oh my vol.

this weekend, we're having a family outing to the UT/Ole Miss game!

we've been planning it for months - in fact, we got tickets in july. like, we're serious about this game.

my new step brother is a senior at ole miss, meg and i are huge UT fans, mom & ed are stuck in the middle. what better way to celebrate a house divided than all going to the Grove for the UT/Ole Miss match up? um, i can't think of one.

this will be my first adventure to the Grove. from what i've heard and read in Dixieland Delight, this is the epitome of an extravagant display of southern tailgating. the Grove is full of tents that probably cost more than my car, paid tent-setter-uppers that watch the tents during the game, a spread of food fit for a southern king that is probably more fancy than my thanksgiving dinner {mmmm, thanksgiving!} and southern bitties dressed to the 9s on game day.

let me tell you about how i did it at UT: we stumbled out of bed, busted out the orange solo cups, picked up the cleanest dirty jeans off of the floor, pulled out our "luckiest" UT tshirt or hoodie and proceeded to sing rocky top from the top of our lungs. we grilled hot dogs and sometimes - if we were feeling super fancy - we'd spring for wings. southern and charming? absolutely. it's all up to your own definition.

this week - the redneck renegades of UT will be bleeding orange all over the fancy Grove and i cannot wait! i'm more nervous about my outfit choice than i am about the fact that our team may be a little shaken up after wednesday night's ruckus at rocky top.

oh...... you haven't heard about our 3 freshman soon to be stars? you know, they just get their UT education handed to them - they don't have to buy a single thing for themselves - they could possibly go on to the NFL to make millions of dollars to carry a leather ball filled with air up and down a beautiful lawn. but, no. they decided to rob a few young college dudes with pellet guns in a service station parking lot. for what? oh, nothing. the rob-ees offered up their micky dee's cheeseburgers to the mean old robbers toting pellet guns - because that's all they had. and their get-a-way car? a bad ass prius. fail. at least get a pimped out suburban with dark gangster tint. or a chevy on 22' rims. something. no, they had a "green," eco-friendly tiny coupe for 3 dudes and a girl toting drugs. way to go guys.

to borrow a friend of a friend's facebook status that i could not have versed better myself....

"This one time when I was going to college for free and looking forward to being overpaid for nothing more than God-given ability for the next 15 years of my life I decided to rob broke college students with a beebee gun and run away in a Prius. It was awesome."

so, yea. contradiction much?

i can't wait to go cheer on my renegade, pellet gun carryin' UT Vols in the largest display of Southern fashion tailgating in the Grove.

that's how we roll.

go big orange.