Festivus in August, Airing of Grievances
by run Bevo run on Aug 5, 2009 4:05 PM CDT
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Bumped from the Fan Posts. -PB-
So, with the season fast approaching and seeing all of the posts going up about what's going to be awesome this year, who is going to step up, the similarities between this year and the '05 year, and the Colt for Heisman talk, I feel it's time to practice a little August Fesitvus. As I see it, these are the things that will inevitably happen throughout the year that will cause me to facepalm. I wanted to float it out there so when the time comes, we can have all of our kinks worked out and be prepared to move on to the Feats of Strength and pinning someone in the MNC game.
Frank Costanza: The tradition of Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you're gonna hear about it. You, Kruger. My son tells me your company STINKS!
George Costanza: Oh, God.
Grievance #1: Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley are roommates and fishing buddies
Come on announcer guy, we know the story. We. All. Know. The. Story. Just stop it already.
Grievance #2 : On own 20, 1st &10 - zone read, gain of 8. 2nd & 2 - WR screen, loss of 6. 3rd & 8 - draw play, gain of 5. 4th &3 - punt, Longhorn fans facepalm.
Perhaps I'm calming as I age, maybe getting a little wiser. I can see the Greg Davis argument from both sides now and tend to lean that he is an effective coordinator that spaces out a couple of offensive series per game. The series I presented will happen, we will all collectively have a "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" moment, Will Muschamp will send out Sergio to give us a Boom MFer and the world will be right again.
Grievance #3: I'm sorry but you'll see this over and over until Sept. 20, 2009
Texas Tech Game-Winning TD Michael Crabtree (via nohomoguys)
I can fully erase this from my mind with complete, total, undeniable thrashing on September 19 of the Lubbock Tortilla throwers.
Grievance #4: Red River Rivalry
It is and forever will be the Red River Shootout. If you want to make it "PC", take your media butts back to your none offensive world and leave us alone. We've done it fine for 108 years thank you very much. BTW, that's 58-40-5 and OU sucks.
Grievance #5: Open Threads
The ass-hatery of open threads and the trigger finger of insults comes with the territory and it's pretty douchish. Louisiana-Monroe is probably going to get a first down on us at some point in 31 Days and a couple of hours, but it doesn't mean Will Muschamp is over-rated or that we should switch to a 3-4. Seat belt yourselves to the bandwagon and enjoy the ride, it's going to be a fun one.
I can think of a few more but I'd like for everyone to get a chance to Air their Grievances before the Feats of Strength begin in 31 days. Happy Festivus in August. Texas Fight.
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Grievance #3
Can only be forgotten for approximately 24 hours and only with a gallon of vodka.
by UT_BKC on Aug 5, 2009 4:21 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Great Post!
Rec’d for the “Tradition of Festivus” reference and the douchish link
by Hookem4life84 on Aug 5, 2009 4:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Grievance #6: Whining about our schedule
Don’t forget the inevitable bitching which will occur at some point during the Wyoming game about that being our “toughest” OOC game, and how our chances at the MNC will be harmed as a result.
by Hopkins Horn on Aug 5, 2009 5:30 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
a lot of this:
that guy: we need to go I-formation and pound it down their throats!
10 seconds later quick pass to Collins, 1st down
that guy: YEAH! Good play call!
by owenh on Aug 5, 2009 5:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
oh and dont forget:
fan: TEXAS! FI…what do you want?
alumni: Quiet down..trying to watch a game son!
by owenh on Aug 5, 2009 5:56 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Blood already boiling about this
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 5, 2009 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Along the same lines...
“Hey, sit down, you make a better door than window.” or “Are you going to stand the entire game?” “F*&# yea I am!!.”
by BurnOut78 on Aug 5, 2009 5:58 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
agreed. that pisses me off something horrible!
My grievances (or grievi ?) are with everyone not enamored with college football that seem to want me to do shit on saturdays. I only ask for a handful of saturdays, one thursday and the bowl game as time for my family and football friends. Leave me the hell alone on those days please. Sorry I’m done now. Thank you for the post It really helped.
