Midgame entertainment in this Tennessee Double-A game has kids throwing mustard bottles at Lane Kiffin’s head | Here’s the loop

What’s the easiest way to tell college football season? It’s not by looking at the foliage map. It’s not about listening to Kirk Herbstreit on your TV, or looking at the sad state of your FanDuel balance after a rough Week 0. Here is this video.

That was midgame entertainment for this weekend’s Tennessee Smokies game. The Smokies are a double-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. They claim to have “the friendliest golf course in America” ​​on their Twitter bio. But when Rocky Top started rocking, all the southern hospitality was gone…especially if your name was Lane Kiffin.

Never mind, Kiffin coaches an entirely different sport, didn’t face Walls this year, and was last hired by the University of Tennessee during Obama’s first term. When September rolls around, the Smoky Mountains — and the entire state of Tennessee — pick up the mustard and go mad. You think the kid decapitated Kiffin’s grinning face on the first try? No sir. It takes years of practice. This well of anxiety for generations is finally getting better. This is not a viral gimmick. This is tradition.

Kiffin said before Bulletproof vest required When he returned to Neyland Stadium in 2014 as part of the Alabama coaching staff. Now we know why. Flying condiments is far less dangerous when there is a layer of Kevlar between you and the thousand islands. So hopefully when the dust settles and the French are cleared, we get Rebels-Vols in the SEC Championship, because there’s no hotter sauce than pure hatred.