Southwest Classic

That sawed-off little sumbutch Billy Byrne stold my idear!! Hic! Toottt!! Stolt it raht out frum under me. Told me to skeedaddle & get my arse out of the CS!!! Ahmbudda best thing ever happend to football coaching! Hey, I owned the tzips, owned their arse!! And Billy Boy wanted to run be out of town, makes a man wanna just get drunk (hic!!). Gig Em – no wait a minute, To Hell w/ A&M!!!

Hot ticket.

I’m kind of surprised they’re not just calling it “The Texas/OU game”.

HenryJames,

I can recall the Hawgs and Ags playing at the end of the season and in typical Aggie fashion it is a doozy.

In 1975 Texas and A&M met in a big showdown game in College Station. Ballard had gone to A&M to rebuild the program and the game featured #5 Texas at 9-1 versus #2 A&M at 9-0. The Ags end up winning the game on national television 20-10 (I remember the Texas quarterback being taken out with a low hit on an option play.) and the Ags are poised to run the table. Finish the season at 11-0, win the conference outright, and have a show for a national title.

How do they respond in the national spotlight next week in Little Rock you ask? They get smoked 31-6 and then finish the season strong by getting shut out 20-0 by USC in the Liberty Bowl.

Only a true Aggie I guess would want to remember such a great moment in their history, but we are talking about a school that post landmark losses on their website.

Oh, almost forgot. Ags made the cover of SI with their victory over the Horns. Picture of Bubba Bean and the heading “Texas A&M Stakes Its Claim”. To bad the vein played out a week later.

Cool logo! I’m gonna watch all 10 games!

Their are going to be alot of fistfights between those fanbases….over which side hates Texas more.

No the hot ticket is going to be the Horns Vs TarHeels game at Cowboy Stadium in December!

Bubba Bean sounds like a good guy. And he definitely has one of the better quotes about Earl Campbell.

“You didn’t have to watch Earl play,” Bean said, “you could close your eyes and hear him.”

Bubba Bean was a good back; had a few pretty decent years for the Falcons and then tore up a knee I believe.

Marty Akins had hurt his knee the previous week against TCU. Lot’s of speculation leading up to the aggy game as to his readiness. On the 2nd play of the game Akins runs the standard wishbone halfback pitch option and Pat Thomas ignores the pitchman and dives right at Akins’ knees. Ted Constanzo plays the rest of the game in what looks like slow motion and we get our only TD on a Ray Clayborne punt return. Sweet, sweet retribution one week later though, as Capt. Obv. has related. Interestingly, the Hogs provided a similar service a few years later, hammering OU in the Orange Bowl for a major upset to take some of the sting off the Cotton Bowl loss to Notre Dame.

R Fourie, Thanks for filling in the details on Marty Akins. All I could remember was the Horns’ qb getting hurting, a replay being run, and things going down hill for the Horns quickly on offense.

I think that Ag offense also had Carl Roaches at SE, but I can’t recall if big George Woodard (makes Jevorskie look like a slacker at the training table) was the fullback.

Also seem to remember that the Ags were to start off the next year with a big game at Michigan that was nationally televised and they got fuck stomped 42-3.

Over/under on the number of teeth in the stadium stands: 36

Imagine what that game is going to sound like. Between the “whoops” and “pig sooeys” (sp?), I don’t think I could stand to be in there more than about 5 minutes.

All this assumes A&M will field a team in 09. Are they expecting TARP funds?

Pancho, Not an issue. Perry will just re-direct more money from the Texas Enterprise Fund.

Given that Jerryworld has been aptly described as a vessel from outer space, I suspect the Arlington PD will experience a massive increase in drunken, tearful phone calls reporting missing time and anal probings.

That is the target audience, after all.

Nothing like a stadium full of pig and sheep fu*kers.

I look forward to a game in an air conditioned, 21st century stadium. Do y’all have a game in the D/FW area in October? Is it played in a shithole stadium? Do you have to fight your way past crack dealers to get in?

I think they are talking about the game between two teams that probably won’t sniff the top 25 as opposed to the game between to two top five teams.

Classic? Come on – it’s about as classic as the banjo scene in Deliverance.

Rumor has it that Petrino and Sherman are going to Jell-O wrassle the day before the game for charity. Hopefully Sherman won’t eat all the Jell-O.

“Hopefully Sherman won’t eat all the Jell-O.” Hell, they are just hoping Sherman won’t eat Petrino.

Sounds like you guys have had quarterback issues for decades now. Maybe you should recruit some depth or do you wanna start playing flag football?

what I remember about that Marty Akins play was that he had pitched the ball to Lam Jones and was watching the play 20 yards away when the aggy player dove at his knees…

Obviously you were not in attendance at the game and I again ask the question why didn’t a #5 ranked team have a backup QB ? It is contact sport after all.

Let’s see the knees are off limits and so is the chinstrap so where exactly are we supposed to hit Colt? (I know that hitting him at all is a huge asumption)

Well, I your case I would say the ring finger since there is no risk of wearing a championship ring since Homer Norton died.

To an aggie:
“It is contact sport after all” = “it’s okay to deliberately attempt to injure a player, especially if he’s a real difference-maker”

makes you wonder why you suck so much at actually winning, doesn’t it?

Now that I am a feature writer for the illustrious publication Texags.com, I will be able to laud over this glorious conflict like a broken down Blanche Du’Bois trying to woo alumni into a preposterously oversided stadium for a 4-8 team…… No one accepted my proposed name for the even “A Streetcar Named Delusional”