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Friday, November 21, 2014 – College Football Week 13 – Nobody Cares Unless You Are…

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Friday, November 21, 2014 – College Football Week 13 – Nobody Cares Unless You Are…

It is the thirteenth week of college football. It is also known as the week Nobody Cares Unless You Are Number Four or Five in the Eyes of The Committee. Once again, it is Cupcake, Cream Puff, and Make Lots of Money from the Gate Receipts Weekend. Depending on which rankings you are looking at, we have number 1 Alabama playing West Carolina University, number 2 Oregon playing Colorado, number 3 Florida State playing Boston College, and number 4 Mississippi State playing the Commodores of Vanderbilt and then there is # 5 and/or # 6 TCU/Baylor. The Frogs did not look too intimidating last evening against West Virginia winning by only six points. And the Bears of Baylor play the Cowboys of Oklahoma State Saturday evening. Yawn! Next weekend starts the beginning of the end of college football with the state bowl games, such as The Egg Bowl or The Iron Bowl with intrastate rivalries. The Aggies play LSU on Thanksgiving Day. This is not a rivalry because in order to be a rivalry, one must have one won at least one game against the opponent, which unfortunately the Aggies have not won against LSU. Perhaps, this will be the Thanksgiving. Whatever the outcome, “as God is my witness, I will never go hungry, eat turnips from the field or watch Justin Tucker kick a field goal again” on Thanksgiving. Sic ‘Em Bears! Sorry, Kristen.

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014 – PETA, the Aggies and the Elephant

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Wednesday, November 5, 2014 – PETA, the Aggies and the Elephant

First of all I am still trying to picture an Aggie chapter of PETA, but they seem to make the news quite frequently.

Recently, prior to the Alabama/Texas A&M elephant whipping of a football game, PETA protested the 92 year old A&M tradition of Elephant Walk. Elephant Walk is a tradition where graduating seniors walk a path like elephants that are going to their dying grounds symbolizing that they, the students, will soon be leaving campus as a student. Look, I do not make up this stuff so, no comments from The Peanut Gallery. It seems PETA protested the appearance of a live elephant at the traditional Elephant Walk. The few times I recall seeing it (graduate students do not participate) I never remember seeing an elephant. Rather, it was a long line of young people, having a good time, walking through campus with a forearm swinging in front of their face resembling the trunk of an elephant. I wonder if PETA has seen the elephant on the local Furniture Shack commercial. Now that’s scary and I do not only refer to the elephant in the commercial.

And then there are the chickens. Shortly after I moved to the cultural capital of the Brazos Valley, an 18 wheeler carrying over 5000 chickens over turned near Highway 6 and Highway 21. If you have been to my house, you know that is two exits north going toward, or hopefully coming from, Hearne. PETA wants to place a 10 foot granite monument and memorial to the chickens that died in the crash. Check out the proposed monument with a single, but ethical, mouse click.

http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/PETAs-Chicken-Tombstone-Bid-Hits-Roadblock-278730311.html

While you are digesting the monument, think about this. It really makes one wonder why and how the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) even has a rule on the books that says “TxDOT’s rules do not allow memorials for animals on highway rights of way.” Aren’t humans animals?

Looks like I brought The Weird with me from Austin. At least to Highway 6 and Highway 21. Perhaps the city of Bryan will build a Chick-Filet.

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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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Friday, October 10, 2014 – Hotty Toddy and BTHO Ole Miss!

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Friday, October 10, 2014 – Hotty Toddy and BTHO Ole Miss!

