NOW it’s football season
Y’all thought it wasn’t happening this year? Think again! Playing Dirty is back! Sorry we didn’t have it for the first five games. The reasoning is a combination of weird new SEC scheduling not giving us rivalry games or SB Nation sites getting shut down due to [REDACTED]… but we are BACK today with a special guest, CFB Twitter legend and influencer Bunkie Perkins.
As a refresher, this our companion piece to Playing Nice. This Q&A isn’t about X’s and O’s, it’s about trolls and jokes. Bunkie did a great job filling us in and we thank him for playing along before he Geauxs To Hell Saturday night.
1. In a time where college football and its conferences are topsy-turvy, I’m glad we still have each other. The SEC forced us to break things off with Auburn and Mississippi State as part of this great reshuffling. What does the Ole Miss rivalry offer LSU fans that those two schools don’t?
As Basher Tarr once somewhere in the Oceans trilogy, “It’s just nice to work with proper villains again.” It’s a total love to hate situation that Auburn and Mississippi State aren’t going to provide for either of us. You need us as much as we need you in terms of just good old fun hatin’ goes.
2. Last year’s LSU-Ole Miss game featured 104 total points. LSU fans struggled to adapt to a team with an amazing high-scoring offense saddled with a terrible defense that brought nothing but sadness and despair. What advice can you offer us as a fan in Year 5 of the Lane Kiffin Experience?
Just keep telling yourself it will get better. It will get better.. There were too many years to count under Lane early on where the offense had to score every time for Ole Miss to just have a chance. But once he brought former Alabama DC and obvious Widespread Panic enthusiast Pete Golding in, the defensive side of the ball has seen improvement both in scheme and talent.
3. Where does Jaxson Dart rank among “guys who sound like they were named after a drinking game?”
Listen, its up there….and then you need to know that his younger brother is named Diesel Dart. That sounds like the worst Dodge concept car ever made.
4. Why isn’t Mike Bianco fired yet? You think you’re not allowed to fire a coach two years after winning a championship? Trust us, it can be done!
That sweet sweet championship glow burns a little longer in Oxford than at LSU I’d imagine, but we are on our last few flickers for sure. It’s win this season or off to the nursing home to give inspirational speeches to the shut-in ward for him.
5. The Magnolia Bowl Trophy doesn’t seem to pack a punch anymore. We need something better to symbolize this rivalry. I propose a Golden Shirtless Coach O. What other ideas do you have?
I’d be all for the Coach O trophy if it was just the actual Coach O lathered in cocoa butter. Loser has to keep him for a year. We could also just swap Walker Howard every year til he dies. That would give us a few decades of a trophy alternative.