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Posts posted by AeroHorn
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ISU-Iowa is very entertaining, for a change.
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Gundy could have done that in the last drive to give his kicker a shorter field, but he turtled as if he is at 5 yard line.
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17 hours ago, linux said:
Oh it is 100% fake, they have been doing this for decades, back when I was a lazy college student I used to visit so many forums from other teams and I literally caught an exact same post one from a Clemson fan and one from a Tennesse fan in their respective forums writing word for word the exact same post extolling the greatness of Kyle Field and the aggies. These were podunk backwater message boards with three people, so no way it was a Texas troll, why do they do this is a deepseated inferiority complex that would entertain psychologists for centuries.
The letters written by fans visiting us are real though.
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Author: Do it for rusty
Date: 11-27-01 18:26
I had my own horrible experience the last time the Buffs played down in Austin back in '97. Me and the wife and my neighbor and
his wife are great long-time Buff fans and we decided to make the trip down to Austin for the game.
We found Austin nice enough, and looked forward to a great day of tailgating and Big 12 football. We parked the RV together with
a few other CU boosters who had driven down for the game, but mostly surrounded by Horn fans. We got there around 9 a.m. and
broke out the beer and brats, and stoked up the barbecue. I'd brought my mutt Rusty, he was a 9-year-old Golden Retriever, a bit
gimpy from arthritis but friendly as all heck whose favorite thing in the whole world was to go to football tailgaters. I'd dragged that
dog all over the country - to Michigan and Nebraska in '94; to Wisconsin in '95 and never had any bad experience with Rusty - he
was the type of dog that would melt even the hardest Husker, who'd he greet with his favorite whiff frisbee in mouth.
Anyways, we were having a pretty good time at the tailgater, talking it up with other Buff fans and even breaking out some cold
and icy ones for a few Horn fans who stopped by to chat and talk about the big game.
It was mostly friendly stuff, except for one group of Horn fans in an old yellow school bus with back-to-back Longhorn and
Confederate flags who were directly to the right of my RV. From the time they got there, I sensed there was trouble. There was six
or seven of them, two of them apparently female. They were pretty loud and obnoxious from the beginning, blaring out what
sounded like Lynard Skynard or worse. The seemed to have showed up drunk, and were drinking hard liquor, straight from the
bottle. Soon after they got there, Rusty wandered on over and the biggest and meanest looking of the bunch (who they called
Tiny), with a big Longhorn logo tatooed his forehead, starts chasing him off yelling "GET ON OUT HERE YA Gawdang Buffalo
DOG!!!! Except he didn't say "dang". He apparently didn't like the fact that Rusty was wearing his favorite Buffalo doggie sweater.
Anyways, I just gathered up Rusty and we stayed to ourselves with other Buff fans trying to keep as far from trouble as we could.
Pretty soon it was time to go to the game, and I did what I always do with Rusty, I tied his teather to the RV, leaving him a bowl of
water and some food. I've regretted that decision a thousand times since then, even though at the time I'd thought nothing of it.
The trouble makers in the school bus by then were ignoring us, having been joined by other friends, and obviously intoxicated in
the extreme.
Of course we enjoyed the game, what with a Buff win and all, and found DKR to be an impressive stadium, even though the Horn
fans were as placid as Buff fans usually are. As we walked from the stadium after the game and approached the RV I could see
right away that something was wrong. The Buffalo awning attached to the RV and covering the picnic table had been knocked
over. I ran up to the RV calling Rusty’s name and to my horror saw that Rusty wasn’t there. The only thing there was his leash
and empty collar.
I looked frantically around for old Rusty, calling his name and asking anyone who would listen if they’d seen an old Golden
Retriever with a Buffalo sweater. No one had. I was nearly in tears when I heard laughter and barking behind me. I turned around to
again face the Horns on the bus, who by then numbered 10-12 or so. They were laughing, hollering and barking. I gathered my
courage and approached the group. Where’s my dog?? I demanded. All I got back was laughter and barking, and the big ugly one
just took a big bite out the huge Turkey leg he had just grabbed off the barbeque, dripping sauce all over his dirty Ricky Williams
jersey. “We ain’t seen no damn dog,” someone said, provoking more laughter and barking from the group. I was angry as hell,
looking at each of them eye to eye, trying to see in their faces what they might have done with my Rusty.
