American Nazis?

“Brawl erupts after song played at
rodeo

By Elma Barrera
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(3/14/03) — Talk of war with Iraq has
sparked an atmosphere of tension and
anxiety. And it may be to blame for a brawl
that broke out at the rodeo Thursday night.
ABC-13 report


With some 15,000 to 20,000 folks at the rodeo
drinking beer and having fun, things can get a little
out of hand at times. It happened when a tape of Lee
Greenwood's song Proud To Be An American was
playing. Some rodeo fans were standing and others
were sitting down. Felix Fanaselle and his buddies
chose to remain seated.

"This guy behind us starts yelling at us (because)
we're not standing up," said Fanaselle. "He starts
cussing at us, telling us to go back to Iraq."

The 16-year-old said the man seated behind him
started spitting at him and spilling his beer on him
and his friends.

"By the end of the song, he pulled my ear. I got up.
He pushed me. I pushed him," said Felix. "He
punched me in my face. I got him off me."

When the dust settled, Fanaselle had been
handcuffed and released. He and John
McCambridge were cited for "mutual combat" and
fighting in public. That's a $200 fine. Fanaselle's
lawyer says you don't have to stand for a country
and western song.

"I guess next time, he'll think maybe we need to
stand for the Okie From Muscogee," said attorney
Clayton Rawlings. "This is phony patriotism. This
man needs to be ashamed of himself for what he
did."

Rawlings says he and the Fanaselle family will give
McCambridge a chance to make this right without
going to court. The family says the biggest insult
was McCambridge telling Fanaselle to go back to
Iraq. Fanaselle is half Hispanic and half Italian.

"He was born in this country and who is this clown to
tell him to go back where he came from? He came
from Houston, Texas, so he is where he came from,"
said Rawlings.

Rawlings says if the citation isn't dismissed after
witnesses testify, they'll be going to court with
accusations of assault and battery, mental anguish
and lawyer's fees. Eyewitness news tried to contact
John McCambridge in Austin for his side of the story,
but so far there's been no response.”

“Rednecks can be fun... at a distance.

(it's about a 10-minute drive to the county jail from here)”

“Isn't this story more than 2 months old?”

“Since this happened over 2 months ago, what's your point in "cut and paste" now. Things just to quiet for you?”

“It’s never to late for a good drunken brawl story.

File that story under alcohol related.”

“I wouldn't have stood up for lee Greenwood either. They probably would have yelled at me to go back to Montana.

16 year old man?”

“I agree w/ musthike- Alcohol: the cause of and solution to all our problems.”

“think I'll head out for a few beers tonight :o)”

“Have you every heard a song called "Play Rockytop Or I'll Punch Your Lights Out"?”

“The Lime Green Jellow Thread is three years old and this board deems it worthy to comment on. Hey, I just came across the blurb today and thought I'd share.
And yes, things are toO quiet for me, today.”

“Cause I'm proud to be an american
where at least I know I'm free...”

“Phaedie, you better capitalize American or you'll be subject to a whooping.”

“aMerican.”

“When ever I here the line "I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free" it sounds like he's saying everything else about being an American sucks, but at least I'm free. To me it's a poorly worded line.”

“It might be poorly worded, but it's in a country song, so that makes it juuuuust fine.”

“Someone needs to make being an azzhole a capital offence...”

“...where at least I know I'm free (to be a drunken moron)”

“You say that like it's a bad thing.”

“America needs MORE drnken morons without health care. Oh, and make sure they're armed.”

“Let me get this straight. This guys in Houston, TX. He goes to a Rodeo, and in the middle of a bunch of beer drinking cowboys, he refuses to stand up for the Redneck National Anthem. Is anybody really suprised that someone decided that he needed to have his butt kicked?

Sometimes, right or wrong, you just shouldn't be surprised when certain things happen.

Course, I could be wrong.”

“I think it's a matter of being completely amazed AT the idiocy, rather than suprized BY it.”

“what? All this time I thought the Redneck National Anthem was "Okie from Muskogee"?”

“Aero, you are probably right, at least historically. I think recently that the Lee Greenwood song is approaching that level of reverence.”

“I thought it was "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"....”

“"I'm going to hire a wino to decorate our presidential suite"”

“Now you guys are makin fun of us rednecks. That ain't nice ya know.”

“But you're such easy targets!”

“THis is old news. It's been brought up here before.”

“I know I am free :)”

“I once went to a dance that was sponsored by an organization that my father belonged to. (Try getting a date to a dance that your parents are helping to sponsor.) Anyway, details and explanations aside, I decided to take advantage of the free beer and my date was adventurous enough to attempt dancing to the cuntry music blasting from the juke box.
Well, after a while, we found that Okie From Muskogee was on that there juke box and we decided to add a few of our own dimes to the machine. When the record spun for the first time, many in the crowd came up to my date and I on the dance floor, (we were the only people under forty at this shindig), and compliment us on our taste in music. They said that normally, people in their early twenties don't listen to Okie From Muskogee.
Little did they know that we had played that song about ten times in a row, and it just kept playing over and over and over. Beer can make you do funny things.
Well......after about the fifth time, while my date and I were still dancing and laughing our a$$e$ off, the crowd began to cool to our appreciation of music. My dad asked the owner of the establishment to make the juke box stop playing that song and he took me aside to have a little one-on-one conference on behavior.
Needless to say, my date and I left a little early, and my parents never invited, (coerced), me to one of their social gatherings after that.
Two things I learned that night. 1)You can have fun at events that you might think are going to be boring. 2) Dancing to Okie From Muskogee is a challenge.”

“LOL!

I think I had a nightmare about that very thing the other night.”

“Great, a cut and paste troll.”

“"Great, a cut and paste troll."

Nigal
07:47:58 AM
05/24/03”

“Hey Dun,

WHAT kind of music was blasting from the jukebox? How'd that get past the filter?”

“I'm sure it was an accidental misspelling.”