Interesting Piece from Szatmary's Column

[UNTLifer]

Denton RC

I’ve written before about how I hate the poser tradition of tossing tortillas at University of North Texas football games. But, if the Mean Green are going to try to do away with the custom that UNT fans pilfered from Texas Tech, then they’ve got to publicize it.

UNT doesn’t want the tortillas messing with the new FieldTurf but went about eliminating the pesky flat bread without so much as a word in the press.

During last Saturday’s loss to Louisiana-Lafayette, one of the Mean Green’s biggest and most-beloved fans, “Fire-Fightin’” Rick McKinney was escorted out of the stadium for misdemeanor possession… of tortillas.

Apparently, the Fort Worth firefighter and Mean Green alum was holding a bag of tortillas and was taken out of the stands by police, even though he claimed not to have thrown any. All the while, the Mean Green fans booed lustily.

McKinney was eventually allowed back into the stadium sans tortillas, and he returned to an uproar just in time to see the Mean Green rally back and take a 28-24 lead only to lose 31-28.

Classy.

Edited November 14, 2005 by UNTLifer