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Nollywood stars put on their soccer boots for exhibition match
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Nollywood stars and their counterparts in the music industry gathered on Saturday September 3, 2011, to honor late Christy Essien-Igbokwe at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos-Nigeria, in a novelty football match tagged’ Match of the stars’.
In the first match of the day, Team SWAN (Sport Writers Association of Nigeria) thrashed Top Entertainment Writers Team by 3goals to nothing. The second match which was the most anticipated was between Top Stars of Music versus Superstars of Nollywood.
Team Nollywood paraded stars like Segun Arinze, Fred and Jeta Amata, Femi Ogedengbe, Osita Iheme, Chinedu Ikedieze, Bob-Manuel Idogwu, Emeka Enyiocha, and a host of other Nollywood stars. On team Top Stars of Music were Ikechukwu, Konga, Africa China, Kaka, Jklt, GT, Minji, Zakki Adzay, Baba Dee, Harrysong and a host of others
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Posted: May 18, 2012 (09:44:09 AM)
Spanish club FC Barcelona on Wednesday announced its plan to open its first official football school, FCBEscola, in India.
The school, to be opened in association with Conscient Football, will start its operation at the Heritage School in Gurgaon later this year before expanding to other cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Pune.
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The following is an abridged excerpt from Fortunes, Fiddles, and Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History, which was just published by Providence House Press.
1968 was a milestone year for Nashville business. Hospital Corporation of America was formed. Genesco peaked at 65,000 employees. The National Life & Accident Insurance Co. and Third National Bank formed NLT—then the South’s largest financial institution. The Country Music Association awards were televised for the first time. However, for many Nashville residents, the most remarkable company in 1968 was Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken. And to understand Minnie Pearl’s, you have to know a bit about Kentucky Fried Chicken.
In the 1930s, an eccentric man named “Colonel” Harlan Sanders began selling fried chicken out of the back of his gas station in Corbin, Ky. Two decades later, he began to franchise his secret chicken recipe of 11 herbs and spices. By 1963, the Colonel’s chicken was being sold at over 500 locations, most of which were sit-down restaurants that featured it on the menu.
However, Sanders didn’t do too much to standardize his operation, advertise it, expand it, or squeeze profits out of it. In 1963, a Nashville businessman named Jack Massey and a Louisville lawyer named John Y. Brown Jr. talked Sanders into selling them his business for $2 million. Massey and Brown moved Kentucky Fried Chicken’s headquarters to Nashville. And after spending a few months studying the business, they began standardizing KFC locations, adding new franchises, and spending a lot of money on advertising.
At first, the new owners of the company didn’t get along with franchisees that had grown used to the Colonel. But those restaurant owners who stayed with the company, signed new contracts, built new outlets, and acquired stock options eventually would have cause to be very happy about the new program.
In 1966 and 1967, KFC opened about 300 new outlets. In 1968, it opened about 600. Its earnings—$800,000 in 1965—grew to $12.1 million four years later. Massey and Brown—neither of whom had ever taken a business course in their lives—had revolutionized the restaurant business. By that time, some of KFC’s franchisees had become millionaires. One was Dave Thomas, who would later go on to start a hamburger chain called Wendy’s.
KFC had many imitators. One of them was Minnie Pearl’s—the brainchild of John Jay Hooker Jr., a colorful, energetic, and well-connected Nashville attorney who narrowly lost the Democratic nomination for governor in 1966. As KFC grew and its franchisees and shareholders became wealthy, Hooker and his younger brother and law partner, Henry, became convinced that there was room for a second fried chicken chain. According to several people with whom they discussed the idea, they built their case on two arguments. One was that the success of KFC paved the way for such a business, much like Coke had paved the way for Pepsi. The other was that there were many medium-sized markets into which KFC had not yet moved.
There was, however, one important difference between Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken and Kentucky Fried Chicken. KFC had started small and grew under the watchful eye of Harlan Sanders, who spent years perfecting his recipe and cultivating his market. The Hooker brothers, on the other hand, had not run a single restaurant before.
Nevertheless, John Jay and Henry Hooker were thinking big. And both acknowledged that they were inspired by Rogers Caldwell, who 40 years earlier had put together his financial empire in the same building that in the mid-1960s housed the law office of Hooker & Hooker. “I hope you make as much money as I did in this building,” Caldwell told the Hooker brothers in the early 1960s. “But I hope you keep more of it than I did.”
In early 1967, the Hooker brothers sold stock in the new venture to their friends, relatives, and political supporters—some got in for 50 cents a share, others $1 per share. Among them were U.S. Rep. Richard H. Fulton, former Tennessee Secretary of State Eddie Friar, Tennessean publisher Amon Carter Evans, Tennessean editor John Seigenthaler, Banner publisher Jimmy Stahlman, former state legislator (and later federal judge) Tommy Wiseman Jr., attorney Jim Neal, Democratic activist (and later Davidson County sheriff) Fate Thomas, former University of Tennessee football coach Doug Dickey, and Ingram Corp. president Bronson Ingram.
Some early stockholders, such as Fulton, Seigenthaler, and Ingram, would later claim they were reluctant to buy the stock at first and did so only after some arm-twisting by John Jay Hooker. “In Bronson’s mind, it was money he had kissed goodbye forever,” Martha Ingram said. But according to Jimmy Bradford Jr. of J.C. Bradford & Co., many people were begging John Jay to let them have a shot at it. “People just went hog-wild,” said Bradford, who said he never bought any of the stock. “I remember going to a cocktail party where John Jay walked in and there were about 10 people wanting to grab him because they wanted to get in.”
Hooker’s idea caught fire, thanks to his personal magnetism and the free publicity from Nashville’s newspapers. On Sunday, June 18, 1967, The Tennessean ran a front-page story announcing the “establishment” of Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken. In the story, John Jay Hooker predicted that the firm—which had not yet sold a single drumstick—would have 500 stores by the end of 1970. “It’s going to be fun for me,” Sarah Cannon (a.k.a. Minnie Pearl) was quoted as saying.
Nashville architect Earl Swensson came up with a design for the Minnie Pearl’s restaurants based loosely on the colors of Minnie Pearl’s hat. In August, the company announced it had sold its first block of franchises to a group of Knoxville businessmen that included former University of Tennessee football coach Doug Dickey. On Oct. 14, The Tennessean reported that the company had sold a block of 30 franchises “representing an eventual investment of $4 million” to a group of Shelbyville investors. Three days later, Minnie Pearl’s was back on the front page, this time for having sold a block of 10 franchises in Atlanta. The company made the front page again on Dec. 31, when it sold 30 franchises in Florida and 30 in California. By this time, the company had opened its first restaurant, a stand-alone building in front of its headquarters at 2708 Franklin Road.
The cost of franchises and the company’s method of reporting franchise fees in its income statement would eventually come under fire from the Securities and Exchange Commission. During Minnie Pearl’s first few months of existence, the company sold a single franchise (or the exclusive right to operate a Minnie Pearl’s restaurant in a particular region) for $20,000. The company preferred to sell a group of franchises rather than a single franchise in order to raise more money. Franchisees paid 10 percent of this amount up front and agreed to pay the other 90 percent later. But Minnie Pearl’s Chicken Systems Inc. reported the entire $20,000 as earnings at the time of the agreement. Not only was this accounting method unusual (Kentucky Fried Chicken did not report franchise fees in this manner), it also burdened Minnie Pearl’s with high earnings that it could never repeat. But company officials, including Henry Hooker, would later defend this practice, claiming that the company’s accounting firm instructed them to do it this way.
