HOW SAD!

A few years back, a gamecock message board got it's start by being the anti-gamecock central. You see a lot of people were frustrated with gamecock central and their silly policies regarding posting links. I was one of them. Oh and we all hated paying for free information.

This was about the same time that the original COOL CHICKEN (I am the same guy just a different site) was starting up. You may recall those wonderful days...

Anyway, along comes cockytalk. Great idea. Let's just have a strictly fan run message board for the south carolina gamecocks. Anything goes. It worked well, I promoted the hell out of cockytalk and up until today, I still did.

Now, one of the things that really got cockytalk running was their video pages and even though I am sure they will disagree, I was the first person to post a gamecock video tribute on their site. Shortly after I did so, there was a literal dam burst of hits, links and videos. I recall emailing back and forth with Chuck (the guy who runs cockytalk trivia: I am a Chuck as well) about getting a place set up to host gamecock videos. I was not ready at the time to do it through any of my sites but Chuck was and did.

I was pretty proud of my fellow gamecocks charge in to the world of internet fandom. In reality both Cockytalk and the Cool Chicken took off.

Now it has been awhile since I was able to post over there on a regular basis but when I uploaded some good old fashion footage from the ULL game, I thought I would jaunt on over there and post a link to it. I also stuck one in my signature. I decided to stop by today and my signature had been replaced with: no links in sig.

How far we do fall. I know it is not a big deal in the scheme of things but it is again another example of people getting something and forgetting where they came from.

Another thing I noticed was the tone on the board. The posters tend to bash our players just as much as they bash the rivals players. I just don't understand that.

Cockytalk got it's start by linking all over the place to attract visitors. I helped them do it. I had links to Cockytalk on The Cool Chicken and a link to cockytalk right beside my signature on most of the other message boards I visited.

With all this in mind, I wish them the best and I am sure cockytalk will be fine with out my support but I just can't give them the good old cool chicken badge of approval and all the cool points it carries.

I hate it but that is life.

Well... that is all I have to say about that.

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