The Best Texas Football Video Yet

96 yards vs. TCU in 1967 – on which he scored in the north end zone of Memorial Stadium.

If I see the play just after 2:20, I’ll watch it a half a dozen time for the impeccable timing to knock someone five yards in the air.

Fine video, PB.

This piece was playing to the choir, no doubt. Like a sentimental piece just hitting the recognizable highlights without any depth and context.

Better player and situation ID, a little more slo-mo on the older plays and why they were so important at the time, would have helped the narrative tell the story of why these players were so highly esteemed.

And you’re also right about the defense; there’s some, but not enough to really give a serious sense of Texas D. I remember a OU game where the CB/safety – one person but I forget who – made eight of eight tackles on the OU pitch man. Just killed the OU offense, but, even more, a text-book example of open field tackling every single time. And the gang-tacklin’ monsters from the Royal and Akers years, the trademark of the Texas defense that looked the same for over two decades.

In retrospect, I doubt that many have gone through that old film – now transferred to dvd, I would hope – to really isolate the nuggets and put together something more powerful and moving, where the images and the situations do the talking.

The Tony Brackens hit on that poor Techie punter on the fake is the best hit I’ve ever seen…and while the edits were not ‘ready for prime time’ I enjoyed it completely and utterly. If Coach Brown played ‘Rage Against the Machine’ in the locker room we’d never loose another game, ever! LOL