“Dixieland Delight” Has Been Set Free

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I heard it a few times but had no idea what the insertions were (can I use that word hey hey?). I got “enlightened” by the young lady seated four seats down at the 2014 Florida game. She was the stereotype cupcake (I’m not saying what she was or wasn’t, I said stereotype). Think Petrino’s motorcycle babe, who looked the stereotype I’m talking about.

I’m ex-military and my Dad is a retired E-9 Vietnam vet so it’s almost impossible to shock me profanity wise. I kind of chuckled at it, but it strikes me as a tad bit contrary to all that emphasis a vocal segment of our fan base places on “class” (whatever that vacancy is supposed to mean).


I took my 18-year old who isn’t into football, and he saw something more problematic than “Dixieland Delight” - a fight between a white guy & black guy in the stands about ten rows behind us. I’m not sure what happened exactly but those two wound up hugging. The cops escorted the white guy out and let the black guy stay....and then he made a threatening move towards the cop, and he got some iron bracelets and an escort as well (note: not to get into a thing but all the cops were black - since some will no doubt wonder).

Him seeing that bothers me more than DD and a word he’s no doubt heard on movies, particularly as he likes “Full Metal Jacket.”

We were at a Red Sox-A’s game in Oakland televised on ESPN when he was five. Controversial call and about 50 water bottles came flying out of my section onto the field. Folks on the level below us were getting hit by folks with poor aim. Most of the fans in our section were pointing out the perps to security. I was far more terrified there than about a word in DD.

Maybe it’s me, but I’m one of those who thinks making things a bigger issue causes the old “forbidden fruit” mentality.

“I don’t care about 2 Live Crew’s music.”

“The State of Florida has banned performance of song X.”

“Wow, I’ve gotta see this!”

(Yeah, showing my age I know).
 

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Comparing BDS to Bourbon Street is laughable. I haven’t been on Bourbon Street in over 30 years but I recall street walkers, topless bars, women and people walking around with alcohol. I agree there are things that cannot be controlled outside the home but I would prefer my alma mater not to play DD if it is going to be used as an excuse to shout profanity. We can’t even use that kind of language on this forum presumably in an effort to keep it family friendly.

People are going to drink at the game but they have to be subtle about it. There’s nothing subtle about shouting profanity on national TV. I’ve seen people escorted out of the Sugar Bowl for shouting profanity.
 

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For the record, I don't get the "enthusiasm" for this song. I've heard the adaptation of this sung by the students as I sat in the student section during a LSU game a few years ago.

I haven't read any of this thread recently so I don't know what's being said, but I think the added words are embarressing.

I predict the students will sing it the old way and it'll be banned again. I hope I'm wrong but once again I don't get the enthusiam for this song at a Bama game talking about a Tennessee Saturday night.
 

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For the record, I don't get the "enthusiasm" for this song. I've heard the adaptation of this sung by the students as I sat in the student section during a LSU game a few years ago.

I haven't read any of this thread recently so I don't know what's being said, but I think the added words are embarressing.

I predict the students will sing it the old way and it'll be banned again. I hope I'm wrong but once again I don't get the enthusiam for this song at a Bama game talking about a Tennessee Saturday night.
And you’re probsbky right.

Btw everyone - in the horse and buggy days of 1987, my church youth group wound up walking down a section of Bourbon Street on our tour.
I can’t imagine what logic went into this.
 

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Comparing BDS to Bourbon Street is laughable. I haven’t been on Bourbon Street in over 30 years but I recall street walkers, topless bars, women and people walking around with alcohol. I agree there are things that cannot be controlled outside the home but I would prefer my alma mater not to play DD if it is going to be used as an excuse to shout profanity. We can’t even use that kind of language on this forum presumably in an effort to keep it family friendly.

People are going to drink at the game but they have to be subtle about it. There’s nothing subtle about shouting profanity on national TV. I’ve seen people escorted out of the Sugar Bowl for shouting profanity.
I’ve seen plenty of nearly naked people , alcohol carriers, and things that would make a preacher have a heart attack in Tuscaloosa on game days. The comparison wasn’t meant to be a direct comparison because anybody knows more is legal on Bourbon Street than in Tuscaloosa. The comparison is meant to show there is a lot of vices, obscenities, and bad language that are out in the open at both, and it’s not going to change because of just of one thing. It is your choice to subject your family to those things
 

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What I don’t get is why bring it back for this game? If you’re going down go down in glory and bring it back for Auburn and as Kramer would say, let the expletives fly.
 

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What I don’t get is why bring it back for this game? If you’re going down go down in glory and bring it back for Auburn and as Kramer would say, let the expletives fly.
Well, we know what WOULD happen if they did this during the Auburn game. I am guessing that the hope is that this might not happen in a game against a team that Alabama has dominated and has barely played - no animosity here to spark craziness.
 

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I’ve seen plenty of nearly naked people , alcohol carriers, and things that would make a preacher have a heart attack in Tuscaloosa on game days. The comparison wasn’t meant to be a direct comparison because anybody knows more is legal on Bourbon Street than in Tuscaloosa. The comparison is meant to show there is a lot of vices, obscenities, and bad language that are out in the open at both, and it’s not going to change because of just of one thing. It is your choice to subject your family to those things
I want to be able to take my 11 year old or grandmother (she’s long passed) to the game without hearing the expletives shouted by the student section. We just disagree here and it is what it is. IMO it’s embarrassing to me as an alumnus that our student section does this. I can’t help that or reason it away, it’s the way I was raised.
 

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I want to be able to take my 11 year old or grandmother (she’s long passed) to the game without hearing the expletives shouted by the student section. We just disagree here and it is what it is. IMO it’s embarrassing to me as an alumnus that our student section does this. I can’t help that or reason it away, it’s the way I was raised.
Where exactly are we disagreeing in terms of DD?
 

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What I don’t get is why bring it back for this game? If you’re going down go down in glory and bring it back for Auburn and as Kramer would say, let the expletives fly.
As someone above mentioned, I also suspect this is an effort to appease Saban, who wants the crowd to be raucous at home games no matter who the foe is.
 

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I want to be able to take my 11 year old or grandmother (she’s long passed) to the game without hearing the expletives shouted by the student section.
I think many / most here agree with you, but it's simply not the way society is anymore. As I've said, I've heard coarser and more language from angry fans in the stands around me than the mass of students being immature young adults.

But what I want doesn't really mesh with the world we live in now.

So while I think most agree it would be nice if the students don't chant this stuff, there's not really a lot we can do to stop it, other than not playing the song (which frankly, I've been fine with - I don't like the song anyway).
 

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I want to be able to take my 11 year old or grandmother (she’s long passed) to the game without hearing the expletives shouted by the student section.
You want something that never existed. My whole life I have seen drinking and cursing at football games.
 

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You want something that never existed. My whole life I have seen drinking and cursing at football games.
I remember going to legion field and smelling smoke, liquor, and crap all through the game. Those “good ole days” really weren’t much better they actually were in many cases worse.

I think people have their own sets of standards for class and morality, but it seems many can’t understand that their way of thinking isn’t the only way.

Sure I wish the students wouldn’t do it, but there are far worse things going on a game day than a unison Fbomb. I think like CA said many folks just choose to ignore the other things in order to keep the “family” environment.
 

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