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January 2, 2008

YOU TOO CAN HAVE A SPENCER HALL ATTITUDE

We review our email over at the Sporting News and discover that having a Spencer Hall attitude is not a good thing, especially when you tangle with the media monster that is Shreveport, Louisiana. We beg to differ, especially since we’re not voting for Hillary, but supporting our usual candidate for every public office: Big Red.

48 Responses to “YOU TOO CAN HAVE A SPENCER HALL ATTITUDE”

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Kanu says:

Mucho appreciado for the Big Red love.

I worked in the WKU athletic Dept in 97-98, and Big Red spent most of his days sitting in a box in the office next to mine, when he wasn’t at the cleaners or out cruising for tail. I even got to put on the head a couple times.

Best mascot ever. Seriously, who else has won national awards and also had the diplomatic savoir faire to take Silvio Burlusconi to task for completely copying his style?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Red_%28Western_Kentucky_University%29

January 2nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
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Ludwig Grindel says:

And here we go. No Google hits yet for “Spencer Hall attitude”, but it’ll be in the 10,000s soon. People will claim to have had it since 1932.

January 2nd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
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Jerkwheat says:

The correct way to respond to your hate mail is via extensive google research of the person who wrote to you.

January 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
4

Roaminggator says:

People tend to become angry at what they fear. And they should be afraid of the fact that Shreveport is not a destination city and should not have a bowl game. It isn’t. Kudos to them for landing one back in the day, but nowadays I don’t know if they would make the final cut for a bowl, although at the rate it is going the WWL will have a fake bowl in every metropolitan area in ten years.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
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Laugh says:

“but supporting our usual candidate for every public office: Big Red.”

And I, as always, will be voting for the shadow Congressman who represents Holly Rowe’s labia.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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okiedomer says:

os-

i was actually reading the comments to your oh-so-controversial article noting that shreveport was…well, shreveport and was about to post a comment of my own in your defense…

until i saw this:
And finally, maybe you should ask David Toms, Hal Sutton and Tim Brando why they would like in such a horrible place given they have the means to live anywhere they choose.

being a tulsa native and thus dependent on low-hanging fruit for geographical pride, i’m all for making fun of shreveport, but i just couldn’t rush in and defend you after you got Hal Suttoned

i mean really, Hal Fucking Sutton – re-cog-nize.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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DevilGrad says:

I’d ask, but I just assume the answer is “under-the-table property tax rebates, hookers, and blow.”

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
8

PeteJayhawk says:

EDSBS has no good cotomer sevis.

Apologies for mixing up blog memes.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
9

OhioDawg says:

Fuck ‘em if they can’t take a joke!

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
10

Sean says:

SIAP

Wouldn’t the BCS Bowl Season been better if the following changes were made:

1. The Rose Bowl got Hawaii vs. Illinois?
2. The Sugar Bowl got Georgia vs. USC?

The first would have gotten a good traveling crowd from both sides and a more exciting, defense-free game.

The second would have gotten the best of the two also-rans for the championship game. Even if USC doesn’t travel that well, the Georgia contingent would have made up for it, as it did last night. And if anyone might have slowed down Knowshon Moreno, it might be USC.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:11 pm
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GamecockTX says:

I haven’t decided if I’m going to support Big Red, or this feller: http://www.xu.edu/osc/DSC01407.JPG

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:13 pm
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jakldawg says:

As a WKU employee, I’m contractually obligated to thank you for your Big Red support (sadly, he lost this: http://www.capitalonebowl.com/ to a kangaroo)

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
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Chips O'Toole says:

#1

You’re telling us the country that brought us Ferrari, Prada, Laborghini, and the Pirelli calendar stole the Western Kentucky mascot? I’m confused.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:25 pm
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Brian O'Blivion says:

i mean really, Hal Fucking Sutton – re-cog-nize.

Be the right club TODAY!

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:26 pm
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gosouthgohard says:

#10-

why not flip those? Georgia will travel anywhere, and NO is a lot closer to Illinois than Pasadena is. USC-Georgia in the Rose Bowl, and Illinois-Hawaii in the Sugar, and the Rose Bowl even gets to keep their hardon for the pac-10.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:

Not Backing Down Dept:

Orson / Spencer: Keep up the good work with the barbs at cities/areas. It stings because the barbs are true.

The old LA Times reporter, Jim Murray, used to have people from cities begging for him to write a put-down column on their city. Currently, TJ Simers constantly abuses cities and even States (Nebraska, for example). Usually, very funny stuff.

Bad publicity is better than no publicity, so they say in Hollywierd.