By February 1968, Minnie Pearl’s had sold the rights to almost 300 franchised stores, only five of which were in operation. It was then that the company announced its intention to go public.
On May 2, 1968, the day of its initial public offering, Minnie Pearl’s stock rose from $20 to $40.50 a share. The Hooker brothers had pulled it off, turning an idea into a company worth $64 million.
During the summer that followed, many Nashville residents started their day by checking the Minnie Pearl’s stock price and shaking their heads in amazement. Only a few weeks after the IPO—apparently confident it had perfected one concept and was ready to move onto another—Minnie Pearl’s announced it was starting a second chain named after black gospel singer Mahalia Jackson. Before news of Mahalia Jackson’s had sunk in, the company announced it was starting a third chain called Minnie Pearl’s Roast Beef.
On Aug. 3, 1968, the grand opening of Minnie Pearl’s five Nashville outlets made The Tennessean’s front page. The next day, the morning paper gave front-page coverage to yet another speculative venture by the company—the development of a chain of dry cleaning establishments. A week later, Minnie Pearl’s announced it had earned $2.6 million on revenues of $6.2 million for the first six months of the year. Boosted by this news, the stock climbed to $56 a share. By Sept., the company had sold the rights to 800 restaurants, fewer than 400 of which had actually opened.
In October 1968, Fortune magazine ran an article that sounded a skeptical note for the long-term success of Minnie Pearl’s. “If the food does not agree with the people who are supposed to patronize all these outlets, then Minnie Pearl’s will find itself with a balance sheet full of deserted buildings,” the story said. The Nashville media would have no such skepticism for another year.
At this point, the Hooker brothers hired longtime friend and Commerce Union Bank executive Edward G. Nelson to be president of the company. Years later, Nelson said he became concerned almost immediately about the direction that the business was headed. Nelson knew they could sell franchises for only so long. Eventually, the focus had to be changed from selling franchises to approving sites, opening stores, and selling chicken. Minnie Pearl’s simply did not have the organization or the money to do this. “Being president of the company was like being shackled to the train tracks when you know there is a train coming right at you,” Nelson said.
By the end of 1968, Minnie Pearl’s still had fewer than 40 restaurants open, almost none of which was making a profit. It also had more than 100 under construction and another 300 in some stage of development. With all the construction plans, real estate acquisitions, equipment distribution, and franchise sales going on, Nelson said there was almost no way to actually figure out how much money was being spent. “It was like watching the Seabees build a new airbase in the Pacific,” Nelson said.
A magnificent salesman with little interest in details, John Jay Hooker told Nelson to deal with the nuts and bolts of running the company while he spent all his time and energy coming up with new franchises to sell. In January 1969, Minnie Pearl’s Chicken Systems Inc. changed its name to Performance Systems Inc. (PSI) in order to emphasize the idea that it planned to sell more than just chicken. Before long, the company announced it was branching off into three new concepts: a day-care chain, an automotive repair chain, and a chain of ice cream stands. Meanwhile, the company’s stock price was still so strong that the firm made its first acquisition: a 180-unit hamburger chain based in Florida called Royal Castle.
As PSI announced—and the daily newspapers reported—these grandiose plans, it occurred to the Hooker brothers that there was one very obvious group of people to whom they could sell franchises. By this time, the 2-year-old company had made many of the Hookers’ friends rich. As many of them sold stock at an enormous gain, the Hookers convinced some of them to reinvest at least some of those gains in roast beef franchises. Shareholder and Congressman Richard H. Fulton became a franchisee in California and Florida. Shareholder Tommy Wiseman Jr. became a franchisee in Michigan and in California.
However, not everyone who sold stock bought franchises. Bronson Ingram bought 4,000 shares of stock for 50 cents a share, sold it after it went public, and built a swimming pool with the proceeds. “We called it the Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken swimming pool,” Martha Ingram said.
Thanks in part to this second wave of franchise sales, PSI continued to have a decent cash flow for the next several months. By March 1969, PSI had sold 1,400 franchises, the sale of which managed to offset the high cost of opening over 200 chicken restaurants.
By this time, Minnie Pearl’s had made it look so easy that it had created its own wave of copycats. Among the franchising companies founded in Nashville in 1968 and 1969: Tex Ritter’s Chuckwagon, Hank Williams Jr. Barbecue Pits, Al Hirt’s Sandwich Salons, Tennessee Ernie’s Foods, and Eddy Arnold’s Tennessee Fried Chicken. “I sure would hate to be a chicken in Middle Tennessee,” Eddy Arnold’s president Dick Hall said.
The first hint that something was wrong came when Minnie Pearl’s restaurants began to open and customers began to taste the food. Its meteoric rise notwithstanding, almost no one at Performance Systems actually knew anything about cooking chicken. This was not a secret; the Hooker brothers admitted to prospective investors that they knew nothing about cooking. But they always downplayed that problem. “One time I told Henry Hooker that no one at the company knows a damn thing about cooking chicken,” J.C. (Jimmy) Bradford Jr. said. “And Henry said to me, ‘You’re damn right. But the easiest thing to do is fix the chicken. We can just call up General Mills or any restaurant we want and they’ll get us someone who knows that any time we want.’ After the restaurants opened, everyone would go try the chicken and they wouldn’t go back after that.”
Richard L. Fulton, the son of then-Congressman Fulton, got a job working at the Minnie Pearl’s real estate department in 1968. The younger Fulton said the company was building new restaurants so fast that there was no way that the food could possibly have tasted the same. “No two Minnie Pearl’s restaurants ever served the same chicken,” said Fulton. “The company put out a recipe book that told all the cooks how to make chicken, gravy, rolls, and everything, but no one followed it because many of the managers were retired cooks from the military and each wanted to use their own recipe.”
Performance Systems had several other problems that had begun to affect its stock price. Convinced that he could leave the details of actually operating a chain of fried chicken restaurants to others, John Jay Hooker had moved on to roast beef, day-care centers, and transmission repair by the middle of 1968. As hundreds of franchisees borrowed money and built stores, they found it cost money. As they opened stores, few made a profit, which made the idea of building more stores problematic—if not impossible.
Meanwhile, the home office in Nashville was doing little to help them in the way of providing technical expertise and assistance. The big national advertising program promised by the company never materialized. By late summer 1969, banks and investors began to realize that PSI was in real trouble, and the company’s stock sank from $40 to about $10.
John Jay Hooker’s political ambitions also distracted the company’s attention from the chicken business. From the beginning, Minnie Pearl’s ownership and management had been dominated by the Hooker brothers and their political allies. By the summer of 1969 these workers were spending more time on John Jay’s next gubernatorial campaign than helping PSI’s franchisees.
Nevertheless, Nashville’s local newspapers did not act as if anything were amiss, at least not yet. On Aug. 21, when John Jay Hooker resigned his job with PSI, The Tennessean made it sound as if Hooker had built a solid company. “His very entry into the Minnie Pearl’s Chicken System...was in large measure to answer the political criticism that he had no business experience. Well, he has it now.”
However, if reporters had dug they would have found a lot of interesting stories. The once high-flying firm had stopped selling franchises. Newly opened Minnie Pearl’s chicken and roast beef restaurants were losing money fast. Some were closing within months of opening. Banks, concerned about Minnie Pearl’s cash flow situation, were no longer lending money to its franchisees.
