# Wait...Randy Travis is experiencing a downward spiral into drunkeness and despair? Randy Travis?!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 9, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971 "2012-08-09T16:16:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/41 "2012-08-13T13:29:01Z")
> [@grude](#): > > I don’t know jack about Randy Travis but is there any male celebrity that isn’t surrounded by gay rumors?! At this point I’m just going to assume all male celebs are gay to make things easier.🙂 I don’t want to look, but one of the things that turned me off Wikipedia was that at one point I was grabbing the articles on several Spanish kings to link in the Dope and. Every. Single. One. Had a line about “possibly gay”, his wife (wives) having been beards and/or any male friend (from milk-brothers to validos) labeled a “possible lover”. Ok, yeah, we get it: any male, ever, may have been gay. And any female, a lesbian. Can we go back to history and facts, pretty please? I hope Travis can manage to get himself fixed back; being that fucked up has to suck real bad. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/42 "2012-08-13T21:13:13Z")
To be fair, that car is an enthusiast car. Most of the ones that you see on the road aren’t owned by broke people who can’t afford better, they’re owned by enthusiasts who take care of them. When not driving naked and drunk, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/43 "2012-08-14T00:44:57Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > To be fair, that car is an enthusiast car. Like the _sweeet_ '94 Taurus? 😃 I hear Jay Leno has a couple of those in his garage… ---
**Author:** ![DataZak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ea666f/32.png) [@DataZak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataZak)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/44 "2012-08-14T02:02:06Z")
Oh, Randy _Travis_. For about 30 seconds there I had the image of the black dude from American Idol driving around naked and threatening to shoot state troopers. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/45 "2012-08-15T21:17:43Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Like the _sweeet_ '94 Taurus? 😃 I hear Jay Leno has a couple of those in his garage… I’ve never had a 94 Taurus :p. I do have an enthusiast car from the 90’s though! ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2012, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/46 "2012-08-15T22:54:51Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Like the _sweeet_ '94 Taurus? 😃 I hear Jay Leno has a couple of those in his garage… A hijack, but Taurus SHO’s were total sleepers back in the day. Looked all docile but could haul ass. ---
**Author:** ![split\_p\_j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19b73/32.png) [@split\_p\_j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/split_p_j)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/47 "2012-08-16T01:48:31Z")
Just to let you all know, a '98 T/A is a seriously fast ride stock. It will easily keep up with a brand new BMW M3, even in all the corners that Europeans like to talk about so much. If you know how to drive it. With a few cheap mods, it can reach supercar type performance, and the motors last forever under heavy abuse. Unlike BMW’s ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/48 "2012-08-16T15:53:32Z")
> [@Sodalite](#): > > _sigh_ > > From Wikipedia: > Growing up in Union County, I heard about Randy Travis constantly. A lot of the people I went to school with either knew him or were related to him. I wasn’t into his music and didn’t care about him one way or another but there were a lot of people who did. > > When you drive into Marshville, you are greeted by huge signs that say, “Welcome to Marshville, HOME OF RANDY TRAVIS”. He’s pretty much the only thing that place has going for it and they’ve always made a huge deal out of it. I have wondered how he kept going with that kind of burden weighing on him. Having the expectations of on entire town on your back has got to be a hard way to live. Honestly, I thought this would have happened years ago. I dunno…I think probably a 4 year old could carry the expectations of Marshville. Now, Maysville, or Porter, or Locust Creek may be a different load altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/49 "2012-08-16T16:07:01Z")
Yes. Those Locust Creek people are really hard on their celebrities. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971/50 "2012-08-25T03:07:02Z")
Randy Travis cited for assault after altercation outside a Texas church. [http://todayentertainment.today.com/\_news/2012/08/24/13461212-randy-travis-cited-for-simple-assault-outside-texas-church?lite](http://todayentertainment.today.com/_news/2012/08/24/13461212-randy-travis-cited-for-simple-assault-outside-texas-church?lite) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wait-randy-travis-is-experiencing-a-downward-spiral-into-drunkeness-and-despair-randy-travis/630971.md?page=2)