I even named my son Kolt.
by vivalonghorns05 on Aug 5, 2009 7:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It pisses me off that people stand the whole damn game. There should be standing and sitting sections, if nothing else. I’m usually very physically capable, but I have a herniated disc and scoliosis as a result of Iraq and all that that entailed, so it’s very hard for me to stand the whole game. I can run ten miles, no sweat, but seriously, people need to realize that some people are actually incapable of standing up to see over or crane their necks to see around others.
by burntorangehorn on Aug 5, 2009 7:11 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
There's a time for standing, there's a time for sitting
If you can’t tell the difference between the two, then you need to go watch games at College Station.
by notsofst on Aug 5, 2009 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sitting & Standing as society dictates
It’s not an individual decision. If you’re the only one standing the whole game, you’re a douche. If you’re the only one sitting and, then bitching, you’re a douche. It’s not rocket science.
by Eskimohorn on Aug 6, 2009 8:55 AM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Nah...
if you’re sitting, go ahead and do it on a recliner at home.
by BrooklynHorn on Aug 6, 2009 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
So anyone who has the aches and pains that precludes him/her from standing the entire game, like, say, an elderly alumnus or a disabled veteran, should just stay the hell out of DKR?
by burntorangehorn on Aug 6, 2009 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
two sides to the coin
So anyone who is young and energetic, passionate about the team and the sport, and watching their heroes, like, say, a young father or his kid, should just come in and sit like it’s church?
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 6, 2009 12:47 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
No, don’t sit like it’s church. When something big happens, go ahead and cheer. When the refs screw up, go ahead and boo. But don’t block other people’s views. Standing serves no purpose when it comes to viewing a game in a stadium…except to see over the people who are standing in front.
by burntorangehorn on Aug 6, 2009 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Exactly
When I go to games I tend to start the play sitting and stand if it gets exciting. Or if we are going for an important third or fourth down. If we need a stop on a third or fourth down I’m standing and screaming my lungs out. I want Texas! Fight! to shake the stadium.
Don’t call me a bad fan because I don’t see the need to stand for 3 1/2 hours.
by Kineslaw on Aug 6, 2009 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I would hope the Texas fanbase is very considerate
I know many are not, but I hope we would be in these situations. If there’s somebody behind me who can’t stand for health reasons, I’d try to be understanding and sit down and request others sit down. I’m not going to judge if that they’re a lesser fan than me because of something silly like that. If, however, somebody is complaining out of laziness, I don’t think everyone needs to sit for that one person. I would hope that THAT person would have the consideration to stand for everyone else if he’s physically capable.
by TheElusiveShadow on Aug 6, 2009 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You’d think such courtesy would be customary, but consider this: I’m 30, and look like I a very fit 25yo. If I tapped you on the shoulder and asked you and all the other people blocking my view to sit down, how seriously would you take me?
by burntorangehorn on Aug 6, 2009 5:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I know your intentions are good...
but I don’t think you’re being entirely reasonable. It seems as though you would have the majority of passionate fans bottle their enthusiasm (the expression of which is a large incentive for them to attend the game in the first place), and for our home-field advantage at DKR to suffer (incidentally, one of the very few ways in whch a fan actually can help his team, thus loosely justifying his use of the term “WE won” afterward) so that a minority of fans can be catered to.
It seems a bit selfish, or at least experientially biased. I mean this matter-of-factly, rather than derogatorily. I would prefer we come to some other compromise, such as sectional seating arrangements with this dilemma in mind.
by BrooklynHorn on Aug 6, 2009 5:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
the argument over standing/sitting is interesting
b/c I can remember back in 1995, when the sport bulletin boards were first coming online, and people on hookem.com and later GoBig12.com would always talk about how ridiculous it was that Aggie students stood the whole game.
Now I’m reading arguments about standing versus sitting when showing support for the team on a texas blog.
Let me ask you this, though: What is your protocol when visiting another stadium? Do you stand the whole game like you do at home? Do you ask the opposing fans around you if it is okay if you stand all game, and abide by their wishes?
by Beergut on Aug 6, 2009 3:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
standing vs. sitting
As a student, I stood up, obviously, and on the east side.
Now that I share tickets with my in-laws (and only saw one game a year for the last six years because I lived in CA), we are on the alumni side.
