Alabama game 11/8

When I go to my relatives in the farmland of the eastern shore some “ call me a yankee “ I tell them call me Nettles instead of a Yankees 😀
 
Have worked for decades with people and companies in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida not to mention many of the other 46 states and European countries.
Natives or transplants, everywhere people are people, everywhere there nice ones and a$$holes, from every region, nation, race or gender, even France.
Generalizations about people are just ridiculously inane, with all due respect to all.
 
Beasts of the East said:
Good job guys. I'd much rather us have a reputation as great fans who are welcoming to visitors than damned Yankees who are AHs.

I want us to be every opposing team college fan's 2nd favorite team. Small kindnesses help.
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Plus, I for one am now extremely invested in where he decides to stay. I think he was giving 15+ options. Hope everything works out for his trip.
 
Beasts of the East said:
Have you ever been outside of New York? To southerners we are all Yankees, with New Yorkers just about the worst of them. Nothing to do with the baseball team, silly.

Honestly though, I never really knew about all that love till I did business in the South.
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Fair enough. Anyone south of Philly is a southerner to most of us.
 
logen said:
Have worked for decades with people and companies in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida not to mention many of the other 46 states and European countries.
Natives or transplants, everywhere people are people, everywhere there nice ones and a$$holes, from every region, nation, race or gender, even France.
Generalizations about people are just ridiculously inane, with all due respect to all.
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Good point Logen. I know you are not a Springsteen fan but my wife is a huge fan and whenever this subject comes up (I.e. generalizing about groups whether geographical, ethnic whatever) she always refers back to a 60 Minutes interview he did about 15 years ago where he said something close to “I’ve been all over the world in the last 20 years and what I can tell you is there are aholes and good people everywhere”.
 
GeorgiaRed said:
I lived and worked in Delaware for a spell. The people had no definable identity. 30 south of Philly and 30 minutes north of the Mason Dixon Line. They weren't from the Northeast nor were they southern. I dubbed the place Dela-nowhere. And Delawhere?
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Since this is way off topic already... when I was working, my boss lived in Wilmington, took Amtrak up every morning and got into the office between 7:30 and 8 every day at Park and 47th. I lived in Queens and it was a chore to to get me there at 8:15.

But he originally was from CT, went to school at Delaware and stayed.

But I hope the OP has a good time in NYC.
 
NCJohnnie said:
Good point Logen. I know you are not a Springsteen fan but my wife is a huge fan and whenever this subject comes up (I.e. generalizing about groups whether geographical, ethnic whatever) she always refers back to a 60 Minutes interview he did about 15 years ago where he said something close to “I’ve been all over the world in the last 20 years and what I can tell you is there are aholes and good people everywhere”.
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Let's be real. The Klan was strong in the south, lynchings occurred mostly in the south, and the lack of racial integration occurred more prevalently in the south. Adolph Rupp refused to play against st johns unless Solly walker was benched. When Frank McGuire said i'll take the forfeit win, Rupp had his players injure Walker. Fans overall said boo. When blacks were given the vote, immediately there were more elected black legislators than at ant time in our history. Southern states then redistricted so there was almost none. Jackie Robinson had the hardest time dealing with hatred from southern players, Dixie Walker notably.

That's not to paint with a wide brush but to think there historically has not been prevalent animosities in various places in the country is just putting your head in the sand. Thankfully, certain groups that were not even protected classes 20 years ago are slowly being accepted. But we have a long way to go.

So yes, there are good people everywhere but there are also certain realities being from new york that you msy surprise you.
 
Beasts of the East said:
Let's be real. The Klan was strong in the south, lynchings occurred mostly in the south, and the lack of racial integration occurred more prevalently in the south. Adolph Rupp refused to play against st johns unless Solly walker was benched. When Frank McGuire said i'll take the forfeit win, Rupp had his players injure Walker. Fans overall said boo. When blacks were given the vote, immediately there were more elected black legislators than at ant time in our history. Southern states then redistricted so there was almost none. Jackie Robinson had the hardest time dealing with hatred from southern players, Dixie Walker notably.

That's not to paint with a wide brush but to think there historically has not been prevalent animosities in various places in the country is just putting your head in the sand. Thankfully, certain groups that were not even protected classes 20 years ago are slowly being accepted. But we have a long way to go.

So yes, there are good people everywhere but there are also certain realities being from new york that you msy surprise you.
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You just brought back a lot of old memories 35+ years ago of the hell White Chocolate had to go through to earn playing time on the hard courts of the mean streets of Glen Cove 😀
 
Beasts of the East said:
Let's be real. The Klan was strong in the south, lynchings occurred mostly in the south, and the lack of racial integration occurred more prevalently in the south. Adolph Rupp refused to play against st johns unless Solly walker was benched. When Frank McGuire said i'll take the forfeit win, Rupp had his players injure Walker. Fans overall said boo. When blacks were given the vote, immediately there were more elected black legislators than at ant time in our history. Southern states then redistricted so there was almost none. Jackie Robinson had the hardest time dealing with hatred from southern players, Dixie Walker notably.

That's not to paint with a wide brush but to think there historically has not been prevalent animosities in various places in the country is just putting your head in the sand. Thankfully, certain groups that were not even protected classes 20 years ago are slowly being accepted. But we have a long way to go.

So yes, there are good people everywhere but there are also certain realities being from new york that you msy surprise you.
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This one is on me, fellas. 😕

Lock it up.
 
RedStormRising said:
We can't lock it up! On 11/9 I going to come back to this thread to see if the OP says "Despite our loss I had a good time in NYC, we ended up staying at XXXX, thank you for your suggestions"
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Eric already put a bet in that he stays in Queens. He also threw a bet that he meets our own bamafan in a separate parlay

Gotta say I'm pretty interested to see where he chooses. Might put a bet in myself
 
Beasts of the East said:
Let's be real. The Klan was strong in the south, lynchings occurred mostly in the south, and the lack of racial integration occurred more prevalently in the south. Adolph Rupp refused to play against st johns unless Solly walker was benched. When Frank McGuire said i'll take the forfeit win, Rupp had his players injure Walker. Fans overall said boo. When blacks were given the vote, immediately there were more elected black legislators than at ant time in our history. Southern states then redistricted so there was almost none. Jackie Robinson had the hardest time dealing with hatred from southern players, Dixie Walker notably.

That's not to paint with a wide brush but to think there historically has not been prevalent animosities in various places in the country is just putting your head in the sand. Thankfully, certain groups that were not even protected classes 20 years ago are slowly being accepted. But we have a long way to go.

So yes, there are good people everywhere but there are also certain realities being from new york that you msy surprise you.
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Nonsense, we are talking about NOW not “historically”.
Adolph Rupp?? A man who quit coaching over 50 years ago!! If that’s the best you got you just proved our point.
And Jackie Robinson and Dixie Walker were even longer ago than that. And I guess Pee Wee Reese, from Kentucky, openly supporting Robinson is irrelevant because he doesn’t fit your narrative.
But it does add credence to our point that there are “good” (Reese) and “a$$holes” (Walker) people everywhere, even “historically”.
 
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