It's The Year 2000...
Gasoline is $1.26 a gallon.
Oil is $30 a barrel.
The St Louis Rams are your Super Bowl champions.
Gladiator wins Best Picture at the Oscars.
The World Trade Center attack still refers to a blind imam's followers setting off explosives in a parking garage.
Y2K proves to be much ado about nothing.
The business world ponders the implications of America Online and Time Warner merging.
The dot.com bubble bursts.
Tiger Woods is the youngest player in history to win a Grand Slam in golf.
And the Texas Longhorns, in mid-October 2000, are briefly unranked in the AP poll.
162 ranking weeks later, in the Fall of 2010, the longest ranked streak in college football comes to an end as the Horns drop from the AP poll.
Here's to a strong decade of Longhorn football. Here's to another starting again soon.
Cheers.

(props to anyone who can identify the picture)
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Picture is from The Shining. That’s Jack Nicholson in the bottom center.
by spit and tears on Oct 4, 2010 5:07 AM CDT reply actions
We’d better do something besides rearrange the deck chairs this week.
by nobis60 on Oct 4, 2010 5:08 AM CDT reply actions
By the way, I like the image of a grinning, maniacal Jack Nicholson running amok with an ax in the Texas football offices (heading right for wherever Greg Davis sits) while bellowing “HERE’S JOHNNY!!”
by spit and tears on Oct 4, 2010 5:10 AM CDT reply actions
And Greg Davis had already been identified by many of us as a two ton anchor tied around the collective necks of each Longhorn plyer and fan.
by beowulf on Oct 4, 2010 6:16 AM CDT reply actions
The ou game goes in series. So it is reasonably probable that they will dominate for the next 3 to 4 years. Can Mack survive if it stretches to 6 or 7? Will he ever win more than 2 conference championships?
by Whistling on Oct 4, 2010 6:56 AM CDT reply actions
Wherein Greg Davis looks himself in the eye and says, "You’ve always been the caretaker here."
by TKO on Oct 4, 2010 7:16 AM CDT reply actions
I’m guessing that’s not a picture of the 2000 Longhorn football banquet.
by GM Platter on Oct 4, 2010 8:02 AM CDT reply actions
So who is going to be our Scatman Crothers and take the ax to the chest in order to save the gifted child that is in danger?
by stuckinmn on Oct 4, 2010 8:08 AM CDT reply actions
all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach. all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach. all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach. all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach. all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach. all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach. all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach. all lip service and no accountability make mack a dull coach.
by Christian Wofford on Oct 4, 2010 8:15 AM CDT reply actions
Greg Davis’ offense reminds me of the chick from The Shining. It’s hideous to see, but you can’t look away because you know it’s going to be scary as hell.
by jc25 on Oct 4, 2010 8:51 AM CDT reply actions
Wow, this has to be the dumbest tweet of the week:
http://twitter.com/chipbrownob
ChipBrownOB
1. Donovan McNabb, the Nelson Mandela of the NFL while imprisoned in Philly, left no doubt today. Great, great stuff from my man D-McNabb.
by The Ghandi/Mel Gibson mash of BC on Oct 4, 2010 9:44 AM CDT reply actions
Chip doesn’t even speak good street. I believe the proper usage would be “D-Mac”.
by BEHorn on Oct 4, 2010 10:14 AM CDT reply actions
Our offense is waiting to be rescued by “snowcat” chris whaley. Just kidding. That guy is going to be stuck in the garden maze depth chart his whole career.
Our recruiting on offense is like all of the food in the hotel kitchen. Big-ass cans of tasty promise all over the state that will never be opened by our staff.
by Nero on Oct 4, 2010 10:37 AM CDT reply actions
I cannot imagine a group, cause or point of view that would not be at least somewhat put off by that tweet. And “Dono-M” would have been less awkward.
by nobis60 on Oct 4, 2010 1:16 PM CDT reply actions
Mcnabb left no doubt? Huh? He played like trash when it mattered like he always does. Vick doesn’t go down and they lose that game by 7+.
by fear_the_cow on Oct 4, 2010 3:59 PM CDT reply actions
Nicely done, spit.
TKO – indeed.
Christian comes in strong, as usual.
That’s the dumbest tweet I’ve ever read. So Philadelphia is a racist white dictatorship imprisoning a black terrorist freedom fighter? Uh, OK.
Here was Chip’s thinking – let me think of a black man. A wronged black man. Hey, Nelson Mandela! All other context is irrelevant.
by Scipio Tex on Oct 4, 2010 4:20 PM CDT reply actions
Greg is trying to burn down the the OverHook Hotel.
He must be…cor-rected.
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