{"id":79981,"date":"2019-09-24T16:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=79981"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T21:24:58","slug":"neil-white-visits-thacker-mountain-radio-sept-26-with-stories-from-125-years-of-ole-miss-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/neil-white-visits-thacker-mountain-radio-sept-26-with-stories-from-125-years-of-ole-miss-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil White Visits Thacker Mountain Radio Sept. 26 with &#8220;Stories from 125 Years of Ole Miss Football&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To commemorate 125 years of <strong>Ole Miss<\/strong> football history, the <strong>Nautilus Publishing Company<\/strong> has published stories from <strong><em>125 Years of Ole Miss Football<\/em><\/strong>, a collection of stories and photographs that don\u2019t fit the typical \u201csports book\u201d model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor and Publisher <strong><em>Neil White<\/em><\/strong>, said, \u201cWe didn\u2019t want to re-package the same stories that have been repeated through the years. Every interview began with a simple question: Tell us a story most people don\u2019t know about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White and his team of contributors\u2014including <strong>Rick Cleveland<\/strong>, <strong>Billy Watkins<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Khayat<\/strong>,<strong> Jeff Roberson<\/strong>\u2014interviewed more than 100 former players and coaches, as well as children, grandchildren, and widows of former Rebels. Some of the stories uncovered by the contributors include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The 1907 coach who got players drunk at halftime<\/li><li>The season Archie Manning intercepted four passes<\/li><li>The former Ole Miss player who was banned from the NFL . . . for life!<\/li><li>In addition to exposing hundreds of new Ole Miss football tales, the book includes an appendix with Top Ten lists, including:<\/li><li>The ten best and worst Ole Miss teams<\/li><li>The ten greatest victories of all time<\/li><li>The ten greatest Ole Miss NFL\u2008players<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Neil White<\/strong> is the creative director and publisher at The Nautilus Publishing Company. He is the editor of Robert Khayat&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Education of a Lifetime<\/em>\u00a0and the coffee-table book\u00a0<em>Mississippians<\/em>. His is also author of\u00a0<em>In the Sanctuary of Outcasts<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Cheers, Sports Fans!<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Southern rock guitarist <strong>George McConnell<\/strong>  and acoustic trio, <strong>The Chadwick Band<\/strong> are the featured music guests. <strong>Thacker Mountain Radio<\/strong> starts at 6 pm at <strong>Off Square Books<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To commemorate 125 years of Ole Miss football history, the Nautilus Publishing Company has published stories from 125<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":79982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[98,15348,40,99,15347,15346,5317,1165,7067,1996,15344,845,3335,5993,15345],"class_list":["post-79981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-beanland","tag-cheers-sports-fans","tag-football","tag-george-mcconnell","tag-in-the-sanctuary-of-outcasts","tag-mississippians","tag-nautilus-publishing","tag-neil-white","tag-ole-miss","tag-robert-khayat","tag-stories-from-125-years-of-ole-miss-football","tag-thacker","tag-thacker-mountain","tag-thacker-mountain-radio-hour","tag-the-education-of-a-lifetime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-24-Neil-White.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}