NCAA revoking Rammer Jammer?

So, I was going to show you the link, but it appears to have been deleted over the past couple of days. Another article says the statement is completely false. Who to believe? I believe it to be a rumor, nothing more; it is an intriguing statement nevertheless.

The article proclaimed that a top NCAA official and ESPN analyst (both of which I can not find names for because the column was deleted) were making legislation to try to ban the Alabama chant 'Rammer Jammer' and, if violated, fifteen penalty yards per offense.

This is the (excuse my lack of grammar out of pure bewilderment from reading this article) stupidest thing that I have ever heard.

...From experience of multiple games and, as of this year, the ferocity of the student section. Rammer Jammer is at least gone through three to five times depending on the gravity of the game. So, assuming my math is correct, will the NCAA penalize Bama 45 to 75 yards at the start of the next game? Most teams-I want to say six-already have an advantage with the bye week before playing Alabama. Assuming we win, they will also have over a half a football field advantage.

A write up, by Cameron Shiflett, thankfully summed up some of the original article's main points. Here are a couple:

1. Rammer Jammer and Cheers Like It Hurt the Feelings of Other Teams.

I hope that most of the teams Alabama play against are not hormonal seventh grade girls. Now, Nick Saban has been known to make grown men cry (example Dolphins Manuel Wright), and I think his use of wordage was a bit more intimidating. The only time I have seen a player emotionally distressed while playing Alabama would be Tebow. That was a pretty iconic Alabama image. Ole Miss and LSU basically scream go to hell to each other for four quarters, and the NCAA wants to penalize us for a chant we do within the last couple of seconds/postgame.

2. These cheers are obnoxious.

Obnoxious football traditions other than ours (Top 3)
1.Mississippi State cowbells
2.Gator chomp
3.98% of LSU fans attire and attitude

I guess to opposing players and fans it could be seen as obnoxious, but tradition is tradition anywhere you go. Taking it out will dampen college football in general.

3. The students need to be held to the same level of accountability as the players.

There is absolutely no way you can monitor this. In a stadium, with the new expansion, that seats 100,000 plus, how are you to tell that it's only the students with at least 80,000 non-students in the stands. What if the opposing team wants to yell Rammer Jammer? LSU and especially Auburn (in which the crowd is more even) would jump all over that opportunity. Unless we want NCAA officials lining the stairs, it is impossible to monitor who is breaking this rule.

4. The SEC officials have enough problems keeping up with the regulations they are supposed to call.

I agree with the columnist here. "This one is actually my argument. I think it explains itself if you haven't been living under a rock during football season."

I do not think that this is true, but it is definitely an interesting blog subject. Roll Tide!