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So what are you doing to bury the past?

Undoubtedly many of you have already read the story about Coach Brown and his staff burying the game ball from the OU win along with some press clippings and other hype at the practice fields as a symbol of the team’s desire to put past victories away and concentrate on future opponents.

 Normally when I hear things like this I invoke Han Solo - Chapter IV, Verse 2: "Hokie religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." But in this case, who am I to nerd out on Jedi Mack Tricks when it obviously worked. In fact, I think it’s time we explored how you, the totally committed and probably mentally unbalanced Longhorns fan is putting the Mizzou trouncing behind you and getting ready for Okie State.

What symbolic gestures, sacrifices, and other crazy "sh*t" have you done to stay focused and keep UT undefeated?

Hey, nobody's judging you hear...putting your daughter's stuffed animal tiger in the kettle of hot oil you use to fry turkeys was probably a little rash, but it had to be done, right?

Plus, you'll be helping me out. Because I can no longer think for myself, I’ll post the Top 10 responses later this week in 54b's Commentary. If you make the list, you won’t win a t-shirt, but you will win something much more important, the apathy of your fellow BONers. And you know that’s the gift that couldn't give a sh*t.

Okay, unleash hell...or just tell me, "it's okay, I'm sure writer's block happens to lots of guys."

54b

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Hmmm

Now that you mention it, I think I’d kinda like to have that OU game ball. Where did you say it was buried? (Let’s just call this the new ritual of digging up the buried game ball after the next game.) I might even deep fry it for Turkey Day.

Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. If they get mad, you're a mile away AND you have their shoes.

by Caradoc on Oct 21, 2008 9:37 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I read the Mark Schlaback article until I want to Schlaback my eyes out.

by pleaseplaykindle on Oct 21, 2008 9:53 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I like to

stay awake for at least 60+ hours in the time leading up to the game so I can pump myself full of caffeine and go into a dreamlike trance at the games. It doesn’t put the past behind me but it makes me forget a lot about what has happened and helps me scream until my voice literally allows me to scream no more. Then I sleep for 15+ hours after the game.

I do this every home game. It’s fun AND painful.

by HornPossessed on Oct 21, 2008 9:54 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

wow! me too ...

I also pace incessantly when the score is closer than 10 points and chew the hell outta my cuticles. And I’m convinced that the refs reverse a call if I yell loud enough at the TV …

…but I’m no longer allowed to throw things.

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."

by txex92 on Oct 21, 2008 9:56 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Sig Quote

Who’s that quoted from? First guess Vince Lombardi?

“When you get to the end zone, act like you’ve been there before.”

by pleaseplaykindle on Oct 21, 2008 9:58 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

nope ...

DKR himself. Canonize that man, already.

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."

by txex92 on Oct 21, 2008 11:10 AM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Lou Holtz factor

Starting with the walk back to the car Sat. night I’ve been berating my wife and anyone else who will listen with just how good Dez Bryan, Zac Robinson, Hunter/Toston, etc. are. Basically if they are in the OSU 2-deep, they are an underrated All-American in my eyes this week.

by Horncasting on Oct 21, 2008 9:58 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I haven't

cut my hair or shaved since the start of the season. Doesn’t seem like much but my beard is huge and every saturday I go in thinking, Man i’d really like to not shave tomorrow. I’m starting to forget what my chin felt like, however, this season that is an amazing feeling.

by jacobb23 on Oct 21, 2008 9:59 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I didn't wait until now

Whenever I’m down, I drink so much that my only lasting memories are happy memories.

by Meekrob on Oct 21, 2008 10:00 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I wear the same shirt every single game until they lose, at which point I switch shirts. I do not wash this shirt in the interim because then it would lose whatever mystical power it has. I did this the entire 2005 season. That shirt was pretty rank by the end of the season, even with the weekly febreezing.

This year’s shirt is holding up pretty well so far. I try not to do much in it to avoid sweating on it. Because there’s no way in hell that shirt’s getting washed until we lose, be it this year, next year or 2010.

by billyzane on Oct 21, 2008 10:00 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Same shirt thing for me

This year’s is your standard burnt orange with a large white longhorn in the middle. I was torn for the OU game as to whether to wear the VY Rose Bowl jersey over the T, but opted to just leave VY with his own seat at the table.

I also heard SEChlaback report that Mack is going to eat and pass a cheesecloth (a la Andy Kaufman with the Tony Clifton character) symbloic of putting the Mizzou game fully behind him. He’s a college football expert so this must be true.

by Horndogger on Oct 21, 2008 2:45 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Another shirt thing, with a twist...

For Mizzou, I wore not only my 2008 season game day shirt, but I also wore underneath the same burnt orange Bevo t-shirt that I wore to every home game and the Big XII championship game during The Special Year. For this coming Saturday, my daughter unfortunately scheduled her wedding for the Okie Lite game, and out of state at that. So, to compensate, I will still wear the same t-shirt, underneath my Father of the Bride tux. SURELY this deserves a t-shirt…I’m doing the very best I can under extenuating circumstances and great duress…!

