Undoubtedly many of you have already read the story about Coach Brown and his staff burying the game ball from the OU win along with some press clippings and other hype at the practice fields as a symbol of the team’s desire to put past victories away and concentrate on future opponents.
Normally when I hear things like this I invoke Han Solo - Chapter IV, Verse 2: "Hokie religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." But in this case, who am I to nerd out on Jedi Mack Tricks when it obviously worked. In fact, I think it’s time we explored how you, the totally committed and probably mentally unbalanced Longhorns fan is putting the Mizzou trouncing behind you and getting ready for Okie State.
What symbolic gestures, sacrifices, and other crazy "sh*t" have you done to stay focused and keep UT undefeated?
Hey, nobody's judging you hear...putting your daughter's stuffed animal tiger in the kettle of hot oil you use to fry turkeys was probably a little rash, but it had to be done, right?
Plus, you'll be helping me out. Because I can no longer think for myself, I’ll post the Top 10 responses later this week in 54b's Commentary. If you make the list, you won’t win a t-shirt, but you will win something much more important, the apathy of your fellow BONers. And you know that’s the gift that couldn't give a sh*t.
Okay, unleash hell...or just tell me, "it's okay, I'm sure writer's block happens to lots of guys."
54b
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Hmmm
Now that you mention it, I think I’d kinda like to have that OU game ball. Where did you say it was buried? (Let’s just call this the new ritual of digging up the buried game ball after the next game.) I might even deep fry it for Turkey Day.
Caradoc - October 21, 2008
I read the Mark Schlaback article until I want to Schlaback my eyes out.
pleaseplaykindle - October 21, 2008
I like to
stay awake for at least 60+ hours in the time leading up to the game so I can pump myself full of caffeine and go into a dreamlike trance at the games. It doesn’t put the past behind me but it makes me forget a lot about what has happened and helps me scream until my voice literally allows me to scream no more. Then I sleep for 15+ hours after the game.
I do this every home game. It’s fun AND painful.
HornPossessed - October 21, 2008
wow! me too ...
I also pace incessantly when the score is closer than 10 points and chew the hell outta my cuticles. And I’m convinced that the refs reverse a call if I yell loud enough at the TV …
…but I’m no longer allowed to throw things.
txex92 - October 21, 2008
Sig Quote
Who’s that quoted from? First guess Vince Lombardi?
“When you get to the end zone, act like you’ve been there before.”
pleaseplaykindle - October 21, 2008
nope ...
DKR himself. Canonize that man, already.
txex92 - October 21, 2008
Lou Holtz factor
Starting with the walk back to the car Sat. night I’ve been berating my wife and anyone else who will listen with just how good Dez Bryan, Zac Robinson, Hunter/Toston, etc. are. Basically if they are in the OSU 2-deep, they are an underrated All-American in my eyes this week.
Horncasting - October 21, 2008
I haven't
cut my hair or shaved since the start of the season. Doesn’t seem like much but my beard is huge and every saturday I go in thinking, Man i’d really like to not shave tomorrow. I’m starting to forget what my chin felt like, however, this season that is an amazing feeling.
jacobb23 - October 21, 2008
I didn't wait until now
Whenever I’m down, I drink so much that my only lasting memories are happy memories.
Meekrob - October 21, 2008
I wear the same shirt every single game until they lose, at which point I switch shirts. I do not wash this shirt in the interim because then it would lose whatever mystical power it has. I did this the entire 2005 season. That shirt was pretty rank by the end of the season, even with the weekly febreezing.
This year’s shirt is holding up pretty well so far. I try not to do much in it to avoid sweating on it. Because there’s no way in hell that shirt’s getting washed until we lose, be it this year, next year or 2010.
billyzane - October 21, 2008
Same shirt thing for me
This year’s is your standard burnt orange with a large white longhorn in the middle. I was torn for the OU game as to whether to wear the VY Rose Bowl jersey over the T, but opted to just leave VY with his own seat at the table.
I also heard SEChlaback report that Mack is going to eat and pass a cheesecloth (a la Andy Kaufman with the Tony Clifton character) symbloic of putting the Mizzou game fully behind him. He’s a college football expert so this must be true.
Horndogger - October 21, 2008
Another shirt thing, with a twist...
For Mizzou, I wore not only my 2008 season game day shirt, but I also wore underneath the same burnt orange Bevo t-shirt that I wore to every home game and the Big XII championship game during The Special Year. For this coming Saturday, my daughter unfortunately scheduled her wedding for the Okie Lite game, and out of state at that. So, to compensate, I will still wear the same t-shirt, underneath my Father of the Bride tux. SURELY this deserves a t-shirt…I’m doing the very best I can under extenuating circumstances and great duress…!
