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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 – The Committee Meets

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 – The Committee Meets!

Today marks the day college football enters a new era. I love historic moments. The Selection Committee will choose the four teams for the first football playoff.  The rankings and selections are based on strength of schedule, head to head results, results of common opponents, championships won and other factors.  I have not looked at the other factors, but apparently there must be one religious school represented. Otherwise, why is Notre Dame even on the table?

Here is the scoop on The Committee. It is composed of “high-integrity individuals with experience as coaches, student-athletes, collegiate administrators, journalists, along with sitting athletics directors.” Their role is to create rankings seven times each year. You can Google “ncaa selection committee” to see who is on the committee, but you can bet Dr. Rice is the only female.  FYI – There are thirteen members on the committee. I wonder if triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13) was a consideration. But it means there will be no tie votes. Today is the first meeting when the committee issues their first ranking.

I have always thought there should be a position in any organizational structure called “Committee Attendee.” The job description of this position might look like this:

Wanted: Person to attend all meetings for managers and executives thus allowing them to get actual work done.

Requirements and qualifications:

Able to sit for extended periods of time

Extra-large bladder capabilities

Able to go for long periods of time with minimal food

Ability to take legible notes for boss

Ability to appear interested when bored to nausea

Ability to appear interested when committee colleagues are off topic and you want to scream things about their lack of a brain and question why they are even on the committee

Able to corral bird walking committee member back to topic diplomatically without using profanity or discussing the person’s birth status

So here’s to The Committee as they make history. Welcome to Dallas, Ya’ll. OK – it’s Grapevine.

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Monday, October 27, 2014

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Monday, October, 27, 2014

I spent the weekend with BFF Luddite who also doesn’t like college football, so I actually only saw a very few minutes of a game. Therefore, today’s awards are based on what I read on ESPN last evening when I returned home and could access the Internet on all of my devices and watch summaries on any of my flat screen TVs. Sidebar: BFF Luddite does not know her password for Wi-Fi access in her house.  If Wi-Fi goes out and she has to reboot, she calls her son in Dallas. See?) So with no further ado,

Here are the Monday after Saturday – College Football Awards for Week 9.

The Red Tide Rising Award goes to the Crimson Tide for defeating The Vols from Tennessee. The title in the East is still available.

The Don’t Worry, Be Happy Award goes to Nick Saben for the Alabama boosters paying off his $3.1 million dollar home. I guess a $7 million a year salary, just ain’t what it used to be and was just making the ends meet.

The Alert the Fire Departments Award goes to UVA for beating Oklahoma State and moving up to Number 2 in the Big 12 Standings. With their strange, hillbilly tradition of setting fires to celebrate athletic victories, if UVA upsets TCU next week they could burn down the whole damn state.

The Still Shaky Award goes to Auburn for winning again in the fourth quarter against South Carolina.

The Broken Prophylactic Award goes to the USC Trojans for losing to the Utes from Utah. FYI – that is not the Mormon one in Utah.

The Forget Me Not Award is a three way tie between Oregon, Arizona and Arizona State who are still hanging on out West with outside chances.

The OT Award goes to Penn State for almost knocking off THE Ohio State University by losing in the second overtime.

The Long Bus Ride/Thank God it Wasn’t THAT Far Back to Lubbock Award goes to the Raiders of Texas Tech for their lost to TCU 82-27. Throw your tortilla at that TT. Good thing the coach has a modeling job he can fall back on.

The Where Have You Gone Mrs. Robinson Award to goes to Baylor for fading away like a Cecil B. DeMille Ten Commandment sunset.

The Ibuprofen Award goes to TCU quarterback, Trevon Boykin, for throwing a school record seven touchdown passes before he was removed from the game in the third quarter for mercy on Tech.

The New Chant Award goes to – 82 TCU! 82 TCU! For setting a Big 12 Record for a conference game for most points scored. Fear the Frog!

The Null and Void Award goes to THE University of Texas for scoring no points against K- State in DRK Memorial Stadium. Oh well, you still have the Thanksgiving Day game to redeem yourself against Texas A&; Wait. No you don’t. You play TCU!

The What the Hell Are You Doing? Award goes to Ole Miss who had the field goal kicker on the field to go for the tie and send the game to OT, but then changed the play, returned the offensive team to the field and then went for a touchdown running a pass play, with LSU intercepting the ball to end the game. Please note the long, rambling William Faulkner like sentence in honor of Ole Miss as they lay dying and sliding down the rankings.

The Not in My House Award/Spoiler Award goes to the FIGHTIN’ TIGERS of LSU for defeating Ole Miss in another great classic. And thoughts and prayers to the Miles Family.

