xanathos19 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Just as the Philly media ripped Brett Favre before last week's game, Philadelphia Daily News' sports-writer Will Buck has absolutely ripped the Panthers, the city of Charlotte, and the state of North Carolina. Here is an article published in this week's PDN. Although I am not a native North Carolinian, and have only lived here for a year and a half, this article is ridiculous, and could only be expected from a Philadelphia journalist... As a life-long 'Skins fan, nothign would satisfy me more than to see the PAnthers kick teh absolute sh!t out of the Eagles, and have them choke for the third straight year!! This is totally classless, and sounds to me like they are trying to cover up their nervousness for this week's game. A local radio station from Raleigh called him this morning and were ripping him...it was actually quite funny. What do you think about this? There are also sever e-mail responses on the PDN web-page, availabel via this link... http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/7705382.htm In our mind there's nothing in Carolina By Will Bunch bunchw@phillynews.com WE knew it all along. Oh, sure, maybe some had their doubts - when the Eagles fell behind 14-0 in the first quarter, or when it was 4th-and-26, or when Brett Favre got the ball one last time in OT. But we knew we weren't losers. Where do you think we are - Charlotte? Charlotte - hometown of the Carolina Panthers - is a sprawling, ugly Sunbelt city that looks a lot like Atlanta. But Atlanta was once "the city too busy to hate." Charlotte is the city too easy to hate. This endless and soul-less NASCAR-hypnotized expanse of strip malls and Shoney's finally got its pro franchise when the NFL finally ran out of real cities somewhere between Jacksonville, Fla., and Nashville, Tenn. However, there is one area where the Carolinas can lay claim to major league status: The self-righteous hypocrisy of its rogue's gallery of unreformed segregationists and Bible-thumping con artists. Here's a reminder of things to hate about Charlotte and the Carolinas. Feel free to clip it out and carry it in your hip pocket every time this week you get too nonchalant about next Sunday. Has nothing on Green Bay Last week, we castigated Green Bay, Wis., for having nothing to do. But to paraphrase W.C. Fields, on the whole we'd rather be ice-fishing in one of those wooden shacks in subzero northern Wisconsin than to be forced to spend a week in Charlotte. Charlotte is so dull that the city's nickname is "Charlotte." Even Charlotte boosters have to come up with clever euphemisms for "boring." One writer tried to praise it by calling "the quietest big city in America," somehow not quite as stirring as, say, "the city that never sleeps." Connection Charlotte's online list of "100 things to do" includes "play putt-putt at Celebration Station," "eat ice cream at Ben & Jerry's," "visit the main branch of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library," and "go shoe-shopping at DSW..." That last one is No. 42! Under the heading of "Raucous Pleasures," Charlotte.com notes that "Jillian's has been called a 'Chuck E. Cheese for grownups.' " Charlotte Observer sports columnist Tom Sorensen once wondered out loud why so many of its athletes became felons. "Is it our Bourbon Street, our South Beach, our Times Square that gets them? If so, where are our Bourbon Street, our South Beach and our Times Square? Tell me before I get old." Amen. Hey, Charlotte: F.U.! People from Charlotte have always been pretty dumb when it comes to money. In 1799, Conrad Reed found a glittery, 17-pound rock in a stream 25 miles north of town. A local silversmith couldn't identify it, so Reed used it as a doorstop for two years before someone told him the glittery stuff was actually gold. But Reed seems a financial genius when compared to Charlotte's Edward Crutchfield Jr. - the rocket scientist who schemed to take over Philadelphia's largest bank, CoreStates Financial, with his own Carolina-based First Union Bank in 1998. Crutchfield was so convinced he could get rich here in Philly that he paid five times what CoreStates should have been worth and then boasted that he'd "stacked billion-dollar bills" on the table. Once the euphoria wore off, Crutchfield realized the only way to pay for the deal was to hike fees while touting something called a Future Bank where employees wouldn't handle deposits, withdrawals and loan applications - i.e., the things people go to a bank for. Any wonder that Philadelphians left the aptly named F.U. in droves? Within two years, F.U.'s stock was worth less than a Confederate dollar, and Crutchfield was out of a job. A kick in the Shinn Actually, it was the NBA that first made the mistake of thinking that Charlotte was a major league city. In 1988, the league awarded a pro franchise to a self-made millionaire and motivational speaker named George Shinn. Charlotans, or whatever you call them, were so thrilled to have something to do besides buy shoes and hang out at the library that the teal-uniformed Hornets led the NBA in attendance until 1997. That's when it came out that Shinn, married for 27 years, had taken a women he met while visiting a nephew at a drug rehab center back to his mansion, where she performed oral sex on him. A jury cleared Shinn of sexual assault charges, but during the trial it came out that Shinn had additionally had a two-year affair with a Hornets cheerleader who was also a waitress at a Mexican restaurant where the owner used to go - with his family! The scandal hurt the Hornets so badly that the team had to leave town. It also really hurt the sales of Shinn's motivational book - titled "Good Morning, Lord." Hypocrite Hall of Fame Actually, Shinn is just the latest in a long line of hypocrites to come out of Charlotte and the backward hinterlands that surround it. Here, quickly, is the Carolinas' Hypocrite Hall of Fame. JIM AND TAMMY FAYE BAKKER. The founders of the Christian fundamentalist PTL Club set a high standard of hypocrisy. Jim Bakker preached family values even though he was a bisexual who arranged to have sex with a buxom (and drugged) church secretary named Jessica Hahn, and then paid her $265,000 in a failed