Alabama game 11/8

Eric said:
Was surprised he wrote that being we are in New York and a good amount of redfans are Yankee fans.
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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.
 
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.
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Um yea I think I may have ventured outside the state a couple times.

Your point wasn’t clear obviously as both myself and Delaware both saw it differently. If stated differently like what you posted above yea I get your point.
 
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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.
 
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
 
BrookJersey Redmen said:
SLY

Rebuttal accepted.

Over the many years of being in business, I've met and do business with a lot of folks in the south and south west, they are all great.

I led into the comment by saying if you run into an unsophisticated Southerner ...but I should have phrased it differently, and said, a "small percentage of unsophisticated Southerners...who think NYers are rude, etc.....", that was what I meant. Certainly it was not a shot at all people in the South, my daughter and family live in south Florida.

The schools you named are all great schools, of course, but that is non-apropos of the point I was trying to (lamely) make.

Back in college in the 1970's (early) me and three Brooklyn guys stopped in Florence SC for teh night on our way to Daytona Beach. The clerk at the cheap motel we stayed in for the night, did ask us when he learned we were from NYC, if we "would leave our switchblades in the ve--hicle." Purely anecdotal.
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It’s not a small enough percentage from my experience. One thing I ask of my NY friends is how many times a person who does not live here says “how can you live there!” in an aggressive tone the first time you meet them. For me I lost count long ago. Many times it has been people who have never set foot here. It’s a wildly rude comment as it’s a decent assumption that one likes the City they live in. The ones who actually think they aren’t assholes say it this way, “You guys are so nice (this means Mrs IDRAFT is with me as nobody meets me alone and says this) I can’t BELIEVE you are from NY.”

I have asked many of my same friends if they have ever made a similar opening comment to anyone about where they lived and to a man not one ever has. And that tracks to me as even if one wonders it is not difficult if you aren’t an asshole to just ask what they like about where they live.

When I was in Charleston we became friendly with one of the hotel workers who saw our SJU garb. He was a transplant from New Jersey and had been there ten years. He told us he really liked it overall and was happy he moved but ten years in half the people on his block won’t even acknowledge him or say hello to him if they pass him on the street because they knew he was from up north. On the other hand my son and his wife lived in Raleigh for two years and never had one problem. We were there a bunch and no issues either until….

Homesick and with a baby they decided to return to be near family. It was emotional though as they loved the house they lived in and had some great moments in Raleigh. A week after they returned to NY I went back to Raleigh with my son to clear the place out. The day we finished we called the Uber to take us to the airport who asked us where we were going and then spent the entire drive trashing NY and wondering why anyone would raise a family there. That’s how you get no tip and a zero star review.

All southerners - of course not! And the guy who started this thread clearly came in peace. But let’s be real about the south too.
 
SJUNC said:
stay in Manhattan and enjoy it. Find a good sports bar to watch LSU hammer the Tide
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Basketballguy800 also roots for Tide FB, advising him to stay in Manhattan totally cool, but lasting his football team, now that's another thing.

SJUNC, you must be a big LSU Tiger FB fan.
 
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