Tennessee's Lane Kiffin Should Just Shut Up and Quit Embarrassing The SEC!

Enough is enough, Lane Kiffin, it is time for you to grow up and shut up!

Ever since Alabama's Terrence "Mount" Cody blocked Daniel Lincoln's field goal attempt Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Al, all we have heard is Kiffin's false accusations and childish remarks insinuating that somehow Tennessee was cheated in Alabama's 12-10 victory.

Kiffin's biggest complaint is that Alabama's Terrence Cody took off his helmet after the play and that because of that Tennessee should have received a second kick due to an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.

Kiffin had this to say, "If a play's still going, you can't take your helmet off," Kiffin said. "A guy throws his helmet as the ball's still live. He throws his helmet and then two of their guys go and recover the ball. It's a 15-yard penalty, and you kick again."

Let me address this idiotic accusation first.

 Because Alabama blocked and recovered the ball, Alabama had possession. The game can't end on a defensive penalty, but because of the possession change, Alabama wasn't on defense.

Here is how SEC spokesman Charles Bloom explained the call to Sports Illustrated .

"The foul for taking helmet off is a live ball foul treated as a dead-ball foul," Bloom wrote in an e-mail Saturday night. "That is, if it happens on a play where time does not expire then the penalty is enforced on the following play. However since the clock ran out on that play, then there is no next play, so there is no penalty to mark off."

Even CBS commentator Gary Danielson said he thought Alabama should have been flagged and Tennessee should have gotten a second kick.

Danielson called a Birmingham sports talk show Monday an apologized to Alabama fans for the mistake.

Kiffin also had this to say when asked why he didn't try to move the ball closer before attempting the kick, "You run another play and you throw an interception or they throw another flag on us -- I wasn't going to let the refs lose the game for us there and some magical flag appear," Kiffin said on Sunday.

Wait, I hear the sound of a black helicopter hovering over Bryant-Denny Stadium. A voice crackles over a secret receiver stuck in the Head Official's ear.

You have got to stop them agent Zebra! Throw a flag on the next play or Alabama and Florida will not accomplish their assigned mission. Use the old phantom penalty trick per plan x. The SEC office will disavow any knowledge of this communication. Do you read agent Zebra, over? The SEC Commissioner is counting on you!

You know this would be funny, if it just wasn't so pitiful.

Kiffin had more to say as he rolled two steel balls in his hand reminiscent of Captain Queeg in the movie, 'Caine Mutiny' 

"I'm sure we'll get one of those letters that really means nothing as Bobby got last week, but Florida and Alabama live on," Kiffin said.

Well, Lane you should get a letter, you are accusing SEC officials of conspiring to make Tennessee lose a game.

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