Response to TJ Simers' Article

[Spartness]

Hey guys. I don't know if someone posted this or not. (If yes, then this thread should be deleted.) I do know that you have read the nasty article about Nebraska by LA Times writer TJ Simers. Here I have posted a classic response to Mr. Simers' article by a Crete, NE veterinarian . If you haven't read it, enjoy. -- Spartness

 

 

 

 

This is too good! If this don't get your Husker Irish up nothing will.

This is the veterinarian from Crete who routinely writes “Rants”,

usually about NE Football, but sometimes about politics or current events .

 

Subject: FW: LA Times and Reply

 

 

Dear Friends.....Several of you E mailed me and requested an update on the LA Times Bruha. I forget that many of you live outside of Nebraska proper and were not privy to the LA times opinion article. I have therefore copied the article and my response. And now......the rest of the story...

 

 

By TJ Simers - LA Times Sportswriter

July 31, 2007

I am writing this now to give the overland stage time to get it there.

 

USC will be playing in Nebraska on Sept. 15, and I will be joining the

greatest football team ever assembled as they strike out into the

wilderness.

 

If possible, I'd like to spend time boarding with some corn cobs, maybe

getting a smell of what it's like to be around livestock - then leaving

Lincoln to move around the state and spend a few days here and there.

 

A stop in Wahoo at the Wigwam Cafe is probably a good start, but I was

thinking it'd be interesting to stay with a real-live-boring Cornhuskers

family somewhere out on the prairie so I can feel what it's like to have

nothing to look forward to in my life other than a Saturday afternoon

football game.

 

I'll be going to Nebraska early in the football week, and while I'm not

sure what corn cob hospitality is like, I'd like to remind folks that

when they came to L.A., I tried to help.

 

Remember when the Cornhuskers came to the big city to lose in the Rose

Bowl? Everyone here knows there are no individual seats - just long

benches for the skinny people who live here.

 

I was looking out for the corn-fed porkers, of course, including all

their big-butted women, when I told them that if everyone sat down after

the anthem, there were going to be people falling atop each other at the

end of each row.

 

A number of corn cobs e-mailed to say they were unhappy with Page 2 but

thrilled now to have their very own Internet machines.

 

They also wanted to tell me about their wonderful lives, kids and the

modern facilities being built right down there by the creek. Well,

there's nothing like a Wal-Mart coming to town to excite the locals, so

I was thrilled for them. But for some reason that didn't come across in

our correspondence, and there might still be some hard feelings.

 

I got to thinking last summer, though, as I drove the

family-that-I-used-to-love across Nebraska in a RV what it must be like

to actually live there most every day of your life.

 

I can't remember for sure if it was Nebraska or Kansas where I saw a

tree, but it just seemed as if there wasn't much there.

 

That's why the corn cobs love their football. It's all they have,

everyone wearing red, and sitting there like plump, ripe tomatoes with

corncobs stuck to their heads, singing, "There is no place like

Nebraska."

 

Hard to argue. There's not a 7-Eleven in the entire state, thousands of

people never once tasting a Slurpee, which got me wondering whether I

could live that way for a whole week.

 

I know there aren't a whole lot of cities in Nebraska, but I'm willing

to spend a few days out yonder with a family if someone would like to

show me what it's like to live without DirecTV and not ask me to kill a

chicken for dinner.

 

I can play checkers if forced, though, or make a run to the Feed Store.

Right now I'm willing to go wherever the corn cobs tell me to go, and

while several have already done that, I'd like to see for myself they're

not talking about some place in Nebraska.

 

My Reply:

Dear TJ of the LA Times...... I can understand your concerns about our lifestyle...In my hometown of Crete, Nebraska, located about 20 miles southwest of Lincoln, Our lifestyle is certainly "Un Californiaiish". Do you realize that:

1. I live 1/4 mile from my Veterinary Clinic so my commute to work is all of 20 seconds.

2. I live in a house with about 5000 sq. ft....own 7 acres, and can catch a 5 lb bass, right off of my deck.

3. I live about 1/2 mile from "gangs" of Turkey, deer, Canadian Geese and bobcats and none of them are "armed".

4. Your Pete Carrol coached guys have had a nice run of 58-6 these past 5 years which is second only to my Huskers who went 60 and 3 from 93-97 with 3 National Championships.