I prefer to stand. Mainly, I watch the game through binoculars, and I like to watch the line play, and then when a big play occurs, everyone stands up, and if I’m sitting down, I miss everything. I was bitched at quite a bit last season for standing, and it really irked my wife (she wasn’t listening to Craig Way on the radio like I was so she heard all of the complaints and comparison to aggies). Her favorite game is TX-OU because everyone stands for the entire game, and it is the best atmosphere in college football. Why can’t we have that in Austin? Are fans too lazy to stand the entire game? It’s only four hours!
That said, I will attempt to try and sit a little more this season, but for Christ’s sake, it’s a football game! No where does my ticket ask me to remain seated. No where does my ticket ask me to remain standing. I recognize the lack of courtesy that it displays to others, but dang, we aren’t at an opera.
Hook ’em!
by uthookem on Aug 7, 2009 12:13 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Posture
Frankly, I fail to see how one’s posture has anything to do with one’s enthusiasm for the game. What we have here is a group of fans who want so badly to believe they are involved in the game trying to project their behavior onto others. Crowd noise may have a slight impact, but it does not seem possible that standing or sitting makes any kind of difference in the outcome on the field.
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 Aug 7, 2009 11:39 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
That’s exactly my point. I can yell and scream and cheer and shout with the best of them, even when I’m sitting down. So why not be respectful of those who cannot stand by sitting down, when appropriate? Standing up makes everyone else have to stand up too.
by burntorangehorn on Aug 7, 2009 11:46 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Grievance #7
I know a lot of people think it will be different, but I don’t. Get ready for the pro-Stoops media before the RRS. I know Texas will probably be ranked higher and Coach Brown is 3-1 vs. Stoops in the last four, but looking at a lot of national media I think the perception that Stoops owns Brown still exists.
by TexasGarcia37 on Aug 5, 2009 7:56 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Grievance #7a
I was actually going to post the flip side of this one earlier. :)
The grievance* is having to listen to the complaints that the national media hates Texas and will do anything to pump up the credentials of [insert OU, USC, Florida, anyone else here] instead. Methinks trolling of any major program’s message boards will find similar “us against the world” mentalities. For every “anti-Texas” article out there that is of course derogatory and untruthful about our Horns, there will be another “pro-Texas” one that we will of course see as truthful and unbiased.
*Grievance does not apply to bitching about Skip Bayless.
by Hopkins Horn on Aug 5, 2009 11:54 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Do notice that those who bray so incessantly become much quieter
and conciliatory if they have to play us. This includes OU and Tech.
This is a section of the “arm’s reach” law. Said law will be severely enforced this year.
by whills on Aug 6, 2009 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't think I explained properly
I think I have have written my grievance improperly. What I meant was locals think that this year Coach Stoops will have to answer the tough questions about how to beat Texas and why he hasn’t been winning this game much like Mack has done throughout the years the week of RRS. In fact, the Eyes of Texas writes this will be so in their awesome publication. I happen to think it will be same song next verse even though Texas will more then likely be higher ranked. I just think that the national guys are lazy and still think that Stoops is beating Mack. Plus, last season’s result certainly didn’t help!
by TexasGarcia37 on Aug 6, 2009 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Another Grievance
There are going to be injuries this year. Please don’t give me another Geometry-Kinesiology lesson on the angles your leg is not intended to move ala Blaine Irby. For the love of Bevo, don’t show a replay on the Godzillatron.
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 5, 2009 9:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Grievance #9
Stop…nay. CEASE the griping about how terrible a player you think Blake Gideon is. Yes, he dropped an INT (albeit THE INT), but how many more times did you watch him dart around the field like a rabid animal mercilessly maiming pass opportunities? Yeah, Christian Scott may get the nod this year. Gideon is still an incredible athlete, and has moved on. Why can’t you, average fair-weather college football fan? I thank the Blogging Gods (and Bevo) every day that there aren’t any “fans” like that on this site.
by The Mack Attack on Aug 5, 2009 10:13 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
You can also thank Gideon for several open field solo tackles of Gresham (who had what, 70 pounds on him?) against OU, something Missouri and Okie Light had problems with. Imo we dont go into TTU undefeated without his contributions. But such is the nature of the college football fandom.
by BoddickerIsClutch on Aug 6, 2009 9:03 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Gideon
That reminds me of a funny comment that Gideon made after the OU game. He said that he had worked on four or five different ways to tackle Greshman during the week and he said he thought he used all of them on that first play.
by GhostofBigRoy on Aug 6, 2009 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Great statement. I have completely forgiven Gideon.