HOOK ’EM…!

by Horns757 on Oct 21, 2008 10:11 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   1 recs

Yes...

the sacrifices we make for our children. What makes it worse is she is a UT grad…she should have known better. Her fiancee is a Clemson grad, so he’s quite happy to have an excuse not to have to watch football anymore…! In fact, because of unfounded pre-season smack talking, our family has barred him from even mentioning Clemson football.

HOOK ’EM…!

by Horns757 on Oct 21, 2008 12:03 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Tried that...

They didn’t go for it…women are sooooo sentimental about weddings and such.

HOOK ’EM…!

by Horns757 on Oct 21, 2008 12:06 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Tradition

I matriculated at Texas during the Mackovic era, so my gameday tradition was to get drunk and yell at the Defense for playing with its collective head up its a$$. Now I get REALLY drunk and yell like a maniac during all the fantastic plays we make on D. Will Muschamp, I wish I could quit you. (Not really, we need to pay him whatever it takes to stay…I’m thinking low 7 figures).

RECRUITS: Jordan Leslie (Tomball TX Tomball)
"Stats are for losers, I like winning games"

by 98horn on Oct 21, 2008 11:18 AM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

I was so moved by the action,

I had a vasectomy Friday so I could be more like Bevo (or so I told my Land of Theives buddies).

by Bevoboy94 on Oct 21, 2008 12:14 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

And spent most of Saturday..

drugged up and sedated like Bevo. Did come out of my seat on the fist play from scrimmage.

by Bevoboy94 on Oct 21, 2008 12:15 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Leader in the clubhouse

Be nobody but yourself in a world that desperately wants you to be like everybody else.

by 54b on Oct 21, 2008 12:23 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Understatement. nt whills.

So you're saying that now I have to think of some witty Sig that will be applicable across all the SBN sites? Go TexanHornStros!

by Shake on Oct 21, 2008 7:44 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Ouch

Did you at least have the bag of frozen peas along with you on the couch? I’ll bet no one even attempted to take the remote away from you all weekend.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones

by beast in bama on Oct 21, 2008 8:39 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Did work out great for me..

Watched football all day Saturday and NASCAR Sunday. Would rather have been in DKR though…

by Bevoboy94 on Oct 21, 2008 10:50 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

a bit of an overshare, doncha think??

do the hallmark people even have a card for that? Wow. Sympathies, man.

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."

by txex92 on Oct 21, 2008 1:43 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

keepin' it real

Upon arrival at the office each day, the following must occur in a specific order:

1) Give Sooner-Boy (who neither attended school, nor resided, nor has family ties there) the finger upon passing his office.

2) Vigorously expell gas in Tortilla-Man’s office (whether he’s in it or not)

3) Ask Agro-Maniac if his shirt comes in a men’s size upon passing his cube

Never let yesterday impare one’s ability to make thine enemy aware of his rightful place.

by Mad Dawg's Chain on Oct 21, 2008 1:00 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

must be nice to be a guy and be able to get away with such juvenile behavior now and then …!

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."

by txex92 on Oct 21, 2008 1:45 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

you had me at #1 on the list (bats eyelashes)

 I ’bout fell outta my chair. That was laugh-out-loud hilarious! HOOKEM!!!!!!!!

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before."

by txex92 on Oct 21, 2008 6:22 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

OMENS!

Well, I don’t really have a ritual, but I notice omens of a Longhorn victory everywhere. I was in Kentucky during OU weekend and everywhere I looked I saw Longhorn garb. An old man on our flight from Los Angeles to Louisville was wearing a cap, some kid on a field trip in a Shaker village in Kentucky was wearing a t-shirt, a woman in Louisville had on a sweatshirt. Then, last weekend here, home in Hollywood, I saw someone walking into the grocery store before the Mizzou game wearing an burnt orange polo, and when I got inside an old dude was leaving wearing a Horns cap. Workers of the world unite! Er, Hook ‘Em! Say all you want about it’s just a natural extension of IMG pimping us out all over the world, an example of us being the biggest seller of NCAA goods, yada yada, but you know the truth as well as I do…omens. If it means me driving around California for 6 hours before the game on Saturday I will find someone….anyone…unwittingly cementing a victory for us by their garb.

by KevinJ on Oct 21, 2008 1:54 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Routine

I wear the same shorts, boxers, TX t-shirt and tennis shoes to my sons soccer game every Saturday morning. I’m sure that the other parents are convinced I have no other clothing. It’s nothing drastic, but I’m not changing up my attire for the rest of the year no matter how cold it gets!

by txfan76 on Oct 21, 2008 2:35 PM CDT reply reply actions actions   0 recs

Same here

I wear the same pair of shorts and the same shirt but I also throw a lucky pair of tattered Star Wars boxers over my lucky briefs.

by HornPossessed on Oct 21, 2008 3:07 PM CDT to parent up reply reply actions actions   0 recs

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