Perhaps the most potentially damaging story concerned a related company called Whale Inc. The Hooker brothers started Whale in 1967 in an attempt to form a “conglomerate” of sorts that might diversify their holdings. After buying a couple of small unrelated companies, Whale bought a group of California Minnie Pearl’s franchises with money that the Hookers’ had made from PSI stock sales. After going public, Whale’s stock shot from $2 to over $50 dollars a share, making it possible for the company to make several other purchases.
In April 1968, Whale bought Temco—a space heater, stove part, and explosive shell manufacturer on Charlotte Pike—for $4 million in Whale stock. The Hooker brothers later used Temco’s assets as leverage to buy other Nashville companies. One was the Nashville Bridge Co., which Whale bought from Harry Dyer in November 1968 for $15 million in cash. Others included a machine shop called Dolphin Tool, a steel fabricator called Cole Steel, a yearbook printer called Benson Printing, and—in a deal that was signed but never transacted—a century-old brick manufacturer and building supply wholesaler called T.L. Herbert & Sons.
Years later, many Nashville residents remembered Minnie Pearl’s, but few knew anything about Whale. One reason for this disparity is that in 1967 and 1968, while Whale was purchasing assets such as Temco and the Nashville Bridge Co., neither the Banner nor The Tennessean reported that John Jay and Henry Hooker had anything to do with it. Henry Hooker founded Whale and served as its first president. But the only official at Whale who was ever mentioned in the newspapers before 1970 was its president Albert Hill.
After a couple of years of acquiring assets at a remarkable rate, Whale began to have serious financial problems. For several months, John Jay and Henry Hooker managed to keep the company afloat by moving assets from one part of the company to another. But by the summer of 1969, Whale’s stock was sliding fast.
In the fall of 1969, there were more hints that the Hookers’ empire was about to come unglued. Ed Nelson resigned and went back to Commerce Union. Nashville advertising and public relations firm Noble-Dury announced it was dropping the PSI account.
On November 5, PSI made a grave announcement that, unlike most of its other press releases, did not make the front page of either Nashville daily newspaper. The company announced that its retail units had experienced an “unexpected decline” in sales that had caused the company to show “a substantial loss” for the first six months of 1969. Neither paper followed up with more detail.
The revelations about Performance Systems Inc. that surfaced in 1970 are too numerous to detail. But in general, the company had lost enormous amounts of money in its attempt to build a chain of fried chicken outlets overnight. Meanwhile, several divisions of Whale—some of which had long histories of making money—were now losing it.
In February, PSI stated it had lost $5.5 million during the first half of 1969. About that time, PSI came under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its accounting practices. By March, the Nashville business had become so infamous that a Fortune article said “the classic example of what can happen to an unsophisticated entrepreneur is provided by the trials and tribulations of Performance Systems Inc., once known as Minnie Pearl’s Chicken Systems Inc.”
By late summer, over half of the 250 stores the company had managed to open were closed. The corporate office, which only a year earlier had been coming out with new ventures almost every week, was now in over its head trying to help franchisees get out of leases.
As revelations about PSI went from bad to worse, the Banner began to change its tone. After all, this was no longer just a business story. The PSI debacle centered on Democratic candidate John Jay Hooker Jr. The Republican Banner suddenly couldn’t get enough of it. Front-page press releases about new PSI franchising ideas disappeared, replaced by pieces about Minnie Pearl’s stores that were closing down and Whale subsidiaries that were in financial trouble.
PSI’s 1969 report was supposed to have been filed with the SEC in April 1970. In July, the SEC announced that the company still had not filed the report and had been given even more time. That extension may have helped Hooker win the Democratic nomination for governor on Aug. 5, because when PSI came out with its annual report in September 1970, the numbers were far worse than anyone had imagined. Incredibly, the 3-year-old company had lost almost $31 million in 1969. The annual report also stated that the company’s revenues were insufficient to meet its day-to-day needs and that it no longer had the ability to borrow money. PSI stock, which once sold at $67 a share, fell to 44 cents.
About the same time, Whale declared bankruptcy, turning several Nashville employers over to the hands of a receiver. Some of Whale’s assets, such as Benson Printing, Dolphin Tool, and Cole Steel, were later returned to the entities from which Whale had bought them. Temco, which once had over 700 employees, now had about one-tenth that number. Nashville Bridge Co., which had a 70-year record of building bridges, barges, and buildings all over the South, was taken over by a bank that sold it to the American Ship Building Co. of Ohio.
For the next eight weeks, Republican candidate Winfield Dunn hammered away at Hooker over his business record. Meanwhile, in what became one of the most personal crusades against a candidate by a newspaper in Tennessee history, the Banner ran story after story about the Minnie Pearl’s debacle on the front page. It even made the unprecedented move of running front-page editorials opposing Hooker’s candidacy, citing PSI as evidence of his incompetence. “While Mr. Hooker himself may not care about the misfortunes of those who have become the victims of his get-rich-quick business schemes, 4 million Tennesseans—already struggling to pay their mounting tax bills—should consider the risks of placing him and his associates in charge of the public treasury,” stated one such piece. Meanwhile, Banner cartoonist Jack Knox came up with several memorable depictions of a frazzled Hooker, a chicken and a whale nipping at his heels, being dragged down by his legal and financial debacle.
As the PSI fiasco became national news, however, both Nashville newspapers became part of the story. On Jan. 27, 1970, The New York Times ran a front-page story in which it pointed out that Tennessean editor John Seigenthaler, Tennessean publisher Amon Carter Evans, and Banner publisher Jimmy Stahlman were among the 106 initial investors who got Whale stock for 50 cents a share. Stahlman denied the charge at the top of the front page of his newspaper that day (under the pretext that the stock was in his wife’s name). Eight months later, The Wall Street Journal ran a front-page story about the danger of newspaper executives sitting on corporate boards. One of the examples it cited was Evans and Seigenthaler serving on Minnie Pearl’s board in 1967 and 1968. “As the Hooker fortune fades, critics charge, so did The Tennessean’s coverage of his franchise company,” the story said.
In a 1999 interview, Seigenthaler admitted that his involvement in the Minnie Pearl’s venture was a bad move, even though he made a six-figure profit off his investment. “It was a mistake on my part to join the board,” he said in 1999. Seigenthaler said he resigned from the company’s board of directors as soon as he realized it was going to be heavily covered in the newspaper. Seigenthaler said he never discussed the coverage and play of the Minnie Pearl’s story with then-Tennessean business editor Albert Cason. He said the heavy coverage of Minnie Pearl’s had more to do with Hooker’s political past and future than any grand scheme for profits by shareholding journalists. “It was more than just another company,” Seigenthaler said. “Everyone knew that John Jay had just lost the governor’s race in part because of his lack of business experience.”
As Hooker fought off charges of mismanagement and incompetence, one person who came to his defense was Sam Fleming. “There has been nothing dishonest done,” the Third National Bank president told Business Week. “A lot of people in Nashville made a lot of money. The only people to lose big were the funds.” Fleming was referring to a mutual fund called SMC Investment that bought 305,000 shares of Whale for $27.50 per share in December 1968 and then watched the stock spiral to less than a dollar a share. His defense of Hooker was made all the more remarkable by the fact that the now-bankrupt Whale owed Fleming’s bank $3.7 million.
