Fan-dumb

You can't beat a crisp Saturday afternoon in the fall, the sun shining, the sky that lovely shade of cobalt to which September and October hold the patent, a football stadium filled with passion and color and glorio- OH MY GOD IS THAT A GOLF BALL??

Yes, America, that is a golf ball, and now Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin is holding it up to the TV camera, in remarkable good humor considering a bunch of idiots wearing Tennessee orange were showering him (and the field in general) with golf balls, water bottles and various other projectiles Saturday afternoon.  Good old Rocky Top, long may it wind up in the can for drunk and disorderly. 

The Blob holds no prosecutorial brief for either the University of Tennessee or its fans, other than to observe they've got a strange way to show you appreciate being back in Neyland Stadium after a year away. Yes, I get it, they hate Lane Kiffin, who can be an annoying goober, because he ditched UT for USC a few years back. But ... really, people. you gave a whole damn wonderful game a black eye Saturday.

Kiffin, on the other hand, did the second coolest thing that day in response to fan idiocy: When  some hilljack threw a water bottle at him as he left the field following Ole Miss's win, he caught it and then impishly removed his trademark visor and tossed it into the stands in reply. 

Extra credit to Coach for both thinking fast and maintaining his sense of humor.

Out in Iowa City, meanwhile, Purdue lineman Greg Long proved equally alert. When a fan threw a full can of beer on the field while Long's Boilermakers were dis-assembling No. 2 Iowa, he grabbed it, tipped it up and guzzled it through his facemask. Because, you know, FREE BEER.

Humorless Fun Nazis that they occasionally are, I hope Long's coaches and/or Purdue administrators didn't give him grief for that. College kids should still get to be college kids occasionally, even in professional college football.

Here's also hoping Tennessee and the SEC deals less graciously with the morons in Neyland. The Blob suggests going full nuclear and banning tailgating and limiting the number of fans allowed at Tennessee home games for the rest of the season. 

As for the knucklehead in Iowa who threw beer, he's already gotten his punishment. He not only had to watch Purdue toss his beloved Hawkeyes around like a stuffed animal, he had to watch one of the Purdues drink his beer.

Ouch.