Parker Richardson

Curator of the Waylon Jennings and 1980’s ACC Football Museum

[David Pivtorak @TheDavidPiv]

A thousand years ago this is the last thing you saw before your skull was caved in by a battle axe.

[Matthew McConaughey @McConaughey]

bets still on the table America, yet.

[WVSports.com @WVSportsDotCom]

#WVU is up 14-1. There's a guy holding a raccoon in the crowd. I don't know what else to tell you.

[Dovi Safier @safier]

“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”

-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.

Required watching for every young person today!

[Noah Bieniek (Bee-Nick) @NoahB77_]

“This sport should be popular on every campus in the country…”

Troy Coach Skylar Meade is one of the most fascinating coaches in the sport. Here’s what he had to say when he was asked what makes College Baseball so unpredictable:

[Ben McDonald @realbenmcdonald]

Good morning….there is a lot wrong with college sports right now….This is NOT one of them! So cool! Congrats to @WVUBaseball you guys are Super! #RoadToOmaha

[Kara Richey @Kara_Richey]

The Regionals have had everything
- 100 rain delays
- basically the Milwaukee Brewers
- #1 and done
- a walk off pitch clock violation
- 101 ejections
- a game tying balk
- a 43 minute inning
- 9 xtra inning classics

And there’s still 6 (or 7!) games today

[F R I E N D L Y @WrestleFriendly]

Jake “The Snake” Roberts tells the wild story of the infamous Cobra bite incident involving “Macho Man” Randy Savage, complete with his best Macho Man impression.

During an interview, Roberts revealed that he pitched the idea of a snakebite on live TV to advance their ongoing rivalry. Savage initially refused unless he had absolute proof that the stunt was safe.

Savage demanded that Jake let the cobra bite his own leg first to prove the venom sacs had been removed. Roberts pulled down his pants and let the snake bite him.

Savage then made Jake sit in the locker room for 30 minutes to ensure he did not collapse or die from venom before finally agreeing to the angle.

[Chase Steely @Chase_Steely]

From Southern Partisan 02.3, 1982:

The cream of Southern writers and thinkers gathered this spring at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, for a literary reunion. Present were Andrew Lytle, Cleanth Brooks, George Garrett, Peter Taylor, and Eudora Welty, who regaled a large and enthusiastic audience of students and townspeople with readings from their works and informal discussions of Southern literature.

The highlight of the two-day gathering was a roundtable discussion between all of the principals except Miss Welty, on the South. Peter Taylor, one of America's greatest short-story writers recalled how William Faulkner's Absalom Absalom, considered by many today as the American novel, was first received by New York critics: it was officially opined that the book had been written by a crazy man.

Taylor went on to describe what he feels Southern literature is all about: it is a struggle to humanize modern life by understanding it and reconciling it with the Christian tradition of the West. No small task, but one which Southern writers have mastered.

Cleanth Brooks, one of America's greatest literary scholars, commented on today's culture. The students of today are, he fears, outside Western civilization. They are equally cut off from both the old traditional oral culture of the West and from the written high culture. According to Brooks, the three bastard America muses hold sway in literature.

These are Sentimentality, Propaganda, and Pornography, the latter a billion dollar industry predicated upon the unwillingness or inability of Americans "to see reality as a whole." And only the writers of the South still have the cultural base to see the present situation for what it is, rather than to be a part of it.

The key to Southern literature, Andrew Lytle (perhaps the greatest living practitioner of Southern literature) told the assembled audience, is that it is still Christian and still has a Christian grasp of the reality of evil. The Southern tradition is squarely at odds with the Puritan or Northern tradition. The Puritan puts evil in the object---whiskey, a gun, a bad environment, etc.---rather than in the human heart. Once evil is projected into the object, the Puritan is able to justify to himself his right to attack and reform others in the name of his own sanctity. This reduces to a disguised form of a will to power. What the Puritan wants is not salvation but power. He is, in the final analysis, a minion of the Devil.

