[quote="KlutzDio I"]I left halftime of the MPSA championship game and headed straight up I-55 among the throngs of LSU supporters who were driving like freaking maniacs! Not a cop on the road, I guess they were all in Oxford. I got behind a couple of LSU vehicles around Canton who were going about 95 mph. I followed them to Grenada where they left the highway. I made better time in any trip I've made from Jackson to Oxford!
Anyway, I arrived on the Square at 10:30 or so and man, was the scene great. Cops were taking dudes to jail, fights were breaking out in the streets, and all of the bars were chopped filled with fans screaming chants, taunts and insults at one another. It was great, you could be rude and crude to your fellow countryman and get away with it.
Longshot's was filled to the gills and some poor LSU fan got exited through a window, head-first to an obliging Ole Miss fan. Both went to jail...er..uh. the LSU fan certainly went to the hospital. That ought to show him for showing his arse in our m-f town, yeah!
I sat at Jubilee and after standing near the bar for 15 minutes I grabbed an empty chair. About 11:30 the bar filled to the gills and the fans were chanting 'go to hell Tigers' while the bartenders laughed and looked on with disbelief. One pretty little thing squeezed in next to me and asked if I'd order her a drink because she couldn't gain the attention of the bartenders. I asked if she was from the brood of outside agitators and she said yes. I told her to get the hell outta our town. She said that she couldn't believe that I didn't want to hang out with her and I said, "hey baby, it don't matter, I'll hit Tiger p_ssy." She didn't like that blunt comment, but hey, she was hot!
At 1 a.m. or really about 1:30, fans lined the streets with Ole Miss fans on one side and Tiger fans on the other. Cops parked squad cars in between the 1500 or so fans on either side of the street. For about an hour the fans traded cheers, jaunts, insults and threw cups and cigarette butts at one another. At first the cops really tried to get the crowd to disperse and then after 10 minutes of futile effort, they relented and then watched the actions of the throngs of folks, trying to difuse anymore fights that might occur.
I watched that scene briefly and then I went to my friends' car and left for a house-party. That party was low-key, just some students and recent grads drinking keg-beer, smoking copious amounts of ganja and hoping like hell we were going to win on Saturday.
About 4 a.m. me and a lone pal headed for Huddle House to get some food to help sober us up. As soon as we entered the establishment we were met with a throng of folks cheering and taunting one another. After we sat at a table we proceeded to join in with the majority, chanting to LSU fans, "not welcomed here, not welcomed here...." followed by our favorite, "go to hell Tigers, go to hell." One on one arguments broke out with LSU fans on Ole Miss fans. Most of these surrounded strength of schedule type debates. LSU fans failed to realize that Ole Miss fans were not lobbying for a national title and we knew our SOS was weak. LSU fans, being the arrogant brood that they are did not realize that they were spouting the invalid argument.
Nonetheless, we ate and escaped Huddle House without getting arrested or getting into a violent altercation.
Gameday:
I watched ESPN's gameday and everyone of those fockers picked LSU. I left for the Grove and walked all the way from my friends' APT to the center of campus. I couldn't find my friends but I found 10Man and hung out with him. And I couldn't believe the audacity of the visitors, but they went right up to the circle and did their L-S-U chant over and over and over. What fockers!
Nonetheless, it was a great day for a great game and I feel confident we'll get revenge on them next year.
To the LSU fans that I accosted during pregame and during the ballgame
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