SPURRIER CONDEMNS CONFEDERATE FLAG; FULMER CONDEMNS RIGHT TO STAY HIGH
by Orson on Apr 17, 2007 10:00 AM EDT
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Steve Spurrier ruffled feathers when he condemned South Carolina's practice of flying the Confederate flag over the state capital this weekend. Now another SEC coach entered the fray regarding state capitals as Phil Fulmer attacked Tennessee's tolerance of rappers MJG and 8 Ball staying high over the state capital in Nashville.
"It's disgraceful that we allow two young men to deface the seat of power in our state," said Fulmer in an interview Sunday afternoon. "It hurts us as a state. It hurts our recruiting. It makes us look like we endorse drug use, something champions and winners simply don't do."
"Again: it's a plain disgrace to the Volunteer State."
When reached for comment, 8 Ball and MJG vehemently disagreed.
Staying high: 8 Ball and MJG in their customary spot four hundred and fifty feet above the Tennessee capital.
"What coach Fulmer doesn't understand is that what we do isn't voluntary at all: we, by definition, must stay high-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh. Indeed, we plan to do so until we die-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie-ie. It's less of a choice than a mission. We drink a whole lot of Hennessy; we must represent this Tennessee," said MJG from his Memphis home on Monday.
Rapper and collaborator 8 Ball agreed.
"Coach Fulmer's got an impressive body of work, but he doesn't understand why we do what we do," said 8 Ball. "I'd like to reach out to him and say that when we're so high we're actually floating above the state capital for days at a time, that we're not disgracing the Volunteer state. Far from it, actually. We're glorifying its name and symbols by doing what we do in its presence; that is, staying as high as a motherfucker possibly can."
8 Ball took a long pull on a baseball bat-sized joint, then thought for a moment. "And no one, n***a, gets higher than 8 Ball and MJG."
Tennessee Urban Studies professor Kyle Williams believes the dispute represents a cultural debate that needs airing in the increasingly diverse state.
"What we have here is a clear collision between divergent understandings of the use of ritual and rite in the public space. For Coach Fulmer and many others, the dignity and solemnity of the state capital reflects a pre-Enlightenment belief in the power of the structure itself to represent the power of the state itself, an imprimatur of collective power demeaned by anything less than reverence."
"For 8 Ball and MJG, however, they express their pride by smoking weed, getting high, and floating around the symbol of the state pointing at it without smiling."
Williams believe both are expressing their pride in their home state, but merely disagreeing on the "vocabulary of celebration."
Coach Fulmer had no further commentary as of Tuesday morning. For 8 Ball, however, the fight has only begun.
"This ain't just about Memphis versus Knoxville or whatever. It's about freedom. Smoke all night. Sleep all day. That is, to me, the American way. Coach Fulmer cannot keep us from rolling that shit. He cannot keep us from lighting that shit. He most certainly cannot keep us from hitting that shit, and he sure as hell won't keep me from holding it and passing it to my n***a MJG or my good friends, the Oscar-winning 3 6 Mafia."
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Speaking of Academy awards that may surprise people, does anyone else think that anyone that played Spicoli should automatically be removed from any Oscar conversation for eternity?
by TX_FL on Apr 17, 2007 10:13 AM EDT reply actions
That’s a pretty brave thing for Fulmer to do. How could he speak out against someone that represents his players at the Knoxville Correctional and Edjukashunal Facility?
As for Spurrier, I’ll be tossing a visor at the golf course this afternoon in his honor.
by Brewster Crew on Apr 17, 2007 10:13 AM EDT reply actions
I guess Spurrier tried to divert attention off the less than stellar performance of Mitchell in the spring game.
by Out of Conference on Apr 17, 2007 10:22 AM EDT reply actions
Las Cronicas Estan Muy Loco!!!
