Posted 8/06/2007 04:46:00 PM by Douglas

Red neck games.

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

But the basic idea — turning what once was an insult to Southerners into a point of pride and humor — remains the same.

Besides the wet T-shirts and the "Dixie Dukes Showoff," which features girls prancing around on stage in skimpy shorts, Still offers a butt-crack contest.

Wow. Sounds like fun. Then there's this:

Earlier, after her first performance in the "Dixie Dukes" contest in front of about 600 howling men, Cassidy Free, 19, a college student from Nacogdoches, seemed a bit shaken.

"It's really scary. Everyone is looking at you. I'm still shaking," she confided. Later on, she found her stride and took home some cash in the wet T-shirt contest.

Others were less affected by the leering attention.

"I love it. It's an adrenaline rush to get up there and take charge," said Stacie Beville, 26, of Blue Ridge, after grinding it out in the "Dukes" contest.

It's just good to see mom having a good time.