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Amen.Now you've crossed the line, hick!
There were more definitions, but I had to go out on a high noteBUCKYLE;1928178; said:I'm disappointed "peckerwood" and "honkey" were left off...unless those are just whites, in general.
I can't wait to call someone a Nascar Cowboy.
jwinslow;1928167; said:So your definition of hicks are people who don't live life the way you think they should?
p.s. It's good to know folks didn't put Jordan or Payton on a pedestal, or got hung up on Cutler's health.
There are more explicit words one could use, but it is incredible (as are the lines to wait for it). And no, Pizzeria Uno does not make deep dish pizza.BUCKYLE;1928182; said:Suck it, lake rat!
It's not pizza, though. Shitting on a bun doesn't make it a hamburger.
jwinslow;1928183; said:Amen. There were more definitions, but I had to go out on a high note
jwinslow;1928160; said:redneck, hillbilly, white-trash, country, stupid, red-neck, trailer-trash, inbred, cracker, bumkin, racist, southern-town, idiot, nascar cowboy...
NateG;1928192; said:Yeah a Jordan brand of trinkets would never go over. So tell Nike to leave us alone.
I lived an hour from Chicago and spent plenty of time there during his final three-peat. The bolded part is quite false.Most Chicagoans--and the media--loved Jordan the athlete but were quite aware that he was a total asshole in real life and had no particular desire to shake his hand or buy his trinkets.
Because it's a blend of many other colleges, which is why this comparison doesn't work. It's like praising the diversity of sports viewpoints in Atlanta.Chicago is a great sports town. With its mix of passion for pro and college, the best in American in my opinion.
Actually, the vitriol towards Mr. Cutler speaks precisely to their obsession with sports. It's just your flavor of obsession, and so it isn't "hickish" in your mind.Being a great sports town does not mean that these guys are treated like Gods when they walk around town. The fact that Chicago media and fans can be brutal towards their own (ask Mr. Cutler) speaks to that.
ORD_Buckeye;1928197; said:Jordan the "image" outside of Chicago is not the same as how Jordan "the man" is viewed in the city. There are still sports radio guys who refer to his first retirement as his "gambling suspension."
Somebody in San Francisco--or Peking--buying Air Jordans does not disprove my point. It just proves the power of Nike's and Weiden+Kennedy's marketing to transform such an utterly unlikeable human being (trust me; he won a "meanest man in Chicago poll in Chicago Magazine) into a global icon.
And there are sports radio guys in Columbus who have plenty of disparaging things to say about OSU football personnel. In neither case does that say anything meaningful about the typical in-city attitude toward local sports "heroes".ORD_Buckeye;1928197; said:There are still sports radio guys [in Chicago] who refer to [Jordan's] first retirement as his "gambling suspension.