effort to cover it up. His real downfall, though, was a "Christian theme park" called Heritage USA in which Bakker did the Christian thing of bilking scores of small investors. He was jailed, while cosmetically challenged Tammy Faye remarried. BILLY GRAHAM. Richard Nixon's spiritual adviser did preach a more positive message and was a moderate on race, but ironically it is Nixon's White House tapes that have tarnished Graham's once-stellar image. He urged massive bombing of North Vietnam while he was recorded saying of Jews: "...they don't know how I feel about what they are doing to this country." We do now, Billy. JESSE HELMS. Whenever somebody tries this week - and they will - to talk about the New South and North Carolina's high-tech industries, just remind them that the state returned Helms to Washington as recently as 1996! Helms started in politics in 1950 helping a Senate candidate who won with a doctored picture of the incumbent's wife dancing with a black man, then railed against "Negro hoodlums" as a TV commentator. In Washington, he fought the Martin Luther King holiday and the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act - when he wasn't lending his support to right-wing dictators around the globe. STROM THURMOND. Jim Bakker had nothing, hypocrisy-wise, on the recently departed Thurmond, who - as a segregationist candidate for president in 1948 - fought to keep what he called "the Nigra race" out of swimming pools and movie theaters even though we know now he was doing the wild thing with his family's teenage black servant. As a U.S. senator from South Carolina, Thurmond accomplished little but to cement his reputation as a womanizer. He tried and failed to date Lyndon Johnson's teenage daughter, and - in his 90s - attempted to grope Sen. Patty Murray in an elevator. A colleague, John Tower, predicted famously that at Thurmond's funeral "they'll have to beat his ------- down with a baseball bat to close the coffin lid." (E-mail bunchw@phillynews.com for the actual word. You must be 18 or over to participate.) Panthers' felony raps Tragically, this record of moral turpitude has carried over to the Panthers' football franchise. No need to discuss the tragic cases of Rae Carruth or Fred Lane (although I can't promise my bad-cop colleague Don Russell won't later this week). But it's hard to ignore quarterback Kerry Collins, who came out of Penn State with a bright future only to leave Carolina with a drinking problem and a busted jaw after uttering a racial slur to a teammate. Collins had to go to New York - of all places! - to sober up and lead his team to a Super Bowl. And for all you Carolina fans who think that's all in the past, that you can come here to Philadelphia and find success, I must remind you once again of these two letters: F.U. #2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pez Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I think this is some sort of napolean complex. Hmmmmm anybody remember when they won a superbowl? Oh thats right - it never happened! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdsknbill Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 posted already via link to iggles.com or 700level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sippin2020 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 :eaglesuck Just another reason to hate those dirtbags up North. It's one thing to have a bunch of hate-spewing fans, but when the press gets involved and bashes the whole city and population, I think that might be a tiny bit too far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkyalligator Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 I lived in Charlotte for 3 years and loved every minute of it...great town...great music scene....and a lot of young people my age....the only thing you need to watch out for are the girls from Gastonia that are 23 or so with 2 kids and no husband who are constantly seeking out men to get together with so they can get hitched and have someone to support them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funbuncher Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Much better to live in an open sewer like philadelphia. Ever been there? Brrrrrrrr. What an awful place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pez Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Funky, I have visited both cities on occasion, and I must say if I had the choice I would choose charlotte in a heartbeat. Philly has a couple sites to see he and there, but the housing developments suck, crime sucks (and I used to live near SE DC), and just does not have the friendliness of charlotte. I went to a carolina vs redskins game, and it was the first game I have ever been to where the other team does not heckle you. I was actually tailgating with redskins and carolina fans together! This writer is way off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Tooth Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Philly is a glorified piss stop between NYC and DC. They are all just bitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsBry Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 PHILADELPHIA. The armpit of Pennsylvania. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Damn. Philly must be one hellava place to live. Nothing like living in a steaming pile of dung surrounded by complete a*sholes. Can I go, PLEEEASE!! From the roomate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aREDSKIN Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 One dosen't need to think real long as to why they call it FILTHADELPHIA. The city? the people? well it's everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief skin Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Hope they lose on Sunday go Panthers go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xanathos19 Posted January 16, 2004 Author Share Posted January 16, 2004 At least in Charlotte you don't have to look over the river and see Camden!! God, what a dump Philly is!! Way to write something good about your team, rather than bash the other franchise you are playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spm Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 That was pretty classless. I like how the author blames Charlotte for Strom Thurmond, who wasn't even from the state of North Carolina. Especially tastless was blaming the city for the death of Fred Lane, who had been with the Panthers all of a couple of months when he was shot by his wife. The attack on Charlotte's businesses and banking industry seem to be jealousy of Charlotte's growing prosperity while Philadelphia continues to languish as an aptly described "armpit" of a city. I hope the Panthers bury the Eagles this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
