Once Again, Texas Leads the Way

MySA.com: Metro | State: "ATHENS — Beer, pretty girls and a bunch of loud, fast machines.

Throw in miles of four-wheelin' trails, some live country music and a bunch of silly contests — from Spam-eating to wet T-shirts to bobbing in soup for animal parts — and one version of redneck heaven came to earth this weekend.

'It got wild here last night,' marveled Ray Roden, 56, of Ringgold, La., as he motored around Saturday morning at the Texas Redneck Games. 'You name it, it happened. It was worse than Mardi Gras.'

In addition to flying both the Confederate flag and a skull and crossbones, his Kubota four-wheeler had an eye-catching set of antlers strapped up front.

For the thousands of male off-road enthusiasts who journeyed to the Pool Ranch, a 3,000-acre spread outside of this Northeast Texas town, it was a chance to ogle both good-looking women and snazzy all-terrain vehicles with names like 'Grizzly,' 'Brute Force,' and 'Bombardier.'"