The mid-inning entertainment at this Tennessee Double-A game was children throwing bottles of mustard at Lane Kiffin’s head

What’s the best approach inform it’s faculty soccer season? It’s not by watching the foliage maps. It’s not by listening for Kirk Herbstreit’s voice in your tv set or having a look on the unhappy state of your FanDuel steadiness after a tricky Week 0. It’s this video proper right here.

That was the mid-inning leisure on the Tennessee Smokies recreation this weekend. The Smokies are a Double-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. They declare to have “America’s friendliest ballpark” of their Twitter bio. However when Rocky High begins rockin’, all that southern hospitality goes proper out the window … particularly in case your title is Lane Kiffin.

Nevermind the truth that Kiffin coaches in a completely totally different sport, doesn’t face the Vols this yr, and was final employed by the College of Tennessee throughout Obama’s first time period. When September hits, the Smokies—and the good state of Tennessee as an entire—choose up the mustard and get a-hurlin’. You suppose this child simply occurs to decapitate Kiffin’s smirking face on the primary strive? No sir. This takes years of follow. That is generational wells of angst lastly coming good. This isn’t some viral stunt. It’s custom.

Kiffin has spoken earlier than about being requested to put on a bulletproof vest when he returned to Neyland Stadium as a member of the Alabama teaching employees in 2014. Now we all know why. Flying condiments are significantly much less hazardous when you’ve gotten a layer of Kevlar between you and the thousand island. So right here’s hoping when the mud settles and the French’s is cleared, we get Rebels-Vols within the SEC Championship Sport, as a result of there ain”t no sauce hotter than pure hatred.