In November 1970, Winfield Dunn defeated Hooker, becoming Tennessee’s first Republican governor since the 1920s.
It took years to sort out the legal mess left by PSI. After a year and a half, the SEC ruled that the company had filed financial statements that were false, rewriting the company’s 1968 annual report to show that the company lost $1.2 million rather than earned $3.2 million.
That conclusion would eventually prove to be the basis of a class-action lawsuit by PSI’s shareholders, who were able to recover a small part of the money lost through ownership of the company’s stock. By 1974, the stock was going for less than a quarter a share.
In order to meet its debts, PSI had to sell its major assets, most notably the Royal Castle hamburger chain. That process took until 1975, after which the company became inactive for two years. Then, in 1977, the company actually made a comeback under a Nashville attorney named John Chambers, who converted it into a small computer company and changed its name to DSI Corp.
Many Nashville residents—especially those who invested in it—never forgot the Minnie Pearl’s fiasco. “It is one of those experiences that I have to look back on and laugh, because I screwed it up,” said Thomas Wiseman Jr., who watched his expensive roast beef franchise become worthless. “John Jay was a great idea man. But he did not follow through with a lot of implementation, and that was what happened to the company. The thing could have succeeded.”
For former Congressman Richard H. Fulton, the Minnie Pearl’s experience was one he would just as soon forget. “I never have been one to dwell on the past,” Fulton said in 1998. Although Fulton claimed that the Minnie Pearl’s investment brought him more headaches than profits because he too bought franchises with his capital gain, the experience changed his life in an unforeseen way. Fulton met his second wife Sandra Ford—then John Jay Hooker’s secretary—on one of his trips to the Minnie Pearl’s office.
For Fulton’s son Richard, the experience was one he looked back on with a combination of amusement and cynicism. But years later, the younger Fulton said he probably learned more during his two years at Performance Systems Inc. than he would have learned anywhere else. “It led me to real estate,” said Fulton, who later became chairman of a commercial real estate company called Grubb & Ellis/Centennial.
For Ed Nelson, who went on to be president of Commerce Union Bank, the Minnie Pearl’s experience was a diversion that people never stopped kidding him about. “The day I left, I was extremely relieved and immediately felt that I had the best education of my life,” Nelson said years later. “But I was very lucky to graduate from it.”
For John Seigenthaler, who remained an executive with The Tennessean until 1991, the experience made him realize the danger of stock ownership and board membership. “It was a wonderful lesson and it taught me where I belonged, which was in that newsroom,” he said. “And in the end, it made me a better editor.” Seigenthaler said that at about the same time as the Minnie Pearl’s fiasco, he resigned from the Rotary Club because of its refusal to accept black members. The two experiences kept Seigenthaler from joining boards for the rest of his tenure at The Tennessean.
Like most everyone else who got Minnie Pearl’s Fried Chicken stock before the company went public, Opry star Sarah Cannon made a lot of money from her investment. But Cannon, a Ward-Belmont graduate who managed to walk in both country music and Nashville society circles her whole life, was embarrassed about the failure of the company that carried her stage name. “She was very bothered by all the negativity and the fact that she was attached to something that had a stigma to it like that,” said Tree Publishing executive Buddy Killen, a friend of Cannon’s.
Although John Jay Hooker Jr. ran for public office again, he never came as close to winning an important post as he did in 1970. For the rest of his life, people wondered what might have happened had the Minnie Pearl’s fiasco never happened and had Hooker won the governor’s race in 1970. Some went as far as to speculate that Hooker—a more inspirational speaker than a Georgia governor named Jimmy Carter—would have been in line to take advantage of the political vacuum that followed the Watergate scandal.
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Posted: May 18, 2012 (07:25:58 PM) | Updated: May 18, 2012 (07:44:20 PM)
Hello to all the Benna Boyz supporters today we held a press conference with the various media houses about how team preparation has been going so far and what is happening in the camp ahead of the team traveling to Florida. please see local media for information from the press conference. Also Antigua and Antigua Barbuda FA Football Association twitter page will lunched very soon.
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7 reasons why coffee is better than tea
1. Coffee doesn’t taste of tea.
2. Tea doesn’t come with nearly enough paraphernalia. A pot and a little sieve thing? Bags? Coffee comes with roasters, grinders, steamers, frothers, espresso makers and brewers; They’re all enormously expensive and very, very shiny. Brilliant!
3. You don’t have to stick your little finger out when drinking coffee which is a very good thing indeed.
4. Italian is the language of coffee: Espresso, cappuccino, machiato, latte, americano; how great do they sound? English is the language of tea: with milk, without milk, with sugar, without sugar, teabag; not so impressive.
5. Gareth Hunt.
6. The Boston Tea Party. A whole nation rose up and rejected tea. Who are we to argue with that? Obviously they let themselves down by rejecting association football and the word “trousers” but they were right about the tea.
7. Coffee Rage is a known and accepted phenomenon. Does tea have a rage? No.
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Posted: May 18, 2012 (04:52:50 PM) | Updated: May 18, 2012 (07:36:18 PM)
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Eight Oregon high schools will have to retire their Native American mascots after the Board of Education voted Thursday to prohibit them, giving the state some of the nation's toughest restrictions on Native American mascots, nicknames and logos.
The 5-1 vote followed months of passionate and emotional debate about tolerance and tradition.
The schools have five years to comply with the order or risk losing their state funding. Another seven high schools identified as the Warriors will be allowed to keep their nickname but will have to change mascots or graphics that depict Native Americans. An unknown number of elementary and middle schools also will be affected.
The ban doesn't apply to colleges, but none in Oregon have Native American mascots after Southern Oregon University and Chemeketa Community College dropped them.
Since the 1970s, more than 600 high school and college teams across the country have done away with their Native American nicknames, including 20 in Oregon.
Critics say Indian mascots are racist, contending they reinforce stereotypes and promote bullying of Native students. Supporters say the mascots are a way to honor Native American history, evoking values of strength and bravery.
"It is racist. It is harmful. It is shaming. It is dehumanizing," Se-ah-dom Edmo, vice president of the Oregon Indian Education Association, told the board.
In 2006, the Oregon Board of Education adopted a nonbinding recommendation that schools stop using Native mascots. A handful did, but some small communities have resisted the trend, saying the nicknames are a source of pride.
"It's a chance for us to talk about family and tradition and loyalty," said Jim Smith, principal of Banks High School — home of the Braves — who grew up on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana.
Banks, west of Portland, has a logo depicting an Indian head on the gymnasium floor and walls, and even on the hurdles used by the track team. When the Star Spangled Banner is played at the beginning of every game, the crowd joins in and tweaks the last stanza: "and the home of the Braves."
Some critics of the ban said they were concerned about the costs of changing sports uniforms and equipment, school letterhead and street signs.
In some areas, schools have worked with nearby tribes to change their practices without changing their nickname. Roseburg High School, home of the Indians, switched a logo depicting a Native American to a simple feather. Molalla High School changed sports jerseys to say "Molalla" instead of "Indians" and stopped using a mascot dressed like a Native American to lead cheers.
Students and teachers from schools with Native American nicknames packed two public hearings on the topic. Some suggested they be allowed to keep their Indian nicknames if nearby tribes consent.
The board rejected that idea, with board member Artemio Paz describing it as a "search for acceptable levels of racism."
