Greasey burgers, Bourbon, Faulkner, The Grove, Rebel Flag,Hwy 61....

[Boom_70]

Dusty roads, Robert Johnson, Cotton fields, Willie Morris,Grand pappies, Civil Rights and Archie Manning. Missing - searing sun of noon shining on court house and train whistles in the distance.

I don't mean it in a bad way but yes all the cliches are all there in Wright Thompson's long form piece on the simultaneous rise of Rebel and Bulldog football. Personally I love the genre but just pointing out that there is a comfortable sameness to it

It must be a requirement when writing long form on Mississippi to mention certain things

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11713984/a-ride-paradise-road-mississippi-state-ole-miss

 

[Steak Snabler]

That piece is like, a month old.

 

[Big Circus]

And he's been writing it for the past decade.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Dusty roads, Robert Johnson, Cotton fields, Willie Morris,Grand pappies, Civil Rights and Archie Manning. Missing - searing sun of noon shining on court house and train whistles in the distance.

I don't mean it in a bad way but yes all the cliches are all there in Wright Thompson's long form piece on the simultaneous rise of Rebel and Bulldog football. Personally I love the genre but just pointing out that there is a comfortable sameness to it

It must be a requirement when writing long form on Mississippi to mention certain things

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/11713984/a-ride-paradise-road-mississippi-state-ole-miss

Yeah, read this when it came out about a month ago.

I hated it. Enough with the ****ing personal narrative. For someone who only writes a handful of stories a year, this is garbage.

A good editor would make him re-write this **** without the I, I, I, I.

He's a tremendous talent, but he needs to be reeled in or to quit journalism and write novels.

 

[JackReacher]

Nah. He says he tried to say no to that assignment. Riiiiiiiiiiight.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Nah. He says he tried to say no to that assignment. Riiiiiiiiiiight.

He's full of ****. Anyone who saw the worst 30 for 30 that has been done knows he's full of ****.

 

[Big Circus]

Nah. He says he tried to say no to that assignment. Riiiiiiiiiiight.

He's full of ****. Anyone who saw the worst 30 for 30 that has been done knows he's full of ****.

I don't see what Ice Cube has to do with this discussion, but I guess I get your point.

 

[LongTimeListener]

How can anyone dog out the 30 for 30 that gave us That Hat.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Nah. He says he tried to say no to that assignment. Riiiiiiiiiiight.

He's full of ****. Anyone who saw the worst 30 for 30 that has been done knows he's full of ****.

I don't see what Ice Cube has to do with this discussion, but I guess I get your point.

At least Ice Cube was alive when the Raiders moved to LA. :D

 

[Songbird]

Nice little gem: Nate Dogg and Tennessee Williams grew up in the same small Delta town.

 

[Boom_70]

That piece is like, a month old.

So what? There's no thread on it from what I could tell.

BTW - two other important elements to the Miss. genre

Delta and Labs with one syllable name like "Bone"

 

[Big Circus]

And death.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

"Professional Southerner" Wright Thompson, as one of the Gawker guys called him.
If he must make this his thing, at least de-regionalize the genre.
Investigate football in Ohio and western Pennsylvania and Southern California and many other places where it thrives.

 

[Songbird]

If I may suggest, Wright, if you're here: Go do a thing on New Mexico 6-man and use Jose Porras at Lake Arthur as the seed of the story.

 

[Boom_70]

"Professional Southerner" Wright Thompson, as one of the Gawker guys called him.
If he must make this his thing, at least de-regionalize the genre.
Investigate football in Ohio and western Pennsylvania and Southern California and many other places where it thrives.

Not enough adversity or hard scrabble in Southern Cal genre. Ocean, bikini's, surf boards, healthy food, vintage cars, perfect weather,Crisp chardonnay ....

 

[Boom_70]

And death.

Yes - death with bonus points if it's an announcer that did games since he was 12 and smoked 2 packs of Lucky Strikes a day for 60 years.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I said this on another thread, but I was out with a bunch of journalists and former journalists recently and a friend, who is friends with Wright, said that a ESPN editor said about Wright, "He's Gary Smith if Gary Smith only wrote about Ole Miss, food and beer."

Once or twice a year, Wright reminds us how good he is. The Jordan piece comes to mind.

This was self-serving garbage. I read a story about Mississippi football on SI.com by Andy Staples that was far better than this.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

How can anyone dog out the 30 for 30 that gave us That Hat.

http://www.thelocalvoice.net/oxford/?p=14926

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

He is a travel writer. And ESPN ought to have one. Just mix it up a bit.

 

[Big Circus]

He is a travel writer. That's always been obvious.

And a good one. He just needs to expand his horizons.