5. I can spell "Murder" but there hasn't been one in these parts for at least my 50 years.

6. My house has a lock on its door.....but we have never had to use it.

7. In Crete, People spend $100,000 on houses......not cars

8. When I go to church, I care about the other 300 members because I have known most of them....most of my life.

9. My kids can walk to school and walk around downtown and in shopping malls without a guarded escort.

10.On a clear day, I can see the Capital 25 miles away......I'm not even sure what "Smog" is.

11......And last but not least......I am about 4 fairway woods from a golf course where it costs $9 to play.

 

I would invite you to spend some time with me the week before the USC game, but our village already has an idiot and currently, we are not advertising for anyone else to take his place.......As Always in Huskerville...GFL

[BIGREDIOWAN]

Now THAT is awesome!!!!!!

[Husker_Power]

 

 

 

[Foppa]

[papersun87]

[LAHusker]

This TJ sounds like a real d-bag. If he wants to bash us, at least think of something original. Let's send him packing with a loss!

[Blackshirtsguru]

[pigsonthewing]

thats one of the better replies to that article that ive read.

[husker rob]

i dont think that my reply will make the LA Times or not but this was it:

 

Dear TJ

 

In response to your article about Nebraska

 

f#*k YOU

 

thats all

[captain obvious]

As far as I can tell, every response to his article that I have seen published can be summarized as follows:

 

"Dear Mr. Simers,

 

I am a humorless Midwesterner who harbors as much prejudice and unfounded distaste for Californians as you apparently do for Nebraskans. I just wanted to use your article as an opportunity to tell the world that California is a wasteland of iniquity overrun by gun-toting negroes. Nebraska, on the other hand, is the good life because we all go to church and kill wildlife on a daily basis. 1995 Cornhuskers...yada yada yada...you're an idiot.

 

Sincerely,

 

Rev. Jim Bob Billy Joe dipsh*t"

 

 

 

The more of this he incites, the more satisfaction he gets. People in LA probably don't even pay attention to this guy.

[captain obvious]

In addition, did you know that you can use the word "dipsh*t" and not be censored by the board??

[DaveH]

As far as I can tell, every response to his article that I have seen published can be summarized as follows:

 

"Dear Mr. Simers,

 

I am a humorless Midwesterner who harbors as much prejudice and unfounded distaste for Californians as you apparently do for Nebraskans. I just wanted to use your article as an opportunity to tell the world that California is a wasteland of iniquity overrun by gun-toting negroes. Nebraska, on the other hand, is the good life because we all go to church and kill wildlife on a daily basis. 1995 Cornhuskers...yada yada yada...you're an idiot.

 

Sincerely,

 

Rev. Jim Bob Billy Joe dipsh*t"

 

 

 

The more of this he incites, the more satisfaction he gets. People in LA probably don't even pay attention to this guy.

 

Now that's funny. Jim Bob Billy Joe dipsh*t.

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Simers was on 1620 a couple weeks ago and Kevin Kugler hung up on him mid interview after Simers had lobbed numerous insults at the folks of Nebraska. Then Kugler went on "vacation" which may have actually been vacation or he was suspended by the station management. they hinted it could have been either.

 

Kugler did get alot of positive feedback while he was gone for hanging up on Simers.

 

For the most part Simers schtick was fairly lame as he was hoping to spend time in Nebraska before the game and gave the misguided perception he thought everyone lives on a farm. Right before Kugler hung up Simers had asked if he would have to kill his own chicken for dinner. On the whole it is not much different than the dribble that Woody Paige used to write when he was in Denver.

[Spartness]

I will take a different view. You guys have heard much worse. He didn't personally attack anyone individually. Yes, the guy's a total idiot. But the more he would be allowed to talk, the more he would sound like an idiot. Plus, there were callers who would had love to take a shot at him. If Kugler was that offended by him, then don't invite him on your show -- Kulger knew what he was getting and should had expected this. But since he was invited, let the idiot talk. Let the callers have their say with him. Yes, he is very insulting and disrespectful, but it wasn't bad enough to prevent him from expressing his idiotic, misguided free speech.

[MadcatNU]

4. Your Pete Carrol coached guys have had a nice run of 58-6 these past 5 years which is second only to my Huskers who went 60 and 3 from 93-97 with 3 National Championships.

 

i think he's actually a UCLA sports writer/fan.