This Has Gone Too Far

At the same time?

I had to be out of town on Saturday. I briefly checked the game score, saw one play in the airport (the end-of-first-half TD to Kirk called back on Hopkins’ hold), and otherwise ignored the whole mess. It made for a very pleasant Saturday, and one I will likely repeat this weekend.

So yes, it has indeed come to that. I don’t mind watching ‘em lose, I just can’t stand watching them fail to even make a competent effort.

BEHorn, so did you tap your foot in the airport bathroom stall, or what?

Had I not tivo’ed the K-state game this past weekend, my previously scheduled tivo’ing of “Monk” wouldn’t have been bumped off the list.

another UT Football shipment of fail, and I signed for it.

I too went to wurstfest with the girlfriend and recorded the game. I got home, watched 30 minutes, turned it off and went to find the girlfriend. I just couldn’t stand to watch the same asshattery I have seen for the past 3 weeks replayed again against a different team. That is the first time in memory that I have ever not watched a whole game at the first opportunity, whether we looked good or not. I did not, however, delete the game and have been trying to find the courage to watch the rest of it.

Uh… sure… whatever.

That roommate? One Mitch Cumstein.

Greg Davis should resign immediately. There is no hope against Mike Gundy and His Merry Band of Okies; they are going to prison rape the DKR Divas.

My (legitimate) fear is that Humpty Dumpty and Mack Brown aren’t going to leave before ‘13. It’s as if they are determined to destroy Longhorn, Inc.

Mack will not likely be remembered as a legend. He’s done consistently well against both poor and mediocre competition. In 27 years as a head coach, the man has won TWO conference titles; both with dual-threat quarterbacks. Last year’s conference title came in spite of the fact that fifth-year senior and four-year starter Colt McCoy wasn’t familiar with game clock regulations; Greg Davis couldn’t familiarize the field general with the fundamental rules of the game. What the fuck?

I will neither use nor sell my remaining season tickets; that might be the only statement that Belmont can understand

Haven’t you ever heard of hate sex? Anger fucking?

Hell, if he HAD thought of Greg Davis that girlfriend would probably still be twitching.

Attaining an erection after Wurstfest is a feat unto itself let alone attaining an erection after both Wurstfest and 53 seconds of a longhorn shellacking. Tip o’ the cap to you, sir. Bravo.

Being probably twice the age of your roommate, those are feats of skill best left in the past. I was fortunate in that I was able to switch to the Spurs – Rockets basketball game for some excellent Ginobili to Parker to Duncan action. Had a couple of beers, finished off the queso, then hobbled off to bed. This reminds me of seasons in the 80s and 90s, which I had hoped were long gone. We’ve been holding season tickets since the ‘60s, and this is the closest we’ve come to giving them up.

Yes, it has come to this. Thanks be to God for DVRs.

The saving grace is when the wife encourages you to skip the game in favor of other activities.

I was in Cabo this past weekend and unable to catch the game. I checked a score at what I thought was probably halftime and promptly closed my laptop without giving it another thought. It was the most relaxed and pleasant Saturday I’ve had in months. Sure I was on Pacifico #10 of the day and chilling on the beach, but that was only half of it. Not worrying about the utter buffoonery going on in the press box made for a much better day than punching my couch and scaring my 1 year old. It’s not worth it any more to me. I said after the Baylor game that I was all out of anger and I think it’s true. Now I just don’t care. I was planning on having friends over to watch the Okie St game, but now I think i’m just going to mail it in and take the wife out for dinner. I’m not going to let Mack Brown and his band of idiots ruin my weekends any more. Fuck ’em.

My lady friend’s two words to describe watching Texas offense against KSt:

“ineffective” and “uninteresting”. She couldn’t hold back an “oh my god” on about the third INT. I took her to the first Rose Bowl against UM, but she’s not spoiled. She calls it like she sees it.

btw, she’s full term right now, so I had zero recourse last weekend. Maybe Curtis Brown could spare some of his baby oil or something.

Crazy scenario (meaning it won’t happen):

1. Butch Davis fired at UNC after the end of the season, due to NCAA troubles and the scandal he has presided over

2. Mack Brown seizes on this as a graceful way out at UT, goes back to Carolina as a spotless Mr. Clean to take over the reins of a troubled program and restore it to integrity, a no-pressure assignment for the last 5? years of his coaching career

3. Succession plan is executed; Muschamp takes over. Mack: “the UT program is in good hands with Will”

It’s stuff like this that really pisses me off. I can’t believe I missed Wurstfest again.

