A gritty town, but Daddy likes it.

Yet the Blue Devils' winning season has inspired and attracted new fans, both on campus and in the gritty town around it.

In this gritty town of 17,598, Judge Bentley reigns as the supreme Longhorn fan.

Johnson was born and grew up in Barstow, Calif., a gritty, blue-collar town on the edge of the high desert.

Here in Keelung, a gritty industrial town, there were few signs of apprehension, however.

"Detroit is a gritty town with rough edges, and we love it, and we celebrate it," he said.

He liked the coach's honest style and felt at home in West Lafayette, a gritty town dotted with billowing smokestacks.

Hot town, Summer in the city, Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty.

It is a 65-acre plot, now choked with weeds, in Burnham, a gritty town of 4,000 people on the edge of Chicago.

The strings of charming villages and empty beaches definitely outweighed the few gritty towns that have given Samui its bad reputation.