Musical Palate Cleanser: Rocky Top Edition

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In case you missed it, the Redcoats did the unimaginable, at least from my days as a Redcoat:

Trolling a team and a band in front of 110 thousand peolple? Freaking priceless

By the way, the Redcoats played it better. As a music fan, I always wanted to play it, but thought it forbidden.

Nine in a row. And retribution for 1995, to boot. Classic.

40 thoughts on “Musical Palate Cleanser: Rocky Top Edition”

  1. Donā€™t know their ABCā€™s, no forks in their family trees and bovines licking my faceā€¦ā€¦..
    The redcoats just reminded me of that version of Rocky Stop!
    Aladawg

    • more like classless. I hate that rocky top song so much, the last thing I want to hear is UGA’s band playing it….even if it was a troll. I am not a huge fan of trolling. The game result was sufficient for that.

      • Some years ago, when my daughter was a grad student in the music department, she played on weekends with a group of folks with Georgia connections. A lot of them were band directors, some of them were also grad students, most of them were old Redcoats. It was not unusual to walk into a gig and get handed music and be asked to play it. Not a problem. Georgia musicians are great at sight reading.
        One Saturday they were handed a piece called College Medley Something. Sheā€™s playing the notes on the page and began to notice folks around her were dropping out. Checked out the melody and you can guess what it was. Georgia people donā€™t play Rocky Top.

  3. Took nerve. Lotta expensive musical instruments there, in the middle of all those pissed off drunk people. Three cheers!

    • That might be a good NSFW thread one day: what are the best alternative lyrics you’ve heard over the years?

      I remember my senior year we were tailgating before the GT game and randomly a grandma came up and regaled us with her version of Ramblin’ Wreck. 30 years later every one of my friends still remembers the lyrics she sang.

      • Nil, great concept. Now do tell on the lyricsā€¦canā€™t just put that out there with no follow-up!!

        • Sung to the tune of “Ramblin’ Wreck” by a sweet 80-year old lady who’d remind you of Betty White (please, cover the young children’s ears):

          She’s a tweedly twat
          From Agnes Scott
          And she fucks for fifty cents.

          She’ll lay her ass upon the grass
          Her pants upon the fence.

          And if you are from GEORGIA!
          She’ll hug your big strong neck!

          But you can go to HELL
          You sonofabitch
          If you’re from Georgia tech!

      • An (very) old state senator taught me this one at the 81 game about 20 minutes before he literally knocked a tech student out for being an obnoxious lout. He said they used to sing this one back in the 30’s.

        If you’re a ramblin’ wreck from Georgia tech to hell, to hell with you!
        To hell, to hell, to hell, to hell, to hell, to hell, to hell, to hell, with you!
        To hell with Brent Key! To hell with his mangy crew!
        And if you stand up and yell for tech – To hell, to hell, with YOU!

        Obviously you insert the current coach’s name in the third line.

        And since someone will probably ask the tech student was standing right in front of the old man’s seat wearing a Clemson hat and running his mouth off all the time. When he said something filthy about UGA coeds the old man stood up and cold cocked him with a fast upper cut. Kid fell back like he was taking a Nestea Plunge into his friends arms while the old man was starting to give him some advice about watching his mouth about ladies and learning some respect when his wife said “Harry! You’re a state senator! You can’t do this anymore!”

    • I wouldn’t want them to play it in Sanford, but there? Absolutely.

      We own that building now. Not Richt-Smart Field at Vince Dooley Stadium kind of ownership, but we’re getting there. šŸ˜‰

      • We own it. Kirby averages 41.4 ppg up there to the Vawls 16.4ppg. We own it. They have to pay the rent in cash.

  7. Not a fan, we have plenty about ourselves to be proud of rather than act like trolls….

  12. When we are getting retribution for a game that was 30 years ago, it kind of makes me feel old. Let’s see I was 32 and had been married for 2 years at the time. Oh, and we still had to suffer through 4 more seasons of Fat Phil dragging our asses.

    • Yeah, that’s funny!
      But they should have formed up and square danced to the tune.
      .At every “good old rocky top” everyone do-si-do’s.

  15. This is why I love college sports! How wonderfully petty and mean. And I mean that in the beat way possible. šŸ˜€

  16. I saw this earlier on Twitter and thought it was determined not to be the redcoats. UT apparently plays Rocky Top at the end of every game win or lose?

    • Yeah. The Redcoats Twitter posted saying that that was stadium amplified Tennessee band playing the tune.

      Unfortunately.

  17. Truth be told most of their fans that can go to games are transplants that live in Chattanooga and Nashville. I doubt many true Tennessee hillbillies can afford to go. Thatā€™s a bunch of Yankees hollering Rocky Top on Saturdays. Which makes beating them even better in my book.

    • No Mike, you are dead ass wrong on this hot take. There are still lots and lots of folks up there with Tennessee roots AND money. Besides, other than Florida, Georgia is the last state in the South that can point their finger about Yankee transplants.

  18. Ummm their singing along as the stadium speakers were VERY loud…the Redcoats DID NOT play their fight song. How do I know…NO ONE in the band is playing their instruments.

  19. I always wanted Georgia to put in the scout offense and run the triple option against Tech while up by 40 at the end of the game. This seems to be along those lines.

  21. Redcoats aren’t playing. You can see the instruments being held at their waists. The sound is coming from the speakers that Tennessee puts all over the stadium, including in front of the visiting band.

  22. I guess I am “that guy” and will get the internet version of a wedgie, but I am glad it wasn’t the Redcoats.

    I like to think we are better than that. You don’t play the other teams fight song in their house or yours. You beat them, point at the score board, laugh and then take their women. Or in the case of Tech, beat them, point at the score board, laugh and then leave. Because, you know, its Tech and garbage doesn’t get taken out on Saturdays.

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