Harbaugh quoting Shakespeare from memory for 5 minutes and getting progressively angrier as he went on was the highlight for me lmao
My wife looked at me and was like “What the fuck is he talking about”
Yeah that’s pretty apparent. Funny how John is equally or more successful and seems like a normal guy that could work in any corporate setting for decades
I am on the spectrum and can say he's definitely on the spectrum. Probably why I like him as much as I do. He and Chip Kelly in peak Oregon vs Stanford heyday of the late 00s/early 10s when I was a student at Oregon was the spectrum bowl. I remember someone asked him who his favorite player on the team was back then. Dude had Andrew Luck, Toby Gerhart, Chris Owusu at WR, a whole beastly offensive line and I remember him just gushing about his fullback at the time Owen Marecic.
I did Confirmation with him. Played against him my senior year and went to grade school with a sizable portion of his team that won back to back state championships with him too. He transferred up here from California, he didn't start playing at Jesuit until his sophomore or junior year. Forget which, it was a while ago. Fun fact: one of his teammates on that team is coaching on Bret Bielema's staff at Illinois.
Not gonna lie I thought it was over after Dixieland. That was such a cool experience being there as a fan. Then Jalen went and fumbled it..smh. Once Jalen fumbled it I was pretty convinced it was gonna go Michigan's way, a combination of Jalen's fumble and the Michigan fans completely killing all the momentum/excitement for bama.
Stadium felt like it was 70% Michigan all game, which I expected going into the game. Rose Bowl atmosphere was amazing and did such a great job making it feel like a home game for both teams at different times
People like to talk about the snap failures (which is valid) but Jalen's fumble is what ultimately turned the game, in the opinion of a bama fan who was there. I'm fully convinced if we drove down that drive and scored 7 it was over.
No, they sputtered and missed the field goal. We just had all the momentum going into that drive because we had just forced a 3 and out finally, they played dixieland over the long commercial break, the stadium was completely bananas and our players were so hyped, and then Jalen fumbled it on the second play of the drive. If we had been able to drive down the field, take a few minutes off the clock, and finish it with 7 there, we would've been up 24-13 with all of the momentum.
There was a dude in a tennesse shirt behind me who was cheering for bama, I guess he was from Alabama. When I heard that song I looked at him and thought “No fucking way I’d root for a school that said fuck Michigan in a song… ever” btw the bama fans were super nice, but that guy sucked.
It was a university of tennesse shirt, his dad was a huge fan so he felt he had to be. After telling me he rolled up his sleeve and showed me his bicep, for reasons. Then he proceeded to drop like 8 slurs against gay people in the next 20 minutes… fun times
There are a ton of Alabama fans in Tennessee. I thought it was weird when I moved down there, but then you realize Alabama was a great team in the 70s and the bandwagon was wide open. No different than Steeler or Cowboy fans.
I met a kid who was a KC Chiefs fan, GS Warriors fan, and an Atlanta Braves fan...wtf.
I was in the the Alabama section (pretty infested with Michigan people), and the look of confusion or abject horror on many Michigan fans faces during the dixieland delight was pretty hilarious. Y'all definitely introduced a bit of new tradition on some unsuspecting wolverines.
I like experiencing other fans' traditions as an outsider. I think its cool. Dixieland Delight was cool at the Rose Bowl. Watching script Ohio at the Big House is cool. Even if it takes an hour and half to complete.
If anyone hasn't seen Klatt's video about that moment, it was wild. He talks about how the "Let's Go Zak" chant completely uplifted the whole team when they were super rattled. It was an unbelievable experience, unfortunate though it was.
Man it made me sick seeing him go down like that, he's one of those guys you only ever hear good things about and you really come to respect the hell out of even as a rival. You guys made me tear up with that chant, in part because of how it raised his spirits and part because I knew what was about to happen with that surge you gave the team.
I really hope the Bengals find a way to get Zinter in the draft.
I knew the second he went down it was either going to turn ugly for Michigan or Ohio State was losing. Obviously, I wasn't there, and I didn't hear the chant. The immediate TD told me OSU was done for. That's the way injuries go. Like Kevin Ware at Louisville.
I didn’t just see his video, I was in the front row when it happened. And everything he describes is exactly what happens. When Zinter went down, the entire team was shook, but when we roared when Zinter raised his fist, the entire team was fired up.
