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Hotty Toddy

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If you hadn’t heard, #10 Penn State will take on #11 Ole Miss in the Peach Bowl on December 30. Penn State will play in the Peach Bowl for the first time, and this will also be the first game ever between PSU and Mississippi. Accordingly, this Turkey felt it was appropriate to acquaint his six readers with the cultural aspects of the Ole Miss Rebels’ fans.

So, it is time to repost this collection of video vignettes from the tailgate preceding the Ole Miss vs. Texas A&M game played in Oxford, Mississippi ten years ago. A fine representative of the University of Mississippi, who might have imbibed a little too much, especially given her status as a professional in that regard, was the featured interviewee. She delivered an incisive summation of the campus experience at Ole Miss. Play it to the end. You won’t be disappointed!

Ole Miss Miss Doesn’t Miss

Now that you are in the Ole Miss spirit, I’ll give you both versions of their fight chant, which is much more imaginative than WE ARE … PENN STATE!

Are You Ready?

Hell, Yeah! Damn Right!
Hotty Toddy, God Almighty,
Who the Hell Are We? Hey!
Flim Flam, God Damn,
Ole Miss
BY DAMN!

That’s an older more offensive version of the Ole Miss fight chant, long ago sanitized for social acceptability in non-redneck society. The “official”, sanitized version, published in the Ole Miss Orientation Handbook, titled “This is Hotty Toddy.”, is:

Hell Yeah! Damn Right!
Hotty Toddy, Gosh Almighty,
Who the Hell Are We? Hey!
Flim Flam, Bim Bam
Ole Miss
BY DAMN!

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Comments

  1. Big Al says

    Even Ole Miss’ sanitized version is better than the insipid and somewhat arrogant “We Are” chant. And I particularly dislike the fact that the SID had to dredge up 1948 Cotton Bowl story to change the arrogance into virtue signalling.

    However, the old version was probably less “offensive” to modern ears than the line in UVA’s good old song that says “we come from old Virginia where all is bright and gay,” People still add “not gay” after the line despite the administration’s best efforts to stop them from doing it.

    • The Nittany Turkey says

      I had forgotten about co-opting and virtue signaling by the administration regarding the meaning of “We are…Penn State.” I am surprised that they didn’t opportunistically revise history to attach some contrived social engineering significance to the five-toed paw print.

      But what will we do now that Manny Diaz has one foot out the door? I liked what he did with the defense. Assuming that Kotelnicki will give PSU a Big 12 offense, will we be commensurately defenseless, like the Big 12?

      —TNT

  2. K. John says

    Well, since you wrote the post, Diaz is two feet out the door. I have been doing some digging into the new OC’s offense at Kansas and Buffalo. It is my opinion that Allar (and Smolik) should transfer right now. We will be better for it because I think we are about to relive 2014 and 2015 if he doesn’t. Franklin will never bench him and we will be treated to a weekly shit show. I have no confidence our new OC will be able to adapt his gimmick laden scheme to suit the QB we have. The offense is smoke and mirrors, which Franklin obviously prefers. I really think we are now squarely in Michigan 2008 territory when Rich Rodriquez failed, with a remarkably similar offense, for very predictable reasons. We won’t go 3 and 9 because the Big Ten is so darn top heavy but we also don’t have 9 or 10 easy wins like we did this year or last. Regardless of what the defense looks like, I am expecting 7-5 to be the ceiling.

    • The Nittany Turkey says

      Yep, both feet out the door now. I watched his introductory mediafest at Duke, so ol’ Deep Pockets of Durham has made it official.

      I had heard a rumor that Will Levis’ mom called Allar’s mom to say he should transfer. Later, I heard Allar confirming that he would be on the team in 2024.

      Franklin is obsessed with “explosive plays”. The buzzword is all the rage in football these days. I’m sick and tired of listening to wonks spouting off about fucking explosive plays. How about playing some fundamental football for a change. That would REALLY confuse the defense if they’re expecting all this fancy shit.

      —TNT

      • K. John says

        Well, it looks like we have our defensive coordinator. I am 100% onboard with the hire. I think he will be an upgrade over Diaz. the OC? Well, as I said before, this guy reeks of Rich Rodriguez. I am happy with Allen coming in. He is a good coach and pragmatic to boot. Franklin hasn’t hired many of them. Allen is good enough to keep the team afloat if the offense flounders in 24 preventing us from a losing season.