Native American mascots are a form of oppression that contributes to isolation among Native Americans and its social consequences, said Tom Ball, assistant vice president of equity and diversity at the University of Oregon. Those include high rates of suicide, incarceration and school dropout.
Oregon Department of Education officials say Wisconsin is the only other state to enact restrictions on Native American mascots. Wisconsin's law, approved by the Legislature in 2010, requires school boards to prove that their Indian mascots don't promote discrimination, harassment or stereotyping if someone complains. Dozens of Wisconsin schools still have Native American mascots.
The NCAA limits the use of imagery and names considered hostile and abusive, and a debate still rages over the University of North Dakota's "Fighting Sioux" nickname and a logo with the profile of an American Indian warrior.
The Oregon Legislature voted in 2001 to eliminate the word "squaw" from geographic names because many Native Americans consider it offensive.
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Associated Press writer Steven Dubois contributed from Banks, Ore.
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Manchester City are confident they
are best placed to sign Robin...
Posted: May 18, 2012 (04:06:56 PM)
Manchester City are confident they
are best placed to sign Robin van
Persie from Arsenal, with the
champions considering making him the
club's highest-paid player. Khaldoon
al-Mubarak, the chairman, may
sanction offering the Dutchman more
than the £250,000 weekly salary
earned by Yaya Touré.
The potential deal is far enough
along for the possible move to have
been the talk of the dressing room
for a few weeks. City, who have been
conducting homework on the striker
for some time, are confident that Van
Persie will leave Arsenal and that
the lure of joining the title winners
plus a salary that would take him
beyond Touré and Carlos Tevez, the
club's highest-paid players, will
convince him to move on.
The Dutchman, who has a year
remaining on his deal with the north
London club, held talks on
Wednesday with Arsène Wenger and
Arsenal's chief executive, Ivan
Gazidis, to hear what improved terms
he might be offered.
But despite Wenger stating he wanted
to sort out Van Persie's future before
he joined up with Holland's Euro 2012
squad, the Arsenal captain made it
clear he has no intention of re-signing
at the moment as he wants to listen
to all prospective suitors.
Manchester United are thought to
retain an interest in him, with
Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona
also monitoring the situation. Van
Persie will turn 29 in August and
knows he has only one more major
move with regard to a bumper
contract and chance of adding to his
Uefa Cup (while at Feyenoord) and FA
Cup winners' medals.
So anxious are Arsenal to retain Van
Persie, the club have barred him from
talking while on international duty.
"We made a deal with Arsenal and he
won't talk to the press," a spokesman
for the Dutch Football Association,
the KNVB, said.
The striker travelled to Holland on
Thursday to begin his national team's
preparations for the European
Championship finals.
Plan indonesia girl's football tournament at sumantri brojonegoro on 19,20,26...
Posted: May 18, 2012 (03:22:54 PM)
Plan indonesia girl's football tournament at sumantri brojonegoro on 19,20,26 & 27 may will be attended by KNVB (royal netherland football association) and dutch woman national football player
I like beyounce, i like omotola, i like rihanna, i...
Posted: May 18, 2012 (02:03:41 PM) | Updated: May 18, 2012 (03:03:42 PM)
I like beyounce, i like omotola, i like rihanna, i like sanyeri, i like funke akindele, i like odunlade adekola, i like adekola afolayan, i like d'banj, i like all my facebooks fans and friendz.......especially i like my[IT]STUDENT....i like national association of sepeteri student[naoss]i like national association of oke-ogun student association[naoss]esa-oke chapter, i like oyo state, b'coz it my state of origin, i like kwara people, i like oscotech people, i like bsf esa-oke...i like my broda babatunde zacheous, b'coz he dey try his best in my life,i love my sweet mum, b'coz she worth more than billion in my life,i love hollywood film, i love football,i love akon,usher,jennifer lopez, i love lil-wayne, i love rock smith, i love u all..........gud night friendz
ANNOUNCEMENT:
This is to inform the general public that the burial...
Posted: May 18, 2012 (12:42:53 PM) | Updated: May 18, 2012 (03:46:08 PM)
ANNOUNCEMENT:
This is to inform the general public that the burial ceremony of Chelsea FC comes up tomorrow. The burial takes place at the Allianz Arena, in Munich, Germany. The general public is by this announcement invited for the burial. Come one, come all.
just seen on the forum that the fan ejected for...
Posted: May 18, 2012 (11:10:07 AM) | Updated: May 18, 2012 (12:17:28 PM)
just seen on the forum that the fan ejected for abusing the ref mr steve artis has been banned for life from crown meadow as this was reported in the referess report to the football association i think lowestoft had no option but to do this as this is fa regs but he can apply for a review after two years dont blame lowestoft town football club blame the fa
So proud of my son, Nicholas, All Conference LAX and...
Posted: May 18, 2012 (10:25:18 AM) | Updated: May 18, 2012 (06:09:56 PM)
So proud of my son, Nicholas, All Conference LAX and Academic All Conference LAX..NYS Coaches Association Scholar Athlete for Football. Great Job Nick - So proud to be your mom.
Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish has called on the Football Association to investigate an alleged elbow from Arsenal's Robin van Persie after Villa were knocked out of the FA Cup.
McLeish felt the Arsenal captain caught defender Carlos Cuellar as they jumped for a high ball in the 64th minute.
"It was a clear elbow. Would I like the FA to look at it? Yes," said McLeish
More facts are beginning to
emerge over the circumstances
that led to the legal quagmire in
which the Nigeria Football
Federation (NFF) is stuck as
investigations revealed that the
Alhaji Sani Lulu-led board spent a
whopping N23.39 million to
effect the change name from
association to federation. In the
federation's 2009 budget
performance document
submitted to the House of
Representatives Committee on
Sports and made available to
Daily Sunsports at the National
Assembly Complex, the Lulu
board revealed that it spent the
amount to organise the Congress
during the Annual General
Assembly held in Lokoja, the Kogi
State capital, that changed the
name. |
I am doing a stair climb for American Lung Association. With a team of Firefighters, 45 flights of steps(897 steps) in full gear. We are rasing money by having a super bowl football pool($20 a block) contact me by facebook or call my phone. 100 first quarter 200 half 100 third quarter 600 final
This is GOLD! Lol
The football association have this morning awarded Manchester United a 2-10 victory with respect to yesterdays 4th round FA Cup versus Liverpool held at Anfield.
The football association ahs accepted Mr Evra's claim that his team probably scored 10 goals. Despite 9 goals not being witnessed by television cameras, the crowd or the appointed match official, the Football Association found Mr Evra to be a convincing witness.
Conversely the Football Association found Mr Reina's testimony to be totally unreliable. Mr Reina admitted to conceding one goal but could provide no evidence that the other 9 had not been scored. On the grounds that Mr Evra had nothing to gain by fabricating the story the Football Association found that based on the grounds of probability, the 10 goals must have been scored.
Therefore Manchester united will host Brighton in the 5th round of the FA Cup.
Na wa for this our naija!
Firts thing I saw in the newspaper
today was how the Sports DG
opened a facebook account with
1.2 million naira.
My mouth still dey opened cos of
the surprise and shock, na so I
hear again say the former NFA
board allegedly spent ₦23.39m
($150,000) to change football
body's name from Association
(NFA) to Federation (NFF) in
2009.
As 2face dey talk am...............No
be small thingoooooooooooo!!!
