The SoBros Mailbag: 67th Edition – Backup Sports Teams, Birthday Parties

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Let’s face it – every day we are routinely bombarded with questions. When you’re an emerging media company in Nashville, people just want to know what your opinions are on everything. It’s only natural. And, since our duty is to serve the people, well, we have no choice but to be present. That’s the SoBro Way. Also, aren’t mailbags just a barrel of laughs anyway? Welcome to the newest weekly recurring feature up in this bitch: The SoBros Mailbag. As always, use #SoBrosMailbag to hit us up on Twitter.

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This is a great question, Brett, and I love it because I think people tend to take sports way too seriously. Like, if the Titans suck ass, I’m going to just kinda naturally find another team to root for throughout the playoffs. Doesn’t mean I’m “quitting” on the team – just means that I have a rooting interest in a tournament that “my team” didn’t qualify for!

So, for the NFL, I have two teams – one, the New York Giants. My girlfriend is from Monmouth County, New Jersey, and her entire family consists of Giants fans (minus one or two very disgruntled Jets households). So, we naturally tend to root for them. Also, I’m a big fan of greatness – I love watching the New England Patriots defy Father Time. It’s such good shit.

In the NBA, it’s about the players – if I’m not watching the Memphis Grizzlies, I’m tuning in to see what LeBron (the greatest basketball player of all time) is doing. If not LeBron, then Kawhi Leonard…so on and so forth. I’m a sucker for NBA basketball. I know it gets a bad rap, but I don’t think there’s ever been a time in NBA history with this many pure electric players.

In the NHL, it’s going to drive my fellow Nashvillians crazy, but I’d say the St. Louis Blues and the Tampa Bay Lightning. I have two really close friends who have taught me a lot about hockey – one of them is RHog who I just did a podcast with about the Blues, and the other is a mutual friend of ours. We all worked together for a few years back in 2013-16. All of that hockey talk just stuck with me – when the Blues succeeded, I was happy for RHog. When the Lightning succeeded, I was happy for Stephen. So, out of that, I just sort of found myself checking in on those teams. I’m also not really a big hockey guy to begin with.

I don’t watch baseball. My family is a big Atlanta Braves family. My girlfriend is a huge Yankees fan, so we’ve sort of adopted them as our team in the household. I don’t have a backup team there.

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There was one birthday, 2011, that I can’t really write about. I’d like to protect all who were involved in that night. We got a hotel room in midtown (Nashville) and proceeded to go out and get absolutely trashed that night. Without naming names, I will say that I shotgunned a beer from the balcony while all the beer literally spilled onto the valet stand below. One of my friends threw White Castle pickles on the mirror, forgot about it, and when we woke up the next morning, they were still there. We were separated from a friend at one point in the night. Hours later, we were walking back to the hotel and found him eating a bag full of McDonald’s cheeseburgers at a bus stop alone. He was probably a couple of miles away from where we last saw him, too, so no idea what happened there.

Other than that, it’d have to be 2005 – I had a big bonfire out at the ranch that year that nearly 50 people showed up to. Actually, no – I can’t really talk about why that night was good either….

Shit, Rooster.

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Buddy, I don’t think we can call ’em that anymore. But, to answer your question, I don’t know. I mean, I tend to overestimate myself due to my inflated ego – so part of me wants to say, “I would never die, Stan.” But, realistically speaking, maybe a dozen?

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Y’know, we talked about this not too long ago, Herbie, and we already thought Tim Corbin deserved some consideration for that 4th spot on Nashville sports’ Mount Rushmore (with Steve McNair, Eddie George, and Pekka Rinne). After this College World Series win, I think you have to put him up there in the top 10, maybe top five.

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As long as they hire us, hell yeah LFG! As much as Mark Cuban seems like the SoBro type, I say give me Mr. Wonderful. Nobody gets shit done like Kevin O’Leary gets shit done. I’m all about the GSD, brother.

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Football, easy. I know the most about it, I love to write about it – the only thing is that I don’t play that often. So, with that in mind, does ping pong count? No, it’s football. Definitely football.

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I’m with ya, Woody – been a hot minute since I was on the dating scene, but I’m pretty sure that’s EXACTLY what women like to hear, especially in the country. Trust me.

Keep the questions coming – catch y’all next week!

Stoney Keeley is the Editor in Chief of The SoBros Network. He is a strong supporter of Team GSD and #BeBetter. “Big Natural” covers the Tennessee Titans, Alabama Crimson Tide football, the WWE, and a whole wealth of nonsense. Follow on Twitter @StoneyKeeley

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