BTHO Ole Miss!!! The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down was sung by whom? Please forgive me, Mr. Faulkner. As I Lay Dying, I will not support the Ole Miss Rebels against the Fightin’ Texas Aggies. It is a series of firsts for the Saturday evening, early morning game. It is the first time Ole Miss has visited Kyle Field since the Aggies joined the SEC. It is a great time to pay a visit, because it is the first time the Aggies have played a ranked Rebel team. It is the first sell-out of Kyle Field since the remodel. The expectations are for a 106,000 attendance. This assumes there is no lightening, which could delay kickoff, making every one go home or to the bars and cause this prime-time televised game to run way past my bed time. It will also be a first for the new grass on the Aggie Field. Yes, we are an agricultural school, but the grass on the field just did not hold up. During the Rice game large holes were created when players made a cut, thus creating very large and dangerous divots. During the away games, the field was replaced with, new, better, greener grass for $300,000. Let’s hope that keeps the grounds crews from running on the field to repair it.

The Bars of Northgate are scheduled to open as early as 10:00 AM tomorrow. Well Hotty Toddy. I read where Hotty Toddy is the equivalent of Howdy.

Are You Ready?

Hell Yeah! Damn Right!

Hotty Toddy, Gosh Almighty,

Who The Hell Are We? Hey!

Flim Flam, Bim Bam

Ole Miss By Damn!

Well, Hotty Toddy yourself. Howdy! And Gig ‘Em Aggies. Bleacher Report picks the Aggies by four. I believe that would be The Twelfth Man phenomena. Speaking of Bleacher Report, did you really pick OU to win by only a touchdown against Texas? For the possible Big 12 Title, you picked Baylor, but “Bearly.” Let’s hope it is not raining at 2:30 for kickoff in Waco. Three of you picked Auburn over Mississippi State. Of course you are the same bunch of guessers who picked Alabama over Ole Miss last weekend.

Joan Baez (and others) sang The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. Let’s hope the Aggies can have such a night. BTHO Ole Miss!!!

And a passing final note. Harley Clark, the state judge and former UT cheerleader credited with creating the “Hook ‘em Horns!” hand signal died. It’s just another Corps Trip. You can march in behind The Band, Judge Clark.

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Welcome to Bryan

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May 28, 2014

Here I am in Bryan; where the hell are you? Actually I think the lyric is “Here I am in Dallas, where the hell are you?”, but it does not change the fact that I tomorrow marks one month since I became a resident of Bryan, Texas. Zip code 77802. Why Bryan? Best answer – why not? However, since I paid large sums of money to learn to use big words, I will. Therefore, I give you:

A Comparative Analysis of Ten Selected Socioeconomic Attributes of a Major Texas Urban Town in Central Texas and Two in the Brazos Valley.

ATTRIBUTE	AUSTIN	B/CS
10. ROAD CONSTRUCTION	A north/south Interstate Highway; multiple toll roads; Loop 1 under construction for miles; Nightmare on Lamar begins in the fall and that is just north Austin	Bryan is the only city in Texas NOT connected to an Interstate Highway; no toll roads; no loop
9. TRAFFIC	Congestion on all roads; stop and go; massive construction	I had to wait for three cars before I could turn left the other day and the left turn light was still not on
8. GENERAL CONSTRUCTION	Giant holes in the ground for high rise buildings; 100 people move to Austin/day; see above mentioned attributes	KYLE Field – ready to seat (or stand) 101,000 by Fall
7. POPULATION	A million and growing daily	Bryan – less than 100,000; can still feel the difference when TAMU is not in full session
6. TV PROGRAMMING	Longhorn Network	SEC Network
5. LOCAL SPORTS	Forced to relive “glory days” from long ago and watch Justin Tucker kick that field goal.	Johnny Manziel is a god.
4. 21st CENTURY HEISMAN TROPHIES	None	ONE – see above
3. FOOD	All of the chains and more, but no parking and/or back in parking	All of the chains and more and plenty of parking – even downtown
2. FAMILY	3 hours away	1.5 hours away
1. FOOTBALL TEAM	New AD; New coach; no QB; must play Baylor and OU and the rest of the BIG 12	Seasoned coach; does have QB and hope he is sober and not passed out in flower bed on game day; The Aggies never lose; sometimes time runs out.