A BRIEF HISTORY OF HOW WE GOT STARTED
THE NINER EMPIRE MEMPHIS CHAPTER WAS STARTED BY TWO FRIENDS, VINCENT JARMON AND TREY MURPHY, THEY WERE FOOTBALL FANS THAT LIKED THE SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS TEAM. THE HANGOUTS IN WHICH THEY VISITED WERE JILLIAN”S AND LASHAWN”S SPORTS BARS, THESE SPOTS WERE KNOWN AS DALLAS COWBOY FANS HANGOUTS” ENDURING THE MOCKING BY OTHER NFL FOOTBALL FANS, THE TWO SOLDIERED ON IN HOPES OF ESTABLISHING AN ESTEEMED FAN BASE AND HANGOUT. ONE DAY AFTER BROWSING THE MYSPACE.COM WEBSITE TREY WAS BEFRIENDED BY JOE LEONOR AND JAY ESPERANZA, WHO WAS FROM CALIFORNIA AND HAD ALREADY ESTABLISHED A CLUB ENTITLED “THE NINER EMPIRE” “THEY PRESENTED THE IDEAL ABOUT STARTING A MEMPHIS CHAPTER OF THEIR CLUB AND THINGS SEEMED SO UNREAL AND BLEAK” RECALLS TREY “OUR ONCE DONMINATE TEAM WAS LOSING AND IT SEEM AS VINCE AND I WERE THE ONLY FANS IN MEMPHIS!” “EXACTLY” REPLIED VINCE “PEOPLE GAVE US CRAZY LOOKS, JOKED ABOUT US AND OUR TEAM. WE AGREED TO START OUR CLUB BUT WONDERED HOW WE COULD REESTABLISHED THE FAN BASE. FORTUNES CHANGED AFTER WE MET A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF LARRY HAMPTON, ALSO A 49ER FAN, WHO WAS IN THE PROCESS OF OPENING HIS OWN RESTRAUNT. THE EATERY WAS KNOWN AS ” MUNCHEES GALORE” AND IT SERVE AS HANGOUT FOR 49ER FANS. AFTER MONTHS OF NETWORKING, WE BEGAN TO ESTABLISH A CONSISTANT FAN BASE, WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO THE “NINER EMPIRE MEMPHIS CHAPTER” TO THIS DAY WE HAVE OVER FIFTY MEMBERS AND COUNTING. PLEASE CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT AS WE WILL BUILD UNTO TOMORROW. WE ARE THE NINER EMPIRE MEMPHIS CHAPTER!!!
VINCENT JARMON PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER
TREY MURPHY VICE PRESIDENT AND CO-FOUNDER