Burnt Orange Planet - Where do you read your BON?
by horn_in_france on Oct 27, 2007 7:26 AM CDT
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I know there are a number of us who read from more than a few miles beyond the boundaries of the 40 Acres. As such, I'm curious to know where folks are getting their fix. Let us know where you are how you get your Longhorns football.
For the record, I'm in London and was in Paris (not TX) last year. In those two seasons 'away' I've been lucky enough to see every game live but one, mostly via a Slingbox kindly hosted by a friend back in Austin. In 2007 Texas is 0-2 in games I attended - yes, it's my fault, not the turnovers or failure on special teams.
Second question for those with a good answer: What's the weirdest place anyone has watched a Horns game? Not in person, like College Station or Starkville, MS, but remotely, like in an internet cafe in Myanmar.
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Edmonton
Got married and moved to Edmonton three years ago. I've only ever met one real Longhorn here, though I see the occasonal burnt orange baseball cap. I get to see about 3 games / year on TV -- you can get ABC feeds from Boston, Detroit or Seattle/Spokane... so any nationally or widely distributed ABC game can be seen. Otherwise, I'm listening to Craig Way on yahoo or trying to find video on the internet.
Last year I took the wife to her first UT game -- OU. Beautiful affair, that.
The weirdest place I ever watched a game was in San Jose, Costa Roca. I was backpacking through Central America at the time, and wandered, raggedy-clothesedly, into a sportsbook to see if I could catch the Big XII championship game. Sure enough, it was on. And I was there in the midst of a bunch of posh businessmen who clearly didn't follow college football. But they let me be for hours, sitting there in my travelling gear, sipping beer, and leaving, nearly in tears, after Colorado beat us.
by fred on Oct 27, 2007 9:01 AM CDT reply actions
Boston
I'm in that weird spot on the coverage map that gets ACC games despite being in the middle of a Big East/Big 10 coverage area. Luckily for me I use a Slingbox at my parents' house in Austin, so I almost never miss a game.
Weirdest place I ever watched a game was the Alamo Bowl at my grandparents' 51st wedding anniversary. Good times.
Cayman Islands
Have lived here since June. Our cable TV gets ABC from New York so I got to watch the OU game in the comfort of my living room, all the others have required a trip to sports bar as FSN and ESPN2 are not a part of the cable package here and when NY gets a different regional game the sports bar will pick up the Texas feed. No real wierd places a lot of hotel tv's and sports bars over the years.
by FWHORN on Oct 27, 2007 10:11 AM CDT reply actions
Skopje, Macedonia
Watched the '02 and '03 OU games at a friend's house deep in the heart of the Balkans. He was an Air Force guy and didn't care so I watched both games alone on his couch while he went to sleep. They were even more depressing games for me than most...
i live in oklahoma.....
but am a longhorn fan FOR LIFE!!!!
i BLEED burnt orange!!!
by ut fan in ok on Oct 27, 2007 11:34 AM CDT reply actions
weirdest place i've watched a texas game...
it would DEFINATELY have to be... here in oklahoma....
the coolest place i've watched a texas game... would have to be when i sat by kevin durant's mother at a baylor game at the big12 champ ship tourney
by ut fan in ok on Oct 27, 2007 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions
Offshore in the Gulf
Due to work I occasionally have to catch games via Directv offshore or follow it with 1200AM WOAI and game tracker.
2 of the stranger places I've been a fan are here and here today.
Hook'em
by rachorn06 on Oct 27, 2007 11:35 AM CDT reply actions
Ouch
you're probably getting the Uconn/SouthFlorida game today too.
Its funny how the ACC started to suck the minute I moved to the East Coast (I know those teams are in the Big East, but we mostly get crappy ACC games, and for some reason it usually involves Maryland). Perhaps 5 years ago it might have actually been interesting to watch teams like Miami, Florida St. and Va Tech. But nope, we get Maryland.
I just can't get into watching a team like Maryland play. If the four horseman popped up out of the grave and challenged the 2007 Terrapins to a grudge match, wearing Zombie Irish uniforms, I still could not watch a game at Byrd Stadium.