Funny stuff, and if the people cannot take the joke, screw ‘em.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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Brian says:

If there’s anything that Ann Coulter and Michael Moore taught me: People who hate you still buy your shit, and the dollars of hate buy just as many lap dances as the dollars of Admiration.

So guess what, Polarize!!!! You want a lot of lovers and a lot of haters, otherwise, you’re not gonna draw a crowd. Well played sir, well played indeed. Im surprised the Chamber of Commerce down there didnt put its 2 cents in.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:28 pm
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:

#15: GA travels anywhere? Judging from the out of conference schedule of most SEC teams, it appears that there is some sort of law against most SEC teams playing any team with a pulse, or in Division 1, outside of their home field.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm
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Smyth says:

Everybody’s been quick to pour it on Hawaii, saying they didn’t belong in a BCS game. Everyone seems to forget that SEC teams in the BCS last year put similar beatdowns on tOSU and Notre Dame (both 41-14 games, in fact). Is it possible that the same thing happened here? Ohio State has an equally miserable performance in the title game last year, it’s just a bad day, but Hawaii does the same it’s a statement about the unworthiness of mid-majors? This is the first time a non-BCS team has made a BCS bowl and lost.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
20

baconboy says:

SKLM,
Far be it from me to defend Georgia, but they play a home and home series every year with Georgia Tech, who is clearly out of their conference. If you mean out of their region, that’s a different thing all together, but it’s not fair to conflate the two.

And the Georgia fans would have loved to travel to the Rose Bowl and would have been there in swarms.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
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UTEx says:

We are all sorry about Katrina and humor directed at the state of Louisiana is never, in any way, a laugh about the devastation that it caused. That being said…

People in Louisiana need a sense of humor. Period. Shreveport is known for one thing, and one thing only…GAMBLING. And, of course, the other assorted criminal vices that accompany gambling.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
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poguemahone says:

Google Big Red

http://www.BigRed2008.com

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
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okiedomer says:

#10

i think mizzou and texas–and west f’n virginia by tomorrow morning–would take issue with this statement:
The second would have gotten the best of the two also-rans for the championship game.

OU/USC would be a great game, and both OU and USC would Hal Sutton UGA

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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DC Trojan says:

The best part of the first column: the facts about how fabulous Shreveport is. Because an oversupply of country and western concerts is really going to change the mind of an uppity blue-stater. (Speaking only for myself here.)

The best part of the follow-up column? First two comments: more on Shreveport!

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:

Shreveport, what you need is lotsa PURPLE DRANK.

And, it could be worse. The game could be moved to McAlester, OK and played in conjunction with the State Prison Rodeo. For those who have never been there, McAlester makes Shreveport look like Atlanta.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
26

Papa Lou BSU says:

Bravo to Orson… handling his first mass-media hate mail campaign with aplomb and typical hilarity. Good show, sir.

January 2nd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
27

Big Ten Joe says:

OhioDawg (@9): Joke? What joke?

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
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kleph says:

i’d love to hear what shreveport native son john david booty would say about having to play a bowl game in his beloved hometown.

shreveport is a hole. and that’s coming from someone who grew up in north louisiana and has seen enough shitty places in the world to have a sense of perspective. it’s a great place if you are looking at a set which includes odessa, texas and san bernardino, california.

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
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okiedomer says:

#25

i’m all for making fun of oklahoma, but how dare you bash the mcalester prison rodeo, which is without a doubt the finest prison rodeo this side of the mississippi river – comments like that would get you Hal Suttoned if these internets weren’t so damn anonymous

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
30

Big Ten Joe says:

Orson–Now you know how Stewart Mandel feels sometimes.

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
31

Kanu says:

SKLM-

Georgia AD Damon Evans is stepping it up after years of Dooley thinking the world ended in Birmingham. Upon being hired he has secured us home & homes with Arizona State, Colorado, Oregon, and Louisville in addition to bringing Clemson back. Were at ASU in 2008, Colorado in 2010, and Oregon in 2014. Gerogia deserves as much criticism as they and the rest of the SEC save Tennessee have received in the past re: road games, but in Athens the times they are a changin’ {a bit}.

Sept 20 will be our first road game outside the geographic South since 1965, and trust me, we will travel in droves to the desert.

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:15 pm
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Kernel says:

F you, Oscar!

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 pm
33

The Conscience of a Nation says:

My husband is the poster child for Spencer Hall attitude.

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
34

Mr. Wrong says:

I think it would be really boss to have an attitude named after you. Not as cool as a syndrome, mind you. But not bad.

