Roll Call For Tuesday

[Eagle-96]

I wouldn't normally do a roll call for a home game but this is on Tuesday night at 6:30 and I know some people can't make it from work in DFW or from around the region

My much better half and I will be there.

[mrsgreengoblin]

We'll be there by 3pm and ready to toss back a few cold ones!

[emmitt01]

I'm there with 4 first timers.

One is an OU alum, one is her husband (now he's an OU fan under penalty of death )

The other two are friends of theirs and I think OU alums as well. They hate UT just as much as I do so their good people in my book...be nice to them. Oh yeah, and two of them are DPD as well so be really nice to them.

Edited October 3, 2005 by emmitt01

[NTEagle08]

Heading out there after my 3:30 class, hoping that my professor will let us out a little early, but not holding my breath. But at the latest I'll be out at Fouts by 5:10 or so.

[greenjoe]

I'm there, but the wife unit is at a work related meeting, so I'm looking for a date. Gotcha seat on the 50 yard line right here.

GO MEAN GREEN

[EagleMBA]

Won't be able to leave the action until 5:00ish, so Mrs. Eagle and I will have to fight our way to Denton through the damned traffic. I hope to be there before the kickoff, but I doubt it. It takes an hour on Saturday afternoon when I can cross the Bush at 80 MPH.

We will get there, even though it's damned tempting to watch it on the tube.

[UNTSportsGuy]

I'll be there after the World Champion Boston Red Sox game is over. Sorry I don't live and die football but I will support my school all that I can.

[Eagle-96]

I'll be there after the World Champion Boston Red Sox game is over. Sorry I don't live and die football but I will support my school all that I can.

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From George Carlin:

Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game.

Football is a 20th century new world order paramilitary power struggle.

Baseball is played in a park...the baseball park.

Football is played in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.

The baseball field is...a diamond.

The football field is a gridiron.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.

Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.

In football, you wear a helmet.

In baseball, you wear a cap!

Football is concerned with downs. What down is it? Oh, it's the last down.

Baseball is concerned with ups. Who's up? Are you up? He's up! I'm up!!

In football, you get a penalty.

In baseball, you make an error...oops!

In football, the specialist comes on to kick something.

In baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.

Football has tackling, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, sacking, and unnecessary roughness.

Baseball has . . . the sacrifice.

Football is played in any kind of weather--rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog, major catastrophe, can't see, don't know if there's a game going on, mud on the field, can't read the uniforms, can't read the yard markers--doesn't matter, the struggle will continue.

In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play. I can't go out, it's raining out!!

Baseball has the s e v e n t h i n n i n g s t r e t c h .

Football has the twominutewarning.

And, of course, the objectives of the games are also completely different.

In football, the object is for the quarterback, sometimes called the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack which may consist of power plays designed to punch holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.

In baseball, the object is to get home . . . safe.

[UNTSportsGuy]

Why Is Baseball So Much Better Than Football?

by Thomas Boswell (1987)

All Super Bowls haven't produced as much drama as the last World Series.

All Super Bowls haven't produced as many classic games as either pennant playoff did this year.

Baseball has a bullpen coach blowing bubble gum with his cap turned around backward while leaning on a fungo bat; football has a defensive coordinator in a satin jacket with a headset and a clipboard.

Football players and coaches don't know how to bait a ref, much less jump up and down and scream in his face. Baseball players know how to argue with umps; baseball managers even kick dirt on them. Earl Weaver steals third base and won't give it back; Tom Landry folds his arms.

Eighty degrees, a cold beer and a short-sleeve shirt is better than 30 degrees, a hip flask and six layers of clothes under a lap blanket. Take your pick: suntan or frostbite.

Having 162 games a year is 10.125 times as good as having 16.

If you miss your favorite NFL team's game, you have to wait a week. In baseball, you wait a day.

Everything George Carlin said in his famous monologue is right on. In football you blitz, bomb, spear, shiver, march and score. In baseball, you wait for a walk, take your stretch, toe the rubber, tap your spikes, play ball and run home.

All gridirons are identical; football coaches never have to meet to go over the ground rules. But the best baseball parks are unique.

Baseball statistics open a world to us. Football statistics are virtually useless or, worse, misleading. For instance, the NFL quarterback-ranking system is a joke. Nobody understands it or can justify it. The old average-gain-per- attempt rankings were just as good.

While football is the most closed of games, baseball is the most open. A fan with a score card, a modest knowledge of the teams and a knack for paying attention has all he needs to watch a game with sophistication.

