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Right now, if you're a guy and reading this column at work, you should stand up and applaud the ClayNation women. Because they're out there, they're funny, and they're hot. That's a winning combination.
Josh Cline writes:
Is it possible to be DTFI on a law school exam? Or is this a golf only thing? I'm hoping I was in Torts II this morning.
You can definitely be DTFI for all sorts of things. A law school exam is ideal. Although what is Torts II? Is that like Algebra II? Is there an added degree of complexity to slip and fall cases that I've never known existed?
Tardio was anti-DTFI but he recently started saying, "That ball was Shepardized," after he hits a good drive. I'd be lying if I said that didn't kill me every time. Also, it's only a matter of time until I file a column that's almost completely made up of acronyms. Sample, "I was DTFI working on a column the other day when I got a BPTOTW nomination featuring a BGID who was highly ranked on the WPWBPLMTWP list.
Amanda Kelly writes:
Clay, what are you thoughts on the pink team apparel trend? As an avid sports fan of the female persuasion, I find it mildly offensive and a bit annoying. Do retailers really think that I need to flaunt my femininity in such a way that I can't do it while proudly wearing the orange and white of my beloved Vols? Or are they merely catering to the women who could really care less about sports but want to appear as though they do care, and want to look cute doing it? My money's on the latter, as I have never seen a die-hard sports fan wear pink apparel. And for the record, I find it more kitschy than cute and don't get me started on the pink jerseys with glitter ... really?? But I'm wondering about the male population's opinion? Could a pink-jersey wearing (insert favorite team here) fan really be taken seriously? And much like the recent conversations regarding the wearing of a replica jersey in public, is there any circumstance where it's ever acceptable?
This is a great question. First, my opinion, I'm not a fan of pink sports apparel. I think they look ridiculous and I think the pinkification of American sports is racist against women. Having said that, as a guy, if a girl is good enough looking we really don't care what she wears. Women think we do but in reality most women are just dressing for other women. Men spend way too much time trying to mentally undress women to worry about what they're actually wearing.
I do realize women love pink. My wife, for instance. On one of our first dates she actually said this, "Orange will never be the new pink. People who say that are fools." She said this without ever having seen Legally Blond.
Nevertheless I think women sports fans have to make a decision. If you're a real fan, you sport your team's colors. Even if you think you look better in other colors. If you're Jessica Simpson-esque, you wear a pink Cowboys jersey and everyone hates you.
The choice is pretty simple, really. You can't go sporting pink unless (and here's a limited exemption) you're playing in a girl's powder puff football game or the recently deceased Lingerie Bowl. Otherwise, be a true fan and give the Heisman to the pink stuff.
El Guapo writes:
Clay, I have a goatee, but I shave my head. Hairline issues. I just don't think a beard looks good with a bald head. Without ANY facial hair I look ill. Not a good ill, if there is such a thing. The goatee gives me a little contrast. So my question to you is do you think the goatee gives me ANY advantage over our clean-shaven friends or guys with a soul patch? You know like GGID?
I think the shaved head is more likely to do well for you than the goatee. And we've established a general premise that men with goatees are not getting it done -— GNGID (See Rome, Jim). At least not since 1993.
But I agree that having a beard with a shaved head looks really weird. I mean, if you went to a police lineup and you had no idea who had committed the crime but you had to pick someone, you'd pick the guy with the bald head who had the beard, right? I think I would too. So I'm acknowledging a legitimate exception in your case, a goatee on a completely bald man (shaved, mind you, not just balding) is permissible.
Randy Wostratzky writes:
Now, this is seriously just too much. This is an article from a Chicago paper on the city's meteorologists. It gives you the background story on six of them, and tells you about their collegiate affiliations. I'll give you one guess where three out of six went to undergrad? That's right, Mississippi State. I swear I remember somebody else writing in not too long ago about MSU being a hotbed for weathercasting talent, but I thought it was some sort of hoax.
Have I ever led you guys astray before? The answer is yes. But generally I haven't. And certainly I haven't when it comes to meteorologists from Mississippi State. They're everywhere. Great find.
Mark Pennington writes:
Clay, I can't argue with you on the fact that some of our fan's Kentucky are just plain idiot's for lack of a better word. However, don't lump all of us in the same basket. As is the case with all collegiate teams' fan's there are some that would be better served for the rest of us if they just kept their mouth shut and were seen but not heard. Point is don't just take a few moronic comment's from some message board and think all of us are like that.
There are good representative's of Kentucky basketball and bad representative's of Kentucky basketball. But to look at a few comment's from some over zealous idiot's opinion and say that we're all like that is wrong and short sighted. I too get a laugh out of some people's rationale but I know as a whole we have a very intelligent fan base that don't appreciate the few out there that make all of us look bad. We're not ALL like that. Thank you for reading this reply and have a terrific evening!!!
