{"id":139,"date":"2011-12-15T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=139"},"modified":"2013-08-01T13:16:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T18:16:05","slug":"139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/139\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sit back and fill your red cup with another stiff \u2018nog
\nand enjoy this holiday edition.<\/h2>\n

by Red Cup Rebellion<\/a> – from The Local Voice #146<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Red<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the most wonderful time of the year\u2014aside from the week leading up to college football\u2019s kickoff\u2014at Red Cup Rebellion<\/strong>, as we take time off from the drone of day-to-day life to eat ham and spend time with the folks we care about celebrating the things we care about. Yes, it\u2019s Christmas time, and aside from watching A Christmas Story on loop while in a hazy, eggnog induced stupor, nothing marks this season quite as well as the wishing for and exchange of gifts.<\/p>\n

In this holiday edition of RCR via TLV<\/em>, we\u2019d like to share with you the gifts wished for by various Ole Miss Rebels<\/strong> and some of those our alma mater is associated with, even tangentially. Sorta. And by that I mean \u201cnot at all.\u201d These are jokes.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not going to pretend to know these people. But you know you like Ole Miss athletics jokes, and you know you\u2019re not into heavy or layered reading over your holiday breaks. So sit back, fill your red cup with another stiff \u2018nog, and enjoy.<\/p>\n

First, the new Rebel football coach Hugh Freeze<\/strong> is dreamin\u2019 of a white Christmas because\u2014wait for it\u2014his name sounds like cold weather!<\/p>\n

For related reasons, Whit Waide<\/strong> wants a sizzling hot Kenny Chesney<\/strong> Christmas in Ecuador; it never freezes, is far from Up North there and he\u2019s not afraid to bring back a good dose of malaria to prove his bulldog bona fides. Also, he\u2019ll likely need the assistance of a veterinary doctor upon catching some sort of parasite that typically manifests itself in horses.<\/p>\n

\"Merry<\/a>But back to Hugh Freeze, he\u2019d also like a book of Jerry Clower<\/strong> jokes, some sweet potato pie, a couple of Muddy Waters<\/strong> records, and really just as many folksy, homespun, Mississippi<\/strong>an things as you can stuff in that there stocking, alright? He fits in with us, and we love him for that.<\/p>\n

Andy Kennedy<\/strong> unselfishly wishes for the continued knee health of his players because he\u2019s got an NCAA tournament berth to finally earn (or he won\u2019t get a paycheck next year, right guys?).<\/p>\n

Mike Bianco<\/strong> would like a similar reprieve from underachievement and finally take his baseball team to Omaha<\/strong> for an appearance in the College World Series<\/strong>. He also wants a name over which fans don\u2019t argue about pronunciation.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Jones<\/strong> has wished for a reprieve from getting his name mentioned whenever a football player misses a tackle.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Houston Nutt<\/strong> wished for six million dollars. He got it. That\u2019s it; and no, it\u2019s not funny.<\/p>\n

Over in Starkville<\/strong>, Dan Mullen<\/strong> has wished, repeatedly, for the Penn State<\/strong> job, but he\u2019s not begging or choosing at this point. \u201cIs Arizona State<\/strong> taken yet,\u201d he\u2019s asked. \u201cArkansas State<\/strong>? Really anywhere more than a few hours\u2019 drive away from Oktibbeha<\/strong> County<\/strong> would be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plenty Rebels, past and present, were filling up their Amazon.com wish lists. Tyrone Nix<\/strong> has requested \u201cHow to Defend the Read-Option for Dummies;\u201d Bradley Sowell<\/strong> is yearning for \u201cPatience: The Art of Peaceful Living\u201d by Allan Lokos; and Enrique Davis giddily awaits his copy of \u201cVision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Les Miles<\/strong> doesn\u2019t just want some taffy this year. He wants ALL THE TAFFY THIS YEAR. He also wants several box sets of Power Rangers DVDs.<\/p>\n

Ole Miss Men\u2019s Tennis Team<\/strong> has begged and pleaded for a hip dance party featuring LMFAO and the every type of hors d\u2019oeuvres that Whit Waide would ridicule (which, if you call them by that name, is all of them). Also white shorts. And white caps.<\/p>\n

D.T. Shackelford<\/strong> plans to ritually break his hand for Christmas and sport the Patrick Willis<\/strong> club hand look. Unfortunately Shack is indestructible; that ACL wasn\u2019t torn, it just lacked discipline because of Houston Nutt.<\/p>\n

The scholars and artists who operate The Local Voice<\/em><\/strong> would like for the jerks at Red Cup Rebellion to turn their biweekly column in to them in a far more timely fashion. This is, indeed, wishful thinking (sorry, we\u2019re bad about these things).<\/p>\n

The Gentlemen Who Operate RedCupRebellion.com<\/span><\/strong> would like nothing more than a few handles of the world\u2019s finest brown liquors and maybe a few more of you all to log onto our little website and do us the favor of a bookmark. That ain\u2019t too much to ask, y\u2019all.<\/p>\n

So Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year to you and yours from us at the Cup. 2011 was an excruciatingly eventful year in Ole Miss Rebel athletics; here\u2019s hoping to 2012 being just as entertaining and memorable.<\/p>\n

Hotty Toddy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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