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Friday, October 24, 2014 – GEAUX TIGERS!

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Friday, October 24, 2014 – GEAUX TIGERS!

It is a College Football Lite weekend. Most of the teams are wondering what, if anything is salvageable from what was once a promising season, while others are playing for pride and the pledge of an outstanding recruit. The only game of significance is in Baton Rouge where the Ole Miss Rebels come to Death Valley, ranked and undefeated for the first time since 1962. Yes 1962! But this is a game where all the statistics fly out the window.You play strictly for the pride of your school and the rich history surrounding the two schools.  Anything can happen.  And Mike the Tiger does not like to be the “underdog” especially in Death Valley, but he does like to play spoiler. So GEAUX TIGERS!

If you want to read more about this great football rivalry, read the article below from Tiger Rag, sent to me by my cousin who made the block sending Billy Cannon down the sidelines for the 7-3 win in 1959. You can bet The Halloween Game is rocking the radio and TV stations in Louisiana today.

By JIM ENGSTER Tiger Rag President

Ole Miss is 7-0 for the first time since 1962 when the campus of Oxford erupted in violence and death as James Meredith integrated the school’s majestic campus.

At the time, Ole Miss was the best football program in America under coach Johnny Vaught. It’s taken 52 years for the Rebels to return to the glory they last enjoyed when President Obama was in diapers.

The annual hate fest between LSU and Ole Miss could return if a top-three ranking and unbeaten status accompanies the Rebels each time they face the Tigers. Between 1958 and 1962, the rivalry reached war-between-the-states proportions as LSU also hovered above the nation.

Here is a look at the LSU-Ole Miss football war in its five-year pinnacle.

Nov. 1, 1958 at Baton Rouge: No. 6 Ole Miss (6-0) vs. No. 1 LSU (6-0) Final Score: LSU 14, Ole Miss 0

Oct. 31, 1959 at Baton Rouge: No. 3 Ole Miss (6-0) vs. No. 1 LSU (6-0) Final Score: LSU 7, Ole Miss 3

Jan 1, 1960 at New Orleans (Sugar Bowl): No. 2 Ole Miss (9-1) vs. No. 3 LSU (9-1) Final Score: Ole Miss 21, LSU 0

Oct. 29, 1960 at Oxford: No. 2 Ole Miss (6-0) vs. Unranked LSU (1-4) Final Score: Ole Miss 6, LSU 6

Nov. 4, 1961 at Baton Rouge: No. 2 Ole Miss 6-0 vs. No. 7 LSU 5-1 Final Score: LSU 10 Ole Miss 7

Nov. 3. 1962 at Baton Rouge: No. 6 Ole Miss (6-0) vs. No. 4 LSU (6-0-1) Final Score: Ole Miss 15, LSU 7

In six classic games during a golden era for both programs, LSU held a 3-2-1 advantage over the mighty Rebels. The record is impressive because Ole Miss produced a record from 1958 to 1962 of 48-5-1. Vaught was 2-3-1 versus LSU and 46-2 versus the rest of the world.

In those years, Ole Miss welcomed a trip to Baton Rouge often in lieu of playing at home. The result was that LSU more than once spoiled great seasons for the Rebels.

History could repeat Saturday night as LSU brings a 6-2 mark at home against 7-0 Ole Miss, which invades Tiger Stadium with a splendid team. Whatever happens, the result will be huge news.

An LSU win proves the Tigers have returned to top-10 status. An Ole Miss win propels the men from Oxford into conference and national contention. Ole Miss has not won an SEC football championship since the 1963 team went 7-1-2. And the Rebels have not been undefeated at the end of a season since 1962.

It is exhilarating to veteran fans to envision the rage of old returning to the ancient rivalry. The LSU campus was once bombarded with inflammatory leaflets on the eve of the annual game. Vaught pleaded ignorance and blamed the stunt on his counterpart on the LSU staff.

“I thought (Paul) Dietzel’s flying days were over,” bellowed Vaught in reference to the WWII bomber pilot heroics of the LSU coach.

The game in its heyday also featured some of the greatest stars in the history of the storied gridiron battle. In 1958, Billy Cannon finished third in balloting for the Heisman Trophy. In 1959, Cannon won the Heisman and Charlie Flowers of Ole Miss finished fifth. In 1960, Jake Gibbs was third in the Heisman competition and Jerry Stovall was a close second in 1962.

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Friday, October 17, 2014

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Friday, October 17, 2014 – BTHO Alabama

Where did Forest Gump go to school on a scholarship?

“When I say Ala, then you say Bama;

When I say Tusca, then you say Loosa:

When I say Bear, then you say Bryant;

When I say Roll, then you say TIDE!

