Godfrey's Article on State

[Hugo Sanchez.sixpack]

Hopefully this isn't Germans. Article begins on page 10.

http://oxfordeagle.com/wp...ploads/2011/07/OT935.pdf

 

[Hugo Sanchez.sixpack]

Hopefully this isn't Germans. Article begins on page 10.

http://oxfordeagle.com/wp...ploads/2011/07/OT935.pdf

 

[Hugo Sanchez.sixpack]

Hopefully this isn't Germans. Article begins on page 10.

http://oxfordeagle.com/wp...ploads/2011/07/OT935.pdf

 

[Hugo Sanchez.sixpack]

Hopefully this isn't Germans. Article begins on page 10.

http://oxfordeagle.com/wp...ploads/2011/07/OT935.pdf

 

[biguglyjoe]

*****

 

[FlabLoser]

Love Godfrey's color. That I could read his full assault on Starkville and thoroughly enjoy it says a lot about how comfortable I am with our current State of affairs.

My favorite part:

<font><font class="PostDisplay">Do you think I could attend Mississippi State
and then lay claim, a decade later, to friends who own candy shops,
recording studios and bars in fair Starkville? Thriving locally owned
business sup-ported by a network of passionate alumni and loyal locals?
Of course not — no ties bind anyone to that collection of parking
lots and red brick other than to fulfill a list of course requirements,
meet a mate and fill the pews of a Rankin County mega-church.</font></font>

That Godfrey. He's so funny, especially when he's angry.

 

[missouridawg]

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[thatsbaseball]

that`s where they came from after not being able to get into the schools in their home state.

 

[GimpyDawg]

Especially since Godfrey goes on all the radio shows and acts like he's too good for that bitter rivalry stuff. Reading that, um, that's certainly not the case. Damn, it's awesome to be loathed again.

 

[shsdawg]

best one I have seen in a while!

 

[missouridawg]

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[Spotdawg]

I don't know him but thought that he did a good job with the interview. Is Godfrey always the coquettish and fey? Or is that just his affected persona as a tortured, non-gender specific writer?

 

[coach66]

Way, 17 the NY Times

 

[thatsbaseball]

nm

 

[CagerMania]

Mullen and Stricklin's 'sabre rattling' is exactly the antidote to this article. They have the balls to turn the tide and refuse to except trite (and frankly out of date) impressions of our University. And the truth is, people are starting to notice. If we have any sort of success in football this year, Godfrey will indeed be eating this damn article because our administration is no longer allowing lazy writers to fall back on second hand impressions that were learned in the 70s (when every word of this was probably true). We (all of us) are now challenging folks to take a second look and discover the best kept secret in the South.

 

[EAVdog]

I attended Mississippi on the Mall in DC 5 years in a row and can tell you there were just as many if not more State grads there than Ole Miss fans. And you know what I could care less, it doesn't mean crap. Outside of the square Oxford is just another poor small town in North Mississippi made of strip centers and cheaply built housing developments.

 

[hatfieldms]

Sure the square is nice, but outside of that I'm not sure what is so great about it

 

[drt7891]

While your fine University is pumping out the finest paralegals and Mrs. degrees this country has ever seen and you are gloating about how much bigger and smellier your turd is, we'll be sure to keep kicking your *** in every possible category. <div>
</div><div>It feels good to be hated again. </div>

 

[EAVdog]

It's a very nice Urban space. It provides a center for social interaction. But anything out Hwy 6 or Hwy 7 is just the same old detritus that pollutes our roadways.

 

[3000lbchicken]

a Chevy salesman isn't going to promote a Ford on paper

 

[Spotdawg]

it just struck me as odd, having read some of his work ...and posts on SPS. Not the voice that I had imagined in my mind.

If I wondered if it alarmed you having him in the dressing room after a workout, I would have asked if he were gay. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

 

[FlabLoser]

[No message]

 

[dawgatUSM]

The Square is great, and I can admit that I love that area of town... But everything else in Oxford is no better than anything else in Starkville. Sorry, Godfrey

 

[FlabLoser]

Agree.