“Hey mister,” one of them finally said, “you hungry?” “Want something to eat?” I turned to look at the Hornfan minding the grill.
“We were doggone hungry, so we cooked something up!” The whole group burst into howling laughter at that point, more than one
spitting up food or liquor, bowled over and slapping each other on their backs. It was only then I realized where my Rusty had
gone. That wasn’t no turkey leg that Tiny was eating.
“You ate Rusty,” I said to the Horn fans.
Uttering that awful truth only sent the Horns into further laughter, and I did the only thing I could do. I turned around and walked
back to the RV. I told the wife that Rusty was gone and there wasn’t no point in looking for him. She could see I was upset and
started to protest but then looked in my eyes and saw that it was true and that was that.
Ever since that trip to Austin, I havn’t much liked Horn fans. Each Saturday when I hear the Football scores over at Folsom, or on
the radio, I take special pleasure when Texas is at the losing end. In August, I finally got me a new dog, a retriever, just a pup,
who we named Rusty II. He’s a great dog and loves tailgating, though he can never replace old Rusty.
This summer at the new Flatirons Mall, me and the wife ran into a group of CU football players. Marcus was there, and I think that
Joey Johnson kid was too (he’s from Texas). I told them about Rusty and they practically cried. Most of them had dogs as kids,
and didn’t have words bad enough for the kind of fans that would eat dog. I told them that I had moved on, not one to hold grudges
or to be hateful, even for such an awful thing. But I did ask them one thing. When you go into Austin this year, could you do old
Rusty a favor? Beat those Horns. Marcus told me, “we’ll win for Rusty.”
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I hope so. Sark has enough experience under Saban/Carroll coaching championship teams to be vary of overconfidence. I was just pointing out that a very good team with recent success and at home would still be dangerous even with a depleted roster.
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2 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:
No, they were not the underdog, they were Top #3-4, we were #11.
Which further proves the hypothesis that the underdog carries an advantage (moxie? Gumption? Can-do spirit?) that we won’t have this time.
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You all got the main point I was making, which is that Texas 2022 home against Alabama is more relevant than Texas 2023 away at Alabama. On paper, a weaker team (2022) almost/did win at home. Looking at 2023 is probably not as relevant because we were both playoff teams. Also, was Alabama an underdog last year? I don’t remember.
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5 minutes ago, HtownHorn said:
Wtf is this bullshit.
Your comparison is we are 2022 Alabama, and Michigan is 2022 Texas? Michigan doesn't have a fucking QB as good as Hudson Card. There is no comparison after that.
The point was about the mentality of the teams, whether visiting as a favorite (Alabama 2022, Texas 2024) or an underdog (Texas 2022, Michigan 2024), and not analyze the team makeup, matchups etc. The overall nature of the teams (top ~10) is close enough for this to hold true.
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6 hours ago, Mitch Cumsteen said:
I also get the Alabama parallels from last year, but it takes a different of a mentality to go in as the favorite instead of going in as the underdog. I don't care how many players they had to replace or how many coaches have moved on, anybody expecting anything but a dogfight is either a massive homer or hasn't been following college football for very long.
Exactly. The better analogy could be the Alabama game one year earlier. Alabama had the GOAT, had won an NC 1.5 seasons earlier, had played for another NC 2 games earlier, with a Heisman QB, coming to a team with a decade of losing and a new HC in his second season; and they were a missed sack from losing on the road.
we are not as good as those Alabama teams and Michigan is not as bad as our 2022 team, for us to be sanguine about an away football game against a very good team.
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It is pinned to the top of the Daily Texan.
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Both QBs are playing like veterans.
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ND playbook: don't commit penalties and don't play prevent.
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Does Elko think he is Leach, allowing the other team to score because of your awesome offense?
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So, ND should go for FG and burn two aggy TOs? Aggy will be left with ~1:45 and one TO.
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aggy not taking TO? They should have.
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that was a very good catch.
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ND is so predictable.
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1 minute ago, Hank Kingsley said:
ND calling two straight passes after a 7 yard run on 1st down is criminal.
running is their strength. The first down play is a success. of course, throw it to the DB.
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Isn't there a flag for flopping? If not, there should be.
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NIU against ND reminds me of App State against aggy. Just imposing their will.