BOWL SPONSOR OF THE DAY: ROADY’S
Oh, you latte-swilling blue-staters. Laugh if you will, but you don’t own a company with enough coin to sponsor a bowl game, do you, you iPhone-twirling fuckwit. Your internet start-up, your sex-toys-for-pets company, your lame diner specializing in Albanian burritos. It all sucks compared to Roady’s, because none of them sponsor a bowl game, much less a bowl game on blue turf, even if they’re a chain of truck stops with the Q rating of a livestock feed brand.
Truckers need the basics, too. They’re the lonesome cowpokes of the black earth-ribbon hustling your flatscreen tvs and O’Jumbos Workout Bars for Slightly Paunchy Active Types all over this great nation of ours, and what do they get in return? Slightly discounted methamphetamine, lame audioporn on tape, and the occasional handjob from a truckstop hooker…or precisely the HR benefits of an Idaho Vandals assistant coach, in other words.
Truckers also face dangers you would stain your pants over: inclement weather, traffic hazards, and the supernatural, as documented below.
Red Sovine was not lying, people. Mock the Roady’s Humanitarian bowl if you must, but between Large Marge and the spectre of Phantom 309, the ghostly roadways of our nation need safe havens full of coffee, reasonably priced gasoline, and high-grade audioporn for our hard-working truckers more than ever. If only just to keep your precious Trader Joe’s stocked with the tasty slow death of their frozen eggrolls, yuppie scum.









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OhioDawg says:
What’s with this “even if you’re a chain of truck stops” crack, Swindle? You gotta problem with a chain of truck stops?!?!
December 10th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
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Brian says:
Fuck Roady’s – I wanna see the Flying J Bowl.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
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BlueState says:
So insults like this are what we get for letting you off the hook on the resets on all your subprime loans? That’s it, ten more years of the BCS…
December 10th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
We just clarified that, sir.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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gerry dorsey says:
i thought a “roady” was getting a beej while operating a motor vehicle.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:19 pm
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PeteJayhawk says:
I thought a “roady” was short for “road soda” – a beer consumed whilst on a road trip.
Wake me when Iowa-80 sponsors a bowl game. Fuck that Flying J bullshit.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
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Nathan says:
Chan Gailey’s final ‘f-u’ to GT … a spot in a bowl game played on blue astroturf and sponsored by a truck stop chain.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
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December 10th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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RaginCajunRebel says:
Dear Arkansas,
Your next coach is the basement of the Alamo. Please head there immediately.
And tell’em Large Marge sent ya.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
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Hook'em Tide says:
“lame audioporn on tape”
Where the hell can I get audioporn? Is it simply secret late-night recordings of the Weis bedroom?
December 10th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
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lance harbor says:
“the occasional handjob from a truckstop hooker”
Orson, the “truckstop hooker” as you so callously refer these lovely ladies, are more commonly known as “Lot Lizards.” So I’m told…
December 10th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
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LSUJoshua says:
Flying J is aight, but I’ll take Rip Griffin’s Travel Centers, he’s a good man, Rip. That or that Bucky Beaver place in West Texas that they start advertising for in Mississippi. I know I’m not the only one.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
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LSUJoshua says:
And Lance is correct, read that in a book called Uncommon Carriers by……I’ll get back to you on that.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
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Kate says:
#9: Yup, Mrs. Weis describes it as when Charlie “goes commando.”
*Cue horrible, awkward silence of game announcers*
On the subject of bowls, has anyone been keeping up with the worthless but appropriate space filler that is the SI.com hypothetical Ultimate Playoff? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/12/10/ultimateplayoff.finalfour/index.html
Not to ruin it for anyone, but currently the votes are going Oklahoma over Ohio State, and USC over Tim Tebow (and there’s a few other guys composing the Gator team, I guess). So the ultimate SI playoff MNC matchup is going to be between USC and Oklahoma? What happened to all the SEC/Big 10 voters on that one?
December 10th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
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Cool Hand Mike says:
Just on the Tennessee side of the border with Alabama on I-65 lies The Booby Bungalow. It’s only the most famous truck stop/ diner/ strip club in the history of the world.
At least that’s what I’ve heard.
December 10th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
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Fesser says:
I think the Flying J Bowl would have to happen at a HS stadium in Youngstown, OH.
Speaking of which, has there ever been a bowl game in the Meadowlands? Chillier than Jax, for sure, but more other stuff to do in the area.
