Screw the CMA's

There are cops on every block of Broadway on party nights. Imagine a bigger Bourbon Street but without the flashing and urine smell.

 

Never been on Broadway in Nashville, but if it's anything like Bourbon, the cops aren't afraid to haul your ass off if you're just wearing a school that's getting rowdy. I had to identify a number of safe places just off Bourbon lest I get innocently swept up.

One time they cleared Bourbon because of North Texas after a New Orleans Bowl, which chuffed me.

 

No, Broadway isn't that bad. It's more of a pain in the rear than rowdy. It's so congested with bridal parties and those street drinking barges that there is no room to get too rowdy.
It used to be a great place 25 years ago. Now, see it once and avoid anything between 6th and 2nd avenues like the plague.

 

Which isn’t so easy if headed to a Preds game.

 

OK. 5th Avenue!

 

Best bar experience I had was on Music Row at 10 am on a Saturday. No obnoxious bachelorette parties.

 

Well, that's because you were a dozen blocks away from them. The last beer I bought on Broadway was two years ago, and it cost me $20 for two Miller Lites.

 

And it was 10 am.

 

Honestly on Broadway these days, 10 a.m. on a Tuesday is no different than 10 p.m. on a Saturday.

 

The hand wringing has already begun over what kind of sentence Wallen gets. It could carry 6 years in prison. He won't get that. Because the chair didn't actually hit anyone, I don't think anyone - celeb or not - would likely get the whole time. I think he does have to spend a few days in jail. If not, doesn't that give every tourist in Nashville the green light to do the same thing and say, "I'll just take what Morgan got"?

 

I realize there will be a lot of hand wringing, but someone non-famous with his criminal background - a misdemeanor arrest about four years ago before a felony arrest - probably wouldn't be looking at a jail sentence for this either, at least in my experience as a cops and courts reporter for a decade, albeit in a different state. For most people, the advice from the attorney would be to preemptively enroll in anger management classes or some sort of charity work, go to rehab, get an AA sponsor, and so on. Lay the groundwork like that, and you typically don't get a prison sentence, or if you do, it's going to be a small one.

 

Last spring, I was in Nashville for work. I went down to Broadway around 10 am on a Sunday and all the bars had live bands playing and it was even tough to find a table in some of them. That was a new one on me.