George Garrett, poet and novelist, described with some relish the economic and cultural decay of the once powerful Northeast and declared his belief that, judging from the youngest writers just coming on the scene, Southern literature is still great and still Southern and will continue to be for a long time.

[Tito SanTanaChez @TitoSanTanaChez]

Dan Soder & Will Sasso on Insight with @ChrisVanVliet and my cheeks are killing me.😆

The Mega Powers of wrestling impressions collided today and it’s pure gold. These two going back-and-forth with Dusty Rhodes trying to get off the phone with Ric Flair is comedy heaven.

Dusty“Well let me tell you something, Daddy. Rick is Rick, baby.”

“Yeah, he yelled at me about feather boas for half an hour, baby.”

“The American Dream might be the son of a plumber, but he the daddy of a boy that needs to go play catch. So I’m sorry, Rick.”

“THIS SUNDAY WHEN I CALL YOU BACK, DADDY, I’m gonna have all my chores done…”

“The Dream does it old school, Daddy!!”

If you like wrestling impressions these 2 are at the top of the list of the best.

@DanSoder #InsightWithCVV

[Hollywood Gump @FirstNameJ0hn]

Will Sasso and Dan Soder are Macho Man Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Andre The Giant, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rodney Dangerfield, and Robert Deniro reading Andy Rooney quotes. 😂😂😂😂

(🎥@ChrisVanVliet)

[Boston Radio Watch®️ @bostonradio]

Happy “Black Helicopter Day”, if you’re observing it…

46 years ago today, May 11, 1980, was Henry Hill’s final day as a goodfella, and it was an absolute marathon of errands, paranoia and bad decisions.

[Josh Caray @BigPoppaPanda]

Know this about Ted Turner...
If not for him:
-The Braves leave Atlanta.
-The Hawks leave Atlanta.
-No TBS.
-No CNN.
-Atlanta loses its "international" status and probably loses the Olympics.
-Coke probably relocates.
-WCW Wrestling never comes to fruition.
1/2

[Evans Wroten @Evans_Wroten]

Civil War historian, Shelby Foote, discusses a few of the grievances in the south that led to the Civil War. Foote worked with Ken Burns on his documentary 'The Civil War'. Many facts that led to the conflict are never taught in school, but are well documented.

[The Revenant South @RevenantSouth]

Civil War Reenactment During the 1965 Southern 500 - Darlington, South Carolina

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

Today's kids don't understand how big of a deal Lou Holtz and Mark May debating at midnight to Rece Davis in judge robes was to my generation. 🫡

[Seldom Used Reserve @seldomusedres]

https://t.co/xxEuaDe8o6

[Éros Brousson @erosbrousson]

THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA 🤠🤣🛢️

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The day Idaho turned beavers into paratroopers.

In 1948 the Idaho Fish and Game Department had too many beavers flooding suburbs and chewing orchards — and not enough in the remote backcountry where dams were needed to fight drought and erosion.

Trucks couldn’t reach the rugged mountains. Mules killed too many from stress.

So game warden Elmo Heter had a crazy plan.

He took surplus WWII silk parachutes, built special wooden crates with spring doors that popped open on landing, and loaded pairs of beavers inside.

Then he flew low over the Payette National Forest and dropped them — 76 beavers in all.

At 200 feet, the crates tumbled out, parachutes opened, and the furry engineers floated down into remote streams.

Only one died (he chewed out of his box mid-air).

The rest hit the ground, climbed out, and started building dams the same day.

Those dams created ponds, stopped erosion, and turned dry valleys into lush wetlands that still thrive today.

Seventy-six beavers. Seventy-six parachutes.

One of the most creative environmental wins ever.

Sometimes you don’t need fancy tech.

You just need to give nature a little lift.

From the sky.

[Dan @Hayes_Hair13]

This interview by Mike Tirico with the Hughes brothers and Hellebuyck with Larkin popping in might be the greatest in Olympic history go debate a brick wall. The fellas are hammered and they fuckin deserve it. Get trashed for us fellas