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
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Beatuofa says:

There has already been a steady trickle of UGA fans on ASU message boards for the last 2 months. There could be a whole heck of a lot of red and black in the stands at Sun Devil Stadium on 9/20.

January 2nd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
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PeterPumpkinhead says:

1.) I went to the 2001 Weed Eater Bowl. It wasn’t horrible. Winning the game helped. I didn’t go back for the last two, however, and that is a direct result of the first trip.

2.) As for the money, doesn’t all the bowl money go to the conference office to be mixed with the TV money and distributed evenly to the schools at the end of the year? Isn’t that why Vandy is in the SEC? Florida didn’t really end up $600K in the red, that’s just a stupid accounting trick.

January 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
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PortTrojan says:

On New Year’s Eve, I got free pot from drugged children without Spencer Hall attitudes. When I asked them about SEC speed, they said they didn’t do that shit. I’m from the OC and they were Obama supporters, but otherwise I completely relate to that ex-San Diego couple.

January 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm
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David Puddy says:

One cannot go wrong with the real, ultimate power that comes from being associated with Big Red.

He’s big. He’s red. He’s what Howard Schnellenberger would be if he were to be a mascot. End of discussion, Gov’nah!

January 2nd, 2008 at 7:11 pm
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Doreblogger says:

As a Vandy fan, I hope that some sweet day I will make it to Shreveport.

The rest of you can turn up your noses…this dream is what keeps me hanging on.

January 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm
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stapler says:

The state of Louisiana is hell, period. New Orleans is like the ninth layer, while Baton Rouge is about layer seven. Shreveport is around layer five or six. We ought give that hellhole of a state back to the French or get a bunch of bulldozers and push it into the Gulf. Thanks for getting the truth out, Spencer.

January 2nd, 2008 at 8:48 pm
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Albino Tornado says:

SKLM –

TJ Simers being YOUR douchebag doesn’t make him any less of a douchebag.

I’ve been to Shrevetucky. A bowl endorsed by the game’s web site managed to lose it’s lofty Econo Lodge accreditation and had to become simply “The Lodge.” Liquor stores carried only malt liquor. I got panhandled at a gas station.

It’s not the “take your empties” service one gets from the local homeless at the Los Angeles Memorial Mausoleum, that’s for sure.

January 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
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Brian says:

Let the debate begin at once: Georgia girls or ASU girls?

January 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
43

Pants McPants says:

Dude. No kidding. Who knew Shreveport people were so sensitive? Get those people some acoustic guitars and sign them up on Bright Eyes label while puppy-love-sensitive hasn’t been considered gay yet…Buncha fledling Damien Rice’s out there…

January 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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DC Trojan says:

Albino Tornado @ 41: I’ve been panhandled at gas stations in LA, Atlanta, and Providence RI – but only the guy in Atlanta still had on his hospital wrist tag and extensive dressings to various wounds.

As for the “take your empties” service at the Coliseum, there’s no need to mock the environmental equivalent of throwing a bone to the peons. Just because they didn’t take away Callahan when they had the chance, there’s no need to be bitter. If you all had stamped a deposit $100 on his forehead and turned him loose on MLK, you could have saved yourselves a year of misery.

January 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
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VandyJ says:

I would dearly love to see the Dores in a bowl – any bowl at all, barring the Music City Bowl, because unless you are SC or LA it *sucks* to go to a bowl in the same city as you.

However, I am also pleased to sit at home in front of the plasma and cheer for all the fine conference peers keeping our athletic department Department of Student Recreation afloat. Git money!

January 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
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Wilbur says:

One thing: we Cyclones came from a shithole called Ames, IA, to watch 2 bowl games in Shreveport, and everyone I talked to called that a shithole (even relative to Ames). That can’t good for Shreveport.

Funniest article yet for the SN.

January 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 am
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Harris says:

Spencer?! Who the fuck is Spencer? Unless you hang out with large black men named after predatory birds, you got some explainin’ to do, goddammit.

January 3rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
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Allahver Fist says:

Back in the day I sent my father your critique of Ole Miss women (both parents are Rebels). It figuratively cut his nuts and caused him strife with it’s painful accuracy. I simply misjudged it as hilarious.

The recent Jacksonville post was a very fine dissection of my live-close-enough-to-it-to-kinda-call-it-my-adopted-hometown. Great schtuff.

You’ll either succeed with your best work or fail, but keep on doin’ what you’re doin’. You can always teach the Improv Comedy Traffic Schools back in GainesVegas.

I shook your hand. I got your back.

January 3rd, 2008 at 9:31 am