HOOK ’EM…!
Horns757 - October 21, 2008
You're actually going to that wedding?
Man, that’s fatherly dedication!
horndude - October 21, 2008
Yes...
the sacrifices we make for our children. What makes it worse is she is a UT grad…she should have known better. Her fiancee is a Clemson grad, so he’s quite happy to have an excuse not to have to watch football anymore…! In fact, because of unfounded pre-season smack talking, our family has barred him from even mentioning Clemson football.
HOOK ’EM…!
Horns757 - October 21, 2008
Probably too late now
to bribe her to elope, huh?
Longhorn in Canada - October 21, 2008
Tried that...
They didn’t go for it…women are sooooo sentimental about weddings and such.
HOOK ’EM…!
Horns757 - October 21, 2008
Tradition
I matriculated at Texas during the Mackovic era, so my gameday tradition was to get drunk and yell at the Defense for playing with its collective head up its a$$. Now I get REALLY drunk and yell like a maniac during all the fantastic plays we make on D. Will Muschamp, I wish I could quit you. (Not really, we need to pay him whatever it takes to stay…I’m thinking low 7 figures).
98horn - October 21, 2008
I was so moved by the action,
I had a vasectomy Friday so I could be more like Bevo (or so I told my Land of Theives buddies).
Bevoboy94 - October 21, 2008
And spent most of Saturday..
drugged up and sedated like Bevo. Did come out of my seat on the fist play from scrimmage.
Bevoboy94 - October 21, 2008
Leader in the clubhouse
54b - October 21, 2008
Understatement. nt whills.
Shake - October 21, 2008
Ouch
Did you at least have the bag of frozen peas along with you on the couch? I’ll bet no one even attempted to take the remote away from you all weekend.
beast in bama - October 21, 2008
Did work out great for me..
Watched football all day Saturday and NASCAR Sunday. Would rather have been in DKR though…
Bevoboy94 - October 21, 2008
a bit of an overshare, doncha think??
do the hallmark people even have a card for that? Wow. Sympathies, man.
txex92 - October 21, 2008
keepin' it real
Upon arrival at the office each day, the following must occur in a specific order:
1) Give Sooner-Boy (who neither attended school, nor resided, nor has family ties there) the finger upon passing his office.
2) Vigorously expell gas in Tortilla-Man’s office (whether he’s in it or not)
3) Ask Agro-Maniac if his shirt comes in a men’s size upon passing his cube
Never let yesterday impare one’s ability to make thine enemy aware of his rightful place.
Mad Dawg's Chain - October 21, 2008
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
must be nice to be a guy and be able to get away with such juvenile behavior now and then …!
txex92 - October 21, 2008
I love you too Gorgeous...
muah! (and Hook Em)
Mad Dawg's Chain - October 21, 2008
you had me at #1 on the list (bats eyelashes)
I ’bout fell outta my chair. That was laugh-out-loud hilarious! HOOKEM!!!!!!!!
txex92 - October 21, 2008
OMENS!
Well, I don’t really have a ritual, but I notice omens of a Longhorn victory everywhere. I was in Kentucky during OU weekend and everywhere I looked I saw Longhorn garb. An old man on our flight from Los Angeles to Louisville was wearing a cap, some kid on a field trip in a Shaker village in Kentucky was wearing a t-shirt, a woman in Louisville had on a sweatshirt. Then, last weekend here, home in Hollywood, I saw someone walking into the grocery store before the Mizzou game wearing an burnt orange polo, and when I got inside an old dude was leaving wearing a Horns cap. Workers of the world unite! Er, Hook ‘Em! Say all you want about it’s just a natural extension of IMG pimping us out all over the world, an example of us being the biggest seller of NCAA goods, yada yada, but you know the truth as well as I do…omens. If it means me driving around California for 6 hours before the game on Saturday I will find someone….anyone…unwittingly cementing a victory for us by their garb.
KevinJ - October 21, 2008
Routine
I wear the same shorts, boxers, TX t-shirt and tennis shoes to my sons soccer game every Saturday morning. I’m sure that the other parents are convinced I have no other clothing. It’s nothing drastic, but I’m not changing up my attire for the rest of the year no matter how cold it gets!
txfan76 - October 21, 2008
Same here
I wear the same pair of shorts and the same shirt but I also throw a lucky pair of tattered Star Wars boxers over my lucky briefs.
HornPossessed - October 21, 2008
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