Recruiting Forum Football Talk XXXIII

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ODTVOL said:
I completely agree that middle and high income folks don't feel comfortable in low-income neighborhoods. The problem is that too many people on this board want to perpetuate the falsehood that you cannot come to Memphis without visiting a low income neighborhood and being robbed, raped, and/or murdered. It is my opinion that, since you are only slightly less likely to be robbed, raped, and/or murdered (especially raped) in Nashville, there is some ridiculous objection to the color of the robber, rapist, and/or murderer. There are an ever-growing number of places to visit here that are fun and safe. If people will come out of their shells, they will see there are things to enjoy about all of these places, even if that wasn't the case twenty (20) years ago. Hell, twenty(20) years ago you couldn't visit Time Square without watching a crack deal and being solicited by a prostitute. Now, it's essentially Disney.
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I really don't believe it's the color, it's just the old perception of Memphis as a run down, dump of a town. Chattanooga was that way when I was a kid growing up there. It has done a complete 180. Memphis has potential to do the same.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Every one of those guys were influenced by music endemic to the rural south....hence the term rockabilly. Which one of those posers seem like they are influenced by anything "rural" or "southern" or even "folk" music? Like I said every once in awhile Nashville throws us a bone, the rest of the time its just slick overproduced bubble gum pop.
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Like I said before too. I am not really a fan of a lot of what Nashville puts out and calls country music. However, I am just seeing similarities between how country music evolved from mostly gospel and bluegrass to the rockabilly to the country/rock in the 80's and 90's to country/pop that we have today. Music will evolve to what the people will buy. If people stop buying the country/pop stuff then country music will evolve again. It's all about the money and what will sell records.
 
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volatil said:
NBC describes Nashville crowd as

"SEC Football meets European soccer"
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NBCSN n their analysts have been blown away by the atmosphere. Linda Conn from ESPN was there last night n have not seen any comments from her. Barry Melrose is on record as saying this will be the BEST Stanley Cup if Nashville makes it because of the atmosphere. WE'RE HERE!!!!
 
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Volator said:
NBCSN n their analysts have been blown away by the atmosphere. Linda Conn from ESPN was there last night n have not seen any comments from her. Barry Melrose is on record as saying this will be the BEST Stanley Cup if Nashville makes it because of the atmosphere. WE'RE HERE!!!!
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Funny thing is it's always been like this
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
Every one of those guys were influenced by music endemic to the rural south....hence the term rockabilly. Which one of those posers seem like they are influenced by anything "rural" or "southern" or even "folk" music? Like I said every once in awhile Nashville throws us a bone, the rest of the time its just slick overproduced bubble gum pop.
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Country music nowadays sucks. Bunch of pencil neck jack asses. However I am a pretty big fan of Chris Stapleton.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I really don't believe it's the color, it's just the old perception of Memphis as a run down, dump of a town. Chattanooga was that way when I was a kid growing up there. Part of it has done a complete 180. Memphis has potential to do the same.
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fyp...there's plenty of areas in Chattanooga you couldn't pay me to visit.
 
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Rishvol said:
Hey look another butch bashing thread in the FF
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I made a rookie mistake the last week or two going over there. Those guys are great at deflecting when a counterpoint is made. I really hate to say this, but we have some fans who just suck. Life is a gift, and there are some miserable people over there.
 
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Rishvol said:
Hey look another butch bashing thread in the FF
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VolGee4 said:
I made a rookie mistake the last week or two going over there. Those guys are great at deflecting when a counterpoint is made. I really hate to say this, but we have some fans who just suck. Life is a gift, and there are some miserable people over there.
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It's like a bus load of self-loathing ADD patients ran out of Ritalin and nobody can stay focused enough to ask the bus driver to stop at a CVS so they can pickup their prescriptions. Hardly any of the threads go over a couple hundred posts and every time somebody sees something shiny, they start a thread about it.

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jave36 said:
Standard unintelligent person response when he can't formulate a logical counter.
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I see you want to keep this going. One could argue that it is unintelligent and illogical to select a portion of the quote to support the premise that I am unintelligent and/or incapable of a logical counter point. Any person with a brain can see that the post, in its entirety, demonstrated both intelligent thought and logical counters to your broad, sweeping, and uninformed generalizations. However, I don't think you are unintelligent and won't sink to characterizing those who disagree with me as such. I will, however, point out that you are being extremely disingenuous here.
 
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ODTVOL said:
I see you want to keep this going. One could argue that it is unintelligent and illogical to select a portion of the quote to support the premise that I am unintelligent and/or incapable of a logical counter point. Any person with a brain can see that the post, in its entirety, demonstrated both intelligent thought and logical counters to your broad, sweeping, and uninformed generalizations. However, I don't think you are unintelligent and won't sink to characterizing those who disagree with me as such. I will, however, point out that you are being extremely disingenuous here.
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That's called using one's words. Nice.
 
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Ulysees E. McGill said:
I really don't believe it's the color, it's just the old perception of Memphis as a run down, dump of a town. Chattanooga was that way when I was a kid growing up there. It has done a complete 180. Memphis has potential to do the same.
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Memphis is making strides. I have said all I can say on that topic. I agree that poverty and blight are the true issues in this city (and many cities, counties, towns, and unincorporated hamlets). If your premise is that race is not a motivator in a lot of the shade thrown this way, we will have to agree to disagree. I appreciate your contributions to this discussion.
 
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LynxVol said:
Spot on with the bold. I started living in Memphis in 2006, and it has come a very long way even since then, IMO. Midtown is a completely different and better area today, IMO.

Good post overall.
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Did you go to Rhodes? I am making an assumption based on your username.
 
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There's plenty of great new country out there, most of it just isn't on traditional radio.
Cody Jinks, whiskey Myers, reckless Kelly, Lucero, Chris Stapleton, Ryan Bingham, strugill Simpson, turnpike troubadours, and I could go on and on.
The **** you hear on terrestrial radio, is nothing more than a ****ty version of pop!
And Bond>pop country!
Connery was the best, Craig is great too.
Adrian Paul would've been perfect, but for some reason was replaced by by that pvssy pierce brosnan, which was the worst imo!
 
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