Devin Britton Going Pro

by Juco All-American on Jul 1, 2009 11:03 AM EDT

News has surfaced, though not totally reputable yet, the Devin Britton is going pro. I'm sure Ivory Tower or commentor and FOTC 25 Days a Week will have a longer post about this soon.

Devin, congratulations, and thank you for a magical season.

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Try not misspelling his name in the subject and your attempt to spread wild rumors may find better success.

But seriously, until I hear more on this, I’m just gonna sit here and pray there’s no truth in it.

I get crunk 25 days a week!

by 25 Days a Week on Jul 1, 2009 12:09 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks for the heads up

I spelled it right in the actual post. Don’t know what I was thinking in the headline.

by Juco All-American on Jul 1, 2009 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions

Didn't see confirmation just a quote but not sure where it was from (on nafoom)

But this article was linked over there:

http://tennisworld.typepad.com/tennisworld/2009/06/rod-laver-dont-fish.html

I don’t keep up with the tennis stuff as much as some of yall but that was a damn good article.

by Thile on Jul 1, 2009 12:44 PM EDT reply actions

What an impressive piece.

(And 25DAW, I know that you posted this article on your fanpost earlier.)

In fact, it got me thinking, “RCR, what have you done for me lately?” I know the ability to write something like that is more than present in most of you. GOJC, you can easily do this with your passion and wealth of cultural and popular knowledge about the state, and easy-flowing wit. Ivory Tower, if you tone down your attempts at humour, this would be easy for you as well. That is not saying the rest of you could not do this…JUCO especially. So where is ti?

Granted the style in which Bodo wrote lends itself to biography, but I think you guys can add more literary flare to your writing. RCR, I challenge you! I mean, what else are you going to do this summer?

by Role Player on Jul 1, 2009 1:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Then

We would be just like everyone else.

by Juco All-American on Jul 1, 2009 1:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Really?

I didn’t say get rid of your exciting and informative content to be flowery. I just want them to be enfused with my TRADISHUNS1 (every so often).

by Role Player on Jul 1, 2009 2:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Seriously?

Devin Britton is a lanky 18-year-old from the sultry precincts of Brandon, Miss., a state in the deep south best known to sports fans as the ancestral home of the frères Manning, Peyton and Eli. For fans who prefer their violence imagined rather than observed, Mississippi is also the birthplace of the Nobel-Prize winning author William Faulkner. The state flower is the fragrant Magnolia, and the official state fish (who knew there was such a thing?) is the largemouth bass, a pugnacious rascal that eats anything that doesn’t eat it first.

I’m not trying to be an ass, but you’ve got an interesting take on literature if you think that writing style should be copied. Honestly, give me one good reason to use the word “freres” as opposed to “brothers”? Is the phrase “the brothers Manning” not eccentric enough?

That old guy is trying, so that’s always nice. But to say people need to be writing like he does is stupid. Honestly, if I were to ever actually overhear someone describe a largemouth bass as a “pugnacious rascal”, I would wonder if I had somehow been transported back to Manchester England during the Industrial Revolution, then I would snap out of it and punch that person in the teeth. Big, weird words in no way equate to good writing.

by Bill Fremp on Jul 1, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions

True

I must apologize for not qualifying what I find impressive about his piece. I hate the overuse of French and other foreign words to compensate for a lack of English linguistic capacity as well. I also dislike the other points where he is trying too hard, i.e. his flowery tendencies. What I did enjoy is his use of cultural references and tradition to frame his story. And overall his writing is not that bad. As you stated:

That old guy is trying, so that’s always nice.

Bodo is also an immigrant Yankee, who by default is clueless. (Don’t argue otherwise because I have been told this far too many times as a Yankee myself – albeit from a place, which is below the Mason-Dixon Line and which was not a state at the time.) Contrast that with the writers at RCR, both creatively and culturally superior, and I think they should be up for the challenge.

Last thing, you were trying to be an ass, and I deserved it. Don’t cover it up.

by Role Player on Jul 1, 2009 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh well

I think this is probably the best decision for him, though while there was still hope, I wasn’t ever going to say that out loud (since I have so much influence on his decision making).

I get crunk 25 days a week!

by 25 Days a Week on Jul 1, 2009 12:58 PM EDT reply actions