Posted on 01/26/2005 4:42:47 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Right after Chad Lewis caught that touchdown pass with about four minutes to go, the touchdown that cemented the victory and ensured the Philadelphia Eagles would be in the Super Bowl, some guy in the stands joyfully held up a sign that said, "We're Going To Jacksonville."
And I thought: What on earth is second prize? You have to build there?
How did Jacksonville get the Super Bowl? What, Tuscaloosa was booked?
If going to Jacksonville for a week is the reward New England and Philadelphia get for being the best teams in the NFL this year, Peyton Manning ought to be happy he didn't get there. Imagine how Manning would have felt, having to play all year in Indianapolis, and then landing in Jacksonville? Which gods would he have offended to get that killer quinella?
The NFL must see itself as handing out some sort of charity when it awards the Super Bowl to any place other than New Orleans, Miami and Southern California. Because, believe me, nobody wants the game to be anywhere but there. So when the NFL insists on putting it in outposts like Detroit, Houston or Minneapolis, people ask, "Are you guys nuts?" But when you pick Jacksonville, people are agape and say, "Who in Jacksonville has a photo of Tagliabue with a goat?"
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And their cheerleaders the Jacquardettes......
I went to Ribault High, you?.......
I recently spent five months in Jacksonville getting the liver transplant that saved my life from the best hospital and group of docs there are, the Mayo clinic. I waited 2 1/2 YEARS in Atlanta to no avail and I got my transplant after a TWELVE DAY wait here. Also Emory told me a lesion on my liver was benign and it was magnlignant. Mayo saved my life. St. Luke's has a fantastic transplant program, unbelievable doctors and nurses.
We enjoyed the area tremendously. Practically no traffic on the worst day compared to Atlanta (!) nice people, reasonable costs of everything, even real estate if you aren't right on the beach. Beach close, St. Augustine close, Orlando, you name it. I loved it and considered myslef fortunate I wasn't in Minnesota or some place like that. It might get cold but it stayed warm in the high 70's right through December!
Is it still there?
That made it the best smelling city I have been in!
Clark's Fish Camp just appeared in Southern Living's "Weekend in Jacksonville" special, so I think you're going to have to take a number the next time you go!
I don't see how Houston can be an outpost if New Orleans makes the To Do list. I wonder how this guy feels about Tempe, AZ.
Well, Jacksonville does smell, besides that, it's a great place.
Yup, sitll there....
Yeah, this libs think everyone that doesn't live in Manhattan or Beverly Hills drinks cheap beer and lives in a trailer park.
Kornheiser is your typical Northeastern Liberal trying to figure out red state America, and failing miserably I might add.
Yea most people don't know that DC SMELLED pretty bad just a few short years ago because of the mill near the Whitehurst freeway. Jax dosen't smell at all, although it did at one time, as probably any city with a mill did/does. Kornhole is a flaming elitest liberal who wears it on his sleeve who I like on the radio but his column is pure liberal pablum.
Karl Rove gave the Superbowl to Jacksonville to repay the local Republicans for rigging the voting machines in Bush's favor in November.
Yours psychotically,
DU
"You want to talk about a BAD smelling town?"
Another is downtown Omaha - due to the stockyards.
Even = Ever
Speak for yourself. New Englanders are thrilled to escape snow country for a week or two, or even just for the game. In Taxachusett's it's snowing again. More shoveling.
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