well, when we first moved to beautiful charlotte, the hornets were still here and apparently very very bad boys. they were always making the news with their misdeeds. they eventually left, not because we were tired of the team, but the owner was a true greedy prick. i mean, he had a chance to have michael jordan (an NC native)as part owner with him but passed. then he tried blackmailing the city into building him a new stadium. like a child, he said if we didn't comply, he'd take the team and leave. then he bought the minor league hockey team and threatened to take them with him(he ended up selling the hockey team back to the original owner for a huge loss). he, himself, was on trial accused of raping one of his female workers. the employees husband ended up killing himself over the whole, uh, sordid affair.

why has the crime rate drastically dropped in charlotte? because the hornets left town.

that's the joke that circulated after he took his "toys" to new orleans.

as soon as he left, and the BET guy brought a new team to town, we built a new stadium.

the football team wasn't much better. a string of dui's by players, fred lane's murder(by his bank robbing wife) steroid accusations, and who can forget Ray Carruth, the player who was just beginning his career, got a stripper pregnant, then decided whacking her was a better idea than paying child support.

now, as if the basketball and football teams' misconduct wasn't enough, two of the panther cheerleaders, the "top cats" as they're called, were busted sunday for disorderly conduct, public drunk, and assault. seems the sweet young things were drunk and having sex in a bathroom stall at a tampa bay bar. as any woman knows, there's never enough stalls in there, and the line was growing. when a woman complained and demanded the girls hurry the fuck up, one of the drunken cheerleaders punched her in the eye(and left quite a shiner).

they weren't even there to cheer, as cheerleaders don't cheer at away games. not only has this made national news(because, i mean, after all, we're not in the middle of a war or anything)but it even made bob and tom this morning.

ya just can't make this stuff up folks. no you can't.

we may be in the middle of a red state, but charlotte's a fun place to be. (more on this later)