Ibleedgreen

You guys forget how embarrassed they must have been that so very few of their people attended our game last fall. They have to act arrogant because it is embarrassing to have fallen so far. Seriously, from the alumni side it looked like they had maybe 100-150 people and they are 30 minutes away.

You guys know what the definition of "class" is? Saying nothing negative about SMU, just winning the game with a smile. Seriously, don't stoop to their level.

There is no question that we will always be the North Texas Eagles, but we have called ourselves the Mean Green since the 60's...as a nickname. Thus, we are the Mean Green Eagles!!! GMG!

centex eagle... I have an idea. Let's give the university officials and the T-shirt distributors a box of 8 Crayola crayons and show them the green one. We'll tell them that is the green we are looking for...primary green.

Okay...I know I've beat this horse to death, but I realized something today. It isn't the kelly green I dislike so much. It's the turquoise green that the university has been distributing. Today was faculty/staff picnic and all of the nice folks who were dishing out the food on the library mall had shirts on that were the same color of light blue green as Dykstra's shirt in the picture. If they would only stick with the kelly that Todd Dodge is wearing (on the same webpage as Dykstra), I honestly would be all right with it.

I don't think I've ever seen a wrong shade of forest green...and besides it just looks better!!

Go to http://www.meangreensports.com/ and look at Dykstra's shirt. That is the shade of "green," (although it looks more like aqua) that just curls my hair.

Benny Cherry was from Vernon. He may have been instrumental in recruiting Darien Williams, also from Vernon. It's a small place but they play mean football....and we beat Gordon Wood's Brownwood Lions in 1966, one of the years when they were supposed to win the state championship, but did not.

Back in the 70s (I think it was), there was a golden eagle that attended all of the football games. His name was "Scrappy," hence the name of our mascot of today. I believe there was at least one other golden eagle that served in that capacity. I am not sure which organization was in charge of his care.

Plumm...This is a football board. Can we please leave politics out of it?

trud1966...You hit the nail on the head!!

I was there and was one of the very few who knew the words to the Alma Mater. I love my university, but I felt it was not the proper setting in which to raise the talon.

No, athletics will not touch it...it's the wrong shade of white.

bump...I'm curious, too.

Will season ticket renewal packages be mailed out this year, as they have in the past? Thanks.

Six roasted pigs???

Let me just say that I think it would set a terrible precedent and possibly do irreparable harm to our current or future donor-base if we fail to honor the wishes of our donors.

Thanks.

I've seen the new sign and I think it says, "Football Practice Fields." That's one reason I asked....I didn't know if those were the same fields, or not. Maybe I've forgotten exactly what it looked like. FFR?

What ever happened to the Andrew Smith practice fields? Did they take the money and decide not to name the fields after Andrew (as DD requested and McIngvale agreed to)? Or did they decide not to take the money? Or are the practice fields still on the drawing board? Thanks for any info.

ShopMeanGreen... I will not buy or wear anything kelly green. It's forest/hunter or nothing for me.

If I wanted to I could spend a Plumm Mean Green length post telling you why gun control IS needed, but let's not get into another political argument. And please....no name calling.

Plumm...In a perfect world the UNT branding committee would have sought input from the faculty, alumni and students about a color change. They asked us about the word marks and logo, why not the color change?

I am all in favor of mandating that UNT shirts will be green and white, as long as they are either hunter (forest) green OR a true kelly green, as oppposed to the toothpaste color that's been distributed the past two years.

Screaming Eagle...The sororities no longer have meeting rooms at College Inn. There are new sorority houses on sorority row.