The Crompton Era, Two Words: Mountain Values
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Raised in rural Appalachia. Can anything replace the mountain values that strike at the core of a young mountain boy raised to live on the land? It ain’t hair gel, Gates. It’s not hot boiled peanuts, Bammeroid. It’s mountain damn values, and it wears #8.
What are mountain values you ask? As a certified mountain boy, I’m fit as a fiddle to answer this.
It’s that breakfast-is-your-biggest-meal kind of lifestyle. Cock crows in the morn’, and it’s fresh eggs, bacon, grits, and big ole’ ’maters out of my mountain fresh garden. Uphill to work, a full day of tillin’ and plantin’, uphill back home. A hard day’s work for an honest wage. I’m not trying to puff my chest here fellas; that’s just my creed.
It’s waste not, want not. Feed sacks turned into clothes; old clothes into quilts. Nothin’ passed along to succeeding generations except for the steep ground used by a mountain family to scratch out a meager living. Why in Appalachia, the land is just another family member. We love it and respect it just like a sister. You’re raised mountain strong; never touched a weight in my life. Twenty gallons of creek water up the hill three times a day, don’t care what the weather is. We don’t have much, but we get by on family values. Up here, your character counts. Where I was raised, you judge a man’s heart by the amount of sweat that drips from his broad and wide mountain brow.
Jon Crompton is strong as an ox, steady in his faith, and chock full of these mountain values that the Appalachia bestowed upon the talented signal caller. Heath Shuler redux, partner.
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I have Brokeback Mountain values.
I’m thinking this is some sort of veiled jab at me. Since I don’t like to think, I’m going to let it slide this time.
Just y’all remember one thing. The arsonists foot was oddly shaped.
“Uphill to work / uphill back home.”
No wonder you’ve been stuck on the side of a mountain your whole life.
He could play for my team anyday of the week, including Sundays
DIDNT HEATH MAKE ESPNS LIST OF TOP TEN DRAFT FAILURES? YEAH- HE DID. BUT – I WILL ADMIT – HE WAS A GREAT COLLEGE PLAYER.
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