And then the Alabama faithful proceed to roll by moving up and down by bending at the knees. Think of it as a vertical Aggie sway. Nevertheless, impressive.  So what’s with the elephant? For the 1926 undefeated team, Rosenberger’s Birmingham Trunk Company, Owner J. D. Rosenberger, had a son who was a student at Alabama. Mr. Rosenberger’s company provided the team with ‘’good-luck” luggage to go to the Rose Bowl. Upon arrival in Pasadena, the great sports writer, Grantland Rice, made the comparison of the elephant on the luggage tacks and size of the players.  Another elephant story is from 1930 when fans began to chant “Hold your horses; the elephants are coming.” Whatever.  Alabama actually had an elephant for an extended period of time.  You know those pachyderms live a long time. But the elephant’s name was Alamite. During the 1940s, the homecoming queen would ride the elephant onto the field prior to the game.

If any teams should play on Thanksgiving Day for tradition, it should be Alabama and Texas A&M.  Bear Bryant and Gene Stallings both coached at Texas A&M and Alabama. Stallings was a member of Bryant’s Junction Boys.

The Aggies can play spoiler by giving Alabama its second loss. A&M can right the ship and not let it sink. Aggies never lose their way because we will always have our Rudder.  (Aggie Joke) The prime time game, on the Notre Dame Network, also known as NBC, features the Irish against the Seminoles.  I wonder if the Irish will wear their green jerseys.  So for my friend, RL, so he can puke now:

Cheer, cheer for Old Notre Dame, Wake up the echoes cheering her name, Send a volley cheer on high, Shake down the thunder from the sky! What though the odds be great or small, Old Notre Dame will win over all, While her loyal sons are marching Onward to victory!

Forrest Gump played for Alabama. BTHO Alabama!

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Monday, September 15, 2014

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Monday, September 15, 2014

“Once upon a time you dressed so fine; You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?”  Your Monday After Saturday College Football Awards begins with the line from that song. Your trivia question is – Who sings it?

It wasn’t exactly cupcake weekend and for the most part it was boring.  Whoever made the TV schedule should have their ass whipped for putting all of the good games at the same time. A second butt whipping is in order for putting the Aggie game at 8:00 PM.

Highest Score Award goes to – The Ohio State University with 66 points scored. Baylor once again comes in second with 63.

The Pirates of East Carolina win The Virginia Tech Resting on its Laurels Award for upsetting the Hokies.

The Gatorade or Saving Willie’s Job Award goes to Florida for finally beating Kentucky in three Overtimes. Kentucky should get an award too.

The Big Aggie Thank You Award goes to South Carolina for defeating UGA and the Georgia Bulldogs and moving the Aggies to number six.

The Dream Come True Award for the Benchwarmer goes to the quarterback for UCLA who stepped in and won the game in the closing minutes.

UCLA also wins the That’s My Boy Award from the Neuheisel Family.

The Aggies win the Not Sharp Looking, but Won Anyway Award.  It is rumored that the Band and Yell Leaders will play the first quarter against SMU next weekend in Dallas – also known as S-M-WHO?

Best Name of the Day goes to the Rice quarterback. Driphus Jackson

And The Kick Your Ass Captain’s Kick-Off Award goes to – The University of Texas for blowing opening kick-off call and thus giving UCLA the ball twice to open the game and the second half.

UCLA means – the University of California at Los Angles. UTLA means the University of Texas Looses Again. So UT – as we continue the lyrics of our trivia song…

“How does it feel? Like a complete unknown; Like a rolling stone.” Or perhaps “like a kickoff stoned.” Of course it is Bob Dylan.  How could you not know that?

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Friday, September 12, 2014

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Friday, September 12, 2014

The Texas Aggies play William Marsh Rice University tomorrow, commonly known as Rice University. Or as Jon Stewart referred to the institution yesterday, THE UNIVERSITY WHERE WE DO NOT PUNCH LADIES IN ELEVATORS. This of course is trying to avoid all association with Ray Rice who obviously was not raised right.

So the trivia question today is – who is one of Rice’s most famous graduates? Here are some hints: He did not play football. He is one of two of the institution’s Pulitzer Prize winners. He wrote two of the best novels ever set in Texas because he is from Texas. One would be turned into a screen play, made into a movie and would be nominated for Best Picture. The other would win the Pulitzer. He would author a novel that takes place on the Rice campus. So while you are thinking, here is a bit of history about Rice University that I did not know.

