Vict'ry Chicken

The BDFL's undeniable taste of vict'ry

LAKEVIEW PARK - The BDFL is build on integrity, but thrives on culture and entertainment. Back in the good ol' days, football fans and crowds didn't need a jumbotron scoreboard, microphones, speakers and prompts to cheer for their team. Cheerleaders and megaphones helped out, but fans had their own traditional chants to cheer their team on to vict'ry. The tried and true cheers over the years included "DEE-fence", "Two Bits", "Block That Kick", "Push 'Em Back", "Hold That Line", "Get That Ball Back" and "V-I-C-T-O-R-Y". Another favorite cheer in this group amongst fans was "Whatta You Want?". It was a cheer used when your team had the ball and you wanted a big score. It usually started out with one loud obnoxious guy in the crowd standing up and yelling "Whatta You Want?" and the fans would respond by saying "TD", then he would ask the crowd again loudly "What's That?" and the crowd would respond with "Touchdown!" and it would be repeated several times, hopefully leading your team to a touchdown. In the early 1980s during a late blow out game in a sparsely section in the corner of the stadium, the "Whatta You Want?" cheer broke out and was done half-heartedly as a means to run the score up and rub it in a little bit on a rival opponent. However, what happened at the end of this sequence changed football forever. As the cheer was coming to an end, a big black Bama fan still sitting and reclined over a few rows of bleachers asked those within earshot, "You know what I want?". When we looked at him slightly puzzled, he replied, "I want a big ol' box of chicken, that's what I want", so thus was born "vict'ry chicken". True "vict'ry chicken" is always fried chicken and comes in a nice cardboard box, or round barrel like Harland Sanders made famous, and it consists of a whole chicken, or two, i.e., drumsticks, wings, thighs, backs, breasts, etc. No sides are really needed with vict'ry chicken, it tastes just as good without the sides. Real "vict'ry chicken" is actually bought before the game and a couple of pieces can be eaten warm before the game at your tailgate, but most is saved for after the game and is consumed cold at the tailgate while the gameday traffic subsides. "Vict'ry chicken" isn't necessarily chicken fingers, but it is a good reminder of the good ol' days and where our tradition originated. In Week 8 of the BDFL's 31st season, the Cheetahs, Gamblers, Vulcans, Mayors, Bellcows, Wildcats, Dogs and finally the Sloth Monsters, all had the satisfying taste of vict'ry chicken.

Chicken Fried by the Zac Brown Band (2005)

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