COCKfighting

I was just moving some stuff in my room and ran across my Grandad's wallet, which was given to me at his funeral this past May. Chesley Vickers Calloway Sr., not carrying too much stuff: a library card and a membership card to the "MILKDAIRY GAME CLUB."


Turns out the Milk Dairy Game Club was a cockfighting pit that appears to have recently been shut down... and my grandfather was a Lifetime Member, though his card looks shady like he filled out some of the info on his own. Still, he has his member number... I found this interesting article in New Orlean's Times-Picayune that features the President of the MDGC, Carter Kinchen, and cockfighting in general. Here are some excerpts:

Kinchen knows what people think about his sport. That it's barbaric. Brutal. A relic of bygone days. He knows the media loves to focus on the blood and the gore, how the roosters' talons are fitted with knifes, or gaffs, to make the fights quicker and deadlier.
__Yes! It's the media's fault for playing up the slaughtering angle!

In the restaurant that adjoins the cockpit, Kinchen points to a sign above the door advising patrons that "no whiskey, drugs or guns" are allowed on the premises, and that "vulgar language" is also banned.
__No vulgar language!? But you can't have cockfighting without the cock...

It has persisted in Louisiana, Massa said, because of a number of factors. For one, the state's climate is ideal for raising roosters. "It's just like Kentucky is for raising Thoroughbreds," Massa said.
__Because after racing, horses are forced into a pit, have blades attached to their legs, and then fight each other to the death.


__Reminds me of a fake game video game I made up then reviewed for Red Shtick Magazine one time... actually the first of the relatively short-lived series "Game of the Month." The review below is short n' shitty, but after a couple months of writing tech-related stuff the reviews themselves ended up becoming the whole column. Both the reviews and fake covers got much better (IMHO). Anyway, here 'tis, rudimentary photoshopping n' all:

Cock Fighter II: Talons of Fire Tournament Edition has earned its spot as July’s game of the month. While the single-player story mode answers the questions left open at the end of the first Cock Fighter game, the real fun is, of course, found in the versus mode. Like its predecessor, CFII:TFTE’s controls are intuitive and silky-smooth. However, it’s the new features that make this game a keeper: fully customizable spurs, a well-rounded franchise mode, a surprisingly in-depth create-a-cock mode, improved AI, and more. Putting it over the edge are the less noticeable details like the dead cocks piled up in mounds, gamblers’ overflowing spittoons, and the sound of blood spurting when your fighter’s jugular is cut. With little to no lag, even the online gaming is good. There’s no doubt, when it comes to virtual cockfighting, CFII:TFTE is the go-to game.