The South has its own version of the National Anthem

[jmowreader]

The last four words are "Gentlemen, start your engines."

[autorank]

1. I thought it was this (although I like yours better)

Yea Alabama! Drown 'em Tide.
Every Bama fan's behind you, hit your stride.
Go teach the Bulldogs to behave,
Send the Yellow Jackets to a watery grave.
And if a man starts to weaken,
That's his shame.
For Bama's pluck and grit have writ her name in Crimson flame.
Fight on, fight on, fight on men.

[jmowreader]

2. Maybe in Alabama it is!

But we can all strike up a rousing chorus of...

Wossamotta! Hats off to U!
To thy colors--ochre and alice blue!
We shall ere be faithful and true
Hail, Wossamotta! Hail! Better we should be in jail!
Hey Wossamotta U!

[autorank]

3. jmowreader, That song's a keeper. You still have the football in NC?

(This is a friendly taunt, I like NC! but nobody's here so what the heck? Taunt away yourself.)

[jmowreader]

4. Dude, they don't HAVE football in NC!

We've got the Panthers who are good every once in a while; UNC, which gets to go to the Continental Tire Bowl or the the Kellogg's Cereal Bowl every once in a while; Duke, who is so bad they don't even get to go to the American Standard Bowl; NC State, who claims to have a football team; and Methodist College...where college men play on a high-school field.

OTOH, when was the last time Alabama went to the Final Four? And you seem not to have an NFL team at all. At least we have a bad one.

[bertha katzenengel]

5. I always thought the last two words of the nat'l anthem were "Play Ball."

:7

[Aristus]

6. So do the Yankees.

Last two words: "Play ball!"

[CO Liberal]

7. I Thought It Was "Hey, Y'All - Watch THIS!!"

No ... that's the last thing many Southeners say.

:-)