THE PIONEER YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOIATION ON FEB. 11TH AT 10:00 AM NEEDS A MINIMUM OF 14) PARENTS , FOOTBALL PLAYERS, AND CHEERLEADERS TO PERTICIPATE IN THE ARCADE WINTERFEST PARADE !!!! IT IS A GREAT WAY TO SHOW OUR SPIRIT AND SUPPORT EVERYONE WITH INTEREST IN THIS ASSOCIATION SHOULD DO THEIR BEST TO SHOW UP AND BE INVOLVED . IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FEEL FREE TO CONTACT JIM DEAN AT 585-457-3435
Hmmm........Sport DG opened a facebook account with 1.2 million Naira and former NFA board allegedly spent #23.39m ($150,000) to change football body's name form ASSOCIATION (NFA) to FEDERATION (NFF) in 2009. Naija i dey HAAIIILLLL.....ooohhhh !!!!
The football association have this morning awarded Manchester United a 2-10 victory with respect to yesterdays 4th round FA Cup versus Liverpool held at Anfield.
The football association has accepted Mr Evra's claim that his team probably scored 10 goals. Despite 9 goals not being witnessed by television cameras, the crowd or the appointed match official, the Football Association found Mr Evra to be a convincing witness.
Conversely the Football Association found Mr Reina's testimony to be totally unreliable. Mr Reina admitted to conceding one goal but could provide no evidence that the other 9 had not been scored. On the grounds that Mr Evra had nothing to gain by fabricating the story the Football Association found that based on the grounds of probability, the 10 goals must have been scored.
Therefore Manchester united will host Brighton in the 5th round of the FA Cup.
The Liberia Football Association National League continued at the weekend at several venues with big wins for Nimba United, and Fatu FC.
Fatu FC made known their intention for Premiership glory by scoring a 4-3 win against Mighty Blue Angels in their first match in the local Premier league at the A.T.S.
Nimba United defeated USA FC 4-1 in Sanniquelle, Nimba County on Sunday to begin the league season as leaders.
NPA Anchors began the campaign with a 2-1 victory over new premiership boys, Green Pasture FC.
Liberia’s Oldest Football Club, Invincible Eleven IE began their campaign on the losing side, as they when down to Jubilee FC 2-1.
IE’s rival Mighty Barrolle managed a 1-1 draw at Watanga FC on Sunday.
Monrovia Club Breweries in Sunday’s late fixture defeated UMC Roots 2-1.
The league will continue doing the week.
Still with the LFA National League; anti gay right campaigners stormed the ATS for the first time on Thursday chanting anti gay slogans during the premiership match between Barrack Young Controllers and Champions LISCR FC.
That match ended goal-less, but the anti gay slogans raised questions among football fans who began asking why where the using that match to campaign against gay right.
Weekly Health Update
Week of: Monday, January 30th, 2012
Courtesy of:
Carmelo Bantique, D.C.
(916) 483-3423
" A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough -
but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not.
We can affect its character, we cannot alter its inevitability."
~ President John F. Kennedy
.
Mental Attitude: Do Video Games Enhance Cognitive Abilities?
In a recent study, it was demonstrated that there is little solid evidence that games enhance cognition at all. On the other hand, it may be the people who have these enhanced abilities are more likely to play video games.
Frontiers in Psychology, Dec 2011
Health Alert: Diabetes Worldwide!
There are 366 million diabetics worldwide and 4.6 million die each year from the disease. In the US, 8.3% or 25.8 million children and adults have diabetes, with 79 million having prediabetes.
Diabetes Atlas, Nov 2011 & American Diabetes Association, 2011
Diet: Remember Cholesterol.
High cholesterol levels may be associated with a greater incidence of brain plaques, a marker for Alzheimer's disease.
Neurology, Sept 2011
Exercise: Wide Waists Trim Lifespan.
Since the mid-1970s, when Harvard published "The Nurses Study," we've been told women with waists over 40 inches raised their risk of early death by 40% vs. women who maintained waists in the 26-27 inch measure. Pounds add up. Studies show that obesity is starting earlier than ever. 18% of children ages 12-18 are reported as being obese and 66% of baby boomers (81 million born between 1946-1964) are either obese or overweight.
New England Journal of Medicine, Sept 2011
Chiropractic: Chiropractic and the NFL.
All 32 teams in the National Football League offer their players and personnel chiropractic physician services for both managing and preventing injuries.
Professional Football Chiropractic Society
Wellness/Prevention: Too Much Booze, You Lose.
Men are more likely to binge drink than women. Research shows that drinking even a small amount of alcohol increases cancer risks, though moderate amounts of alcohol can show cardiovascular benefits that outweigh such risks. Men can play it safe by having no more than two alcoholic drinks per day.
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Nov 2011
Our money is just being squandered at all levels. corruption has become our tradition. Investigations has revealled that the Sanni Lulu-led board spent a whopping sum of N23.39 million just for change of name from NFA(Nigeria Football Association) to (Nigeria Football Federation) NFF. can u imagine.
RvP will face no further action over an incident involving Aston Villa defender Carlos Cuellar during the sides' FA Cup fourth round tie on Sunday after the referee reported he had seen the incident, the Football Association have confirmed.
HOW TO TELL YOU'RE AN OLD SOLDIER...
(a.k.a. Not Generation X)
You know what GDP means and still remember where yours was and how long it took to occupy.
You remember when we had tactical nukes and really planned to use them.
You remember spending hours in MOPP4 and doing M256 kits.
You remember when the M8 Claymore and M72 LAW were part of CTT.
You remember when ARTEPs were 36 hours and you had fun.
You remember when Carl Vouno was CG (8th ID(M)) and Max Thurman was head of recruiting command.
You know what a Gamma Goat and Goer were and could fix an M151A2 to run off one prop shaft.
You remember when the Israelis were bad-asses and we all wanted to be like them.
You remember when Saddam Hussein was our loyal ally.
You remember when Airland Battle was a new concept, and everyone religiously read FM 100-5.
You know what the 'Cap Wineberger' Doctrine was.
You remember when the M16 was a plastic carbine, and you hoped for an M14.
You can remember going to the Club at Graf, drinking, and watching Margaret.
You personally know Margaret.
You know what is a "smokey" at Hohenfels.
You know the difference between the VRC46, VRC47, PRC77 and VRC160 and the requisite installation kits.
You know what a CEOI is and you can encrypt grids.
You remember when NTC was a new and cool concept.
You remember when it was real cool to go to SAMs or be an OC at NTC.
You remember when as a new LT/CPT you could go out and train your soldiers and not have an OC tell you how screwed up you were.
You remember BN Cdrs and 1SG's who were Vietnam Vets.
You remember Bn Cdrs who drank, swore and mentored.
You remember Bn Cdrs who were ruthless about tactics, but didn't give a crap about admin BS.
You remember when 2LTs and CPLs demanded respect from PFCs and got it.
You can navigate at night without a GPS.
You can remember OPDs about Clausewitz (aka dead Karl) which usually ended with beer drinking at the O' club.
You can remember when lanes training was a neat concept.
You can remember when FM 25-101 was a new concept.
You can remember when the defense budget was 7% of the GNP.
You can remember when the main battle area was the only fight.
You can remember when every ones career track was 10 years in Germany with 1st Armored Division at Ansbach.
