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I know this will only come across as more UT bashing, it's not, but if you get a chance pick up a copy of the Dallas observer (The one with the picture of the Halo character on the front). There is a small opinion column in there making fun of the sudden rush of "life-long longhorns" sprouting up in DFW. And it's not anti-UT, just anti-boot licker.

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I know this will only come across as more UT bashing, it's not, but if you get a chance pick up a copy of the Dallas observer (The one with the picture of the Halo character on the front).  There is a small opinion column in there making fun of the sudden rush of "life-long longhorns" sprouting up in DFW.  And it's not anti-UT, just anti-boot licker.

That's funny E. I keep reminding the tU followers I know to hang onto all that garbage their buying up in the stores because when OU lay's another big one on them some time in the future I want to see them wearing it then, as they are today.

Rick

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Tex-cess

Everything's bigger in our state, especially the fan fakery

By Richie Whitt

Article Published Jan 19, 2006

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Who / What:

UT Longhorns Rose Bowl victory

How 'bout them Dallas Longhorns!

What a great story. Vince Young, raised on the tough streets of Oak Cliff, survives to star at Carter High School and eventually matures into the leader of the nation's No. 1 college football team. Wow! And it all happened here in our own backyard.

Right?

It must've. Why else would The Dallas Morning News produce a special section on the Longhorns' Rose Bowl victory and a full-page color poster of Young? Why else would the racks of Longhorns Rose Bowl T-shirts at the Kroger near The Village be empty the day after the game when the day before they were almost full? Why else would shameless family restaurants like Beef O' Brady's in McKinney institute a cover charge during the national championship game? Why else would a local Ford dealership run radio ads congratulating "our national champs"? And why else would Dallas' No. 1 sports radio station, 1310 AM The Ticket, carry Young's press conferences live?

Because the Longhorns are our team? Uh, nope. Because in Dallas, we lead the nation in bandwagoning.

As former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman said back in 1991, "This isn't a football town, it's a winners town."

Never has that been more apparent than in 2006, when Dallas' fake frenzy over the University of Texas' national championship almost made us forget that Austin is a good 200 miles south, that our city is home to a competitive Division I school called SMU and that our skyline's most unique building is bathed in argon green not burnt orange. Unless UT's Dallas-based enrollment/alumni has suddenly spiked to around, oh, say 1.2 million, I'm guessing a lot of you have enjoyed a happy new year hijacking a successful athletic team for the purpose of selfish emotional fulfillment.

"It's not right at all, but it's easy to explain," said Ticket co-host Greg Williams. "UT is the face of college football in this state. I don't care if you're from Texas A&M or Sul Ross or are just a marginal fan with no affiliation, it's easy to get your arms around Texas winning the championship."

At 24 Hour Fitness there are more Texas T-shirts than resolutions and beads of sweat combined. In the express aisle at Tom Thumb there are MILFs checkin' out more magazine covers featuring Mack Brown and his trophy than Angelina Jolie and her belly. And at Bob Thomas Ford, they're awfully proud of their latest commercial:

"The Longhorns' championship makes you proud to be a Texan, no matter where you went to school."

It does? I don't want to piss on our parade but, pssst, it's not our parade!

I'm not sure whether I need to be embarrassed or I want to be evicted. Talk about pride all you want, but know this: When the University of Southern California won the title last season, the folks up the coast in San Francisco were way too proud to go dancin' in the streets or go slappin' full-page posters of Matt Leinart in their major-market newspaper.

San Francisco: "Damn, I can't wait for the day when our team wins."

Dallas: "Yee-haw! At least they're from Texas!"

And your local paper served as choreographer to the whole coattail caravan, all but screaming "We Win!" On Monday, a full 13 days after Texas' 41-38 victory over USC, the DMN was still running photos of Young on page 1A. On its Web site, the paper continues to offer a special section dedicated to the Longhorns, including Texas-themed desktop wallpaper.

Indeed, all my excess lives in Texas.

This from a paper that lives down the street from SMU, 30 miles from a TCU team that finished 11-1 and in a city that is home to neither Texas nor any member of the Big 12 Conference. Makes you wonder who runs the rag these days, Belo or Bevo?

"There's a lot of UT alumni here, sure, but there are a lot from OU, too, and they didn't get the same treatment when they won the title," Williams said. "And I don't think I recall any Pony Express posters when SMU flirted with the championship back in the '80s. How they covered UT like it was Dallas' team was more than a little strange."

Here's betting that 35 years from now, when SMU wins its next championship, the Austin American-Statesman doesn't borrow the DMN's headline: "No. 1, Y'all!"

Posted (edited)

What a great story.

What a boor. tongue.gif

It must've. Why else would The Dallas Morning News produce a special section on the Longhorns' Rose Bowl victory and a full-page color poster of Young?

Hmm. Just guessing, but perhaps because it's the first national championship in football for any Texas-based D1 university in 35 years?

Why else would the racks of Longhorns Rose Bowl T-shirts at the Kroger near The Village be empty the day after the game when the day before they were almost full?

Maybe because lots of impressionable teen-agers and klingons who like to "belong" jumped on the bandwagon. What's news about this phenomenon, Ritchie? C'mon Richie, you were a Cure-baby back in the '80's--admit it! tongue.gif

Why else would shameless family restaurants like Beef O' Brady's in McKinney institute a cover charge during the national championship game? Why else would a local Ford dealership run radio ads congratulating "our national champs"? And why else would Dallas' No. 1 sports radio station, 1310 AM The Ticket, carry Young's press conferences live?

