enough? Jesus H. mother-truckin’ Christ just when I think I’m OVER this shit more gets piled on. Why couldn’t I have been born to a nice Southern Cal hippie couple?

Poor Elma Meek…bet she wishes she’d never entered that yearbook-naming contest now.

Harris…fair enough.

But not you, Orson. You a down-ass white boy. When the revolution comes, amma put in a good word for you.

zzgator: Don’t get me wrong; I take Chris Rainey’s position on white girls. Like the Biz once said, “White bitches/How come you look so good? White bitches/Do shit no sista would.”

I’ve missed EDSBS Live all season. Seeing the Harris quote above reminds me of just how wrong I’ve been.

If you take the “strange sex act” meaning of sodomy, and assume liberal means “freely given,” then I really don’t know what the KKKs beef with all this is. In fact, who’s the homo now, Cletus?

Well there ya go…if the white bitches and the black dudes could keep it together we could RULE THE WORLD!

And thanks to pilates and hormones in the milk, white women have big round asses now, so there’s almost no reason for us to be apart!

Patronizing Dept:

@ No. 50 – Jay Cutler’s ghost: Do not patronize you? I think that is one of the funnest things to do on these blogs and the purpose of the commentary section -> To patronize and antagonize each other. No? (Unless you are a female, and in that case, I do not feel comfortable zinging a lady, by the way.)

SKLM…we delicate female commenters appreciate your chivalry…bless your little heart, you patronizing prick.

Thanks Harris!

As an Hispanic male I am enjoying seeing this get thrown around between the gabachos y negros.

Pilates and hormones in the milk…the pathway to racial harmony. Who knew?

…liberal sodomite college…so the KKK is now anti-leftist-anal penetration-higher learning? Combine that concept with the narrow view the membership is known to hold and it is surprising that anything these assholes say is considered to be worthy of comment…I mean, really

Remington Products Dept

@93 – zz Gator, Hi baby! You are a wonderful lady and my apologies to you. (Quote stolen from Victor Kiam, previous owner of the NE Patriots, after he inulted a lady reporter.)

Even though I hate politics, but I just go back from the cnn website and I must decree that if Sarah Palin and the big nosed lesbian from MSNBC every made a porno together, I would so watch that.

..insulted, (can’t write!)

SKLM…apology accepted…and I’ll take a free razor, please…the hormones in the milk make me hairy.

@94: Just to clarify, I think of myself as a cracker ass cracker.

@ Mr.RedDevil: Least I could do. Cracker.

@ zzgator: Well, it’s the pathway to racial harmony for me and you, and maybe Orson considering his well-documented love of the bunda. I can’t speak for the rest of these White Devil Honkies around here.

@ Harris. I’m pretty suprised I’m not the only person in Philadelphia reading this .

I think Harris and I are entitled to a Nobel Peace Prize now…and Orson as well for providing the forum for reconciliation.

@103: White Devil Honkies is the best fantasy football team name ever.

Bunda Dept:

Orson may love bunda, but he has avoided showing some nice shiny ones on this site for quite a while now.

By the way, my favorite Chris Rock joke ever is about his uncle that is married to a white woman.

“These crackers ain’t shit, except for Susie. Yeah, I love her and she loves me. But when the revolution comes, I’ll kill her FIRST. Just to show these crackers I mean business.”

@ DanF: I didn’t grow up in Philly, which is why I know the first thing about college football.

@ zzgator: We shall overcome. And right now, we need to overcome these panties you’re wearing, so if you’ll just step over here . . .

And for that we are eternally grateful, Orson.

Alright so I got carried away there. I still mean a lot of the things I said, and I still stand by a lot of them, but I’ll take some of the vitriol away next time.

I need some CWAB like no other right now.

Also, Orson, might I add that saying the Klan plans on showing up “to the game” is irresponsibly misleading, if not downright false. They won’t be in the stadium and I doubt they’ll be in the Grove. Actually, I doubt they’ll be there in the first damn place but, if they are, they’ll likely be relatively out of sight.

“I was not suggesting that UNLV is some sort of racist institution. Their name and imagery is, however, a very deliberate reference to the Confederacy.”

i really can’t get over how funny this is to me

when do you think they’ll start filming on “nevada burning?”

Ghost of Jay Cutler, well-spoken.
fresh and hurrty: good lord, think harder.

It interests me that “Rebels” is considered offensive by many more than “Crusaders,” “Redskins,” or “Fighting Irish.”

Can we get an ETA on meatybob’s suggestion (#99) getting Rule 35’d?

Hey okiedomer…

Today it’s Hey Reb but some at UNLV still remember the first official Rebel mascot — Beauregard.

Dressed in a gray military field jacket and Confederate cap, Beau is a fanged, winking, black and white cartoon wolf. He came to be because the new school in Southern Nevada wanted to make a little jab at the Wolf Pack mascot of Nevada, Reno.

“UNLV was rebelling against the status quo and the two schools’ mascots seemed to mimic the Civil War,” said former UNLV president Don Baepler, who is currently director of the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History on campus. “Reno had a northern looking wolf so we wanted a Confederate wolf.”

The logo lasted until the early 1970s when a group of black athletes came to Baepler, who was academic vice president at the time, and voiced its displeasure with having a mascot that had a connection with the wrong side of the Civil War.

http://www.collegefootballhistory.com/unlv_rebels/history.htm

okiedomer, your argument is a complete non sequitor. Can Confederate imagery only exist in the former Confederacy? Is that what you’re trying to suggest?

Wow- this was a pretty good “Battle Royale” you all had going on while I went and fucking did work.
I give the contest to Harris on points. The only thing missing was him riding into the thread on a horse.