You remember when the Soviet Union was a major super power instead (albeit the Russian Republic) of being a basket case for the IMF.
You could remember studying German concepts like mission tactics, and commander's intent and it was cool.
You could remember reading military history and it was in vogue, and going on staff rides because the Chief of Staff of the Army did it.
You could become a S3, XO, BN Cdr, or Bde Cdr without being Resident CGSC graduate.
You could remember BN and BDE cdr's who were proud of being "non-resident" CGSC guys.
You could receive a couple of "2-blocks" and it would not force you to look for employment on the outside.
You did not worry about OERs as a lieutenant.
You remember when privates bragged about the challenge they got in basic training, and how tough their drill sergeants were.
You remember when Sensitivity training was something your wife did.
You remember when Values Cards meant credit cards.
You remember when officers did not need values cards because they practiced values everyday.
You remember when going to the Pentagon was not cool and did not help your career.
You remember when PowerPoint was what a private did on butcher paper taped-up on a board with "hundred-mile-an-hour" tape.
You remember when you could say hooah, because the Chief of Staff of the Army said it.
You remember when women in combat was just a bad idea that would soon fade away.
You remember when being hardcore and a warrior was cherished.
You remember that going to ranger school was cool and not for career progression.
You remember that more than one company command was what studs did.
You could remember that going to Korea was like going to the field for twelve straight months, and only the hard-core guys extended.
You could remember when you could maneuver anywhere you wanted in Korea and it was not a big deal.
You could remember when "maneuver damage" was paid lip-service.
You could remember when you could "Major" in ROTC.
You remember eating C-rations in the field.
You wore the "banana suit" to PT.
You wore the "pickle suit" to formation.
You remember taking the five-event APFT.
You remember when a PFC/SPC made presentations using a Leroy set instead of CPTs/MAJs using PowerPoint.
You remember when camouflage nets were made of cloth.
You remember when the Army's vehicles ran on gas.
You remember when cigarettes were in C-rations.
You remember on Thursdays was Donut Dolly day.
You remember how to report for pay and what a pay line was.
You remember beer machines in the barracks/dayroom.
You remember when Clothing Sales was run by Army soldiers.
You remember when there used to be enlisted, NCO and Officer Clubs.
You remember the Women's Army Corps (WACs).
You remember when stripes were worn on the sleeve.
When you ran PT in boots, white T-shirt and fatigue pants.
When Jungle boots were green.
When Jump boots cost $16.50 a pair and you shined the whole boot instead of just the toe and heel.
When cigarettes where $2.00 a carton.
What an alert was.
When Sergeants ran the Army.
You remember Disposition Forms (DF’s) instead of memorandums. (That would be DA Form 2496!)
When a one line correction on a document was sufficient, instead of correcting it on a word processor and running off 20 times the number of copies you would have needed prior to the computer age. (The Paperless Army!)
You were allowed to wear foreign jump wings or a RECONDO badge on your fatigues.
Only elite forces wore a beret.
You carried a .45 cal pistol instead of a 9mm.
Soft cap meant wearing your helmet liner.
You could shave, bathe and cook out of your helmet.
You remember when 5 tons ran on gasoline.
You remember when F-4 phantoms mock attacked your convoys.
You remember when your Sergeant was a Missile.
You remember stepping on a lucky strike pack and punching the nearest guy.
You remember finding Lidane in your bunk.
You remember wearing duty uniforms that weren't camo.
You remember painting Dragons on your 2 1/2 ton to keep the Korean slicky boys away.
You remember when Agent Orange was just a weed killer.
You're an old soldier if you carry a twenty round magazine in Afghanistan.
You're an old soldier if you're a Major and you have a K-bar with your name and SGT inscribed on it.
You're an old soldier if you drove a 113 on more than one REFORGER.
You're an old soldier if you are a life member of the 8TH ID association.
You remember how to set up a footlocker and wall locker display.
You remember using coke cans to neatly roll your T-shirts and boxer shorts for your footlocker display.
You remember the only space you had in your footlocker for personal items had to fit in a space the size of a cigar box.
You remember needing a pass to leave post.
You remember getting stopped by the MP's in downtown Graf to check your pass.
You know what bed check is.
You know what fire watch is.
You remember being on KP in garrison.
You remember Saturday was for inspections and Monday thru Friday was for training.
You remember when an article-15 did not end your career and all good enlisted men had at least three and they were removed from your 201 file upon transfer to another unit.
You know what Blood Stripes are.
You remember not being thrown out of the army for fighting downtown.
You remember when people went to prison for desertion.
You know what a T-10 parachute is.
You remember being dragged to safety by an overweight medic.
You remember when every major Post had a Post Stockade and used them.
You remember being detailed to guard a work detail from the Post Stockade with a loaded shotgun.
You remember pulling guard duty with a loaded weapon.
You remember what the "Colonel's Orderly" was.
You remember being issued handkerchiefs and using them.
You remember having a shaving stick and why you had it and not a can of shaving crème.
You know what an M-79 is.
You know what a "Mule" is (not the four-legged type).
You remember when you didn't have to be "somebody" to be buried in Arlington.
You remember draftees.
You remember your serial number.
You know what the RA or US in front of a serial number means.
You remember when food was not allowed in the barracks.
OCS in Germany wasn't for training officers.
The back cover of Soldiers Magazine was a Playboy Bunny or someone's girlfriend.
"Turret Talk" wasn't a friendly conversation.
Connie Rod had big boobs.
You were allowed two beers for lunch.
There were beer machines in the barracks.
You knew the difference between a "Radborro" and a "Marlborro"
The "Wall" wasn't a movie about Nuremburg.
Actual strippers in the NCO clubs in Germany.
The "Fifty Staters" wasn't a jock shop at Graf.
Hitler's Tower.
When your BGD CO tell you stories of how he jumped into France on D-Day.
The "Polish National Guard" in the training areas.
Twenty Mark Strasse in K-town.
Pig wasn't your buddy's girlfriend, but a weapon.
Beef and Boulders came in a can that was hell to eat cold.
You traded your 4-pack of cigarettes from your C-rats for a beer.
You didn't stay very long in places called Leesville, Nolensville or Radcliff.
The company's copier was carbon paper between two sheets of paper in the typewriter.
You remember tankers jackets.
You remember John Wayne bars.
You remember what LSMFT stands for.
You remember the shitter on range 80, Graf, being shot to pieces by one of your fellow tankers during night qualification.
You remember soldiers who could not pass the drivers test in Germany, let alone speak English.
You remember doing a barracks search in Germany and finding hash in the battery compartment of a transistor radio.
You remember doing a barracks search in Germany and finding a 35 mm camera film container with hash or marijuana in it.
You remember 50% high school grad enlistees.
You remember you drove an M114 on more than one REFORGER.
You remember SADMs and MADMs.
You remember unannounced IG inspections.
You remember how to rig an M151 to continue driving.
You remember you fired M60A1s.
You remember a 'C ration' breakfast of melted cheese over scrambled eggs.
You remember when the CG attended the strip show at the Graf club.
You remember Flippies at Graf or Hohenfels.
You remember Motor SGTs who could jerry rig anything to run.
You remember the Brits or Canadians firing artillery off the range at Graf.
You remember riding in the front seat of an M151 with no canvas and windshield down with your cold weather mask on in a snow storm and having a M114 run up over your trailer while you were stopped.
You remember Kakis.
You remember gas generator pop up targets in holes you dug.