But for some reason ABC can't get enough of them. The most populated region of the country nearly always has to put up with some boring, no national title implications, complete lack of atmosphere, crummy ACC game.
End rant.
by BrooklynHorn on Oct 27, 2007 12:19 PM CDT up reply actions
No ACC for me
Luckily we get the package that carries ABCE and ABCW. I know ABCE is the NYC affiliate, but not sure where ABCW is? At any rate I'll be bobbing up and down in the Atlantic, wishing I had a cold Shiner in my hand, and rooting for the Horns. Best of luck with the ACC. You could always take the subway over to Stout if it gets to unbearable.
by rachorn06 on Oct 27, 2007 2:16 PM CDT up reply actions
In a tent on the Syrian border of Iraq
We recently acquired an American Forces Network satellite receiver. The Jundis don't know what to make of the weekly ruckus we cause during the wee hours on Sunday mornings. A friend of a friend knew one of the AFN civilian contractors at Rutbah.
I am part of a handful of Marine Advisors assigned to an Iraqi Battalion. We train and live with them at their outpost about 2 clicks from the Syrians. The nearest American operating base is about 100km from here.
AFN bases it's coverage on how the teams are ranked, thus I saw most of the 06 season. I missed all of the 04 games with the exception of RRS and the Rose Bowl as we didn't have AFN available where I was at. 05 was the last season I have seen in its entirety, thankfully, as I wasn't deployed that fall. Looking forward to seeing all of the games next season.
Berkeley
I'm a student at Cal, but Texas fan for life.
I once watched a game streaming it on my laptop in South Africa on a family vacation.
Currently In Ohio
But the weirdest place I ever watched a Longhorn game was in a Carrier (USS GW) in the middle of the Persian Gulf.
by texas ex ohio on Oct 27, 2007 12:55 PM CDT reply actions
Khamis Mushayt, Saudi Arabia...
is where I'm currently cussing out AFN (American Forces Network) for not-carrying/tape-delaying/fucking-up-the-tape-delay of the Texas games this season. I'm supposed to be able to watch us play Nebraska tomorrow morning (Sunday), but I might have to work (yeah, their weekends here are all fucked up, too - thanks, Uncle Sam for sending me to such trashed-out shithole).
In 2005, I watched our team struggle, but finally beat the Aggies, on TV from North Carolina... In a hospital room... With my wife... Who was in labor... I told her to deliver our son either before noon or after 4 pm. She's a team player, and held out till after the game before going into active labor. What a woman!
FYI...
Khamis Mushayt is in the southwest corner of Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea and the border of Yemen.
Tirana/Tbilisi
Watching the game right now from a hotel room in Tirana, Albania; but I call Tbilisi, Georgia (country not the state) home. I've seen my fair share of games via AFN at a local bar owned by an ex-marine with a heart, letting us stay til 4 or 5 AM to catch games.
Interestingly enough, was sitting in that same bar for the NCAA tourney two years ago watching Texas play LSU and a fella wearing the burnt orange walked in to catch the game. Legal consultant and UT grad, first non-military and non-Peace Corps fan I've ever run into over here. We are well represented world-wide, as these reponses suggest.
by UTbilisiFan on Oct 27, 2007 3:34 PM CDT reply actions
Anchorage, AK
Haven't missed a game in the 2.5 years I have lived here, thanks to the intertubes.
by anonyMoose on Oct 27, 2007 8:50 PM CDT reply actions
Honolulu, HI
I think I have only missed the Baylor and Kansas State games this season. The rest watched from the comfort of my 400 square foot apartment - generally early as hell in the morning. Game day starts at like 4:00 AM out here.
New York City
One of many faithful Horns fans up here, I know. Weirdest place I ever watched a Texas game was the 1999 a&m loss (I think that was the year -- the year of the bonfire collapse). I was at a Hanukkah celebration in Cleveland. Cleveland did not rock that day.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
I generally watch games at home via internet feeds but occasionally go to an expat bar that has slingbox feeds. . . . Each and every time I go to the bar, I find at least one visiting Longhorns fan who takes time from his vacation/work to watch the game -- suggesting the passion we share travels well!
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