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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LOL!
My beeber is on stune.........
Whitey's Fish Camp? Be sure to bring your gun along. It's the last redneck outpost on Fleming Island. Scary place.
And deadly and expensive, for Ray Lewis.
Greeley, CO has livestock and that place stunk, in 1972.
Greetings from Tampa, Tony. For a town that obviously doesn't deserve the Superbowl, we sure do get a lot of them here, don't we? If you don't want to come here, though, that's fine by us. We have enough jerkwad tourists as it is.
Bite me.
Love,
small_l
I enjoy the Spaghetti Works (although I don't get there often enough).
Did you ever have a Runza? Since DC does not have them, having a Runza is always on my "must do" list whenever I visit Omaha.
You are the DU poster known as "LOL"!!
You must know ROTFLMAO.
Hey - Ronnie VanZant called west side, home - cant be all bad
Im partial to St Augustine too (except the old strip)
and everyone there is polite and friendly
What, are you kidding me? My mother-in-law, and her little group of blue-haired church ladies do lunch there all the time.
I'm the last red-neck in fleming island.
I lived in Jacksonville for a year in the late 1980s and the most delightful memory I took away how great the food was at Clark's Fish Camp. At the time it was not part of a suburb but was a way's out. I did not think it was still in business. Now if I can only find the place I would go back.
Yeah, I used to go there, too. Great catfish nuggets. Lousy service, though.
However, one Friday night convinced me...and it was only 9:00 p.m.!! I felt lucky to leave without a scratch. If the Middleburg folks would just find their own catfish somewhere else. LOL!!
We moved before I got to high school. I did attend Fletcher Junior High in Jax Beach.
It may just be a lizard, but it's a TASTY lizard!
Clark's Fish Camp has the best Fried fish. So light. However, the PETA people would freak out. There are stuffed animals everywhere.
Jacksonville will do just fine, thank you... and we will (perhaps unfortunately) enter the Super Bowl rotation after the world gets a look at us this February. By that point, everyone will have forgotten about all of the nasty things hurled at my city by no talent windbags like Tony. The only downside to this entire situation (other than the completely ridiculous traffic I've had to deal with through months of construction) is the coming influx of yankees toting furniture instead of tourist dollars.
If anyone from the great, white, unwashed north wants to challenge me on my assertion that Jacksonville and the outlying areas of St. Augustine and Gainesville are, in fact, THE CENTER OF THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, please ping me... I will be glad to Freepmail you a photo essay via links that will sway your opinion... as long as you promise not to move here.
Kornheiser is in DC.
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