Hayduke

From the discomfort of my guestroom bed, where I am doing my day-2 rehab exercises after knee replacement and cackling between curses because of the Justus Terry news ... FIGHT!

I can see Looch, Brandy 13-0 and Spider Ag collaborating to rewrite "Three Men and a Baby" as "Three Ags and a Baby Blogger," with themselves as stars. And only Spidey gets it.

Pretty simple, really. Anyone who's the last one standing deserves to be known as champ, because that will be a remarkable accomplishment. Was that team "the best?" Its argument is going to be at least as good as anyone else's and likely better. Somebody is going to get at least four solid wins ... maybe some great ones. Postseason grousing is just part of the fun.

Taaffe looks like the kind of guy who always knows when to listen and, conversely, when the criticisms don't make a shit.

We can always fuckstomp the enemy while maintaining character. Not being able to do so would mean a pretty dystopian world -- along with nothing but dreary movies.

Lived there 14 years and have no great love for the area, but personally, I would not have relished having to work so hard to find a good place to eat. Still have family and a few good friends there. Most are probably 2 percenters, and they always made it more bearable. I definitely sang Mac Davis with a B-CS twist when I drove out of there with our U-Haul back in 2002 -- even if I was moving to Manhattan.

I thought I was going to find it a lot more entertaining, but our absence from it has kept me from watching much. Probably has more to do with where my head is with life in general right now -- sometimes there's too much going on and the bandwidth has to go somewhere else. But I would have loved road trips to Colorado, Arizona and Utah. That's a hell of a Plains/Near West conference with tremendous historic and geographical appeal. And a Texas-Colorado matchup with Neon Deion would be epic.

There were more subplots than a soap opera back then. Everybody hated everybody and almost nobody but Rice escaped the ban hammer. SMU and A&M were the worst, and I still contend that the main reason A&M didn't get the death penalty as well was because it would have slammed Bryan-College Station's economy. I still have a copy of that NCAA report laying around somewhere -- was working at A&M at the time and we got the report. But Houston and TCU were right up there, and those guys would have killed the conference even if the new TV alliances weren't already pulling things apart. When Texas got probation for Marcus Dupree's who's-to-blame boots and Eric Metcalf's ride across campus (among other piddly stuff), that may have sealed the deal. Still, it made for some epic football. Miss those days for the playing environment, but I think I'll miss the old Big XII more.

Lil ol' private school in the heart of fancy Dallas whose best years were based on throwing illegal money around to ED and CJK5H? Salty about the big state school just down the road, the poors who suddenly became new money because of oil discoveries on PUF land 100 years ago? Who since, under everyone else's watchful eyes, have built a campus and football program with a history and promise second to none? That's a real head-scratcher. You'd think those Dallas high-society types would be pleased that a little investment and hard work paid off for their no-longer-country cousins. Not our fault we had to move to a bigger neighborhood to maintain our business and social ties.

That was a well-timed post. Listeater would have that mess straightened out in a heartbeat.

Gather round, all, whether yet beardless or bewhiskered, as we pass down the lore that is shared in the greatest song of all time about a disaster. I'll start, and others can hop in. The legend lives on from the old football boards Of the large one they call The Listeater When it’s time to get tix with a bunch of dumb hicks They all know that no one can beat 'er That thing, it is said, eats long lists as if bread When the skies of November turn ashen And around Kyle Field, the late fall will not yield Much better to serve as distraction

Report back to us on that one. Xe seems spirited. But with xem, does one need consent or a more modern version, like c_nsynt? I'm no longer up on the protocol.

Yep. No more reactions for me today, so I'll agree here.

That was a bad one, but not horribly far off from what we've been seeing frequently. I was more amazed that they waved off a couple of penalties against us, including the pass interference and the kick-catch interference. Good wave-offs on both of those, even though first looks did make both seem reasonable. Figured they'd never get turned over on the road -- maybe the refs are now afraid of our fans. 😁

End of last season (well, up until Washington) was pretty cathartic. Roared with joy in the living room multiple times ... more fun than I've had watching football in a long, long while. Tech game and Big XII championship were damned enjoyable.

And that's why I said it didn't seem right, and that my approach was that of a lazy man. (Also one who wanted to see if AI on this kind of stuff has improved much, or is still telling us about bears in space.) I also figured it was conversation fodder for a Sunday morning, and that's not such a bad thing for a discussion board. Thanks to Huck for checking it out. Not sure what I think about AI, though. Part of my reason for not looking things up myself is dealing with students and AI this weekend. Hell of a lot less fun than watching us beat the Hogs in Fayetteville.

I just took the lazy way of finding out how many times the Horns have beaten Arkansas, Oklahoma and A&M in a single season. The AI bot tells me it's happened three times in our long history. That's pretty damned rare, and we've got a great chance of accomplishing it again. Part of me says that's not right. Seems like it should have happened at least a couple more times since 1893. Regardless, it's fairly rare, and that should tell us all a lot about the difficulty of getting to where we are now.

Agreed that it looks like a recipe for a comfortable win, and agree with the individual points ... or at least that things LOOKED like that from the comfort of my living room. But even large-screen, high-def views don't tell any of us the complete picture of what's going on down there. "Could have" is probably more accurate than "should have" in the end. Because it could have gone the other way. "Should have" is the attitude you want your team to have going into every game, but the bottom line is that we're one of the few one-loss majors sitting in this position in a highly competitive field. We've hit on two of what used to be the big three games with spitfire opponents and the opportunity for number three coming up. I'm not complaining. Might have been griping mentally, even out loud, a little bit yesterday in the middle part of the game. But when it came down to it, the Horns took care of their business and the end of that game was a highly satisfactory exclamation point on a big win.

Now, that's how you end one story and leave the audience heading to another board to look for the next one.

Out of curiosity, I did a cursory Google search for the expression and the only thing I came up with ... my sincere apologies in advance to all ... was this: Thought about how I'd rewrite the it. Would probably be "kick 'em in the ass."

Checking in for a second time today because I survived our contentious meeting of assholes, as previously mentioned (and during which I may have been the biggest asshole). Best part was it ending when a petite gal who's a Michigan grad, in response to our dean's question about how we found ourselves in the stupid spot we were in, looked at him and basically said, "It's because of you." She may be a Wolverine, but she was ... hell, a wolverine, and she would have fit in well at our great alma mater and been a fine Longhorn. TEXAS!

Have to say I've never heard that one before. And I think I know why.

Also drinking my first and only cup of coffee with sausage and maple streusel bread, sitting in my home office way too far north of y'all, prepping for a contentious meeting with some assholes, and looking forward to the resumption of this historic rivalry that I first witnessed a couple of years before Jeff Leiding popped that pig on the KO return. Maybe I'm misremembering, but I swear I heard it from the stands. Ready to give errbody some of that ...

Looks like, but I don't think anyone definitively established the ties to either school. If I recall correctly he may have done grad school in South Carolina. But now, as part of the sleuthing efforts, I have been rewarded with ongoing Facebook suggestions that I friend him.

Well done. The classic no-question-mark rhetorical question that's not meant for an answer, but answers itself anyway. In two ways, no less. Who knows.