du7st Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 You people make no sense. You hate the idea that this writer tears into the city of Carolina then you turn right around and **** on Philly. The people and city of Philly have positives and negatives just like anywhere else. Get over yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiefhogskin48 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 What hate-filled garbage. This is the worst piece of "journalism" I've ever seen. And yes, Charlotte is heaven on earth compared to Philly, which is probably even worse than Baltimore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenny Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 "In 1799, Conrad Reed found a glittery, 17-pound rock in a stream 25 miles north of town. A local silversmith couldn't identify it, so Reed used it as a doorstop for two years before someone told him the glittery stuff was actually gold." Hmm, 1799? Wasn't that the last time the Eagles won an NFL title? :rotflmao: My goodness, what if someone from the south ripped on Philly or New York? Ask John Rocker. Talk about "hypocrisy," it's alright to rip on the south but the north is off limits. I'm not a Panthers fan(never have been, never will be and am nothing but a Redskin), but am a native NC'er who has lived here my whole life and this guy is absolutely clueless and GUTLESS! His head is stuck back in 1799 for goodness sakes! This guy can go f!ck himself and I hope the Eagles get routed out of their own building that gets burned to the ground by their scumbag fans after another Eagles choke job. Doesn't this guy know too that some Eagles players may be from different areas of the country like the south not to mention I bet their wondering why give the opposition bb material. He's probably p!ssing the Eagles off more than anybody with this article. Just another example of someone who thinks "i'm better than you because I live in a bigger city." Atleast we have something down here that YOU think is only what you have to go to when your young: CLASS! :eaglesuck and HTTR!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pez Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Originally posted by du7st You people make no sense. You hate the idea that this writer tears into the city of Carolina then you turn right around and **** on Philly. The people and city of Philly have positives and negatives just like anywhere else. Get over yourselves. The difference is this is a response to an attack - I believe all (or most) of us here are redskins fans, and it pains us to see a city that must put everybody else down to feel superior. Before all this crap that has come out of philly (attack on the favre family, attack on charlotte's city and people) I was actually rooting for the eagles to go to sb (because they have never taken the lombardi trophy home). But this is just the most childish behavior that I have seen, and can't believe that it is coming from a city so known for it's great history. It just seems of late that philly has had a severe problem with: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Wouldnt it be funny if someone wrote a similar piece on philly? Starting with the famous urban rehab technique used in the 80's which involved a bomb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sippin2020 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Originally posted by du7st You people make no sense. You hate the idea that this writer tears into the city of Carolina then you turn right around and **** on Philly. The people and city of Philly have positives and negatives just like anywhere else. Get over yourselves. You pointed out the difference in your first line. "the idea that this writer..." This is a man that writes for a paper that is published and distributed to a hell of a lot of people. Any posts condemning his article will be read by a handful of people on this board. We aren't in the public eye and with the exception of a few of us we aren't trying to change opinions or spew idiotic untruths about an entire city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pez Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 good response sippin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleSteve Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Originally posted by sippin2020 This is a man that writes for a paper that is published and distributed to a hell of a lot of people. I guess I just don't get it. Why would someone write trash like this, even if they consider it just smack? Secondly what editor allows this crap to get by? Thirdly, how do these people still have jobs? Anyway, if it's from the Daily News, more people probably read this message board than that paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sippin2020 Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Originally posted by Blazers21 Anyway, if it's from the Daily News, more people probably read this message board than that paper. :rotflmao: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pez Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Originally posted by Blazers21 Secondly what editor allows this crap to get by? I was wondering the same thing - I would think something like this would never reach the final print. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
du7st Posted January 16, 2004 Share Posted January 16, 2004 Ok then be pissed at the writer of the article and the newspaper. Some of your responses with equally idiotic views on Philly and its people shows that you are on the same level as this writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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