Texas vs. TCU on Thanksgiving: Is That a Good Thing?

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it’s TCU. I suppose they’re OK but that’s not exactly a special matchup. Give me instead the fantasy annual Notre Dame match that we bandied about last summer.

is the best. Friday is terrible for anyone who doesn’t have the day off, might as well wait ’til Saturday. Plus, I used to go hunting Fri-Sun so always liked Thursday night best for that reason as well.

Doesn’t hurt that it gets me out of the in-laws house shortly after the meal either.

Finally, you know if we didn’t schedule it on Thanksgiving Night, A&M would try and take over that slot with one of their games and ESPN might oblige with their SEC contracts. Best to take that right off the table.

made it quite clear to me my Freshman year that she was not going to set out a place for me as she expected I would not be in attendance for our family’s celebration of Thanksgiving.

I’m okay with playing the Frogs on Thanksgiving night, and I’m fine with a Thanksgiving night game. I think, at least short term, there won’t be the venom there was when we played agricultural. I also don’t think TCU as a Thanksgiving opponent is etched in granite. Deloss Dodds likes to make a splash, and I still look for him to lock up a really big time opponent for the Horns to top off Thanksgiving dinner annually.

There will be some who can’t make it to the stadium due to family obligations, but this will be off-set by a number of people who can only make it to Austin because of the extra travel time the holiday allows. I lucked into tickets for the 2010 A&M game, and if it hadn’t been that weekend, I doubt I could have made it across the time zones. I certainly wouldn’t have been able to uproot Mrs. Flipteach and the wee Flipteachlets to go and and see us curbstomp the likes of Wyoming (hypothetically speaking, as there was a dearth of curbstomping that year) - the shorter travel window wouldn’t have allowed it.

The other bonus for a Thursday night game for the out of state Longhorns is that we’re pretty much assured of TV coverage.

Gives the folks (TCU ’70) a reason to come visit us on Thanksgiving for once. Do the tailgate and game on Thursday, shame my father for making me grow up rooting for those impotent purple bastards on Friday night around 11:00 after the UT win, and do actual T-giving dinner on Friday.

If it was on Saturday, We’d probably still have to drag our ass to the folks for dinner, only to come back for the game on Saturday.

Living in the Eastern Time Zone, the day and gametime don’t matter . . . I’ll be tuned in and everything else takes a backseat. TCU is fine . . . Tech or Baylor would’ve been fine . . . Notre Dame would’ve been great.

Overjoyed the Aggies are taking up somebody else’s time. There have been too many times in the past 20 years where Aggies plodded through home schedules with an ample number of empty seats . . . yet every Thanksgiving weekend, they were lauded for having the best fans in college football. Taking away that platform will be part of the personal bounty for which I will give thanks.

of a Cowboys season ticket holder. Standard practice has been Cowboys game on T-Day, head to the parking lot for big screen and T-Night UT game, make it home during halftime. Now I get the joy of heading over to Amon Carter after Boy’s games every other year. I’ll take it.

So I have to split Thanksgiving three ways: Mom, Dad, in-laws. As soon as they announced a few years ago that the games were moving back to Thanksgiving day, I called my wife and announced that she could count me out for Thanksgiving on even-numbered years; I would henceforth be in Austin that day.

In what I consider a brilliant stroke of thinking ahead, I suggested we change up how we did the holidays. We should have Thanksgiving with my family on even-numbered years, as my family understands football obsession and has no qualms with me bailing out of the function (which generally involves travel in some direction NOT toward Austin). I am thus excused from family functions on my side of the family. Since her family are aggies, on years the game was in collieville (and they wouldn’t dream of upsetting a family function to go to a dirty smelly football game and stand up for four hours like good aggies) it was always on TV at their house. Ergo, I get to spend Thanksgiving watching football instead of hobnobbing with aggie in-laws.

Might turn out to bite me in the ass now that aggie isn’t our opponent; they’ll have no interest in watching the ’Horns on Thanksgiving. Might be time to swap years again; that way I could be out of town for the in-laws Thanksgiving and home for TV games.

The tradition was about playing the Aggies and that game was special. (And it was played in the afternoon.) Now it’s just a schedule conflict with an NFL game. Eventually, the Cowboys will rotate through that spot and viewers will have a real conflict.