Louisiana Saturday night > Dixieland delight

100% OP has a dog with both eyes

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It’s getting almost as bad as Tennessee singing Rocky Top.

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Rocky Top Plays Per Game: ~1,000,000
Dixieland Delight Plays Per Game: 1

It’s not the same at all.

And no one in their right mind has ever tried to claim Louisiana Saturday Night over Dixieland Delight. That’s nonsense.

If you want to take a swing at Dixieland Delight (which you’re clearly jealous of as it’s begun to get national notoriety) you should at least go with Tennessee River, which is the song the Vols should’ve used instead of making some 7 years too late half arse effort to claim DD.

It’s now Calling Baton Rouge vs Dixieland Delight for the best in stadium song in the SEC and BDS vs Tiger Stadium for the best CFB stadium experience.

Yes, it's funny because LSU lost to USC in the first game of the year.

Let me walk you through this.

A guy born in Alabama…
who lives in Alabama (Fort Payne to be exact) near the AL-TN line…
in a band called Alabama…
wrote a song about going on a date and having relations with a girl from TN…
He called it Dixieland Delight, Alabama being “The Heart of Dixie”, as per a state tagline at the time…
Given that TN isn’t the heart of Dixie, the song is about growing up in Alabama.

Tracking?

So yes. We thank you for raising a girl in Tennessee worth dating.

Had you played it first you probably could’ve gotten away with playing a song by a band called ALABAMA at a Tennessee game about a Tennessee girl having to date a boy from Alabama, because the Tennessee boys apparently didn’t meet her standards… but you didn’t.

So let it go.

Sounds like you're a lot of fun to be around for a road trip/game.

You ok, OP? This reads like you're having a stroke.

Personally, I like the marching bands best.

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well, seeing as the song is inspired by the town of Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, I wouldn't say it was about Alabama

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It’s about a guy from Alabama driving around on a date with a girl in Tennessee. That is objective fact.

The overlap between AL-TN (and NW GA to further complicate it) in NE and north AL is very strong, especially in the area heading up towards Chattanooga where the band is from.

Again, had they claimed it first and made it a cool tradition they could’ve had it. But just like Sweet Home Alabama which was played at BDS during the pregame for decades, once someone makes something a tradition, copying it unless you’re just mocking them like Tennessee did when they won in Knoxville (and which I’m fine with) seems kind of pathetic.

To be clear its the same issue I have with Rammer Jammer which is just a repackaged Ole Miss cheer. It’s too entrenched to get rid of but it’s not my favorite because it was borrowed from a cheer already in use.

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It’s literally a song about Tennessee. But yall go ahead and keep playing it and display that famous Alabama intellect.

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