The defense has been named

by HenryJames on Oct 25, 2009 11:11 AM CDT in Texas Longhorns and Other Football

According to the Statesman the Texas defense has named itself 'The Goon Squad.'

Why? Lamarr Houston came up with the name, and he says "It means that we're just a bunch of blue-collar guys who don't care about anything else but playing football."

It's been a longtime Longhorn internet meme that we should come up with a name for the defense. Any defense we've had. But cooler heads have always prevailed and managed to mock those who came up with suggestions.

But I'm fine with it because the players came up with it and not the fans. I actually kind of like it. They've knocked two Big 12 quarterbacks out of the game, forced one to be replaced due to poor performance and knocked the f*ck out of Tech's Taylor Potts.

So now we can call them The Goon Squad. Even if they're not aware of what that term actually means.

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Actually, I kind of like it. I’ve been unalterably opposed to all the damn “name the defense” efforts we see on teh Longhorn Interwebs each year, but this on might actually be ok.

Hook ’em!!!

by EyesOfTX on Oct 25, 2009 11:40 AM CDT reply actions

A wonderful tribute to Mr. Elvis Costello.

by Woody Bombay on Oct 25, 2009 11:52 AM CDT reply actions

Inigo Montoya and I both would have preferred “The Brute Squad.”

by BEHorn on Oct 25, 2009 12:36 PM CDT reply actions

No, “we” don’t call them that. You may call them that. They may call themselves that. Everyone else may call them that. But I don’t call them that.

I hate it.

by doomsday d on Oct 25, 2009 12:36 PM CDT reply actions

I was slightly embaressed that they didn’t understand the negative connotations on them being the goons. I am even more surprised that muschamp did t pull them aside and say, guys you k know you might not want to be known as goons…

From the urban dictionary:

goon – a real man or n**** (originated in Florida)

goon – someone hired to beat someone up, usually someone big and dumb who commits acts of violence for money.

by JustSayin on Oct 25, 2009 1:09 PM CDT reply actions

The word “goon” was popularized by the cartoon “Popeye.”

Popeye in Goonland (1938)

1921, “stupid person,” from gony “simpleton” (c.1580), of unknown origin, but applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (1839); sense of “hired thug” first recorded 1938 (in ref. to union “beef squads” used to cow strikers in the Pacific northwest), probably from Alice the Goon, slow-witted and muscular (but gentle-natured) character in “Thimble Theater” comic strip (starring Popeye) by E.C. Segar (1894-1938). She also was the inspiration for British comedian Spike Milligan’s “The Goon Show.” What are now “juvenile delinquents” were in the 1940s sometimes called goonlets.

by spider on Oct 25, 2009 1:27 PM CDT reply actions

I don’t like the name…Actually, I don’t like this “name the defense” stuff; I find it gimmicky and small time. “The Defense” suffices. Although, you could call them “The Wall” and play Pink Floyd’s tune when they take the field; now that would be gimmicky.

by Don Gato on Oct 25, 2009 1:30 PM CDT reply actions

“Inigo Montoya and I both would have preferred "The Brute Squad."”

I’m on the Brute Squad.

by fitzhume on Oct 25, 2009 1:33 PM CDT reply actions

I like ‘Legion of Boom’.

by Orangeblood on Oct 25, 2009 1:42 PM CDT reply actions

‘Legion of Boom’ is the best I have heard.

by StregaHorn on Oct 25, 2009 2:01 PM CDT reply actions

I liked Big Cock Defense. I think The People’s Elbow coined that.

by raoulduke on Oct 25, 2009 2:06 PM CDT reply actions

What’s wrong with goons?

by Hanson Brother on Oct 25, 2009 2:13 PM CDT reply actions

Hate it. And even the players say they didn’t intend for it to go public. But I can already hear the sportscasters at the game using it and chuckling as though it’s clever. I’d rather go with something ironic. “Sieve of Death.” Or pithy, the “OMG! Defense.” We could chant “L-O-L! L-O-L!” after great plays.

by RomaVicta on Oct 25, 2009 2:16 PM CDT reply actions

Fitz, you are the Brute Squad.

I like the fact that they have given themselves an identity and can fall back on it in times of duress. That being said, it’s going to be really annoying when the announcers talk about it all the time. The VA Tech lunch pail drives me nuts, and I watch them only by necessity.

by Steve on Oct 25, 2009 2:43 PM CDT reply actions

I’m on the Brute Squad.

You are the Brute Squad.

by HenryJames on Oct 25, 2009 2:44 PM CDT reply actions

I don’t give a damn what they want to call themselves so long as they keep kicking ass all over the field.

by RichUT on Oct 25, 2009 2:56 PM CDT reply actions

me too

by UT wildcatter on Oct 25, 2009 3:30 PM CDT reply actions

He actually said “Poon Squad” but was misheard.

by Bookman on Oct 25, 2009 4:36 PM CDT reply actions

I always knew that one day, in a glorious act of irony, someone would distill Burnt Orange Hitman Posse into an actual name for the defense.

by Doperbo on Oct 25, 2009 4:58 PM CDT reply actions

judging by the way we seem to handle other team’s quarterbacks, i’d say the moniker is rather accurate.

by jon on Oct 25, 2009 5:28 PM CDT reply actions

“I don’t give a damn what they want to call themselves so long as they keep kicking ass all over the field.”

I’m with you.

by AZHorn on Oct 25, 2009 7:39 PM CDT reply actions

I always favored MASH Rats (Mean As Shit House Rats). Or maybe Big Meanies.

by j.r.69 on Oct 25, 2009 9:36 PM CDT reply actions

I supposed “Orange Crush” would have gotten the lawyers involved?

That’s a pity, because I was going to call it Davis’ “Orange Crutch” if that one got going.

Oh well.

by spider on Oct 26, 2009 8:54 AM CDT reply actions

There is a website called somethingawful.com that is a multi topic forum. Memebers of that site have many interest including online gaming and they form guilds, all known as the Goon Squad.

by ut755ln on Oct 26, 2009 9:16 AM CDT reply actions