/A Laurel and Hardy handshake extended

@ GamecockTony: If I had a horse, it would be white and I’d name it The Man. That way, The Man would know what’s like to have somebody riding his ass all the damned time.

Literally LOL’ed at that Harris.

I’ll second that LOL. Well done. You’re pretty cool for a Philadelphia brotha.

/ducks

Harris, if you were real legit, your name wouldn’t be Harris. Harris makes Kevin sound like Malcom X.

I think Harris has been exceptionally eloquent in his comments throughout this thread.

“Harris” is just my government name. I can’t use my real name on the white man’s intrawebs lest the FBI track my usage. The brothas in the struggle know who I am.

SKLM;

You are both wrong, and right.
Bryant had already recruited Wilbur Jackson, a black player. He was a freshman in 1970 and was on the sidelines to see the game you refer to. Freshmen were not allowed to play back then.
But
Watching Cunnigham and the rest of the black backfield of USC destroy ’Bama convinced (or at least silenced) those who were in opposition to integrating the team.

I had something humorous to add, but completely forgot it after reading the above posts.

…excellent stuff Harris, ZZ, Tony, Kevin

Orson,
Gotta agree with @111 on this one, can’t believe you posted unsubstantiated information on this of all sports blogs. Your journalistic reputation: heretofore sullied.

Dear God, why couldn’t Gameday be in Oxford this weekend?

How many State fans will be there to give free tickets to the guys in white?

I agree a Nobel is in the cards for Harris and ZZ. They are at least as much or more deserving than the last winner. At the least they have a solid history as commenters.

Now that Mississippi is considered a “progressive” state by banning their mascot and a band song per Ole Miss fans, maybe they can go to work on a few other things…

…Mississippi is ranked 50th out of 50 states in…

• Lowest IQ Expectancy (85)
• Health Care Services
• 2008 Per Capita Income
• Child Healthcare
• Math
• Most Livable State
• Best States For Business
• Fortune 500 Companies (MS has none)

Get to work, Colonel.

The Ole Miss band should be allowed to play anything they want, as long as it is not that animalistic nigra rock n roll bop, which leads to sodomatic miscegenation and wasteful expungement of bodily essences.

      — WIley J. Penprick, Chairman, North Alabama White Citizen’s Council, 1956

 Where all the Tri Delts at?

     — Dexter McCluster, 2009

Stacy Kiebler Luvs Me @ 93 says:

“Unless you are a female, and in that case, I do not feel comfortable zinging a lady, by the way”

“Unless you are a female, and in that case, I do not feel comfortable zinging a person I believe, possibly
wrongly, is a lady, by the way, and have no problems zinging a person I believe, possibly wrongly, is a man”.

Let’s keep the mystery, eh? Not all of us want to be outed of our gender closets. I thought this whole
dadgum Internet thingy was supposed to be anonymous so you don’t find out I’m actually a 4-inch,
super-mutated, hyper-intelligent hamster living in the sewers and getting peewee humans to do
my bidding via telepathy.

harris @ 104 said"

“I can’t speak for the rest of these White Devil Honkies around here.”

Hey now. Only one of those terms applies to this hamster. I’ll give you 3 guesses which one. So don’t be all so tarring-with-the-same-brush now, fella…them’s fighting words, big old fightyfight man from Philadelphia…

Completely off-topic, but I’m sitting on my couch watching TV, just back from work, and Tim Linecum is on TV
getting the Cy Young thing and his hair (not under a cap for a change) is gorgeous!!! Swooooon!!!

This is a reaction to Orson noticing the pervasiveness of bad haircuts in Athens and sharing that with us in his trip report. Don’t ask me how that’s connected. It. Just. Is.

The only way this whole thing could be more bizarre than it already is would be to have College Game Day at the Grove this weekend. Can you imagine the signs? And fans getting into fights? And Lee having another stroke? And Desmond’s reaction?

I guess if we invoke God’s name at football events, it was only a matter of time before COTG got even with us by giving us THIS.

If the KKK should be protesting anything, it’s Jevan Sneed’s weak-ass Bama bangs. How is the South supposed to rise again with THAT as inspiration?

Gameday will never come to the Grove, and isn’t it obvious WHY? Corso’s got nothing to put on his head if he wants to pick Ole Miss to win! What’s he gonna do…borrow “Hotty Toddy Man’s” top hat? Great googly-moogly…

‘Course they could solve that by simply coming on a day we’re guaranteed to get our asses kicked.

Everyone relax. In a couple of years, all racism will end.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/19/oprah.ends.show/index.html

Once “Back, Back, Back/WHOOP” leaves ESPN, antisemitism will have run its course as well.

#43

I really hope you purposely referenced Paul Revere and the Raiders, and that I didn’t just pull “Kicks just keep gettin’ harder to find” out of my old ass.

So,

A lively discourse peters out as soon as a real black person posits his thoughts on the subject?

Harris’s post are always entertaining and cogent. But, please, can some of you remove his junk from your mouths?

This can all be summed up with the words of the immortal Richard Pryor:

“DEAD honky.”

NRBQ @ 140 said:

“A lively discourse peters out as soon as a real black person posits his thoughts on the subject?

Harris’s post are always entertaining and cogent. But, please, can some of you remove his junk from
your mouths?"

Too easy. I’m sorry, I can’t help myself….

Heh. Hehhehehheeeheee. Cough. OK, everyone, on the count of 3: “GET YER PETERS OUT!!”

I would think the Klan would protest Ole Miss starting a black QB named “Jevan Snead”.

I didn’t read all of the predictable back-and-forth in this thread, but I absolutely must tip my hat to #131….

… now that’s progressive!!