20 Reasons to Love College Football

[FirefightnRick]

North Texas' Boomer The Cannon comes in at #8.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2011-09-01/feature

"Boomer the Cannon

It is believed to be the only seven-eights scale smooth-bore muzzle-loaded cannon used at a college football game in the country. Yeah, we don't know exactly what that means either, but we do know one thing from experience: Boomer is loud. Alas, the deafening blasts rang a little hollow last season, which UNT finished without any home wins. But with a new head coach and stadium, perhaps this year it'll discharge some joyous booms"---BDS

Has a nice little photo in there as well.

Rick

Edited August 21, 2011 by FirefightnRick

[KRAM1]

Great to see Boomer as #8. FFR has put in tons and tons of work over many years. Without Rick, there would be no Boomer. Boomer is a tradition we can all count on and love. Boomer is a treasure and unique to UNT. I cannot wait to hear how loud Boomer is going to be in Apogee stadium, and I hope they have to get lots and lots of powder as UNT will be scoring a lot of TD's this year.

GO BOOMER...thanks Rick.

[FirefightnRick]

Thank you Classic.

Here is a lousy photo of the bit on Boomer in Texas Monthly.

I think it's crazy good that he made the top 10?

Rick