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Rimbo

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Posts posted by Rimbo

  1. We had 5 tickets; 4 for my parents, brother and sis-in-law, and one for me -- clear on the other side of the stadium. So I snuck back over to their seats and, being bleachers, squeezed in. There were a couple of USC coeds who would go "WHOOP WHOOP!" and drove us nuts. Well, they got quiet by the end there.

    When VY scored the go-ahead TD, you can actually hear on the recording the sound we in attendance made. I've never heard anything like it. My whole family and I went nuts. We all did. It was insane.

    After my brother and I left for college, football was how my family stayed connected. We'd fly in from wherever we were -- San Diego, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Amarillo, whatever -- and we'd be at the game together. I'm actually grateful to Mack Brown for all those Holiday Bowl games, since that brought family to where I ended up. Ha! And we had some great times... that 2008 OU game was a special moment, seeing Ricky's record-breaking run in person, and just getting to know the people we've sat next to at DKR-Memorial over several decades; every time I show up, it might've been 5 years since I last made a game, but we remember. And there were some shit times, like being at the game when Colt had his head bashed in, back when my son was young. My son didn't really grasp the magic of Texas football until 172 flights out of San Diego were canceled, including mine, and he got to see us bust up Clemson instead of me last year. And that 5-year period of futility against OU, or the 2010 BCS game against Alabama -- that was just me and Dad who could make it. As soon as Colt went down, we knew.

    Mom's gone, but I think she and Nicole's Dad are watching the games upstairs. Dad missed the A&M game this year so that I could go with my son, my brother, and HIS son. Say what you will about CDC but he's made gameday a heck of an experience. (Beating A&M helps, too. With all y'all 100,000 crazy fuckers being there with us.)

    Shit what was I talking about?

    Anyway...

    Yeah. That game stands alone. Mom said that if she ever became an invalid, just to put that game (and the classic MGM musicals on repeat for her on the TV). Well, I couldn't hook up video to the ICU for her, though I did get to play "Singin' in the Rain" for her. I think that was one of the few things that registered for her; she was really out of it.

    Anyway. Again. Thanks for reading this. 2006 was special for me. I knew when it we won in 2006 that nothing would beat that experience. Not just the win, not just the game, but being there with family. We might win another one, but it won't be the same without Mom and everyone being there.

  2. 16 minutes ago, Scholz said:

    I met Quan one time. He was fundraising for homeless folks. Couldn’t have been a nicer guy.

    He's the real thing. Nahlin going after him is... a choice.

    A bad choice.

    A very dickish assholish choice.

    7 minutes ago, WBT said:

    I know when Sark hired Gideon to begin with he thought he was going to be working for Muschamp. It still seems a weird career move to me to give up a DC spot. Surely he wasn't asked to leave after only one year?

    I know we're supposed to read the GT boards' response to this as "coping," but I think we can take it at face value; he wasn't quite ready to be a DC yet.

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