I'll give Ole Miss that the rolling hills on their campus are very nice. Both schools have nice architecture on campus. Their hills and abundance of mature growth trees is enviable.

Downtown Starkville is FINALLY coming around. As did tailgating (The Junction). Ole Miss was ahead of us for years in that department.

Overall, its a push (except for the hills).

Gameday...ha, not even close. DWS freakin rocks.

 

[drt7891]

nm

 

[hotdigitydog]

way to take a cheap shot at us cause he knows, as in Dan's words, "We've been eating their lunch" and it's gonna continue for a while......

 

[hotdigitydog]

NT

 

[DirtyLopez]

have taken ownership of the Miss Mississippi title, and now Starkville has taken ownership of the title "Mississippi's college town". No wonder Godfrey is throwing a hissy fit.

 

[Harley Weewax]

He took about 1,200 words to say "Wah, why won't they stop being mean to us."

Although my favorite part was "the worldwide appeal of Oxford's culture."

 

[EtOHreb]

to question Godfrey's homosexuality. I'm literally laughing out loud at the thought of Godfrey pummeling your ignorance back down your throat.

 

[Barkman Turner Overdrive]

alumni chapter was the 2nd largest in the world. I don't know that for a fact but I heard it several times.

 

[jakldawg]

my old roomates live in: Houston, Nashville, Miami, Gulfport. Can I act all hip and cosmopolitan now?
I guess the magazine who is committed to promoting Oxford has a high standard for dickish writing (more than his rational posts here would suggest).

 

[dawgstudent]

[No message]

 

[Hugo Sanchez.sixpack]

to question Godfrey's homosexuality. I'm literally laughing out loud at <span style="font-weight: bold;">the thought of Godfrey pummeling</span> your ignorance back <span style="font-weight: bold;">down your throat.</span>

Ironic choice of words.

 

[EtOHreb]

bootuphisassku

 

[99jc]

ku

 

[tenureplan]

Wouldn't he be questioning Godfrey's sexuality?

Or are you confirming that he is gay? Not that there is anything wrong with that.

 

[gravedigger]

lest those pretty little greek panties his wife still has get balled up in her ***.

Godfrey, that was a slice of literary genius. Right up there with "Wave a flag, cheer a cheer"theDM published from the eighties that invited Ole Miss fans who refused to wear a tie to not attend the game but to enjoy the game by Radio. That's right, a vanderbildt homecoming game.

You uppidity %*@*@ will never again amount to much athletically. But we, will always be able to count on you to be the trust fund bitches you cannot help but be. And as long as you churn out journalists and lawyers, that bitchy little attitude will remain in court dockets and microfilm until the end of time.

Thank you sir.

That helped me greatly.

 

[xxxWalkTheDawg]

Well the only smack they can attempt to talk now is "town" smack. They have had to drop any football smack, basketball smack, baseball smack, tennis smack, and now they can't even throw down women smack with MSU's showing in the pageant the past several years.<div>
</div><div>So UM fans have been reduced to pulling out the Thesaurus and attempting to sound like the second coming of Faulkner when they try to run Starkville down. It's the same people that whistle past the trailer park just past the 7 and 6 hwy junction and talk like the town only has antebellum homes. </div><div>
</div><div>Maybe UM fans should worry about making the inside of VHS a great place to visit. Seems people can't wait to get out of there at halftime back to the tent. Is the inside of VHS as bad as Starkville as he claims? Cause it seems like all UM fans can't wait to get out of both. </div><div>
</div><div>It's good to see the promotion tactics of MSU really getting under their skin. So the consensus by that column is that the billboards and "Welcome to our State" is tacky and beneath them... but being on page 10 of a town rag crying about them isn't? </div><div>
</div><div>When is the last time the Starkville Daily News ran a story on bars in Oxford full of guys drinking flavored beer and Apple Martinis? Maybe it's time.</div>

 

[NashvilleBulldawg]

Quite comical being that Oxford is so great. Not sure why he'd live here over there. Do I get to act all superior since I live in an "exotic" locale?<div>I've got rolling hills too! That comment about their women was possibly the lamest comment. Does he realize who the last few Miss MS winners have been? Surely a man of his..."persuasion" is all about pageants. </div>