Oxford: Beer bad, liquor good!
By Glenn Tanner - April 20, 2007
After looking helpless through the first three innings, South Carolina just got to Will Kline in a big way. After three and a half innings, we're tied 3-3.
Like they had done in the first two innings, Ole Miss added a single run in the third. Justin Henry walked, stole second, moved to third when the throw escaped into center, then scored when Cody Overbeck delivered his second RBI single of the game.
Will Kline had gone 9-up-9-down on the Gamecocks through three innings, but the top of the order scorched him on their second looks. Harley Lail led off the fourth with a double and Travis Jones took a fastball off his keister. James Darnell followed with a towering triple off the left field wall to make it 3-2, then scored on a groundout to tie it.
And now, on to something complete different... And something completely unfathomable.
It's OK to drink liquor on parts of the Ole Miss campus, but not beer. Yes, you read that correctly. Drinking a beer is illegal. Taking shots is not.
Like many places in the south, Mississippi allows counties to set rules on the sale and consumption of alcohol. And when Fayette County set their rules, man, did they ever botch it. The 1966 change allowed the sale of liquor and "native wines," but someone forgot to toss the word "beer" into the ordinance. The result? If you're tailgating on parts of the Ole Miss campus that are governed by the county and not the city of Oxford, Budweiser is bad, but Tanqueray is OK.
I know this sounds like I'm making it up, but here's an article detailing the laws, and here's another article about it that had me laughing out loud in the press box and drawing stares.
Posted by Glenn Tanner at 08:47 PM on April 20, 2007
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