Travis has become enamored of several objects, phrases or events which he frequenly references in the column. Among the most frequent:
'Bama Bangs - a term coined by Travis to refer to southern men's hairstyles that feature prominent bangs for no apparent reason. Brodie Croyle and John Parker Wilson are oft-cited violators of 'Bama Bangs rules.
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When Clay Travis, acclaimed author of Dixieland Delight, decided to spend the 2008 season up close and personal with UT football, he—and every other college football aficionado—thought he was in for a rollicking ride with one of the leading contenders for the national title. After all, when the Vols kicked off the season on September 1, the defending SEC East champions were ranked 18th in the country. As head coach Phillip Fulmer prepared for the game, he reflected upon a coaching career that included an astounding 147 victories, two SEC championships, and a national title. With 34 years at UT under his belt as both a player and coach, the Tennessee native had just signed a contract extension that projected to keep him at the university long enough to become the winningest coach in program history.
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There is no college ball more passionate and competitive than football in the Southeastern Conference, where seven of the twelve schools boast stadiums bigger than any in the NFL and 6.5 million fans hit the road every year to hoot and holler their teams to victory.
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The newly favored man is not really a man at all, but a hairless, effeminate, germ-fearing, non-meat-eating, exfoliating, wristband-wearing woman of the worst order. We as men are told that we must embrace the sacred feminine in ourselves, even if it doesn't actually exist, and become the very quintessence of woman, plus penises. This situation is untenable. This trend must stop.
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Clay Travis is the only former student manager in the history of college athletics to marry an NFL cheerleader. He managed to pull this off despite an irrational affinity for the television shows Dawson's Creek and My Super Sweet 16. While being raised in Nashville, Tenn., Travis developed a healthy obsession with college sports and Alyssa Milano. As a teenager his greatest accomplishment was taking a doo-rag wearing Luke Duke (balling as Tom Wopat) to the hole at the Nashville YMCA.
In the midst of a stellar legal career during which he specialized in rewarding the unjust and punishing the oppressed, Travis began writing for CBS Sports's SPiN section in September 2005...
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Funny you should mention the word leader and MSNBC in the same sentence. There are no leaders at MSNBC. They get their marching orders from the Democratic National Commitee. You seriously want to quote a source on the Keith Olberman show, Keith has had his face in Barack Obama's tea bag since Iowa. How dare these media elites denigrate a grass roots movement against the spending spree that is happening in the federal government. Maybe they should look back at the original Boston Tea Party. It wasn't a spur of the moment action. It was a planned and calculated action against a far away government that wasn't listening to their concerns. Does that sound familiar to what is happening today, because it should. They are using your and my tax money to bail out people that are too irresponsible to provide for themselves or repaying people like ACORN for tehir help in the election. Finally they should be ashamed to liken the actions of patriotic Americans to a homosexual act for a cheap laugh.It was called a Tea Party and Tea Bagging was an invention of the willing syncophants in the press trying to protect their socialist President. I really hope the two viewers of MSNBC enjoyed it.
Agreed! Damn good words badvol!
Define irony: protesting wasteful government spending by buying 1,000,000 tea bags and dumping them into the river.
All I know is Corch Urban Meyers and Percy Harvey are both definitely against all that Hippity-Hop Tea-Bagging.
Hey Anonymous if that is your real name;
Nobody dumped any tea anywhere. Maybe you should read an article or two before you make a dumba$$ comment like that. If anyone brought tea bags they were asked to donate them to local food pantries. Besides it would take Lipton a billion years to sell enough tea to pay for Obama's budget deficit. He is proposing spending more money than all of our other Presidents combined. Think about that for a moment! That's what we call excess to the extreme.
Hey BadVol (if that is your real name, I feel sorry for you),
Please explain to me how a $1.3 trillion dollar budget excluding the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is totally acceptable, but a $1.5 trillion dollar budget including the costs of those wars merits protesting wasteful government spending?
Why don't you read an article or two about how countercyclical fiscal policies limit falls in output during a crisis and how fiscal loosening can contribute to macroeconomic stabilization.
According to the fiscally conservative Economist magazine, most economists agree that a sound fiscal policy in a developed economy should exhibit countercyclical behavior, and that Obama is on the right track. They also say Bush would have done much the same thing.