Lane Kiffin jokes about video of Tennessee fans practicing throwing mustard bottles
Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin joked about a video from a Tennessee Double-A baseball team where fans threw mustard bottles at his likeness. The Tennessee Smokies, a Double-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs, had fun at the Rebels coach’s expense when they let fans throw a mustard bottle at a likeness of Kiffin over a plastic skeleton.
The video showed kids throwing the bottles from a decent distance away, as one hit Kiffin’s picture that was taped to the skeleton’s head — knocking the head clean off the body.
Lane Kiffin jokes about mustard throws
“Glad that kid wasn’t in Neyland last fall,” joked Kiffin as he shared the video on his own Twitter. “[Paul] Finebaum get him on the show see if he can hit me from 40 rows up. #JustMeansMore.”
Kiffin has become one of most fun faces in the SEC with his personality — and apparently one of the most fun to throw things at for rival schools. Kiffin was the head coach of the Volunteers in 2009, and it’s clear that the Tennessee area still aren’t huge fans of his.
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The moment was a great example of SEC rivalries and minor league baseball mixing together, as the Smokies held the promotion in good fun. The video they shared was captioned simply, “Lane Kiffin is not welcome in Tennessee.”
The strange choice of projectile comes from a moment between the Ole Miss and Tennessee rivalry last season, when Ole Miss defeated the Volunteers 31-26 at Neyland Stadium. Tennessee fans became upset over a call by officials late in the game and threw debris on the field in protest leading to a stoppage of play for nearly 15-minutes.
One of the items caught by cameras on the field was a mustard bottle, leading to another opportunity for Kiffin to take a jab at his former program. A fan came up to Kiffin later in the season and asked him to sign their mustard bottle — leading to a Tennessee minor league baseball team holding target practice a year later.