OK, who wants to offer me refuge from Longhorn-mania?

GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE!

It's only sports. Life in California is better. B-)

Every where I go will be national champions this and national champion that. Bumperstickers, t-shirts, etc, etc...I've got to get away.

basketball championships, you can help me put up the flag.

I have no clue. :eyes:

There is a HUGH party with all kinds of food and what not. You don't want to miss it. Trust me.

Yeah, right.

Here is the truth. It is me and my kids jumping around the family room yelling UCONN rocks and singing the fight song while wearing UCONN tee shirts.


Are we pathetic or just spirited?

Nothing pathetic about winning.

I was about to say "Actually they're calling it Vista now."

sigh

:evilgrin:

Hey, that was kinda low. Sorry about that. Can I buy you a new hat?

I got a place for that hat alright...

If you move to Columbus, you'll be with many Longhorn haters.

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:D

*high five*

*back at you*

And the bookstore was selling Illinois shirts that simply said "Ann Arbor is a whore" on them.

Hysterical!

Unfortunately, meat is hard to come by as well....but there is a lot of pot...

...I'd go!

:eyes:

except that GOPisEvil is a forgiving and therefore good human being.

And it'll be ok. I'll survive. :D

:D

:D

I do have commitments here until March...after that...

cute!



March will be here before you know it!

I know I owe you an e-mail as well. I'm going to send it as soon as I'm done with the basic paralegal course, so I can list it as complete. Otherwise I'd have to send an update. I finish Feb. 24. :)

Oh, look what I found:

LOL you know that whippy thing cracks me up! :rofl:

No worries on the resume... just wait until it's ready before sending.

The one getting whipped is so blissed out! :rofl:

...for you to come up here and be my kept man.


Indoor sports, only. :7

:7

:D

Well, you know I'm good for a visit whenever Ramsey's thing is. As long as it isn't during south by southwest, I'm there.

Man if I knew I had to get the upgraded badges to get into the Robert Plant keynote speech I would have paid for them in a heart beat

:loveya: Robert Plant!

Neil Young would be interesting though.

:D

Maybe there's some sort of hypnosis that could help you get in touch with the your inner UT spirit. I know it's harder for Aggies, but I bet there's something that could be done to turn you into a Longhorn...just think how GREAT it'll feel knowing your team is the NATIONAL CHAMPION! :evilgrin: A&M can't give you that. We have more to offer you. Surrender to us.

Look on the bright side...atleast we're happy Longhorn freaks instead of moping, irritable Longhorn freaks.

Hook 'Em!

It's hilarious. The same offensive coordinator that was an idiot for the last however many years suddenly looks smarter doesn't he? :D

I would never sell out my school to be a front-running bandwagon jumper. I made my bed, I'm laying in it.

because it sounds like you're going to be in it for a looooong time! :P

lol, ok, no more bitchy longhorn attitude from me. I got my gloating off my chest with this thread.

The offensive coordinator still doesn't look smart to me, he just looks lucky because he had Vince Young to work with. The problem with UT is that it's too dependent on just one player...although the offensive line allows Young to do his thing so I guess I'm not totally right on this point.

Ever since I got back from Japan 5 years ago, I've been out of the loop when it comes to football (especially the NFL). I need to start watching more...I miss it.

But, I'm loyal, so...

DH & I were both rooting for USC last night. When the team ran on the field as the band played "Texas Fight," I spontaneously and enthusiastically began singing along with "Texas bite...Texas bite...Texas jump up and bite my ass...." He nearly killed himself laughing. "I take it those are the special Texas A&M lyrics?"

:rofl:

:rofl:

Can you write lyrics like that for OU? I'm not clever enough unfortunately....

Wish I could take credit for it, but there are legions of Aggies who were no doubt singing along with me last night. ;-)

My husband's office was one of those blackout windows
(on the 17th or 19th floor-- I can't remember-- grad school was forever ago).

Anyway, we had to protest the UT admin to make them light the damned tower
for a Nobel winner!

here...but you'd still have to listen to people talk about it. ;)

Much fewer people wearing that...shade of orange.

by the number of people I've seen today in USC-gear. More than I saw yesterday even!