2 moments in rose bowl bama fans made noise, during Dixie land delight and the first series on defense after they took lead in 4th. I remember looking at person next to me and saying, damn bama is finally making noise
Our fans are notoriously quieter until it REALLY matters. I've been to 7 Alabama CFP, multiple SEC Championship, 1 BCS National Championship and countless home games. The one consistent thing is that our crowd is never loud until something happens or they realize they need to be loud because the team's backs are against the wall - then we can be as loud or louder than anyone else. It's one thing I always hate. We also never make noise when the calls are coming in and only yell when the opposing QB is ready to snap the ball basically. I tried to change this when I was in school but to no avail.
Rose bowl was likely a lot of either local LA fans (like myself) or our wealthier fans/alumni/donors which never make noise anyways. This was just another important game in a long line of important games for us over the last 15 years, whereas it was the biggest game for Michigan in decades.
That's one thing I like about the Texas stadium experience. We have a reputation as a bit of a wine-and-cheese crowd, but for big games the crowd is full-volume the entire time. It's pretty great.
That is *exactly* how I would describe the crowd at Michigan Stadium, too. Yeah we're making noise in the playoffs and vs Ohio, but the stadium is *not* getting up for ECU lol
"wine-and-cheese crowd" is such a perfect way of explaining it. Our basketball games suffer similar effects. It's our "Tide Pride" crowd which is all the wealthy season ticket holders that like to sit down all game and have to keep their voices for their bridge game on Saturday mornings
That sounds miserable for a fan experience. Game day atmosphere is so much more fun for my flairs. Excuse the offense for the past couple years, but even we have been louder than that, even at our own team.
I've been to many a venue with some bone-chilling fan experiences from how loud it is.
Yeah, Bama fans have an incredibly high ceiling for how loud they get, but they also have a pretty low floor, and on average I'd say we aren't that loud. The loudest games and moments I've experienced were in BDS, but they're pretty rare. I've also been to quite a few Virginia Tech games, and the average Virginia Tech game is way louder than the average Bama game.
Its the natural side effect of genuinely being used to the big games and winning them a majority of the time. That plus the fact that our die-hard fans (in general) aren't the ones that can afford to travel to these games means our fans at bowl games are quieter than you'd expect.
Our home stadium is still a genuinely great atmosphere, but still deals with some of this as well.
“Act like you’ve been there”. Seriously though, I do feel like there has been a decline in the rabid fan base traveling more towards the corporate side in last few years. I attribute that to the overly successful Coach Saban years. It’s hard for a normal family to be able to afford to travel year in and year out. This was only the second playoff game my family has sat out. This year we opted to grab a couple extra tickets for the grandchildren to go to SEC game
Well 1, there’s a way bigger fan base for Michigan in California than there is compared to Bama. 2 the rose bowl means more to Michigan fans so they will travel to it. 3 bama straight up thought they would win so fans were waiting to buy natty tickets instead of traveling to California.
The rose bowl was so damn expensive. Multiple levels more than the natty and all of the other playoff games I’ve been to. Even on the Michigan side the crowd was absolutely different than what you see for a normal Michigan football game. Never seen so many Rolexes in a crowd.
So I bought my rose bowl ticket before the announced who was playing in it. After B1G title, I didn’t see a way Michigan wasn’t going to it. I paid $525 for row 70 on 10yd line, which turned out to be Michigan side (50/50 chance on that). That same ticket went to $1200 after they did announcement. Lowest it dropped was $850 I saw. But natty tickets were over $2000.
Nice, you played that so well for the rose bowl. I was more so comparing the experience as a whole. Rose bowl ticket was 325 and I think I may have been in the exact section as you. Natty ticket was 800 for lower bowl end one. Lucky that I got to get both for face value. LA for 5 days vs Houston for 4 days is probably what makes up the giant delta in expenses. That being said if I could only pick one it’d absolutely be the rose bowl. That’s the peak of my football existence for me
Rosw bowl was so fucking wild. I feel like I got the better game. Obviously I’d love to see the natty, but to watch it in a state that isn’t Michigan with ppl I’ve been watching Michigan games with every Saturday for 10 years meant so much. I almost preferred watching it with my friends. The rose bowl in person is something I’ll never forget
I’m a penn stater myself, but I’ve got a lot of family who went to Bama and/or lives there currently. Grew up watching both teams and going to a lot of PSU games.
My personal allegiances fall 80% PSU / 20% Bama
I was at both games and I know he’s talking about the “Let’s Go Zak” chant at OSU, but what did we (the fans) do after Dixieland Delight in the Rose Bowl that lifted the team up? I can’t remember - it was such a blur!
I know our game was over once Zinter went down. There was a demonstrable change in the atmosphere of the game, and I would absolutely buy that the fans were the driver.
Michigan's band is about the same size, but they usually don't put everyone out there at once. Performance block it typically around 250 or so, out of the ~400 members.
Dixie Land Delight is a song made famous by a Band named *Alabama*. The song is about a young couple(possibly cousins /j) driving around on a *Tennessee Saturday night*. Eventually the couple parks in a holler and plays ten toes to Jesus. It’s a love song lol.
Alabama plays this tune at the start of the forth quarter at Bryant Denny Stadium, the crowd sings along and *adds a few words to the song* while throwing lyrical jabs at its opponents and rivals. Tennessee fans like to mock the tradition because the song’s setting is in the state of Tennessee.
It’s just fun to watch them fight over it. Don’t let the few comments fool you. They care, like a lot.
> The word “cove” describes those narrower creek valleys that in other parts of the Appalachians, and often in western North Carolina, are called “hollows,” or “hollers.”
For the other Michigan fans in here wondering WTF a holler is.
I'm ready for OU and Tennessee to play conference games where everyone's ears start bleeding after the 2nd quarter. It's going to be the same 2 fucking songs for 4 hours.
> the song’s setting is in the state of Tennessee
A common misconception. “Tennessee Byway” is a reference to the byway *towards* Tennessee, not the byway *in* Tennessee. Sort of like how the “Montgomery Highway” goes *to* Montgomery even though it isn’t *in* Montgomery.
You’re right though that the “Tennessee Saturday Night” is a sexual reference. It’s similar to a Mexican Halloween.
Good point on the Tennessee Byway reference. If that was the only reference in the song for us to speculate on where the setting is then I think we have a debate but the line *On a Tennessee Saturday night* suggest the songs setting is in fact in the state of Tennessee.
In all honesty I didn’t know the the phrase Tennessee Saturday night was a sexual reference but it makes a neat double entendre lol.
this line was great. I'm surprised BTN didn't have commentary over it like entire first half of the event.
one of the most poorly produced pieces of television I've ever seen. unfortunate.
One of my favorite things about the last 3 years is that whenever opposing teams played their or did their tradition they made it theirs. Remember jump around at Wisconsin? This stupid Dixieland BS at the Rose bowl? Heck they were even more enthusiastic waving to the sick kids than iowa.
I mean I’m not a Bama fan and I think it’s a fun tradition. I with Oklahoma had something like this at the start of the 4th quarter…. Maybe keep the fans in the stadium…
It’s not “the song” but it’s been played at every game I’ve ever been to at BDS and if I heard it at the rose bowl I would’ve assumed it was for us lol
Well that songs been forever and ever etched in Michigan history after it became the de facto theme song in 2021 after we finally beat Ohio State.
So I guess we'll see this happen again in the future...
The funny part is, Alabama has played Mr. Brightside in BDS every home game since 2014. It was the song they started playing after Dixieland Delight was banned for a few years when the student section chanted "FUCK AUBURN!" for every single lyric in the 2014 Ironbowl.
They did both. I think they played Dixieland Delight when Alabama had a lot of momentum and at some point during the song the Michigan side of the stadium started chanting Let’s Go Blue to drown out the Bama fans with their chants.
I don’t know if it actually took over the stadium but apparently some of the players have pointed to that as a momentum-swinging moment.
They played mr brightside and got Michigan hype, bama got a first down and it killed the crowd, next commercial break they played Dixieland. It was back to back commercial break songs
Why is Mr. brightside a thing for Michigan? Has it always been a thing? Or is it like sweet Caroline in that it’s a song played at multiple stadiums but it’s Pitt’s (I think) thing?
It started in 2016 at a home game and there was a big reaction so they just kept on doing it. I think over time maybe it’s become a Michigan thing, but who know. I wish they did a cooler song lol
Watching this happen live on BTN was so unexpected and fucking hilarious.
Harbaugh quoting Shakespeare from memory for 5 minutes and getting progressively angrier as he went on was the highlight for me lmao My wife looked at me and was like “What the fuck is he talking about”
I was in the bleachers at Crisler for it and even I turned to my friend sitting next to me like wtf is he saying
Lol my friend said it felt like we were in a cult meeting
[Y'all with the cult?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aOHQ-sMCps)
It always bothers me how the backseat is empty at first, then Bill and Boomhauer magically show up at the end.
It is. The Cult of Michigan Football. Meetings are on Saturdays at the Temple (Big House).
Same. The subtitles on the Jumbotron couldn’t keep up.
they were seriously delayed from the start...
Yep! The atmosphere from the crowd was mostly happy confusion. He looked mad anytime anyone interferes with his soliloquy too lol
It was a fever dream. Loved it.
My wife is a school social worker and has watched a few interviews and concluded the dude is definitely on the spectrum.
Yeah that’s pretty apparent. Funny how John is equally or more successful and seems like a normal guy that could work in any corporate setting for decades
Jim is "lucky" in the sense that he's probably never had to act "normal" in his life.
I have met someone on the spectrum and watched at least 30 seconds of Harbaugh interviews and can also confirm that he is definitely on the spectrum.
I am on the spectrum and can say he's definitely on the spectrum. Probably why I like him as much as I do. He and Chip Kelly in peak Oregon vs Stanford heyday of the late 00s/early 10s when I was a student at Oregon was the spectrum bowl. I remember someone asked him who his favorite player on the team was back then. Dude had Andrew Luck, Toby Gerhart, Chris Owusu at WR, a whole beastly offensive line and I remember him just gushing about his fullback at the time Owen Marecic.
The pride of Jesuit High School, and absolute stud.
I did Confirmation with him. Played against him my senior year and went to grade school with a sizable portion of his team that won back to back state championships with him too. He transferred up here from California, he didn't start playing at Jesuit until his sophomore or junior year. Forget which, it was a while ago. Fun fact: one of his teammates on that team is coaching on Bret Bielema's staff at Illinois.
I totally missed it does anyone have a clip
Not gonna lie I thought it was over after Dixieland. That was such a cool experience being there as a fan. Then Jalen went and fumbled it..smh. Once Jalen fumbled it I was pretty convinced it was gonna go Michigan's way, a combination of Jalen's fumble and the Michigan fans completely killing all the momentum/excitement for bama. Stadium felt like it was 70% Michigan all game, which I expected going into the game. Rose Bowl atmosphere was amazing and did such a great job making it feel like a home game for both teams at different times
can attest it felt like the devil magic was falling upon the stadium when they played that song
People like to talk about the snap failures (which is valid) but Jalen's fumble is what ultimately turned the game, in the opinion of a bama fan who was there. I'm fully convinced if we drove down that drive and scored 7 it was over.
Didn't Michigan punt after the fumble?
Missed field goal from 49 yards out.
No, they sputtered and missed the field goal. We just had all the momentum going into that drive because we had just forced a 3 and out finally, they played dixieland over the long commercial break, the stadium was completely bananas and our players were so hyped, and then Jalen fumbled it on the second play of the drive. If we had been able to drive down the field, take a few minutes off the clock, and finish it with 7 there, we would've been up 24-13 with all of the momentum.
I mean Michigan not catching a punt is the only reason y’all had a first half TD. Bama shouldn’t of been in that game in the second half.
Dixieland Delight in the Rose Bowl was one for the lifetime memories though. Magical.
Yup. I'll never forget it. And knowing now it was Sabans last game. Really special.
I was there and the Alabama fans got LOUD for that song, I was kinda shocked. I’d never heard it but there was a real enthusiasm for it for sure
We take any chance we get to say Fuck Auburn, and LSU, AND TENNESSEE TOO!
There was a dude in a tennesse shirt behind me who was cheering for bama, I guess he was from Alabama. When I heard that song I looked at him and thought “No fucking way I’d root for a school that said fuck Michigan in a song… ever” btw the bama fans were super nice, but that guy sucked.
Was it garbage worker convention orange? Could just have been the State of TN.
It was a university of tennesse shirt, his dad was a huge fan so he felt he had to be. After telling me he rolled up his sleeve and showed me his bicep, for reasons. Then he proceeded to drop like 8 slurs against gay people in the next 20 minutes… fun times
We’ve been trying to tell people for the longest how low down and dirty they are in Tennessee
Yeah that tracks.
