Well Now We Know Why Bush Goes Home in August
Beer, pretty girls and a bunch of loud, fast machines.
Throw in miles of four-wheelin’ trails, some live country music and a bunch of silly contests - from Spam-eating to wet T’shirts to bobbing in soup for animal parts - and one version of redneck heaven came to Earth this weekend.
“It got wild here last night,” marveled Ray Roden, 56, of Ringgold, La., as he motored around Saturday morning at the Texas Redneck Games. “You name it, it happened. It was worse than Mardi Gras.”
In addition to flying both the Confederate flag and the skull and crossbones, his Kubota four-wheeler had an eye-catching set of antlers strapped up front.
For the thousands of male off-road enthusiasts who journeyed to the Pool Ranch, a 3,000-acre spread outside the Northeast Texas town of Athens, it was a chance to ogle both good-looking women and snazzy all-terrain vehicles with names like “Grizzly,” “Brute Force,” and “Bombardier.”
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