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  1. 5 minutes ago, Hozz said:

    I was 5 and living in Houston for Earl's first season with the Oilers.  I became a Texas fan because of Earl.  Local high school was the Longhorns too, that probably helped.

    I went to the annual Oilers-Cowboys preseason game in 78 or 79 and learned from a helpful nearby fan that Danny White was a fag (dude screamed it at the top of his lungs every time he got a snap).

    Oilers losing to the Bills...man.  I was hung over watching the game at a friends house and crashed at half time thinking we were a mortal lock to advance.  Later, my buddy woke me up to tell me it was tied.  I told him to fuck off and let me sleep.  Woke up a few hours later to find him drunk and still drinking, staring at the TV contemplating oblivion.

    Oilers leaving Houston destroyed my faith in pro sports and it will never be restored.

    Was White really gay? I was too young to know anything at the time and haven't heard his name in decades unless he's also the current AD at UCF. 

    If I'm being totally honest, I guess I quit on the Oilers the day of the Bills game. That's how I've really always seen it. I only paid passing attention after that. I was a young teenager. We watched the whole game, of course, and I watched my father melt all the way down - moaning, pulling at his hair, jumping up and down and screaming violent shit at the tv, and then a buddy and I went to the indoor batting cages.

    I came home about 3 hours later and the living room was dimly lit with the tv off. My mother, who doesn't tolerate much bullshit about sports bringing the atmosphere down, pulled me aside when I came in and told me to just leave my father alone and he'd be better tomorrow. "Um, okay, mom. Where is he?" My Mother: "He hasn't moved. He's still sitting right where we was when you left. You didn't see him when you came in?" I walked back around the corner and sure enough, he was still sitting with one leg across his lap, chin resting on a fist propped up by an elbow, with a 1000 yard stare in the direction of the tv. Woke up the next day and he was fine. It was years before we spoke of that game in the apartment.

  2. 7 minutes ago, Saint Tacky said:

    Too many to tell.  When I was a producer at KTRK-13 I would go to the Oiler practice facility a couple of times a week during the season.  Some memories include Jeff Alm pretending he was going to drive his Cadillac into the group of reporters/photogs interviewing Jack Pardee in the parking lot.  Did a big fish-tail and sped off.  He died right after that (I saw the autopsy report, so don't bother). I remember Ian Howfield crying after he got cut for missing a chip-shot in Washington.  Saw Buddy Ryan and Kevin Gilbride's first altercation. Ray Childress got me kicked out of the facility one time for telling PR guy Chip Namias that I had told Ray to tell Chip to "get Jack's ass out here because was tired of waiting for him."  Actually collected on a bet with Cody Carlson I had made several years before when he was at Baylor.  We were at the same black-tie sorority event in Waco when he was quarterback there and I was a pup at Texas.  He was trash talking at dinner and I had finally had enough.  We bet on the Texas-BU game that year, and he actually remembered it when I brought it up later and paid up.

    I produced Ray Childress' show, and we also had Ernest Givins in studio every Sunday night after home games.  They were both good dudes to work with, though Ray's wife (a UT Tri-Delt) was more pleasant to be around.  Also did some of the "Off the Field" material and would go along to the players' homes to shoot interviews and b-roll.  Bruce Matthews, Mike Munchak, Chris Dishman.  When we would go over to the APC and would see Bud Adams' he would always say the same thing to Bob Allen every, single, time.  "Hey, Allen. What marriage are you on now?"  Then he would cackle as if it was the first time he ever said it.  Adams had to have been the inspiration for the Judge in "The Natural."  His office was in the basement of the APC, with no natural sunlight and the lights were always dim.

    I will also take partial credit in getting Jerry Glanville fired.  The day after they lost to the Steelers in the playoffs I was sitting in the office while Bob was doing the six-o'clock and a guy calls from Intercontinental Airport to tell me that Glanville is sitting out there waiting on a flight to Atlanta.  Within an hour I had a crew from our Atlanta affiliate on the way to the airport there, but only after Bob got on the phone and screamed at their anchor.  That guy would not believe that the Falcons would interview, much less hire Glanville. He refused, but eventually caved.  Glanville's face getting off the plane was priceless.  He was caught and he knew it.  We got the video via satellite about 10-minutes to 10 p.m., and Glanville had made the comment to the effect of he was happy to be there "because if you're not sleeping in Atlanta, you're just camping out."  Bob was livid.  He called Bud and played it for him over the phone and then went onset and just winged a 2-minute rant on what a piece of shit Glanville was and how he had dissed Houston, the Oilers, errybody.  They fired Glanville the next day (or, had a mutual parting of the ways).

    Last story.  After the Chiefs/Montana playoff loss I got fired for a couple of days.  The station was being remodeled and the sports department was outside in a trailer.  I had told the security guard to make sure the west side door by the heli-pad was unlocked so I could tapes to playback in time.  About 5-minutes before Tim Melton (my favorite guy) went on at 10 p.m. I ran out of the trailer with ALL my tapes.  Highlights  Post-game.  Everything.  And, the door was locked.  No one was coming.  No one was answering the phone.  So, I sat down on my ass and kicked in the bottom glass panel in and crawled through.  Otherwise, our whole Sunday sportscast would have been Tim tap-dancing for five-minutes.  The next day they brought me into the station manager's office, showed me the security tape, and fired me.  On Wednesday Bob Allen (RIP) called me and told me to "get back here."  I don't know what or how, but he and Tim went to bat for me.  Two of the best human beings you could ever hope to meet.

