Mississippi Police has exposed Lane Kiffin for lying about Ole Miss fans attempting to chase his car off the road.
Lane Kiffin must have woken up one morning and decided, “You know what? Today feels like a good day to invent a near-death experience.” Because that’s the only way to explain the masterpiece of chaos he dropped on the world.
According to Kiffin, a pack of Ole Miss fans, yes, actual humans with day jobs, supposedly chased his car off the road like he was the last chicken wing at a tailgate. Not just followed him. Chased him. Picture two dozen people sprinting behind an SUV like it’s a cardio class they didn’t sign up for. Dramatic? Absolutely. Believable? Absolutely not.
Enter the Mississippi Police Department, stage left, ready to ruin his whole story.
They stepped up like they were about to announce the winner of a beauty pageant, then basically let the world know there is absolutely ZERO evidence this man was hunted down like a deer during hunting season.
According to Kiffin, his son, Knox, was in the car, and the vitriol was so great that it made him reexamine his time in Oxford.
“Call a cop that you know so they’ll help you,” Lane Kiffin said.
“Because you personally know them, because you are leaving the state. And you gotta turn around, and people are screaming at you you know, trying to run you off the road I don’t know what they’re gonna do. And so that… That affects you. And that airport scene, and all the things being said, I understand that. It’s the passion. But they’re saying that about you, that you thought you did a really good job for six years for them. And that affects you. And even on the plane down there I’m kind of like ‘yeah we made this decision but like, god I really…’ You know?”
Here comes the Mississippi Police Department trashing Lane Kiffin’s claim.
“There’s been no incidents where our highway patrol state troopers were involved in any sort of accident trying to run Coach Kiffin off the road.”
Bailey Holloway, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, told Mississippi Today that Kiffin had a safety escort from the Mississippi Highway Patrol when he traveled to the airport. The agency’s officers have no record of an automobile trying to push the football coach’s car off the roadway, Holloway added.
Breck Jones, the public information officer for the Oxford Police Department, also said that the local police department received no calls or complaints about the alleged incident, and they have not been asked by anyone to look into it.
At the end of the day, it was classic chaos, a coach telling tall tales, police rolling their eyes, and fans wondering how they got dragged into a storyline they didn’t audition for.
