Appears Bill Battle Does Not Want Anymore "Dixieland Delight"

RTR91

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The Tuscaloosa media are discussing it on Twitter. This is a screenshot of an e-mail sent from the athletic department.

 

Bamafan P.T.

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I'm glad.
Fun song at games until the extra lyrics got out of hand.
No place for that at a college football game


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rgw

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It totally got out of hand with the "magic word" being said after every phrase of the verse. The little piece at the end about "LSU, Auburn, and Tennessee too" was not high class but it wasn't echoing around the stadium for minutes either.
 

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I'm glad.
Fun song at games until the extra lyrics got out of hand.
No place for that at a college football game


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Not disagreeing with you, but the best way to get a bunch of college kids to do something is to tell them they can't do it.
 

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Good. Terrible song, and about Tennessee too. No idea why we started playing that in the first place.
 

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there has always been a "lack of class" at bds (wrt vulgarity, crassness, etc. at least as long as i have been going), it just wasn't as widely coordinated.
This ^^^ I've seen some bad things go on at BDS along those lines , and its not just the student section. I think removing the song is a temporary fix to coordinated chants , but they will find something else to do.
 

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Hard to fault Battle for the decision after Saturday night's rendition.

Coach Bryant always said "show your class." Unfortunately not everyone knows how and/or when to do so - I'll stop short of saying not everyone has some, at least enough to know better.
 

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The thing is, I remember when Dixieland Delight wasn't so charged with distaste in BDS. These magic words were added since I was an undergrad in the MDB.
 

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Who thinks the college kids will not pick a new song for next fall and add some new words. Or start singing the song on their own. It could be interesting if they pick a song that "cant" be just removed. I look to see it done with Sweet Home Alabama. Moves and countermoves.

Imo the only way to stop with Dixieland Delight was to stop playing it. College kids will not stop singing the extra words just because you asked.
 

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I understand everyone's sentiment and I knew it was going to be over the top during the Iron Bowl once Scarbinsky wrote an article about it. It is human nature (especially with teenagers and young adults) when chastised or told not to do something to prove that you can even when it's something that you really don't care about. Using the f word was crass and I wish they had used another word there like "beat" because the other ad libs were fun.

This is a different time that we are living in. The line on what is acceptable or offensive is getting blurred more and more every day.
 

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I understand everyone's sentiment and I knew it was going to be over the top during the Iron Bowl once Scarbinsky wrote an article about it. It is human nature (especially with teenagers and youn adults) when chastised or told not to do something to prove that you can even when it's something that you really don't care about. Using the f word was crass and Inwish they had used another word there because the other ad libs were fun.

This is a different time that we are living in. The line on what is acceptable or offensive is getting blurred more and more every day.
i was hearing and seeing stuff just as bad going to bama games as a kid in the late 70s

that being said, i believe that battle did the right thing by axing the song
 

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I understand everyone's sentiment and I knew it was going to be over the top during the Iron Bowl once Scarbinsky wrote an article about it. It is human nature (especially with teenagers and young adults) when chastised or told not to do something to prove that you can even when it's something that you really don't care about. Using the f word was crass and I wish they had used another word there like "beat" because the other ad libs were fun.
I agree with this. I always look forward to it at the start of the 4th quarter because of the other additions besides the auburn related one. It gets the student section gets rowdy at an important part of the game. But I can also completely understand how mad I would be if I had children with me at the game.

The wife and I were near the student section Saturday and it was pretty obvious what was being said.
 

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