In looking back at 2006, this afternoon’s post will look back the whole rivalry between the Memphis Church and Da Crew, number 67 on the year-end countdown.
I had began attending church out in Cordova at the beginning part of the year, this coming after leaving a church but not attending services the year before.
Little did I know that the group of people that I associated with at the church would turn into a holy-roller version of Da Crew.
To some in Da Crew, they view the Bible Thumpers (that was the nickname that we gave to them) as emigrated snobs who would only last a hot second in South Memphis.
And the Bible Thumpers viewed us as a bunch of cocky and arrogant people who couldn’t keep their mouths closed.
Which was usually reserved for me, because I went into their church and dissed everyone from the janitor who cleans up to the church leader when I first got there.
When we tried to play them in basketball, I figured that there was going to be some excuse that they would chicken out if we moved forward with the game that we brokered with them.
So to solve that, I ended up writing up a contract in order to guarantee the game and making sure that all parties would understand the legal implications of the game.
Which was done at a press conference that was caught on tape with the help of my video camera in the campus cafeteria.
The contract for the most part was signed by both myself and Dr. Chris on January 24th, the same day that we were supposed to have a Bible study out in Hickory Hill.
Later that day, one of the people that we were going to face in the “Holy War” saw the contract that was done earlier in the day and signed by both myself and Dr. Chris at school.
Much to the chagrin of the people at the church, they saw this contract and started the seeds of the rivalry that started between Da Crew and the Bible Thumpers.
On Feb. 10th, the “Holy War” got intense when one of them decided to use my phone as a way to diss everyone and everything in Da Crew, this during one of the worst snowstorms in the history of the city.
Five days later, on Feb. 15th, there was going to be a Meeting of the Minds (read:the introduction of the two factions on campus).
That’s when one of them decided to hide in the Office Depot parking lot, which angered the members of Da Crew.
Especially when one of them said that they didn’t have time to play with little children, which was heard by some in Da Crew.
Well, who’s the little one now?