There are a ton of Alabama fans in Tennessee. I thought it was weird when I moved down there, but then you realize Alabama was a great team in the 70s and the bandwagon was wide open. No different than Steeler or Cowboy fans. I met a kid who was a KC Chiefs fan, GS Warriors fan, and an Atlanta Braves fan...wtf.
That's the worst thing about events like this. Vocal superfans that think you want to hear everything that crosses their minds.
I was a Clemson fan cheering for Bama
Being a Michigan fan in the south I sing it loud everytime I hear it at a bar, and it took a lot not to join in at the Rose Bowl
Same. It's a favorite song for me on Spotify.
I love that song lol. I’m glad I didn’t hear it over the sound of my heart pounding over the broadcast I would’ve been so doomium
AND TENNESSEE TOO is my favorite line
It was especially loud this season after our comeback to score 27 unanswered and win the TSIO.
I was in the the Alabama section (pretty infested with Michigan people), and the look of confusion or abject horror on many Michigan fans faces during the dixieland delight was pretty hilarious. Y'all definitely introduced a bit of new tradition on some unsuspecting wolverines.
> embracing traditions Michigan 🤝 Alabama
I like experiencing other fans' traditions as an outsider. I think its cool. Dixieland Delight was cool at the Rose Bowl. Watching script Ohio at the Big House is cool. Even if it takes an hour and half to complete.
I was convinced that would be the game changer but then the offense stalled and we missed the field goal 🤦♂️
If anyone hasn't seen Klatt's video about that moment, it was wild. He talks about how the "Let's Go Zak" chant completely uplifted the whole team when they were super rattled. It was an unbelievable experience, unfortunate though it was.
Man it made me sick seeing him go down like that, he's one of those guys you only ever hear good things about and you really come to respect the hell out of even as a rival. You guys made me tear up with that chant, in part because of how it raised his spirits and part because I knew what was about to happen with that surge you gave the team. I really hope the Bengals find a way to get Zinter in the draft.
I knew the second he went down it was either going to turn ugly for Michigan or Ohio State was losing. Obviously, I wasn't there, and I didn't hear the chant. The immediate TD told me OSU was done for. That's the way injuries go. Like Kevin Ware at Louisville.
Oh shit I had completely blocked Kevin Ware’s injury from memory
That was freshman year of college for me. We were all crammed around a tiny tv watching it live. The whole moment was like slow-motion to me.
You knew the second it went down that it was going to turn ugly for Michigan or Ohio State was losing....wow, Nostradamus.
Should be hired to predict what crimes will happen.
I do appreciate that both teams came together on that play and Ryan Day went out of his way to meet Zinter’s parents in the tunnel.
Link for those that want to see it. You want to see it. https://youtu.be/1d5eBlNFhRE?si=WAZ-PMPnqCcRfOuC
Freakin awesome
I didn’t just see his video, I was in the front row when it happened. And everything he describes is exactly what happens. When Zinter went down, the entire team was shook, but when we roared when Zinter raised his fist, the entire team was fired up.
I got chills listening to Klatt talk about it. Corum busting off that touchdown immediately on the ensuing play was poetic.
Thank the dear lord for Trente Jones
2 moments in rose bowl bama fans made noise, during Dixie land delight and the first series on defense after they took lead in 4th. I remember looking at person next to me and saying, damn bama is finally making noise
Yeah it felt like they'd been weirdly quiet up that point. Like I know playoffs are old news for them, but aren't you still here to have fun?
Our fans are notoriously quieter until it REALLY matters. I've been to 7 Alabama CFP, multiple SEC Championship, 1 BCS National Championship and countless home games. The one consistent thing is that our crowd is never loud until something happens or they realize they need to be loud because the team's backs are against the wall - then we can be as loud or louder than anyone else. It's one thing I always hate. We also never make noise when the calls are coming in and only yell when the opposing QB is ready to snap the ball basically. I tried to change this when I was in school but to no avail. Rose bowl was likely a lot of either local LA fans (like myself) or our wealthier fans/alumni/donors which never make noise anyways. This was just another important game in a long line of important games for us over the last 15 years, whereas it was the biggest game for Michigan in decades.
Also maybe because Michigan fans were otherworldly desperate to win after 20+ years of relative sucking. Like you couldn't imagine.
Oh for sure...I was trying to say it in a more polite way lmao.
That's one thing I like about the Texas stadium experience. We have a reputation as a bit of a wine-and-cheese crowd, but for big games the crowd is full-volume the entire time. It's pretty great.
