Ole Miss fans threw a Coke bottle at Lane Kiffin — is that fandom or just being a jerk?

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  Noah B.8h ago

  Ole Miss fans really said "welcome back" with a Coca-Cola and honestly the audacity is hilarious to me, but also no, don't throw things at people, we've had this conversation as a civilization.

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  Riley 216h ago

  If you disagree that throwing objects at a person is wrong regardless of what that person did professionally, I genuinely need you to explain how you square that with the fact that you presumably don't want objects thrown at YOU when you make a career decision someone dislikes.

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  Omar K.8h ago

  Booing is tradition. Yelling is tradition. The second that bottle left someone's hand it stopped being passion and started being a potential felony. That's not a gray area.

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  Quinn4h ago

  I used to think the "SEC atmosphere" argument justified a lot, and then my son started playing youth football and I realized I don't actually want him learning that expressing anger at someone means launching projectiles at them. Changed my view pretty quick.

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  Jordan M.7h ago

  To the person saying it's "just football" — a glass bottle thrown at a human being's head isn't a fan moment, it's assault. The sport doesn't change what physics does to a skull.

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  Zara5h ago

  I'm an LSU fan and I want to be clear — we don't want this. Kiffin is our coach now, yes, but nobody on our side is celebrating someone getting a bottle chucked at them. This makes the whole game look bad.

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  Hana3h ago

  To the person asking about consequences — the answer is almost certainly no, and that's exactly the problem. No arrest, no ban, no accountability, and so next time the bar is already been set.

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  Taylor5h ago

  Genuine question nobody seems to be asking: did Ole Miss stadium security even try to find who threw it? Because if there are no consequences this just becomes the new normal.

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  Jordan 217h ago

  I played college ball in the SEC in the nineties and the crowd atmosphere was genuinely intimidating in ways that made us play better. Objects being thrown is a completely different category. Coaches aren't targets. Nobody is a target.

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  Quinn B.2h ago

  I drove four hours to watch that game and the atmosphere before kickoff was some of the most intense I've ever experienced, in a good way. The bottle story is real and wrong, but I also don't want the entire day reduced to one moron's bad decision when the rest of it was legitimate passionate football.

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  Taylor B.3h ago

  Let's be real, the boos were earned and were completely fine. I have zero problem with the crowd letting him hear it for an entire game. The bottle is a separate and much dumber thing done by one or a few idiots who don't speak for a whole fanbase.

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  Priya6h ago

  My dad coached high school ball for 30 years and used to say fans own the noise and the atmosphere but never the field, never the tunnel, never the person. One Coke bottle and some idiot just handed every national media outlet a reason to mock Oxford. Great job.

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  Casey S.2h ago

  Someone in this thread called it a "tea party" if you oppose throwing bottles and I just want to say that comment is doing a lot of work to reveal exactly the kind of fan you are.

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  Yuki8h ago

  I was there. Section 32. The boo was LOUD and that part was great, genuinely electric, but when I heard something got thrown I felt embarrassed to be wearing red and blue. That's not us. Or it shouldn't be.

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  Morgan3h ago

  Wait, was it a glass bottle or plastic? Not that it matters legally but people keep saying glass and I want to know if the reporting confirmed that because details like that get exaggerated fast on these threads.

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  Nina L.4h ago

  The people defending this are the same ones who would absolutely lose their minds if someone threw something at THEIR team's coach leaving an away stadium. The tribalism blindspot here is staggering.

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  Theo7h ago

  Kiffin absolutely cultivated this. He left, he talked trash, he came back coaching a rival and smiled about it. He knew exactly what the atmosphere was going to be and he walked into it. That's not an excuse for the bottle but acting like he's an innocent bystander is hilarious.

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  Diego3h ago

  Oxford is a beautiful college town with a genuinely great football culture and one knucklehead with a Coke bottle is now the image people are taking away from Saturday. Infuriating.

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  Feli7h ago

  its football not a tea party lol

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  Avery5h ago

  Lane Kiffin leaving Ole Miss for LSU after everything Grove-related he posted for years was genuinely a gut punch moment for fans and I think that emotional context matters even if the bottle absolutely does not.

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  Jordan4h ago

  Honestly Kiffin probably loved every second of it. Dude runs on chaos.

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  Jamie S.6h ago

  nope

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  Reese2h ago

  SEC do what SEC do

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