Without baseball, there'd have been no Fenway Park. Without football, there'd have been no artificial turf.

Fenway Park — There's a magic there unlike any other place in sports. There's a stateliness that transcends even the special things that have happened there.

Every baseball fan knows Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak is the single most unbreakable record in sports. Or maybe it's Ted Williams' .406 batting average in 1941. Or Nolan Ryan's 5,714 career strikeouts. Baseball's numbers are more than just numbers. They shake memories, provide reference points and are unlike those in any other sport.

Bull Durham/Field of Dreams — Baseball has inspired wonderful movies. Football has North Dallas Forty.

The World Series — Nine days. Seven games. Curt Schilling's stitched ankle. Priceless.

I've got nothing against football and I will be at all the games, I was just raised playing catch in the front yard with ball and a glove.

Edited October 4, 2005 by UNTSportsGuy

[UNTFan23]

Baseball is too boring for me with my ADHD. Kinda like golf.

[ThinkGreen21]

I've got football practice at my high school till 6, but you can bet ur a$$ im going to be there by kickoff... I've also got a few of my friends coming for the first time, I hope we play good enough to get them to come back..

[emmitt01]

Baseball isn't boring to me.

Red Sox fans on the other hand.....

GO YANKEES!!!

[NTEdgex2]

The three of us will be there. Can't leave until around 4:30-4:45, husband is in a class in Las Colinas until 4pm. We'll be there as soon as we can!

GMG!

[FirefightnRick]

I thought baseball was over?

I'll be there tomorrow with my green on, of course.

Rick

[NT91]

I will be there.

Baseball will always be my first love....

[UNTSportsGuy]

I will be there.

Baseball will always be my first love....

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Amen.

As for the MFY's, biggest Choke Ever. Enough said.

[THOR]

Once the kids are dismissed from school, I'm headed out there, hopefully to find some of ya'll.....this will be my first tailgating event, ya'll better NOT let me down!

[KingDL1]

Our group should be setup by 4:00 or 4:30 for some Beer soaked brats, ice cold long necks, and some Tequila.

Yankees Rule!!

Go Mean Green!!!!!!!!!

Edited October 4, 2005 by KingDL1

[ParksAndRecRick]

Thanks to a GRAND boss....ParksAndRecRick and the Gang will be at Fouts Tuesday....and yes I will have the banners in time for the Mean Green March!

See ya then!

And....remember....."WE Believe in the Mean Green"

ParksAndRecRick

[Rudy]

Well, crap. Tuesday was supposed to be my day to leave the courthouse early, but like usual, it got pushed back, so now I leave at my regular time 5:30. Luckily, I'm only about 10 minutes from Fouts, so I may have a little tailgate time.

[PlummMeanGreen]

Looking forward for the emergence of our entire offense AND........Super Jamario Thomas who will now significantly make his 2005 presence known Tuesday night at Fouts Field.

I hope our Greater Denton area casual and borderline fans understand that this is not merely a local or regional telecast but an ESPN II national telecasts; first ever from Fouts Field in Denton, Texas, America!

Tuesday night is about so many things with our athletic program and toward the top of the list is what Texas HS potential recruits see as the national TV cameras of ESPN II scan the fans at Fouts Field.

WANT TO GIVE ESPN's CRAIG JAMES SOME FUEL FOR HIS ANTI NON-BCS SCHOOL'S FIRE (especially he coming from the school that blackballs us at every corner when we want a new conference neighborhood)? THEN DON'T SHOW UP AT FOUTS FIELD AND THAT WILL GIVE CRAIG JAMES ALL HE NEEDS CONCERNING UNT...........

We need to be there in full force for this one and to all you out-of-towners who can pull it off with your jobs, let Island Eagle be your inspiration to come as he will make the 5 1/2 hour drive from Galveston to be at Fouts Field when he could have just as easily stayed home to watch the game in the comfort of his den or living room.

GMG!

Edited October 4, 2005 by PlummMeanGreen

[LadyGreen]

I'm there, cant wait!!

GO MEAN GREEN!!!

[UNTSportsGuy]

King, atleast we can agree on the GMG, otherwise, I don't think we could get along.

[fan19740]

I'm missing my first home game in five years. Sorry, but I'm traveling for work.

[EagleChick03]

How are all of you able to get there so early on a workday?! I'll be there but don't get off work till 6:30 in Carrollton. So it'll probably be late by the time I get there.