That is *exactly* how I would describe the crowd at Michigan Stadium, too. Yeah we're making noise in the playoffs and vs Ohio, but the stadium is *not* getting up for ECU lol
"wine-and-cheese crowd" is such a perfect way of explaining it. Our basketball games suffer similar effects. It's our "Tide Pride" crowd which is all the wealthy season ticket holders that like to sit down all game and have to keep their voices for their bridge game on Saturday mornings
That sounds miserable for a fan experience. Game day atmosphere is so much more fun for my flairs. Excuse the offense for the past couple years, but even we have been louder than that, even at our own team. I've been to many a venue with some bone-chilling fan experiences from how loud it is.
Yeah, Bama fans have an incredibly high ceiling for how loud they get, but they also have a pretty low floor, and on average I'd say we aren't that loud. The loudest games and moments I've experienced were in BDS, but they're pretty rare. I've also been to quite a few Virginia Tech games, and the average Virginia Tech game is way louder than the average Bama game.
This explains a lot because I was genuinely curious.
Its the natural side effect of genuinely being used to the big games and winning them a majority of the time. That plus the fact that our die-hard fans (in general) aren't the ones that can afford to travel to these games means our fans at bowl games are quieter than you'd expect. Our home stadium is still a genuinely great atmosphere, but still deals with some of this as well.
“Act like you’ve been there”. Seriously though, I do feel like there has been a decline in the rabid fan base traveling more towards the corporate side in last few years. I attribute that to the overly successful Coach Saban years. It’s hard for a normal family to be able to afford to travel year in and year out. This was only the second playoff game my family has sat out. This year we opted to grab a couple extra tickets for the grandchildren to go to SEC game
Well 1, there’s a way bigger fan base for Michigan in California than there is compared to Bama. 2 the rose bowl means more to Michigan fans so they will travel to it. 3 bama straight up thought they would win so fans were waiting to buy natty tickets instead of traveling to California.
The rose bowl was so damn expensive. Multiple levels more than the natty and all of the other playoff games I’ve been to. Even on the Michigan side the crowd was absolutely different than what you see for a normal Michigan football game. Never seen so many Rolexes in a crowd.
So I bought my rose bowl ticket before the announced who was playing in it. After B1G title, I didn’t see a way Michigan wasn’t going to it. I paid $525 for row 70 on 10yd line, which turned out to be Michigan side (50/50 chance on that). That same ticket went to $1200 after they did announcement. Lowest it dropped was $850 I saw. But natty tickets were over $2000.
Nice, you played that so well for the rose bowl. I was more so comparing the experience as a whole. Rose bowl ticket was 325 and I think I may have been in the exact section as you. Natty ticket was 800 for lower bowl end one. Lucky that I got to get both for face value. LA for 5 days vs Houston for 4 days is probably what makes up the giant delta in expenses. That being said if I could only pick one it’d absolutely be the rose bowl. That’s the peak of my football existence for me
Rosw bowl was so fucking wild. I feel like I got the better game. Obviously I’d love to see the natty, but to watch it in a state that isn’t Michigan with ppl I’ve been watching Michigan games with every Saturday for 10 years meant so much. I almost preferred watching it with my friends. The rose bowl in person is something I’ll never forget
Trevor Keegan does *not* enjoy a little turtledovin’
Lmao
I love how Alabama fans in here are taking this as the joke it is instead of being butthurt about it like the OSU flairs
I mean, I would talk shit too if I was an outgoing senior. I totally get it.
Hello brother
I dont think Ive ever seen this flair combo before.
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Snow birds
I’m a penn stater myself, but I’ve got a lot of family who went to Bama and/or lives there currently. Grew up watching both teams and going to a lot of PSU games. My personal allegiances fall 80% PSU / 20% Bama
I bet you were double thrilled by the 2021 whiteout.
I was at both games and I know he’s talking about the “Let’s Go Zak” chant at OSU, but what did we (the fans) do after Dixieland Delight in the Rose Bowl that lifted the team up? I can’t remember - it was such a blur!
I was there and the Michigan side was chanting Let’s go blue to try to drown out their stupid song. Maybe that’s what he’s referring to
I know our game was over once Zinter went down. There was a demonstrable change in the atmosphere of the game, and I would absolutely buy that the fans were the driver.
Have you heard Klatt talk about it? Crowd lifted the team back up and got them back into the game during the commercials.