We were invited to my boss’s home for dinner Saturday night. He’s not a football fan at all so I was actually relieved that the game would not be on and I would have an excuse for not watching live. I had it set to record at home. One of my coworkers insisted on turning the game on, so we watched a little. When it came time to dine, I was pleased to find my assigned seat was with my back to the TV. I just can’t watch this crap anymore, I seen more than my fair share of putrid Longhorn football.

Mmmmmm, hate sex.

Orange: funny, I was in Cancun for a wedding. A bunch of Aggies and Longhorns. One of them checked his phone and notified the rest of us about both scores. I wasn’t even angry. It was more of a dejected acceptance.

That man was Mitch Cumsteen?

nordberg -

I can’t remember how it all went down. Maybe same time, maybe one-after-the-other.

Woody -

Haven’t you ever heard of hate sex? Anger fucking?

Hell, if he HAD thought of Greg Davis that girlfriend would probably still be twitching.

Anger is one thing. Aggressive homosexual fantasies are another.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

HenryJames -

Glad to see you contributing again. Even if… scratch that – especially if your contributions are devoid of content.

Everyone -

I want to make it clear that this story was legitimately third-person. I have not reached my friend’s level of emotional detachment. In fact, I let my wife hit the sack during the first quarter on Saturday. She was angry at my laser-like focus on the football disaster that was only beginning to unfold and stormed out of the room, leaving me alone to indulge my Longhorn football obsession.

That was the only way to do it. Like Cortes burning his ships at the shore, I had to remove any potential for escape. Unfortunately, after the initial ship-burning/wife-enraging point in the story, my metaphorical role switches from the Spanish to the Indian side of the story.

Can I has this come Saturday at the DKR?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSS2mLFo4w0&feature=player_embedded

Hey, if this is good enough at the Death Star, it’s got to be more than good enough at the house Mack built.

BTW, while I don’t know the man, I’m sure that is Huckleberry with the mid-show cameo.

it is a sad day when the platitude “it’s just football” becomes more commonly used than “we’ll get ’em next week”

I was also in Southern Baja last weekend. Caught a couple of nice tubes boogie boarding off Cerritos. Not that kind of tube, HJ.

I checked the score, dropped a couple of expletives on the game thread, mixed another Margarita (Don Julio, imo), and then destroyed my girlfriend. I haven’t even looked at the box score. What’s the point? We suck. I don’t need to know the details. Wake me up after the end of season season press conference when we will or won’t fire Mack.

I was also at Wurstfest. I even won a stuffed Bevo at one of the carny games, paraded it through the crowd, told an Aggy “so does your mom” to his “Bevo sucks” comment, and never once had a care for the loss I knew had most likely occurred. Didn’t care.

I always felt sorry for the fans of crappy programs, the way they could just be apathetic after a loss. I remember looking at them thinking what a sad way to go through life with no passion for victory or pain in defeat. 6 short weeks after the Tech game and I’m there already.

This all feels like some giant psychology experiment.

We’ll be back. It might not be immediate, but Texas Football is a self-correcting mechanism.

“This all feels like some giant psychology experiment.”

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Mack Brown and his band of idiots

I wish I’d gone to Wurstfest. I never dated twins, either.

I finally tried watching it last night – made it to the botched fake FG and deleted it.

I went to Wurstfest on both weekends and recorded both the Baylor game and the K-State game. The first Saturday I was all asking people the score and keeping hope alive until my wife texted me that Texas had lost. I got home and deleted the game without giving it a second thought. I did talk to a couple of fine blond twins from The Woodlands in the line to get in and put in some pretty good work in that conversation. Was hoping to circle back after they had a few beers, but alas it was not to be…

The second Saturday I was out there with the wife and kids and didn’t care to ask anyone. Unfortunately, I overheard a conversation to the effect that Texas was down 39 – 0. The thing is that I was not surprised, nor upset. There was this surreal equanimity that had overtaken me. I lead a charmed life and I’m just plain not gonna let Mack and his band of idiots salt my game.

Stalled vehicle on Golf Course at Ellison

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