Gotta love Beckwith M. Campbell.
by The Hog Blogger on Apr 17, 2007 10:39 AM EDT reply actions
Is it a Freudian slip or intentional humor that the following words were in this post:
“Coach Fulmer’s got an impressive body”
Or was this a pun? I didn’t read the rest of the post after I saw this and hurled for 20 minutes.
by LD on Apr 17, 2007 10:54 AM EDT reply actions
Tennesse players don’t get high. But, Herban and the Gators do. Do you even read Loser With Socks anymore?
I respect your editorial discretion, however. There aren’t many things that would look good over floating over the male genitalia in Tally.
by Kyle on Apr 17, 2007 11:11 AM EDT reply actions
“…the dignity and solemnity of the state capital reflects a pre-Enlightenment belief in the power of the structure itself to represent the power of the state itself, an imprimatur of collective power demeaned by anything less than reverence.”
this is why i love this site. foucauldian discourse and toilet humor, in one easy-to-swallow capsule. with a footbaw chaser.
by ESMjr. on Apr 17, 2007 11:29 AM EDT reply actions
"…the dignity and solemnity of the state capital reflects a pre-Enlightenment belief in the power of the structure itself to represent the power of the state itself, an imprimatur of collective power demeaned by anything less than reverence."
Incidentally, this implies that the Huey Long-built Louisiana state house was pre-enlightenment, which would mean as of 1932, the Enlightenment had not reached Louisiana….
by Fesser on Apr 17, 2007 12:07 PM EDT reply actions
I don’t want to admire Spurrier. I don’t need that extra bizarro injection in my life right now. Make him stop. Somebody hold me.
by Holly on Apr 17, 2007 12:10 PM EDT reply actions
What I want to know is “why is that federal flag on the state capital?”
by FBC3 on Apr 17, 2007 12:29 PM EDT reply actions
Umm, I think their customary spot is actually four hundred and twenty feet high.
by Trojan Chica on Apr 17, 2007 12:50 PM EDT reply actions
Doug, Sweet stinky Bam-Bam irony for sure
Here is a compilation of marihuana (old school spelling) transgressions:
by Larry Smith on Apr 17, 2007 1:17 PM EDT reply actions
Never mind that Fulmer in the purely satirical piece talks about how much he doesn’t like weed, or that the sole thesis of the piece is that MJG and 8Ball really, really like to smoke marijuana.
Go right ahead with that, you.
by Orson Swindle on Apr 17, 2007 1:29 PM EDT reply actions
Of course Orson, but anytime’s a good time to get a shot off on a rival
by IJ on Apr 17, 2007 2:37 PM EDT reply actions
We would just like to repeat: MJG and 8 Ball really like to smoke weed. That is all.
by Orson Swindle on Apr 17, 2007 2:52 PM EDT reply actions
Call me crazy, but this appears to be a knock off of loserwithsocks articles toward the Gator nation.. Am I wrong? Is somebody losing originality? Discuss.
by Herban Meyer's residue on Apr 17, 2007 3:00 PM EDT reply actions
Actually, it’s a knockoff of an Onion article in Our Dumb Century. Half of our stuff is.
by Orson Swindle on Apr 17, 2007 3:16 PM EDT reply actions
what if we leave our green around coach fulmer? or our drink? or our girl?
by gosouthgohard on Apr 17, 2007 5:48 PM EDT reply actions
Didn’t South Carolina move that flag across the streeta while back? I remember driving through Columbia that very day.
Maybe they moved it back?
by the butler on Apr 17, 2007 6:32 PM EDT reply actions
The confederate flag was removed from the top of the SC state capitol in 2000, and moved to a flagpole at a confederate monument on the Statehouse grounds. Despite that, the NAACP and NCAA have continued to boycott the state. I think it should be removed, but think the fact that it’s this much of an issue still is stupid. Now, back to your regularly scheduled smartass comments!
by Steve'srightbutIstilldon'tlikehim on Apr 17, 2007 11:01 PM EDT reply actions
Why 8 Ball? Because Dime Bag was taken. ’Nuff said.
by OhioDawg on Apr 18, 2007 8:48 AM EDT reply actions
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