Tired of 11:00 AM Kickoffs For Texas-OU?

The best thing about 11 am kicks is being drunk in the morning. The worst thing is being hungo over in the afternoon.

Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said “you can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning”? Or maybe it was Dean Martin.

I never liked early games when I could attend them back in Texas. Now, the 11am start for big match ups increases the chances of the game being on TV here in Vancouver (9am) since there are no other PAC-10 games in that slot. It also frees up the rest of the day.

The amazing thing to me is how EVERYWHERE Texas games are on standard cable.

In 1997 when I moved to DC I couldn’t get any game other than A&M unless I went to one bar in G-town with a giant dish on top, where they got a 1-2 other games a year. Ditto 98. Even in the early aught’s, I went to bars to even see OU-Texas.
  
This season, other than Louisana School for the Blind and the great “just got back from Mexico, locked out of apartment, must go to bar to watch Greg Davis fellate Dan Hawkins” debacle (a game that was on network T.V.), I’ve watched every game from the comfort of my couch on standard cable, no box.

Hate on Deloss all you want, but he and Mack have built a serious brand.

Who hates on Deloss?

People that remember how bad we were in the 80’s and 90’s

The guys who had to talk him out of hiring Gary Barnett.

I’m actually a fan of the 11:30 kick. Leave the Austin area at 4:15 or so, drive up 35, on the fair grounds with a beer by 8:15, hang out for a couple of hours after the game, half way home before dark.

The guys who had to talk him out of hiring Gary Barnett.

I conferenced with a gypsy woman who told me with “strong confidence” that Texas would have won at least 2 MNCs by this point with Barnett.

We’ve got the best combination of football and basketball programs in the country (the only two sports that matter), arguably the best football facilities, and probably the most financially healthy athletic department of any school. And you’re still dwelling on the 90s? Yikes. This is genuinely disturbing. Even Red Sox fans got over their 84 years of pent up negativity and bitterness after winning a title.

For us Longhorn/Red Sox it has been a great ride since 2004.
“the only two sports that matter” You’ve missed some great baseball fun at the forty acres.

Are we sure about having the best football basketball combo? Florida has picked up some pretty serious hardware over the past 4 yrs or so.

Agreed. I’d say The Gators are head and shoulders above with four national championships in recent memory. We’re doing great though.

Here’s a pretty good story srr50 put together about the Dodds Doctrine:

Recession Proof

I’m not certain I could have lived outside of Texas for the past 10 years+ if I couldn’t watch the game every Saturday. That could have been a deal breaker. Surprisingly, people in California look at me a little oddly when I offer that in passing.

You can be anyone or do anything (or anyone for that matter) you want in this state, with the exception of a Southern Male who owns a rifle and a shotgun and who thinks weddings during football season are a stain on the soul of humanity. Unite with your goldfish and Dalmation in a marriage trilogy in the middle of Union Square at noon on a weekday? Non-issue. Mention you have more than a small fondness for chicken-fried steak, bourbon and college football – not necessarily in that order – and the first thing every English-speaker within hearing range wants to ‘discuss’ is the Dubya presidency. I could live here another 20 years and it will never really feel like home.

Still feels a little awkward stepping into a sports bar at 9 AM on a beautiful Saturday, but Guinness has proven to be a respectable breakfast choice to bridge the gap until a more appropriate cocktail hour of 11 AM or so.

I think it’s his business intensive ways that irritate people. Other than the decision to go to Fieldturf so they can whore the stadium out for high school games, I’ve got no problem with the man

Mention you have more than a small fondness for chicken-fried steak, bourbon and college football

Any place that doesn’t embrace those three things is a place that’s not worth going.

Other than the decision to go to Fieldturf so they can whore the stadium out for high school games

That really is inexcusable. There can’t be ten better places to have a grass field than texas and it still doesn’t seem or look right whenever I see the field now.

I figured the scheduling was a crowd-control measure. I read about the ER and the drunk tank keeping score back in the day. Now, not so much.

spider – I’m not sure that was a function of a kickoff time on Saturday morning though…. more of a Friday night on Commerce Street thing…

that said, I’d love a night game… if I was at home watching.

Late night walking back to your car in Fair Park though… not so much.

“Late night walking back to your car in Fair Park though… not so much.”

I think this is the sole reason a night game has never come to fruition, and likely won’t.

Until the game moves to Jerry’s World.

I like the early start because it’s probably saved me tens of thousands of dollars in bail money and legal fees.

Early starts suck. Take my experience from the Texans/Niners game.

Got up at 8, in a post UT night game haze. Started drinking at about 9 when the my sisters husband picked me up. Get to the tailgate (blue lot is nuts) and start walking around carrying plenty of drinking rations. They were going down way to smooth for being hungover, probably had something to do with the weather. At about 10:30 we ran into the free beer and jager booth. By free, I mean all you have to do is tip them. By game time, I’m guessing I’m 8-9 beers and 3 shots in. Of course you buy a beer once you get in the gates, because it’s a long walk. Smash a few more in the game and it’s starting to add up. We bailed in the middle of the third quarter to go to The Red Lion (best bar in Houston). On the walk to the car I got a cops number. I don’t remember what she looks like, but my boy said she’s hot as hell. She has the name of my ex-fiance, so she probably won’t be getting a call. Oh yeah, and because she’s a fucking cop. Get to The Lion and it’s vodka time! Bad idea. My friends call and they’re all out in Katy watching the late games. I head out there because I have to meet family for dinner later anyway. Oh shit, I gotta meet family for dinner. I meet my sisters new boyfriend and I’m later told that I was overheard saying, “I think he’s a gay.” Bad first impression. I couldn’t pick him out of a line-up unless he was the only caucasian in it.

Of course now that I think about it, Sunday morning was just really an extension of the late UT game. Maybe early is better…..

This is the first I’ve heard of this, but on Spencer Park Soap box they have an article about the DART system and in it is this little nugget….

“Next year, it’s an evening game, with all 95,000 or so football fans letting out just about the time the final crowds from the State Fair will be seeking to leave.”

Anybody know anything about that?

srr50 said:
October 27th, 2009 at 11:58 am

Until the game moves to Jerry’s World.

BITE YOUR TONGUE, Sir, or srr. I’d rather it go home and home than leave my beloved Cotton Bowl for Jerry’s whorehouse.

jinx said:
October 28th, 2009 at 7:43 am

This is the first I’ve heard of this, but on Spencer Park Soap box they have an article about the DART system and in it is this little nugget….

"Next year, it’s an evening game, with all 95,000 or so football fans letting out just about the time the final crowds from the State Fair will be seeking to leave."

Anybody know anything about that?

Story was that ABC approached both schools the summer before the ’07 game with exactly that suggestion/request and were rebuffed with a resounding “NO!”