Cotton Bowl Open Thread

Jimmy Johnson to Jerry Jones on the pre-game show

“Our time at Arkansas made us the men we are today.”

You got that right.

Did you know bill Snyder is 72?

Arkansas stopped on 4th down try inside K State 35.

You would even cheer for an URBAN MEYER coached Ohio St?? I guess I’m too young, I never saw how bad the Arkansas rivalry was. I grew up watching teh Major

That turnover only increases Snyder’s desire to annihilate the Building & Loan in Bedford Falls.

I guess I’m too young, I never saw how bad the Arkansas rivalry was.

For my generation

OU
Darth Vadar - The Evil Empire

Texas A&M
Half wit cousin you had to put up with — until he recently moved cross town.

Arkanas
Makes the folks populating “Deliverance” look like Rhodes Scholars.

A game in Arkansas (either Fayetteville or Little Rock) were easily the worst road trips a Longhorn team could take. Their obsession with Texas combined with their backwoods manner made them unbearable.

How come Kansas State doesn’t pull dumb special teams play like that against us?

Two blocks in the back on the punt return.

Arkansas playing like K St. clone.
K St. playing like Texas clone.

I never saw how bad the Arkansas rivalry was.

FWIW…

I wouldn’t call it “bad”, but rather “intense”. I thought it was bigger than 0u back then, mainly because it was a conference game - that, and we were both Top 10 pretty much every year through the 60’s. Well, 0u was, too, so maybe the difference was hate versus hate tempered with fear.

In my four years in the student section listening to that goddamned WOOoooooo, PIG! Sooey! over and over and over (hah, and you think Boomer Sooner is aggravating), I don’t recall ever sitting down, other than at halftime. At the ‘62 game, ambulances came into the stadium and around the track to the Old Farts section on the west side THREE TIMES to take heart attacks to Brack. The game never faltered. We held the piggies out on a goal line fumble recovery in the third, but still trailed 3-0 with about nine or ten minutes left, in the fourth quarter. We took over on downs from the piggies on our own 12, lost two on the first play, and spent the next nine minutes driving ninety yards on nineteen or twenty plays. Someone told me we threw a pass in that drive, but I don’t remember a single one, and I’m sure we didn’t throw more than twelve ot thirteen in the whole game. I recall that we converted on fourth downs three times on the drive, but maybe it was only two. Tommy T-Bird Ford scored the game’s only touchdown on third and goal with about thirty seconds left - and it was a damn food thing, because a lot more of the Old Farts were starting to look pretty shaky - no telling what a fourth down with five seconds left woulda done to ‘em. I’m pretty sure I’ve never been to a game that left tens of thousands of football fans absolutely, totally and completely wrung dry of every drop of adrenaline in their bodies. Walked away from the game thinking I might someday have a game experience as good, but never better. I lived in some crappy old apartments across Red River from the stadium, about where the parking garage for the track stadium is now. Red River doesn’t run there any more, and the piggies are more disgusting than hated or feared.

Snyder’s muttering about putting in Jordy Nelson and “that Sproles fellow.”

After Arkansas left for SEC, I knew there was no “rivalry” game that was sacrosanct.

Arkansas was big. bigger than Aggie and meaner in spirit than OU.

I’m with srr50, Arkansas versus malaria carrying mosquitos, and I’m going, " Misquitos, mosquitos, bite them in the ass!"

If Kstate will stop looking like a monkey raping a football they still have a shot at this thing…

Hook’em

Man, since Klein missed on that pass that should have gone for a TD back in the 1st, the K St offense has been non-existent.

I think I am going to mellow out and watch the golf tourny in Hawaii on HD — this game is giving me an upset stomach.

It’s interesting how rivalries work. Obviously, two teams have to be competitive to make it work. Hence no rivalry with TCU and Rice for all those years. Same with SMU until they started cheating and got good. Baylor was good in the 70s under Taft, at least sometimes, so we a stretch at least where there was rivalry. When OU was really bad after switzer left, the rivalry waned a bit. I can remember a time when Arkansas was the greatest rival because they were good and we were good, and yes it was the most hated place to go play, football or basketball. there was a stretch where smu was the most hated rival, for 2-3 years. I started watching Texas in the early 70s as a kid, so I don’t have a feel for the 60s. Aggie was always big, ou was always big, arkansas was always big. The better the other team, the more we lost to the other team, the bigger the hatred on our part.

It is sad to lose the great rivalry games. I’m not losing any sleep over it, but it’s kind of amazing to think we had 3 annual death matches and now we are down to 1. And I don’t think I’m overstating that. Those games were really that intense for the players and the fans.

What channel’s golf on?

Desperado’s on AMC. that Salma Hayek makes my knees quiver

What channel’s golf on?

Golf Channel

New episode of Bluebloods for me…

Hook’em

not over yet! good things happen to bill snyder teams

It’s interesting how rivalries work. Obviously, two teams have to be competitive to make it work..

Funny thing about the Arkansas rivalry — it really just mattered as long as Frank Broyles was there, and he didn’t win that much against Texas — it just always meant a lot in terms of conference and national prestige.

I wrote about it several years ago.

19-9 piggies at the half… assuming KSU doesn’t give up an 80-yarder in the last 20 seconds…

That was a bad, bad hit. I’m impressed that Snyder went out onto the field himself.

Snyder was hoping the stretcher would give him a ride to the locker room for half

srr50, great observations about the rivalry. I remember we didn’t care too much for sweet lou either. we dominated that series but arkansas got in some big wins along the way. Although there are many many more fine arkansas fans than ugly ones, their ugliest fans always came out for us. I have hated few teams more than the strollin nolan teams, even though so of the ugliest incidents happened during the lemons tenure. the basketball rivalry really fed the football rivalry, because they were so good; not the case with ou and aggie.

Ooh, rural Kansas!

Not sure if the modifier is necessary

Thomas Johnson has de-committed folks. And, I recently heard somebody else is leaving. This will shock everyone. Stay tune…

Not to worry—TGOD is coming!

DGB said that if Arkansas wins tonight, that he will pick them. Likes their QB’s. Not too impressed with what Texas has or will have.

Looks like K states Coach Snyder called out his team at half time.

So did that Kansas State drive look familiar to anyone?

Game on.

Who knew Klein could run it?

You do realize that WV fans are every bit the vile, backwards, inbred savages that polluted Fayettenam?

No one comes between Collin Klein and his blockers.

You do realize that WV fans are every bit the vile, backwards, inbred savages that polluted Fayettenam?

You say that like it was a Bad Thing…

Piggies’ QB Wilson making it look inviting for DG-B. WIlson’s a Jr, so next year’s his last. Whatta they got to follow him - is that our pitch to DG-B?

At what point do they release the run-away golf cart?

Jesus Prisonbitch Christ, K State, what a shitty effort.

Why couldn’t you leave instead of Mizzou?

My son played in the Longhorn band back in the days that Arkansas was still in the SWC. . He says the absolute worst road trips were to Arkansas and the Arkansas fans were animals. Much worse than even Aggies at College Station. Always had to wear their ponchos in Arkansas whether it was raining or not because the Arkansas fans loved pouring wet stuff and throwing shit on the Texas band members.

Texas/Arkansas rivalry really started in the late 50’s, prior to that Arkansas was never much of a competitive foe in football. The rivalry in the 60s was Texas/Arkansas. Texas dominated OU in the 60s.