One day he will make good on that and wipe the slate clean.
by whills on Aug 6, 2009 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I am a little late to this thread, but
I have to say, I am a Gideon doubter. Anyone have video on Gideon making plays? I thought he looked lost, and got beat a lot, and would complain about him way before the Tech Game. I would be happy to be wrong, but I would like to see it.
I will go back and look at the RRS, but if anyone has clips or anything out there in the void, I would love to see it.
"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese
P.S. 45-35
by SwimTexas on Aug 8, 2009 6:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
See
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any footage of the OU game, but there is some more poor quality footage of the DB unit here.
by The Mack Attack on Aug 8, 2009 7:40 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
my general thought has always been, though, that Scott is the better athlete, but Gideon is the smarter player.
by The Mack Attack on Aug 8, 2009 7:42 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I can think of a 3rd and 3 that OU
had in the 4th qtr and Gideon was all over Manuel Johnson and forced an incompletion. Great stop on a crucial third down in a huge game. Other than that can’t remember much.
by 2Cor12:9 on Aug 9, 2009 1:48 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Gideon..
As much as I nearly cried when he dropped that Interception, I was always blown away with how Gideon seemed to be in the right place at the right time in every play. All through the season my buddies and I would be astonished how Gideon was always making the tackle, or half a step away, no matter where on the field the play was. I think the reason most people dislike him is #1 dropped interception #2 no huge plays. The kid was nearly-always there when we needed him, but because he didn’t have any Earl Thomas-Like OU interceptions, people doubt him.
by redpoint13 on Aug 11, 2009 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Grievance #10
Volleyball setting by Greg Smith. Trust me, at some point, the Horns will run playaction out of a 2 TE set and the only guy open will be Smith. After looking around to see which DB is ready for his offering, due set will be launched to be gathered in for the INT.
Enter Aaron Williams on fourth down to block the field goal. There now.. all better?
by burnt in ny on Aug 6, 2009 5:27 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I don't know if this happened in the original FanPost
or if it happened when you FPed it
but the SBNation Autotag tool caught Greg Davis on Grievance #2, and tagged the West Virginia player on your offensive coordinator.
by Beergut on Aug 6, 2009 5:58 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Ah...drive the grievances out like green bile
the unrelenting heating, the harsh summer sun and a coping mechanism of a three month drunken stupor….. does not let me forget that a team like Texas playing Louisiana bumfuck is about like having a special Olympian in the Ultimate fighting championship…. the Sodomite having relations with his barn friends and saying at least he’s getting some…
There is no glory is saying you can beat up a bunch of 12 year old school girls ….but by god at least it’s another W in the win column
by Xerxes on Aug 6, 2009 9:06 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Personal Grievance
I don’t know if others will agree, but it pisses me off when we boo the other team’s fight song or alma mater. We did it to nearly every team last year. It seems pretty trashy and I got a real problem with it.
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 6, 2009 10:09 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I completely agree with you on the rBr wrt the school song.
Mutual respect is the basis of sports, a fundamental part of the basic agreement of equity and fairness and why we have rules and officials.
However, I have a single digit tolerance for Boomer Sooner. After the school songs and the kickoff, we rip their heads off.
by whills on Aug 6, 2009 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Re: Grievance #3
We’re going to be seeing that over and over for the rest of our days.
Look me up on Xbox Live: Loondogiv
by Loondogiv on Aug 6, 2009 10:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Do I have to wrestle with my father now?
by Frazier90 on Aug 6, 2009 10:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
What you do with your father is your business
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 6, 2009 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Unfortunately, you drew the short straw
out of the 12 coaches we face this season, you get to wrestle Mangino. nice knowin’ ya.
by The Mack Attack on Aug 6, 2009 1:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Grievance #?