The history of Rice University began with the murder of William Marsh Rice. Rice made his money in real estate, the railroad and cotton. He specified in his will that his money would go to fund an institution of “the highest grade” and “only white students could attend.” While Mr. Rice specified a color bias, he did not specify a gender bias and Rice was coeducational. But Mr. Rice was found dead by his valet on September 23, 1900 and a new will was discovered giving all of Rice’s money his lawyer.  Long law and order story – fake will, lawyer and valet go to jail because valet administered chloroform and lawyer stole money and original will surfaces.  And in 1912 The William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art was founded in Houston.  It would remained named this until 1960 and was changed because the name would not fit on football jerseys or any other clothing or apparel. The motto of Rice is “Letters, Science, Art.” This does not look good on football jerseys either. I find it odd that a university founded by murdered man does not have a law school.

And the Rice alum? Larry McMurtry received his Master’s Degree from Rice. And the novels? The Last Picture Show was nominated for Best Picture and Lonesome Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for literature. So Gig ‘Em Aggies and BTHO Rice, but read Larry McMurtry.

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Monday, September 1, 2014

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Monday, Labor Day, September 1, 2014

Happy Labor Day

My friend, Cecil, has been on a three week cruise. I thought I would update him on anything important that took place while he was gone. The categories are in order of importance.

NCAA Football – Division I – Week I

College football season kicked off last weekend. My Monday morning awards for my teams or teams that influence my teams are:
Oklahoma State – The Cowboys win the “Way to scare the Indians” Award. It was fun to see the No. 1 team running for their lives.
Baylor – The Bears looked good and win the “Beautiful, new stadium” Award. Long night for SMU. Hope Petty is OK.
Auburn, Georgia, Alabama and LSU – You share the “Poo Poo Undies” Award for scaring your fans and not winning until the second half or the fourth quarter.
Texas – Glad you got a Strong win. Of course, it was North Texas who should be playing SMU. I predict Ash will be hurt before Big 12 play begins.
Texas A&M – the strongest looking team in college football. And that is not a subjective opinion. Check ESPN. Why is SMU even on the Aggie schedule?

The World
These ISIS terrorists continue to terrorize the world. These terrorist are so mean, they have been kicked out of Al Qaida.

National/Texas Politics

There is movement for a Cruz/Perry or Perry/Cruz ticket for president. I do not know who is behind such a movement, but I now believe in Zombies, because these people obviously have no brains.

And the Tweet Heard ‘Round the Twitter sphere. Captain Hairspray sent a tweet this morning with the mug shot of the Austin, DA, Rosemary Lindberg, with the caption “Drunkest Democrat in Texas.” He then retracted the tweet and said he did not know how that happened. If you do not know how to tweet, then don’t play on Twitter. The attribute of Twitter is that it is INSTANT. Even if you retract the tweet within seconds, it has already hit the Twitter sphere, or in this case the proverbial fan, and somebody’s phone dinged or beeped and you were busted. Even if Captain Hairspray did not send the tweet, it still presents a problem. If he did not do it, then somebody near enough to hijack his phone did. I think it might have been better to say, “The Democrats did it and hacked my Twitter account,” rather than “I don’t know what happened,” which is just another way of saying “Oops.” Here’s What I’m Thinking – I think you should just come back to Texas and figure out exactly what the indictments against you are. You are not indicted for bribery. And I am not a lawyer either.

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Friday, July 18, 2014

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Friday July 18, 2014

On my goodness. The news is filled with reports of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault, robbery, assault and battery, illegal drug use, driving while under the influence, and public intoxication. What does it all mean? Why it means college football season is just around the corner. SEC Media Day concluded this week. I do not believe Kevin Sumlin was asked what types of flowers were in the flower bed when the quarterback passed out in one last spring. I supposed things could have been worse. It could have been Auburn’s QB. I have tried very hard not to write about college football until it is closer to August. But how about just a teeny preview? The University of Oklahoma is rated between number 6 and number 9, depending on which rankings you are examining. That is certainly going to make for an ugly weekend in October in Dallas for those travelling south on I-35 from Big D. Way to go Baylor!! The rankings have you and your new stadium rated between number 9 and number 13. How does an OU/BU weekend sound? I like it. The Texas Aggies are rated between number 16 and number 24. Those rankings are very kind by the pollsters who are obviously still resting on the proverbial Johnny laurels and very scary for a team whose defense looked like a bunch of arthritic grandmothers last year and can only improve. And who knows what evil lurks under the center for this years offense? I did not see the University of Texas ranked in any of the preseason polls. Talk about a drought in Austin. But I did see where Texas was prepared to offer Nick Saben between $12 and $15 million as a signing bonus and $100 million as salary. Perhaps if you had offered President Powers such amounts to leave The University, the For Sale sign would already be in his front yard. Could be a long year for the Horns. And last, but not least. Who is picked to win the SEC? Alabama.

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