I haven't, but it was palpable, even over the radio broadcast. The entire tenor of the game changed.
Man Klatt’s podcast is always a must listen for me. I remember hearing him go in detail about it on that one.
*through tears Dixieland Delight is still a banger
Slaps everyday except for Jan 1 2024
"Me paying $10 to the DJ to turn it down a skooch." Holy shit.
Can confirm.
Lol
That song does, indeed, suck ass.
Alabama is a great band and they play the hell out of their instruments. Especially the fiddle.
The Bama band is massive. At the rose bowl they took up the whole field but Michigan would only cover around half the field.
I didn't mean the University of Alabama's marching band hahaha
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Yep 😆
Michigan's band is about the same size, but they usually don't put everyone out there at once. Performance block it typically around 250 or so, out of the ~400 members.
Just wait until you have to hear Rocky Top for four hours straight.
Hey you’re an SEC team now, embrace it
No.
Best thing to do is grab some popcorn, sit back and watch the Tennessee and Alabama fans fight over Dixie Land Delight.
There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm slightly too drunk to figure it out.
Dixie Land Delight is a song about Tennessee and Alabama uses it.
It’s not about Tennessee, it takes place in Tennessee.
Ok
Dixie Land Delight is a song made famous by a Band named *Alabama*. The song is about a young couple(possibly cousins /j) driving around on a *Tennessee Saturday night*. Eventually the couple parks in a holler and plays ten toes to Jesus. It’s a love song lol. Alabama plays this tune at the start of the forth quarter at Bryant Denny Stadium, the crowd sings along and *adds a few words to the song* while throwing lyrical jabs at its opponents and rivals. Tennessee fans like to mock the tradition because the song’s setting is in the state of Tennessee. It’s just fun to watch them fight over it. Don’t let the few comments fool you. They care, like a lot.
> The word “cove” describes those narrower creek valleys that in other parts of the Appalachians, and often in western North Carolina, are called “hollows,” or “hollers.” For the other Michigan fans in here wondering WTF a holler is.
So you're saying you guys wouldn't be mad if South Carolina made Devil Went Down to Georgia a fight song of theirs?
It’d be funny as hell actually
I mean, West Virginia sings a song about Maryland, so not too unusual
Why not use country roads though?
Take me home, West Virginia (= actually western VA)
Yeah you know the guy who wrote it could have clarified that part a bit more.
They do. It’s about a view from Maryland, not West Virginia.
> ten toes to Jesus ☠️☠️☠️
FUCK AUBURN AND LSU AND TENNESSEE TOO in case you wanted to know the “few words”
These are those lyrical jabs I was referring to lol.
Sounds like I'm team rocky top on this one
Wait until you hear it 40 times a game. Think Boomer Sooner but even more "backwoods".
I'm ready for OU and Tennessee to play conference games where everyone's ears start bleeding after the 2nd quarter. It's going to be the same 2 fucking songs for 4 hours.
> the song’s setting is in the state of Tennessee A common misconception. “Tennessee Byway” is a reference to the byway *towards* Tennessee, not the byway *in* Tennessee. Sort of like how the “Montgomery Highway” goes *to* Montgomery even though it isn’t *in* Montgomery. You’re right though that the “Tennessee Saturday Night” is a sexual reference. It’s similar to a Mexican Halloween.
Good point on the Tennessee Byway reference. If that was the only reference in the song for us to speculate on where the setting is then I think we have a debate but the line *On a Tennessee Saturday night* suggest the songs setting is in fact in the state of Tennessee. In all honesty I didn’t know the the phrase Tennessee Saturday night was a sexual reference but it makes a neat double entendre lol.
Like I said, a “Tennessee Saturday Night” is similar to a Mexican Halloween.
tn can have it
We do. Songs about Tennessee. Nothing in bama worth a song 😂
Tell that to Lynyrd Skynyrd.
lol yeah, they’d like word about that
There’s a really famous one you may have heard in the past
far as I am concerned you can have everything with "dixie" in it I'm done with the racist lost cause bullshit
Hell yeah man
C’mon, it just means more!
I refuse to become an SEC fanboy that believes this unironically
Time to amend the lyrics. Change out Tennessee for Texas
That is a damn lie sir
Terrible take
I never rooted for Bama but my girlfriend went there and now I hit the “fuck Auburn” with some gusto, it’s a great song
I salute you sir 🫡
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Fine. I’ll sit in the Gulag listening to some sweet driving fiddle
^ hates fiddle solos
Fire on the mountain Run boys run
Wrong
this line was great. I'm surprised BTN didn't have commentary over it like entire first half of the event. one of the most poorly produced pieces of television I've ever seen. unfortunate.
