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Milestones

I don't know how these site-counters work (though, I feel confident someone out there will be so kind as to advise me), but I can read. And I see that, apparently, some combination of 100,000 viewers (maybe just ten people ten thousand time each, who knows?) have stopped by our little joint.

That's like, almost as many people went to watch Tennessee almost get embarrassed by Northern Illinois.

Or, to put it in brighter terms, more than three times as many people as watched the ACC Championship game last year.

100,000 cocktails go out to you, internets. May you continue bringing beleaguered Rebel fans, Rebel friends, respected adversaries, and Arkansas fans to our humble home.

Doing some blog work today

I'm changing a few things around today so, if you could, please be patient. Most notably, I'm trying to re-vamp our advertisements but, despite my attempts towards the contrary, crap like what you see below keeps happening.

It's really quite a nuisance, as you can imagine. Bear with me for a little while and don't you dare click on those ads unless you want a Blackberry which sounds like a cowbell.

Changes

We've added ads. I know they look kinda tacky right now but give us a little bit of time and we'll be able to make them look, errr, how to put this.... not shitty. Also, another big change is in the works, I'm certain y'all are gonna like it.

EDIT: I just now fudged around with the posts template and I feel that it's a bit more streamlined. Let us know what you think, assuming that you actually notice any changes.

Why we like Houston Nutt

He isn't this guy:


We get it, alright. You despise Houston Nutt. He's got an ego, pissed off Mitch Mustain, has a predictable offense, wears goofy hats, had an affair with a weather lady, sells snake oil, delivers trite press conferences, has really strong thumb muscles, and has a demeanor characteristic of a well-groomed Yosemite Sam.

Guess what. We don't fucking care. He may exhibit every single one of the qualities you have mentioned but he isn't the nation's biggest college football related punchline after Charlie Weis' girth and Lou Holtz's lisp. 20% of Houston Nutt's 10 seasons at Arkansas were losing seasons; 100% of O's 3 were. Does that make any sort of sense to you? Houston Nutt will win games in Oxford. Despite your wildest fantasies (which I think involve HDN, a meteor-strike, and the bubonic plague), Nutt will do good things for our program.

We're excited about him being here, just as you are excited about Petrino's arrival in Fayetteville. Why is that such a hard pill for you to swallow? We're glad to have a coach that, compared to Orgeron at least, is respected on a national level yet you don't want us to be excited. You want us to be miserable.

Here's a hypothetical: if we were to curse HDN just as you are-I'm talking 100% bat-shit crazy hatred for the guy-would you be behaving with feelings of sympathy towards us Rebel fans? I doubt it.

Give it a rest. We'll see you in October.



PS - Comments redacted. There's nothing you can say that we haven't heard and there's nothing we can say that you haven't heard. You know this, we know this. We're both incredibly proud fanbases and we're not about to let someone at the helm of a laptop change any of that. Some of you will likely snicker, click over to your Myspace, and call us a bunch of "bruised pussy havin' cowards" but, if you are as enlightened and educated as you claim to be, I imagine most of you will let the dust settle until football season.

Comments? Comments?

So I realized that the default setting on blogger is only to allow certain users to comment on blogs. I turned that off.

We were wondering why 420 people had visited without a single comment... that explains it.

Let the comments begin.