Forgive LSU students their youthful indiscretions

Published 5:58 pm Sunday, October 28, 2018

It is the profane chant that is verily tearing the LSU community apart right now.

You have probably heard about it. It concerns LSU, so of course it revolves around football.

But it’s a classic struggle, a generational divide. Some families have been torn asunder.

 It originated, of course, from the Animal House portion of the LSU student section at Tiger Stadium.

It is sophomoric behavior at its worst — and, even worse, it gets  passed down to every freshman class that enters the Ol’ War Skul.

Perhaps the loudest, most defiant and somewhat gleeful version of it ever chanted took force during the big LSU upset of Georgia. So it’s going to be hard to stop it now.

But it’s a tradition not worth preserving.

This is no way for a Flagship University to act. It has become an embarrassment to the whole state.

The Georgia rendition even bled out onto national television, more distinct than ever.

The LSU band long ago quit playing the song that sometimes prompted it. But today’s students are a resourceful lot and took to chanting it a cappella.

School officials have even begged for restraint, asking the students to police each other. Oh, yeah, like that was going to work.

It starts with a defiant few, but it doesn’t take long for the mob mentality to kick in. Once it gets going, even the sweet little innocent Phi Beta Kappa lasses, smiling from ear to ear, soon get caught up in the emotion and join in the chant without shame nor even a blush  — hoping against hope that their parents don’t catch a glimpse of them on TV.

Before long the whole stadium — women and children included — are subjected to the vile, explicit commands. 

It’s immature, of course, it’s also selfish, bawdy, racy and mostly stupid kids being stupid kids because they can.

I’m not one to get all pernickety and point a schoolmarm’s finger at the guilty, but, sorry, this one crosses the line.

The chant itself is pretty hardcore. Some would say X-rated. It’s certainly not for the faint of heart.

We’ll have to leave it at that.

If I was to dare print the actual, vile and obscene words they are chanting, this whole newspaper office would burst into a towering inferno and the collateral damage would leave most of the surrounding countryside smouldering in ashes. Mushroom clouds would appear above my laptop.

Not going there.

You will just have to use your naughtiest imagination.

But no one seems to have the answer.

Merely washing the idiot kids mouth out with soap probably wouldn’t suffice for this offense.

To object to them is to be labelled an old fuddy-duddy who doesn’t remember what it’s like to be gleefully young and rebellious.

To agree with them is to probably get kicked out of your congregation.

Sure, they probably think they’re being cute and funny.

But, at heart, it’s just immaturity.

It’s also obscene, with no regard to the toddlers in residence.

If you haven’t been there, I wish I could let you know how stupid this really was and …

What the hey. Let’s throw caution to the wind. This needs to be out there in the public domain.

You need to know exactly what is being chanted. So let’s risk it all and go out in a blaze of glory.

Sure, the pious police will be on my doorstep. Dang the consequences, full speed ahead.

If I get arrested, I get arrested. Let’s strike a blow for free speech and your right to know exactly what is going on in that dad-blamed student section. Make sure the little kiddos are in bed. They don’t need to see this. At least cover their eyes.

Brace yourself. 

Let go of your inhibitions just for a moment. But divert grandma’s attention.

OK, you’ve been warned. Ready?

Here goes.

This, my friend, completely unedited and presented in all its unfiltered glory, is what those fool-hardy students are chanting right there before God and parents:

“Bring on BAMA!”

Or, sometimes even the second verse sneaks into play.

“We Want BAMA!!!”

There, we said it. It’s out there now.

Yes, for all its recent advances, medical science still has no remedy  for Young & Dumb.

But, fiddlesticks and fiddledee, don’t they realize there are young, impressionable kids listening to this nonsense?

Fortunately, these young know-it-alls will outgrow it. Someday they will be sitting in the high-dollar club seats, shaking their heads in disgust at the latest young fools over in the North End Zone.

But, for now, these kids are too cocksure and bulletproof to understand the consequences.

They are fairly new to LSU-Alabama experience.

Bring on Bama?

Maybe they don’t realize that, for all the heartache and frustration the Tide has caused over the years, this might be the scariest version yet.

We want Bama?

The greybeards in residence might educate them on the dry spell between 1971 to 1982, or that the Tide didn’t lose in Tiger Stadium between 1969 and 2000.

You can admire the whippersnappers pluck. But one day, these young rebels will realize it’s not necessarily a good thing.

The current streak is Bama’s 7-game winning streak.

Bama usually has all the answers.

Mainly, Be careful what you wish for.LSU student section being naughty