#12: John McPhee
December 10th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
I thought “Truck Stop Hookers” were called “seat covers”?, no? or a cool name of a punk band?
“We’re the Truck Stop Hookers,and we’re gonna rock ya ballz off Cleveland!!”
December 10th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
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Mr Pelican Pants says:
At least we know what to expect as far as bathrooms go at the bowl game……Can you buy all that cool mobile stuff at the concession stand that you can get at truck stops, like 12v Tv’s/VCR combo’s, emergency flasher crank radios w/built in Weatherband?
And is it true that the best serial killers are truckers?
December 10th, 2007 at 6:26 pm
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DevilGrad says:
Re #15: Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_State_Bowl
December 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
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john r says:
LSUJoshua @ 11 – you’re referring to Buc-ees, the travel center with a f*ck lion. The beaver on the sign is there for a reason – the guy that owns the company? His name is Beaver, I am not even remotely joking. How’s that for Q rating?
December 10th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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sjs1959 says:
What, no love for Love’s???
http://www.loves.com/
December 10th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
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Raider Red says:
As soon as we get out of Iraq, the Armed Forces will dump the FW Bowl like a bad habit. Hopefully Carl’s Corner (endorsed by Willie Nelson) will take over sponsorship.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
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jakldawg says:
#15. After years of travel on 1-40 and 65, I think some enterprising person could put together a whole travel guide consisting of nothing but sketchy adult-oriented highway side “attractions” in TN.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
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Brian says:
T continue that sentiment — A travelogue of Fire Works and adult novelty stores in South Carolina would be equally useful.
In Georgia they have the Cafe Erotica anyone ever been?
December 10th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
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Reasonable_Bama_Fan says:
#21, Love’s does have the only brand of beef jerky that I would ever eat. Not that that’s saying much, I guess, but the stuff is strangely addicitve. Expensive, though.
December 10th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
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Brian says:
Small threadjack: a website with all the news anchor hotties. Just click the network. http://www.gogomag.com/talkingheads/ Yes Im a sad pathetic loser.
December 10th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
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DonkeyDawg says:
Pete Jayhawk (#6):
You’re totally right about the need for an Iowa-80 Truck Stop sponsored bowl. Porn and hookers aside, this place has 24-hour dentists, a jewelry store, and a Truckers’ Movie Theater. And what better way to ensure that Kirk Ferentz gets a bowl invite?
December 10th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
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Zone Left says:
Is it ironic that the Humanitarian Bowl is sponsored by the direct support staff for the exclusive American transporters of sweatshop made apparel?
I could use a roady on the way home most every night.
December 10th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
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bevo says:
If there was a Flying J Bowl, would the teams get $5000 less compared to other bowl games? Or, would the tickets cost $5 less compared to other bowl games?
December 10th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
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Ralph Fridgen says:
When will Krispy Kreme finally pony up and sponsor a game?
December 10th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
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CapstoneAlum says:
#15
I always tell people headed to Nashville on northbound 65 to look for the 25 ft tall concrete rooster located in the parking lot of the Booby Bungalow.
**In the interest of full disclosure, I actually say…”Ya’ll look out for that big ass cock on your right side.”**
What is really interesting is that the little town of Ardmore, AL (just south of tha’ Bungalow) is one of the few places where a sheriff is charged with enforcement in two states. The Tenn/AL line is a train track that runs right through the middle of town.
Also, the Booby Bungalow is a great place to get stabbed. At least thats what I have been told.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
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chris says:
WIAT in bham says Borges is out at AU.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
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CLTDawg says:
Ahh Yes……Fox News. Fair. Balanced. & Pussy.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
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Mr. Wrong says:
Alright, I’ll say it:
Come on back Trucker, and talk ta Teddy Bahr.
December 10th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
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Tebow_for_Heisman says:
This is the song I immediately thought of when I saw the truck stop and hooker posts. It should be track 34 if you need to pick it.
http://play.rhapsody.com/bloodhoundgang/hooray/alapdanceissomuchbetterwhenthestripperiscrying
December 11th, 2007 at 12:26 am
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December 11th, 2007 at 1:57 am
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Cameron Siggs says:
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also, i can’t cut and paste.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:58 am
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WDamnE says:
This is best thread EVER! Interstate exit strippers! PeeWee! Even hot news anchors -mmmm, Robin Meade….
10-4, good buddy.
I’m a rebel, Dotty. A loner.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:05 am
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Out of Conference says:
Pedro sez, “50 signs for 200 miles north and south-bound I-95, but no bunda.”
December 11th, 2007 at 11:22 am