Some people love being called a Redneck.
Posted on 02/01/2007 11:19:21 AM PST by balch3
Profanity and an off-color comment about Cajuns by Nick Saban that he thought would remain private have become public, causing the former Dolphins coach to issue an apology Wednesday through the University of Alabama. During a 40-minute meeting with three South Florida newspaper reporters, including one from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, on Jan. 4 in Tuscaloosa, Ala., after being named the Crimson Tide's head coach, Saban relayed an anecdote about the reaction to his hiring at Louisiana State University, a Southeastern Conference rival where he coached from 2000 to 2004. Saban told the reporters that "you guys won't be able to print this" before conveying what he said was a telephone call he had received from an unidentified member of LSU's board of trustees. "He was walking down the street yesterday before the Sugar Bowl," Saban said. "He calls me. There was a guy working in the ditch, one of those coon-ass guys that talk funny. I can't talk like them, but he can. Most people in Louisiana can." Continuing his story, Saban then repeated the worker's vulgar comment about him going to Alabama. Saban laughed and then added, "But that's how [LSU fans] are, though. They're passionate, hardcore." Audio of the interview was recently aired on WQAM (560-AM) and subsequently posted on the Internet, which prompted Saban to issue a statement about
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Some people love being called a Redneck.
Rednecks live in N. Louisiana.
Coon Asses live in S. Louisiana.
It also sounds like some overly sensitive bedwetters.
It's still a redneck everywhere outside Louisiana. Ya'll just see it different.Mais yeah, we see it different. I gaaa-raun-tee...
For the LSU fans.
What folks seem to be missing in this incident is the fact that Saban told the story "off the record" to three reporters. The fact is that one of these reporters broke this journalistic ethic by making Saban's remarks public. An audio tape of Saban's off the record remarks were e-mailed to another reporter at a south Florida radio station. According to a radio report I heard a few moments ago, the alleged reporter who made Saban's comments public is Jeff Darlington. He has also, reportedly, issued a statement today saying he is sorry. He ought to be fired.
Saban, according to many public accounts, is a very private person and not given to telling jokes or slightly off color stories. Given the south Florida and Miami Dolphin fan bases' uproar of Saban's leaving the Dolphins to take the reins at the University of Alabama, it appears to me to be sour grapes over Miami being jilted by Saban for another, Alabama in this case. There appears to be a continuing effort to bring Saban down.
For the record, I live in Alabama but am not an Alabama fan.
ROFL!
If I am not mistaken the Louisiana Air National Guard is informally known as the "coon-ass" militia. The first time I heard the term was about 20 years ago. I had a calendar of figher jets, and one photo was of a Louisiana National Guard fighter, maybe an F-4?, with the afterburner going, right around sunset. The caption said something like "One of the Coon-Ass militia steps on the loud pedal" The next time I heard the term was recently, and it explained that it is a Louisiana term for "redneck".
LOL, mai sha! You got dat right!
I can tell the difference between the accents of a Thibodaux Coon Ass and a Breaux Bridge Coon Ass.
Where I used to live, anyone that lived north of I-10 was a Damn Yankee!
LOL - it's true, they're all different. My parents must've had a mixed marriage, my dad was orginally from Waterproof up in North La. and my mom was from down here. My relatives on her side would speak Cajun French when they wanted to gossip (her side of the family is hilarious)and didn't want us kids to know what or who they were talking about. Furthermore, my dad was Methodist and my mom was Catholic! Shocking!! (sarc) Even now, at least once a year, my mom and her cousins go to lunch and the rule is they can only speak French. God help the poor waitress who gets stuck with them, lol!
Coon ass = swamp dwelling redneck.
Not an unfriendly phrase, but in these times...
I heard this on a national sports radio show last night, and it was immediately obvious that the idiot behind the microphone thought that Saban meant "coon" instead of "coon-ass." I knew what he meant, but apparently other people didn't get it.
It's still dumb as hell to say that anywhere you even THINK there's a tape recorder running in this day and age.
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Amen!
I've never run across a coon-ass that was offended by being called a Cajun. Of course, some folks think I ought to be offended when someone calls me a Cracker.
colt , us coonass are the common folk
free dixie,sw
I love the cajun accent. I was born in Slidell, yet we moved in 1964 when I was only 4. Much of my early speech was painted with cajun accents, to the point that when we moved to Texas people would comment on the way I spoke. Not so much an accent but the way I pronounced certain words. I remember catching grief for the way I said water and wash.
To this day a true Cajun accent just feels cozy to me, even if I can't always follow the conversation! Gotta run 'make groceries' now!
'Make Groceries' Love that. Was shock when I heard that when I lived there. "Poorboy, dressed please, Lots of my-naise".
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