You remember grease guns.
If you have a “Ruptured Duck” patch on your uniform you are really an old soldier.
You remember "Coal Bin Willie" ordering all the 82nd Airborne Division coal bins to be whitewashed. (That's right: coal bins.)
You remember when the XVIII Airborne Corps Artillery CO was a survivor of the Bataan Death March.
You remember when the American flag flew proudly over the Panama Canal Zone and the 21st Infantry Regiment soldiered there and there was a AAA Battalion that fired 90mm AA guns.
You remember when Marilyn Monroe visited the 45th Division near the Punch Bowl in Korea.
Two Words: C*nt Cap
Combat Engineers can get you there.
You know you're an old soldier when you call old friends at 0344 and announce "Lariat Advance."
You know you're an old soldier when you can tell the story about accidentally entering the 1K zone with a full combat load during a sector alert.
You know you're an old soldier when you know the way through the Polish Cemetery to the Kloster Krueznach.
You know you're an old soldier how to get to the ski area at Wildflecken.
You know you're an old soldier where Jerry's Kellerbar was.
You know you're an old soldier how to avoid the MPs sleeping on the powerline to get to Jerry's Kellerbar.
"A good cup of coffee is like a HOT woman; when they are gone, you are cold and alone."
That a “Stovepipe” was the 90MM Recoilless Rifle that you lugged everyday, but only got to live fire it twice a year.
Where you could find the John Wayne bars in the B-1, B-2 or B-3 units.
You found out the hard way, that a mess kit could collect more water then food if you did not keep it under your poncho.
That having 8 inches was not considered a bad thing in the Field Artillery.
If you wanted to use the latrine in the field; you or someone from your squad would have to dig it first.
Remember the "Overseas Weekly" that reported the nasty things GIs did in Germany.
When lSGs and MSGs were WWII vets and wore the fatigue uniform with a 25 inch width in leg pants.
When we wore white "T" shirts and white name tags on our fatigues.
When everyone donated money to the Platoon Sgt when someone parents died.
When the mess sergeant would give groceries to the young Private and his wife who just got into country.
When German beer was a nickel each Wednesday night at the company club.
When MP companies were allowed to have their own company club because they were not encouraged to go downtown to the bars.
When prostitutes were great sources of information for MPs. Mortuary Mary was one of those.
When prostitutes working the evening shift would take the getting off duty swing shift MPs to the Florida Bar in Landstuhl and pay for all the drinks. They would dance the night away.
When seeing someone with an ARCOM a total rarity.
When ARCOMs were signed by four star generals.
When each major GI town in Germany had its own football team, and would play against each other. This also applied to the Air Force.
When TDY pay was $18.00 a day, and that was "big time."
When old NCOs wore the 3rd Infantry Division patch on their right sleeve in 1966.
You remember Shelter Half, and looking for a spoon buddy with the other Half.
Gas was $0.78 cents in 1988.
You remember places like Crailsheim, Erlangen, Pastorius, Pinder Barracks...
You owned a P38 and bear the scars of having owned one.
You've eaten the OD Green paint shavings of a C-rat can.
You remember the SQT.
You remember military hospitals made of wood at major installations (Ft Polk, Ft Gordon, etc).
You remember the yellow enlisted rank insignia being worn on the sleeve of fatigues.
You remember getting promotion points for time in service and time in grade.
You remember the ranks Spec 5 and 6.
You remember when the Stars and Stripes was not just a Newspaper, but also a book store.
You remember signing out Converse Chuck Taylor's and cleats at the gym for unit sports.
You remember AFRTS having one channel, going off the air at 2300, and you, your Dad and brother standing for the National Anthem in your living room at 2300 when AFRTS signed off.
You remember organization days with beer.
You used brasso and kiwi daily.
You broke starch.
You dressed up to go to the Enlisted Club for dinner.
You saw Charlie Pride at the Kazabra Club.
You remember female dancers at the all-ranks club at Camp Bullis.
Would love to own their own HMMWV. (If a MX shop came with it, cause the damn thing will fall apart.)
You know you're an old soldier if you remember what a P-38 is and wore one on your dog tag chains.
You fixed the same heater in your M1 that you did in your M60A1.
There was always an NCO that could fix the heater in your tank.
Pinning the cherry LTs Airborne Wings upside down on his cap was funny.
Shaving your AWOL then escorting dumbass to become a CCF ranger was a hoot.
Night acquistions from the PDO yard were expected.
Challenge coins got you a beer or cost you one.
Caps had Ranger eyes.
The CSM had 'hat lights' resulting in Elmer Fudd days.
Calling early to get the prostitute area for CP.
Going to range 99 meant out of contact.
Sleaze Inspections were the only ones you didn't want to be first at.
Starched fatigues rubbed your nipples raw on long runs.
You know what a "Supernumerary" is, and tried hard to get it.
You sang cadence about the temperature of a certain part of the anatomy of a female Eskimo.
You could change filters in your M17 mask in under a minute.
You know what signing a Statement of Charges means, and you signed a few in your day.
Your Sergeant put a pencil under your boot heels to see if your boots were still "serviceable".
You could trade for almost anything with a working Zippo lighter.
You're an old soldier if you remember eating C rations.
You're an old soldier if you remember what a "P 38" is.
You're an old soldier if you are a female and were issued the black beret (1980's).
You're an old soldier if you remember dehydrated meat patties and fruit in MRE's.
You're an old soldier if you remember when the first week of basic training was "Zero" week.
You're an old soldier if you remember watching the males doing "Grass Drills" outside in their boxer shorts and t-shirts as punishment.
You're an old soldier if you remember wearing a steel pot.
If you were stationed in Nuremburg, Germany you knew where and what the wall was.
You knew where to climb the fence to get back to your barracks.
You knew where to crawl under the fence to get back in the compound.
You knew not to start the 5 ton in the ammo dump warm up, no heater and a noisy buzzer.
A dollar was worth almost four Marks.
You knew where all the GI hang-outs were, but didn't know where the tourist sites were.
You knew what it was like to take your fellow unit members to the stockade.
You knew what it was like to travel on a troop transport ship accross the North Atlantic.
Korea; You knew what 2400 country wide curfew was.
You knew what MPC was.
You knew not to climb the wall after curfew, the Korean soldiers carried shotguns and would shoot you.
Everybody had a Class A pass.
You know what it's like to ride in the back of a 2 1/2 Ton when it's 13 degrees below zero.
You know you got troubles when there is an alert and you are stationed in Seoul with no weapon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SQ2Rvb68pwc Urban Meyer speaking to 2000 Ohio High School football coaches at the annual OHSFCA clinic. You may not want your children to listen as football coaches have...
what is the problem with the Ghana football association,when comes to choosing coaches for the nation they always go for foreign expatriate and is not helping the nation at all cost whiles we have all the available good raw materials at our own disposal, so lets learn to trust in our local coaches.
As a former Girl Scout I am so excited about tonight !!
Outstanding local chefs will compete to create the most unique dessert made with Girl Scout cookies. Meet SC’s own football superstar, George Rogers! Judges include Mayor Knox White of Greenville. Mistress of Ceremonies is me Beth Bradley !!
Join us and invite a friend for tonight February 23, at the Embassy Suites, 670 Verdae Boulevard, Greenville. Tickets may be purchased at the door: $50 each; or $40 for Girl Scouts Alumnae Association members.