I think they want to show the Texas fans that they're not going into hiding. ;)

...and they're going back to Texas. }(

they are! I've heard, "they may get the trophy, but they have to take it back to TEXAS" more than once today. ;)

;)

some Texas fans' choice of clothing. In particular: "burnt orange shirt tucked into white shorts, socks with sandals...and a damn cowboy hat!" or "Wranglers and a cowboy shirt!"

But mostly we all just want our city back. ;)

...it's no wonder I want out. I may not be the most fashion-conscious person around, but even I know better than that. ;)

I could try to find an empty sofa for you. Here you will have to deal w/ the madness of MU/KU and the nasty rivalry instead.
And you'll having to listen to a lot of talk about what will the Chiefs do w/o Vermeil.

We don't care here. But we're going to Bullwinkle925's house in California Saturday - you're welcome to go with us!

:pals:

OK, so not a sea, but there were lots of people wearing Texas stuff.

Eh, I'll get over it, but the constant barrage is getting old already. :D

it was old at 10 this morning! :)

Not that I mind all that much since I'm a fan, but almost everyone is wearing a UT shirt or sweatshirt today. In our defense however, Austin has never been a bastion for high fashion so wearing ugly colors shouldn't bug GOPisEvil THAT much. If not burnt orange, then most Austinites would be wearing some other ugly colored shirt with their jeans or khakis :)

There was this guy on the news this morning who's from out of STATE and he's wearing orange and talking about it nonstop. And he's a winger, too... bleah!

All these "t-shirt Longhorns" who actually went to another school, but are Texas fans all of a sudden make my head explode. I'm a fan of my school's team win, lose or draw. I'm not jumping on another team's bandwagon just because they're the home team.

I can't get that excited about college football... decades in between championships or not, I just don't care.

Hell I barely care about sports at all anymore. And it has nothing to do with the cowboys getting shut out of the playoffs, so don't even think that.

at least this year they are a pretty promising group of cagers.

I'm not the world's biggest college basketball fan, but I have heard Indiana is pretty good this year.

Big Ten Opener - against Michigan. Didn't think I would still be in town and passed them on to my nephew and neice. Her first Hoosier (in person) experience. I ended up in town - and it was a great nailbiter. Hey, at least I gave my niece her first game... Couldn't grow up in B-ton in the era of one of the top five college teams ever (lost one game - during the tournament - over two seasons...) and not become a tad bit hooked. :shrug:

We were living near Champaign, and the Hoosiers came to play Illinois. My dad LOVES Bobby Knight, so we went. Illinois won. :)

between championships ;-)

Back in 1992-93 I was in the Ann Arbor - during the early Fab Five era... they were tons of talent - but didn't play with any coaching... can I tell you how many beers/dinners I won on bets on the two Indiana vs Michigan games that season. Let's just say, my pocketbook wasn't hit as hard those months as usual :D

Suckering hometown fans is tons of fun. :D

and a bunch of guys who barely played in the previous two years... *snarky hoosier fan response, over* Seriously - it is always a kick to topple a team that has just won the championship.

Sorta like how great it feels for any team that beats Duke.

In fact, when Indiana did its surprise run to the Championship game a few years ago - it is attributed (the run during the tourney) to a comment from an asst coach for Duke. They were in the same regional - and Duke played Indiana in first in the round; in the coaches meeting this jerk asked if Duke would get a specific lockerroom for the finals (of that round). Implicit - before a minute of their game was played they assumed Duke would walk over Indiana. Guess it fired the Hoosiers up - who beat DUke - and then others until they couldn't overtake Maryland in the finals. Really - they were a great scramble team - but way overplayed (meaning played much better than the team they really were) during the DUke game and subsequent games.

Point being - I do get how great it is for the home team/fans to beat a team that is perceived to be *the* team.

But I just enjoyed the game. I was 9. :)

I'll never forget when Texas went to the final 4 and A&M beat them in Austin. :rofl: Our team SUCKED that year, but that was a highlight.

does sound like a moment to relish!

We're not playoff eligible for any DI sports for another 2 1/2 years, so you won't have to worry about the postseason for a while.:D

To paraphrase Lewis Black, it's so cold up there I no longer wanted to be a student, I wanted to be a bear.

:puke: