So, amidst all the trash talk How do you feel about "Sweet Caroline?"

[Rasputin]

I'm sure I am the minority. I HATE IT. I don't remember it being played in BDS or Legion Field when I was in school (87-92), but that may have been due to the Bourbon and Coke. It is a song that I never liked and now that I know who it was written about and how old she was, I hate it even more. Crank the Sweet Home Alabama!!

Did you ever try the Dickel (White Label) and Milo's Tea yet?

 

[Dallas4Bama]

Really?

Yes, really. If I knew how to post pictures I could post multiple Lynyrd Skynyrd album covers with rebel flags on them. It's just funny to see someone say "Dixie land delight" is kind of redneck, but "Sweet Home Alabama" is not.

 

[DiamondDust]

Yes, really. If I knew how to post pictures I could post multiple Lynyrd Skynyrd album covers with rebel flags on them. It's just funny to see someone say "Dixie land delight" is kind of redneck, but "Sweet Home Alabama" is not.

 

[bama70]

We had the discussion last year on Sept. 23 about "Sweet Caroline". I guess we got around to discussing the music this year a couple of days earlier.

Isn't it great when we have to find fault with our music selections and not our coaches, offense, or defense like our "friends" in West Georgia?

 

[JAXFLBAMAFAN]

We had the discussion last year on Sept. 23 about "Sweet Caroline". I guess we got around to discussing the music this year a couple of days earlier.

Isn't it great when we have to find fault with our music selections and not our coaches, offense, or defense like our "friends" in West Georgia?

Yes I agree. It seems since the program got past textbook gate and all the others preceding it; we have been in the no news has been good news mode.

The board gets kind of quiet and somewhat boring unless you spend some time on the recruiting or non sports board. I don't go to the games, wish I could, but if I did I think I would prefer Huey Lewis and the News and anything by ZZ Top instead of Neil Diamons stuff. Might as well be playing Barry Manilows songs. ; )

 

[Dallas4Bama]

I don't see anything really controversial about my statements. My point is both songs could be viewed as pretty redneck. One is by a country group and the other the kings of southern rock. Both are as likely to be blairing out the windows of a jacked up 4wd truck with a rebel flag painted across the hood and a pair of those bull nuts hanging from the hitch.

 

[Bamafan P.T.]

Cheeeeezzzzy. Can it!

 

[Snuffy Smith]

I don't care for it but both my kids say the students love.


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[cuda.1973]

No idea why it is appropriate/necessary at any sporting event. I hear it at hockey games.............

At last week's HS football game.................give it a rest, everywhere.

Out of an almost unlimited selection of popular songs, why that one? And who wrote in stone it has to be played ate every game? ARGH!

 

[ChesapeakeTide]

When did this start? I don't remember it at LSU last year. I was at PSU, and thought it was a perfect soft song for a soft team.

It was the only time it wasn't played last year.

 

[TiderMan]

I like it and enjoy when they play it. Most everyone around my seats are singing along. Things change and new traditions are born every year. When I started going to games in the early to mid 80's, Bryant Denny Stadium sat 60,000, it had artifical turf, the atmosphere was like a funeral home at times, the majority of the fans did not wear crimson colored or Bama shirts, and the only houndstooth was on Coach Bryant's hat. We now sit in a 100,000 seat plus stadium, with natural grass, a loud and entertaining atmosphere with video highlights, loud music, elephant noises, & advertsing ribbon boards, and everyone is decked out in their crimson and houndstooth. Sit back and enjoy the changes and start having some fun, afterall the product on the field is the best in the nation.

 

[Pluck 'n Gritty]

I don't care for it but both my kids say the students love.

I HATE it. It makes no sense to me that they play it, and usually by the time they do play it, a huge chunk of the students have left.

Dont know if it is true or not, but someone told me that the female Big Al is named Caroline and that is why it is played. I also think it is really silly that we even have a female Big Al!

 

[RammerJammer15]

May I request they play some "Calling in the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins, "Standup and Get Crunk" by the Ying Yang Twins? Really though, I love hearing Sweet Home Alabama at BDS.

 

[WCS Dad]

Don't like it. Doesn't 'fit' to me.

 

[CrimSonami]

Replace it with Dire Straits "THE MAN'S TOO STRONG". One of my fave CD's. (BROTHERS IN ARMS)

RTR!!!

 

[derek4tide]

Tired and overplayed... something that should stay a "Red Sox" thing.

^^ This....and I 'm a Yankees fan. It's pure Boston and doesn't belong at BDS.

 

[gmart74]

they need to play gangnam style and get everyone doing the pony dance

 

[MDBSnare]

Horrible song to begin with. To play it at BDS is almost sacrilegious...just "Turble".

 

[Neos]

They should play this instead. The song always gets me pumped.

 

[MDBSnare]

Yes!

They should play this instead. The song always gets me pumped.