See: Business 101, Richie.

As former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman said back in 1991, "This isn't a football town, it's a winners town."

Hammer. Nail.

Unless UT's Dallas-based enrollment/alumni has suddenly spiked to around, oh, say 1.2 million, I'm guessing a lot of you have enjoyed a happy new year hijacking a successful athletic team for the purpose of selfish emotional fulfillment.

Boo-freakin' hoo, scrooge. tongue.gif (Note to Richie: I was excited and proud when the Spurs and Rockets won NBA titles, too, but I'm not sure if I felt it in my soul, or anything.) laugh.gif

"It's not right at all, but it's easy to explain," said Ticket co-host Greg Williams. "UT is the face of college football in this state. I don't care if you're from Texas A&M or Sul Ross or are just a marginal fan with no affiliation, it's easy to get your arms around Texas winning the championship."

Hammer. Nail.

San Francisco: "Damn, I can't wait for the day when our team wins."

Dallas: "Yee-haw! At least they're from Texas!"

laugh.gif

And your local paper served as choreographer to the whole coattail caravan, all but screaming "We Win!" On Monday, a full 13 days after Texas' 41-38 victory over USC, the DMN was still running photos of Young on page 1A. On its Web site, the paper continues to offer a special section dedicated to the Longhorns, including Texas-themed desktop wallpaper.

$$ Yawn.

This from a paper that lives down the street from SMU, 30 miles from a TCU team that finished 11-1 and in a city that is home to neither Texas nor any member of the Big 12 Conference. Makes you wonder who runs the rag these days, Belo or Bevo?

"There's a lot of UT alumni here, sure, but there are a lot from OU, too, and they didn't get the same treatment when they won the title,"

The Hammer is smarter than this. He knows full well what influences are at work, but he's not going to say anything, because he works in that arena. tongue.gif

I hope Richie will write the same column when UNT wins a BCS bowl. I also hope that the DMN, DRC, and FWST have front page coverage. I will expect it.

What a pissy little b*tch. rolleyes.gif

Edited by LongJim
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That's a great, freakin article. Thanks Silver for finding that.

SO EXTREMELY DEAD ON!

Thank you Ritchie Witt.

And my favorite:

As former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman said back in 1991, "This isn't a football town, it's a winners town."

Your wrong Mr. Aikman, it's a winners state!

Rick

Posted (edited)

If I went to the University of Texas at Austin... (UTA?) I would be freeking happy over the "BCS National Champion" team.

When the Baylor Bears were playing for a real national championship in womans basketball, I started to cheer for them. I hoped for them to win. I hate Baylor. But, I have many friends who go/gone/graduated from there. I was very happy for them escpecially for the coach and the women players who came from under the awful fog still lingering over Waco from the mess the men's program created.

And, I am happy for the Longhorns. But, It's only a mythical national champion until they fix the system. The BCS is about as flawed as flawed can be. And, If you look at how much money UT(A) spends in athletics... I'd be a damn pissed alumn if "national champion" were not on my shirts every few years. Even if it were only the BCS version.

Edited by gruu
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.... that our city is home to a competitive Division I school called SMU.....

Here's betting that 35 years from now, when SMU wins its next championship....

What has he been drinking? blink.gif

Posted (edited)

---Sorry SMU, Baylor etc .fans. But when a state team wins, the name of our state in listed in the university name and that will "create" a lot of fans of that school due to state pride and state loyality. UT is even the extreme case since it is often just refered to as "Texas". Unlike universities in a lot of states at least 90% of the players on most Texas college teams are from in-state so you are often seeing players you knew about from their high school days.. Often the out of state players actually have some Texas connection by way of parents, grandparents, etc. or else they live a few miles from the Texas border.

---As for SMU and some of the private schools, you might notice that the other state schools have't trashed us (or others) in the press [as SMU does regularly] nor have they done other actions to harm us [as did Baylor, TCU and SMU when they opposed our admission to the SWC or their fan attitude toward us in general]. SMU especially isn't all that Texan anyway...lots of out of state students. SMU would have better support if they did not have the "God, I am Great Attitude!!" which turns people off. Baylor comes across as "too Baptist" for some people in the general public to support them.

---I have no problem supporting those state teams against non-Texans, with the possible exception against nearby Belt-teams. After all... I am very TEXAN.

Edited by SCREAMING EAGLE-66
Posted (edited)

  Baylor comes across as "too Baptist" for some people in the general public to support them.

---I have no problem supporting those state teams against non-Texans, with the possible exception against nearby Belt-teams.  After all... I am very TEXAN.

Hey SE-66, Baylor comes across "too Baptist" except to the almot 3 million Baptist who do live in the state of Texas! LOL! smile.gif

But from stories I've heard thru the years, there are some pretty liberal PK's (preacher's kids) who go to Baylor U and those being the ones who have left their most conservative family nests for the first times in their lives. (Of course, some of us Methodists are the ones who taught them how to dance and drink those spirits of the vine.smile.gif

Edited by PlummMeanGreen
Posted

I am a Texan to the core, but I am glad it was my friend I was putting on a plane heading back to the orange state.

It would be disgusting to live in the land of the bandwagon this year.

It's my state but it ain't my team!

GMG

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