🏈 Dixieland Delight banned?

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Rumors are Battle has banned it (at least temporarily?). Nothing official other than some internal e-mail type stuff that has leaked, but it is offensive to auburn and Lord knows, we can't have that! :sarc:

 

[UAgrad93]

Piss on the Barners and their feelings!!!

 

[TerryP]

If the crowd is going to yell "F--- Auburn" when the song is playing I have no qualms, at all, with it being nixed from the play list. It doesn't offend me but we're talking one person out of hundreds of thousands that may be offended.

 

[Bamabww]

Simply change it to "Beat awbarn etc." I'm sure the student section would never say the "F" word again when that song is played if they were given an option. :sarc:

That's what I told my wife they were saying anyway when we went to homecoming.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Any more word on this?

 

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

Supposedly the Athletic Dept. office has stated that the song has not been banned. Reporters are still trying to get an official statement I think.

 

[Rolltide24]

I preferred my young-ins not here it when we attended a home game, but I was too late trying to cover their ears. I'm in the camp that we shouldn't use that word in such a well participated chant. I don't like it when other fans use it either. Is it any different than the whole crowd waving the bird to the opponent? Not much different in my eyes.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

I think it creates an issue when many were complaining about LSU with the "F Saban" chant earlier this year then still having this around. Me, I don't care other than the consistency. Can't complain about 1 and then try to defend the other.

 

[Bamabww]

AD Bill Battle: Alabama to review use of 'Dixieland Delight'

Tommy Deas
TideSports.com Editor

The playing of the song "Dixieland Delight" over the public address system at University of Alabama football games and other athletic events is "under review" according to a statement released Wednesday by UA Director of Athletics Bill Battle.

The song by the band Alabama is popular with the UA student section, which interjects loud chants between lyrics, including profanities. In last Saturday's game against Auburn, students chanted "F--- Auburn" three times during the song.

"We regularly review all songs played at our athletic events," Battle said in his statement. "As part of that review, 'Dixieland Delight' will be discussed.

"It is always our goal to represent the university with class in every endeavor, and the behavior of our fans is an important element in that effort."

Students normally add their own chants to answer the song's refrain when it plays, usually during a break in home games during the second half.

This is the refrain, along with the normal chants in parenthesis:
"Spend my dollar (on beer)
"Parked in a holler 'neath the mountain moonlight (Roll Tide)
"Hold her up tight (against the wall)
"Make a little lovin' (all night)
"A little turtle dovin'
"On a Mason-Dixon night (F--- Auburn)
"Fits my life (and LSU)
"Oh so right (and Tennessee, too)
"My Dixieland Delight."

When the song was played during last Saturday's game, the references to Tennessee and LSU were replaced by the same jeer directed at Auburn earlier in the song.

Earlier this season, Joe Alleva, LSU's athletics director, issued a public apology after some LSU students chanted "F--- you Saban" at Alabama head coach Nick Saban - who was LSU's head coach from 2000-04 - during Alabama's game in Baton Rouge, La. Alleva also took a harder stand toward the behavior in his statement.

"Unfortunately, a small minority of people chose to diminish the image of our great university by engaging in a profane chant directed toward coach (Nick) Saban," Alleva said in his statement. "We are deeply sorry that such crude behavior occurred in Tiger Stadium, because that is the antithesis of what we represent at LSU.

"If it occurs in the future, we will make every effort to identify those who choose to act in this manner and make sure they know they are no longer welcome in our stadium. Our hope, however, is that this will never happen again."

- See more at: https://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1711716#sthash.pccAORuf.dpuf

 

[psychojoe]

Birmingham local news is reporting that the song has been banned by the 'vp for marketin'.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Birmingham local news is reporting that the song has been banned by the 'vp for marketin'.

Any organization that gives significant power to its VP of Marketing is asking for trouble...

 

[ElephantStomp]

I understand the student section chants, but do people think the students chanting it won't come up with some other clever way to add their F chants?

 

[PhillyGirl]

I understand the student section chants, but do people think the students chanting it won't come up with some other clever way to add their F chants?

My thoughts exactly. If anything, this will just spur them to more creative usage of the term!

 

[BAMANEWSBOT]

CFB AM: Vulgar Alabama fans get Dixieland Delight banned from all games, plus more around college football.

Do you enjoy hearing the song ‘Dixieland Delight’ sung by a packed Bryant-Denny Stadium during Alabama football games?

Well, it appears we’ve heard it for the last time – at least for now.

The singing of ‘Dixieland Delight’ has been a Crimson Tide tradition for years, but Alabama the school has decided to put a stop to the song because Bama fans turn it into a vulgar taunt of the opponent.

An email was recently sent around Alabama’s marketing folks requesting the song be removed from all athletic events until the university’s AD decides otherwise.

The most recent example of Tide fans desecrating the song, and probably what drove athletic director Bill Battle to make this decision, was at last weekend’s Iron Bowl.

Throughout the song, Alabama fans match the melody with a well-time “f--- Auburn” chant. A couple times, that line morphs into, “F--- Auburn … and LSU … and Tennessee, too.”

Here’s video of fans singing the song and chanting the f-bombs (probably not suited for some workplaces):

I find this all pretty entertaining. It’s certainly understandable why Alabama wouldn’t want this continue, but will this stop Tide fans from chanting vulgar things at opponents? Of course not.

Continue reading...

 

[rick4bama]

It a sad day when some people take it to far.

 

[RollllTide!]

Why is this song being banned from Bryant Denny stadium. won't the fans just sing it on their own like the Jammer song?

 

[sean]

http://www.rolltidebama.com/forum/index.php?threads/dixieland-delight-banned.301790/

 

[RollllTide!]

There is a true story about the F word. A School Teacher taught me the history of the word when I got caught saying it within ear shot. It was not intended to be a profanity. In early America when the Pilgrims caught someone being unfaithful they were put on public display for their crime. The crime they committed was too long to spell on the stockade, so they just made a sign with the first letter of each word. For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge. This is my true story and I am sticking to it.

 

[rick4bama]

@RollllTide! here another meaning, your meaning was right below the one I posted here.

In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from.

 

[RollllTide!]

@RollllTide! here another meaning, your meaning was right below the one I posted here.

That ain't right LOL