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*Ahem.*

decker wrote:

mmonte wrote:

*Ahem.*

Yes?

Just my curt response to the anti-Texas posts above.

Here's hoping that Texas' impending victory against CU today is a preview of the Rose Bowl.

decker wrote:

Oh, sorry about that.  Noticing your location, I thought yours was a pro-Colorado post…

No worries. I've flaunted my "proud Texas grad" status a few times already around here, and didn't want to be too flagrant by doing it again.

42-3 at the half, no? Now I'm almost starting to feel sorry for the Buffs.

Nah… gotta keep those offensive numbers high for Young's Heisman hopes.

It's looking like a basketball score on one side of the scoreboard, and a soccer score on the other.

agedgruel wrote:

I'm surprised that OU let him in.  I thought those two schools really hated each other.  NU-OU I always thought had more of a mutual respect for each program born of long term sustained success.  OU-OSU is more a mutual hatred born of proximity.

He was valedictorian of his university (not just his particular college) class, president of the Student Government Association (or whatever they called it back then), etc.  I doubt there would have been a school that wouldn't have let him in.  He stayed in OK because he had been the "man of the family" since his father died when my dad was 12.  In those days in small-town OK a teenage boy could earn as much or more than an adult woman.  And other than his brother, with whom his mom was pregnant when his dad died, he was the only male in the family. 

agedgruel wrote:

You still have football in Nebraska?
(yes, yes, I know...  My Volunteers didn't fare too well this year -- I just couldn't resist

Or in the 1997 Orange Bowl     

And, oh, how the mighty have fallen.  I just hope the Vols don't make a habit out of it the way Nebraska seems to have! 

agedgruel wrote:

. . . so I'm genetically engineered to root against. . . the other UT)

So, we are in agreement:  the Longhorns can hook this http://homepage.mac.com/oatmeal/MAF/maxes/righthere.gif

I am for Texas in the upcoming game against USC.  It's time USC gets firmly put in its place.  Actually, it's long overdue.  It still bugs the crap out of me that they can come so close to losing to so many teams they play, including the piss ant teams in their conference, and still be ranked number one, when Texas has absolutely throttled everybody this year (except Ohio State). 

Just don't anybody forget, the UT is in Knoxville, founded in 1794, when Texas was part of Mexico, 42 years before it became a republic (which wouldn't have happened without the help of a bunch of Tennesseans) and 51 years before it became a state. 

Last edited by VegasACF (2005-12-03 6:00 pm)

It looks like USC played the harder schedule:

Who USC played

Who TX played

Anyway, I just hope the Rose BOwl is more interesting than these two games just played.

VegasACF wrote:

Just don't anybody forget, the UT is in Knoxville, founded in 1794, when Texas was part of Mexico, 42 years before it became a republic (which wouldn't have happened without the help of a bunch of Tennesseans) and 51 years before it became a state. 

And thus the "Volunteers" mascot name, I understand. Davy Crockett, Sam Houston… both from Tennessee. 'Nuff respect to Tennesseans. (Though I'd still hesitate to call it the UT. )

[/proud Texas grad, non-native, who remembers the Texas history courses he took]

Last edited by mmonte (2005-12-04 12:45 pm)

Iowa STILL gets a January bowl game. Arrgh.

KHannon wrote:

It is going to be fun watching Reggie Bush play on Sunday.

We'll see. He's too small to get many receiving yards in the NFL. And the Heismann is his. Remember, people still pick that one, not a computer, and people love Reggie Bush.

Reggie Bush won the Heisman? Unpossible!!

decker wrote:

I'll post some pics after the Fiesta Bowl! 

decker is a goin to the fiesta?  You lucky b@sturd!!  This should be the game of the season!  I know that the last time these two played, I turned down over $400 for my student ticket.  If only it could be so cheap for a ticket again!

Well that was a good game.



Pulling for my alma mater tomorrow . . . come on UT! (The UT, because it's the biggest . . . I don't care what Vegas says.  )