That friend/family member who has the freaking audacity to schedule their wedding on a saturday during a Texas game. Usually this @hole is an aggie or tortilla thrower, and sometimes it is some loser who doesn’t care about college football. But when the wife/girlfriend makes you go to a damn wedding on a saturday in the fall, well, that’s when I understand people who go postal. I’m not fortunate to have a wife who loves college football, so she just doesn’t understand why the Texas v. Rice game is 10X more important than her cousin/sister/best friend’s wedding. Rant concluded.
by lazer22 on Aug 6, 2009 1:31 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
"With friends like these, who needs enemies?"
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 6, 2009 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
that is a travesty
the ones who are worse than this guy are the people who think they are being smart by scheduling it on an off weekend
Yeah, buddy, your are off this year, but next year and pretty much every year thereafter, your wife is going to want to go do something for your anniversary, which will inevitably fall on a football Saturday in the Fall.
Excercise some scene control, and make the wife have the wedding in the Summer.
awesome Fanpost/thread idea, rBr
by Beergut on Aug 6, 2009 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Thanks.
College Football + Seinfeld = Win
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 6, 2009 4:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think that depends on your wife.
My anniversary is mid September (off weekend for wedding that year) and only a few times has our anniversary fallen on a game day and even fewer a home game. I have had no issues. She understands, I can’t say she likes it but she understands. We simply celebrate on a different day if there is going to be a conflict. If you have some foresight, negotiate it before hand and she’s a reasonable person, you should not have a problem. Only once out of 5 or 6 years does it actually fall on a Saturday.
by billb on Aug 6, 2009 7:00 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
We don’t have any birthdays or anniversaries that fall on football days, but of course there is Thanksgiving. I will say, though, that almost any time we have had a conflict between football and something else in our lives, wifey performs triage quite well. If it’s a Longhorns game or the NFL draft, it’d pretty much have to be my wife late in labor, a kid in the emergency room, or one of us having inpatient surgery for her to not want me to watch the game. If it’s the Super Bowl or a Chiefs game, the threshold is a little lower. If there were a Chiefs game on Thanksgiving, and the whole family were at our house, I’d probably have to eat quickly and make good dinner conversation for a couple minutes before getting back to the game, but with Longhorns games, we plan Thanksgiving dinner around the Texas game. Also, she defends me tooth and nail if anyone in the family even begins to question my watching the game during family events. Screw ’em.
by burntorangehorn on Aug 6, 2009 7:24 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah some of us get lucky
I for instance, am engaged to an Ole Miss girl. Of course she’s more interested in the parties and tailgating, but she does shut her “outside” life off on Saturdays to accompany me to Austin…or Oxford, depending on if its an off week for Texas.
Get off your knees Greg, you're blowin' the game.
by kriess on Aug 7, 2009 4:40 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
My best friends are Ole Miss grads
The kick my tailgating ass. Our conversations.
Me: “We’ve got to get inside, it’s 10 minutes until kick-off”
Them: “Are you kidding? We’ve still got 10 minutes until kick-off”
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 7, 2009 6:45 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
well in my house
it’s a wee bit different… My husband is actually jealous of football… He just does not get it.. My Saturdays are taken from August to January… sorry… no ifs, ands, or buts about it. He’s the football widower… lol
-----@ Live the Dream---- 2009 @------
by LadyLonghorninOK on Aug 9, 2009 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anti-grievance #1
Many, many camera shots of Colt McCoy’s girlfriend.
by goingforthecorner on Aug 6, 2009 11:35 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Sometimes it just takes a while to train the wife.
For the first several years after we got married, she pitched a fit that I was either gone to Austin or parked in front of the TV for twelve Saturdays in a row. I tried in vain to explain to her that those were really the only twelve days of the year that I absolutely positively was going to be busy, period. No dice.
Finally, after years of consistently following my pre-marriage rituals, she began to understand. Now, when the schedule is released, she adds all the game days to her datebook, so she knows in advance when I’ll be gone. She knows not to ask (or at least not to expect me to say ‘yes’) for me to do anything on Saturdays from September through the first weekend in December. She knows to gather the kids and leave on the day of the RRS, because if we’re winning I’ll be hooting and hollering, and if we’re losing I’ll be hooting and hollering.
