Originally created as a platform to freely express opinions on football, the Losers with Socks Blog was born as a Website that became a hub for captivating content, insightful commentary, and hilarious comedy centered around the Tennessee Volunteers and their SEC rivals. It has since grown into a hub for satire, commentary, and long-form storytelling that doesn’t ask permission.
Since its inception, the blog has amassed an impressive following of over 20 million unique visitors. Its exceptional content and talented writers have been featured on esteemed platforms like Deadspin (before they broke themselves), Sports Illustrated, ESPN, EDSBS, the AJC, and the Washington Post.
Capers E. R. Barr is a retired Army aviator and test pilot who flew Army jets (yes the Army has jets) and Special Electronic Mission Airplanes. Somewhere in the mix he managed to pick up some federal law enforcement experience.
His fiction leans heavily on piss, vinegar, caffeine, anger, experience and only lightly on forgiveness, often exploring men pushed past the point where restraint stops being useful.
He is the author of three books, including The Alabama Hot Pocket and other works featured on LoserWithSocks.com, where his writing blends modern Western grit, cutting satire, and hard-edged BS.
His short fiction has appeared in True West Magazine, Literally Magazine , Tough Magazine, Golf Pro Digest, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and The Strand Magazine.
- “Three Miles Past Cloudcroft” — published in the Rio Grande Literary Review
- “Dead Stick Over the Jornada” — published in The Strand Magazine
- “The Last Transmission at White Sands” — published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
- “No Good Weather Below Ten Thousand” — featured in a Western Fictioneers anthology
He is a finalist for the University of New Mexico Writers’ Conference and the New Mexico Book Awards, and has been nominated for the Western Writers of America Spur Awards.
He splits his time between the Paint Rock River Valley in Alabama and Cloudcroft, New Mexico, at 9,800 feet, where the air is thin and mistakes often cost more. A golfer, a mountain runner and an endurance athlete, he is a two-time finisher of the Albuquerque Duke City Marathon.
He is at work on a novel about a man who should have known better and didn’t care, a future project exploring power, influence, and the economics of college football in the NIL era, including the enduring gravitational pull of Nick Saban.
He lives in mountain cabin with two blue heelers, Sancho and Jody, inspired by and then named for his former spouse. It seemed appropriate.
He can be reached at loserwithsocks@gmail or at @MrTennessee6 (X)
Books
Theories and a Case Study Approach to Post-Alabama Football Game Lone Actor Shootings, and All Gender-Focused Domestic Violence (2022)
It Never Rains in Lower Alabama (2018)
The Alabama Hot Pocket: An Ethnographic Study of Alabama Fans in Their Natural Environment (2020)
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