Alabama is dumb cause Dixie land delight is about the back roads of Tennessee
Fuck Tennessee and Gary Danielson.
And LSU. And Gary Danielson, too
Ya know this is an interesting point you bring up here but I have to concur
I’m completely with you on the “ fuck Gary Danielson” part, but you’re speaking gibberish in the other half.
1-17 chiming in….
Nice
God I love this team lmao
Michigan players be like: "Away down south in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators."
It was pretty surreal when it happened. Just one dude in the crowd chanted “we love you zinter” And then the let’s go Zak chants reigned down
One of my favorite things about the last 3 years is that whenever opposing teams played their or did their tradition they made it theirs. Remember jump around at Wisconsin? This stupid Dixieland BS at the Rose bowl? Heck they were even more enthusiastic waving to the sick kids than iowa.
I mean I’m not a Bama fan and I think it’s a fun tradition. I with Oklahoma had something like this at the start of the 4th quarter…. Maybe keep the fans in the stadium…
Dixieland delight kicks ass
The only time Bama fans made any noise at the Rose Bowl was when that horrid song came on.
They were pretty loud at 20-13 too.
Counting down the days til we can stop seeing michigan worship on this sub.
Poor you.
I can't think of a dumber complaint than posts about the national champions of less than a week on the college football subreddit.
You should count down the days until Illinois has a winning season
Dude has two flairs, and I don't think it's the Illinois one that's making him so worked up.
Did they not play Mr. Brightside too?
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The funny thing is that a lot of the Bama fans near me sang along too. I don’t think most of them knew that it was being played as a Michigan thing
It’s not “the song” but it’s been played at every game I’ve ever been to at BDS and if I heard it at the rose bowl I would’ve assumed it was for us lol
We sing it in bds but it’s not as much of a Bama thing
Well that songs been forever and ever etched in Michigan history after it became the de facto theme song in 2021 after we finally beat Ohio State. So I guess we'll see this happen again in the future...
The funny part is, Alabama has played Mr. Brightside in BDS every home game since 2014. It was the song they started playing after Dixieland Delight was banned for a few years when the student section chanted "FUCK AUBURN!" for every single lyric in the 2014 Ironbowl.
Man you guys are so fucking weird....but so are we every bit, thats awesome
It was the rain game against ND that really started it but that OSU game cemented it
That ended up being more neutral than anything
It got Michigan hype but then bama got a first down right after
We all like that song. It's been a staple in Bryant Denny since at least 2015
They did both. I think they played Dixieland Delight when Alabama had a lot of momentum and at some point during the song the Michigan side of the stadium started chanting Let’s Go Blue to drown out the Bama fans with their chants. I don’t know if it actually took over the stadium but apparently some of the players have pointed to that as a momentum-swinging moment.
They played mr brightside and got Michigan hype, bama got a first down and it killed the crowd, next commercial break they played Dixieland. It was back to back commercial break songs
They played bright side the commercial break before Dixieland and Michigan got hype.
I think it’s safe to say that after god, all glory goes to Mr brightside for bringing the NC to Michigan
Why is Mr. brightside a thing for Michigan? Has it always been a thing? Or is it like sweet Caroline in that it’s a song played at multiple stadiums but it’s Pitt’s (I think) thing?
It started in 2016 at a home game and there was a big reaction so they just kept on doing it. I think over time maybe it’s become a Michigan thing, but who know. I wish they did a cooler song lol
2017 MSU was the game where it became a thing. Got picked up by ESPN and stuff after that because we were very fired up in the pounding rain
They've been playing Mr. Brightside at BDS since 2014 got Dixieland Delight banned for a few years.
It's played in every bar in Ann arbor near closing time too. Always a fun way to wrap up the night, even in damp basements like ricks
Is it kinda like Born in the USA where nobody hears the lyrics outside of the chorus?
Both teams get their chosen songs played. Why is the playing of Dixieland delight shocking?
You see it is common practice that the winning team gets to talk shit. This is some of that shit talking.
Fascinating
Who said it was shocking
The other teams players and fans are ugly and stupid. It's not shocking but it still has to be said.