I called her the morning they announced that the TAMU game would be on Thanksgiving again, and told her our Thanksgiving plans were screwed, and I’d see her at Christmas, and since she had eleven months of warning that I didn’t want to hear any lip about it when the holidays rolled around. No problem – she got up on Thanksgiving morning, took the kids and went to her mothers. I went to my Dad’s, we loaded up the car, and off we went to Austin.
My main grievance? Her complaining that I DVR each and every game, and then watch them again – even the ones I just went to see live. She just does not grasp that there are things you can see on TV that you cannot see (or were getting a drink or taking a leak) during the game. Otherwise, she’s a good sport.
Oh – and she’s an Aggie. Minor grievance there.
by adt2 on Aug 7, 2009 7:25 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Well, you sound like a real treat.
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 7, 2009 8:13 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Sorry. I thought we were airing grievances.
I’ll try again:
I have no grievances. I check with my wife before doing anything, even though I’ve had these season tickets for twenty years. If she has no honey-do items or engagements more important than my silly ball game, then I reluctantly attend the event – but I try to leave at the end of the third quarter so I’m not gone too long.
Better?
by adt2 on Aug 7, 2009 9:56 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Grievance
I’m was assuming your grievance was it took so long to “train your wife”. If your post was indicative of something else, I apologize. Otherwise, this.
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 7, 2009 11:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why won't she just understand...
That you’re going to do whatever the hell you want to do without any regard for her? That’s just selfish of her!
by billyzane on Aug 7, 2009 9:37 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
I wouldn’t dream of missing Thanksgiving weekend with my family. It’s mostly just the ‘Horns game that I demand I be able to watch, even if I’m locked in some tiny den by myself with a beer.
by burntorangehorn on Aug 7, 2009 8:36 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Okay, that was an exxageration.
We have dinner with her family one year and mine the next. It so happened that the games in Austin fall on the years with her family. What I actually said to her was that we should trade years, or my son and I would always miss dinner with her family (my family are big football fans and understand our absence).
by adt2 on Aug 7, 2009 10:04 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Sitting in 105 degree stadium watching
UT stomp University of Louisiana-Monroe…that is where my LSU loving brother got his undergraduate degree before moving on to LSU, but tell me again why I pay season tickets to sit in the Summer of 2009? This is my Grievance here is the great Festivus in August.
Hooking em to a Another National Championship.
by HookemZ06 on Aug 8, 2009 5:20 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
You go because we're awesome!
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 9, 2009 11:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
This was an awesome thread. nt whills
"A lot of people look for the easy way to do anything, in swimming there is no easy way." - Eddie Reese
P.S. 45-35
by SwimTexas on Aug 8, 2009 6:52 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Hey thanks!
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 9, 2009 11:45 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Grievance #6a: Pay Per View
Because we schedule teams like Louisiana-Monroe, we can’t even get our game on regional cable. That means we have to pay big bucks to see the worst game of the season.
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 Aug 8, 2009 8:30 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Grievance 1a: Colt & Shipley's daddy's played together...
followed only slightly by the “Mack Brown loves coaches sons…” or “any coach loves to have coaches sons on their team…”
by longhornJ on Aug 8, 2009 10:25 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Irrelevant
So, here is the 2009 football schedule. You’ll notice Rice doesn’t appear. Just FYI
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 9, 2009 11:44 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
I feel like an idiot.
El numero doce tiene la mano de dios.
by Can I get some Chiles with that? on Aug 10, 2009 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Just in case you don't
Be strong for this… it’s a heartbreaker.
El numero doce tiene la mano de dios.
by Can I get some Chiles with that? on Aug 9, 2009 10:37 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
New Grievance
Inundated with new people posts that offer nothing. I got a real problem with that.
"From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back." -John Madden
by run Bevo run on Aug 11, 2009 11:57 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
New Grievance 1a - Dave Lapham on FSN
If I have to listen to that mother f*cker and his infamous “face rape” comment anymore, I’ll go out of my damn mind.
BOOOOOOOOM MF!
by TNHorn on Aug 12, 2009 12:09 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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