    Now just wait a fucking minute here, sir. "Too many to tell"? I think fucking not. If the other stories are anything like what you posted here, sit your fatass down and type some more out ... please. 

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  3. 15 minutes ago, SimkinsMan said:

    One of the future Aggy threads should be named "Fatties seeking Natties"

    This is pretty fucking great.

    16 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    Yeah, I agree, there's no rush. Except the rush to dismiss anything Boy George adjacent. 

    How could you take any of those seriously? I thought I was clearly being absurd.

    33 minutes ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    Texas Recruiting 2023: Oh, The Hermanity

    I still think this one is solid.

  4. 37 minutes ago, Hank Chinaski said:

    Haven't cared about the NFL since they left. 

    They made me realize that you have to love a team as a kid to care about it as an adult. 

    They always choked but you always forgave them.

    Earl Campbell. 

    Bud would have brought VY to Houston. As an Oiler. Goddamn you, Bud. Just goddamn you. 

    This is a perfect post. The only thing I feel beyond this post is that I enjoy actively rooting against the Texans. I do it quietly these days, as many of my buddies and family cheer for them now, but boy are they easy to root against. They do not give a shit about a single thing other than making money. Anyone thinking differently is going to continue to be disappointed. 

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  5. Those posters are doing exactly what Wiltfong/Elko intended - presuming they have the best visitor list. Both the RRS and LSU/Florida games have better visitor lists.

    The intent with that article isn't meant to manipulate fans, though. The ATM coaching and recruiting staffs are pushing that article out to every target on their list in the hopes of swaying them to come hang out where the action is. Achane's intentions have become clear today because he had to respond to the push attached to this. He was giving multiple places a "maybe" for the weekend. We'll see some more of that today, I expect. 

    It's going to be fun when Elko leaves ATM. The shine on the program will exit with Elko for ol'Steve. 

  6. 2 hours ago, Ricky's one-hitter said:

    Some buzz on the IT boards about Ty Moore

    https://247sports.com/Player/Ty-Moore-46082536/

    Copied from u/jonathan wells:
    He hasn't reported any offers on his Twitter account and doesn't have a great deal of college coaches following him; the most notable follow he has is probably Joey McGuire at Baylor, and a few other Baylor staffers also follow him. He's the son of Baylor head softball coach Glenn Moore.

    - He measured 6'1" 185 at The Opening Dallas in March and recorded a 4.22 shuttle and 32.4" vertical.
    - In his track and field career he has PRs of 6'4" in high jump, 22'4.25" in long jump, and 44'1" in triple jump.
    - He caught 41 passes for 805 yards and 8 TDs in 13 games as a junior, and through the first six games of his senior year he has caught 34 passes for 750 yards and 9 TDs. He also handles kickoff and punt duties, as well as KO and punt returns.

    Here's a few clips from his 8-catch, 142-yard, 3 TD game this season against Teague, makes some athletic moves after the catch: https://www.hudl.com/video/3/8522306/5d880387b3c84f0c98380e90

     

    If I could pass on names, I would, but for good reason, that's not the case here. If it helps, the dude is from CenTex. 

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  7. 13 minutes ago, Lobwedgephil said:

    Yes, he got very butt hurt. 

     

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    Liucci

    11:22p, 10/6/19 

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    A few things:

    They sure as hell appear to be half drunk. Fine by me but when they're traveling after a long day of college football but let's call it what it looks and sounds like.

    The Aggies knocked off No. 6 and No. 12 at home last year and took the national champs to the last play. Atmosphere in all three games was ELECTRIC and clearly gave the Aggies an edge...just ask the No. 3-ranked 2019 recruiting class what they thought about it.

    The actual big-picture point they're trying to make isn't a terrible one. A lot of visiting teams have come into Kyle Field and knocked off the Aggies in the 2000s. It's factual. The primary issue can probably be explained as simple as this: A&M has underachieved for a long time now and the Ags have changed coaches four times since 2002. In other words, the Aggies haven't generally been the higher-ranked or better team in most of those big games.  

    And one final note: I'm pretty sure the Longhorn fans trumpeting this little video have conveniently forgotten Herbie's "cesspool" comment regarding the Texas program and also choose not to remember the fact that they haven't beaten a top-10 team at home in 10 years outside of 2016, when Bevo knocked off a Notre Dame team that finished 4-8 and a mighty Baylor squad coached by Dave Odom that went 6-6.

     

    Dissecting dates and segmenting statistics to suit the narrative is a fucking way of life for aggies. Liucci probably teaches a class at Blinn on the subject. 

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  8. Something I keep forgetting to mention is that they really, really like Jonah Miller and he digs them. I didn’t realize it was as real as it is. Yes, they’re going to try to shoot the moon and get 6. No, there isn’t anyone that will prevent Byrd or the Brocks from being takes in this class. My guess is that if Miller wants to come, Foster’s mom fishes her wish. If Foster commits before that, nevermind. 

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  9. 7 minutes ago, Machinator said:

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    From: Eric Nahlin

    QUINN EWERS

    The 2022 Southlake Carroll signal caller capped the week he received his highly coveted Texas offer with a statement win over Denton Guyer. You're living right, Mr. Ewers.

    In that game, he accounted for 6 touchdowns including an attention grabbing 70 yard sprint down the sideline.

    While the 6-foot-3, 200-pound Ewers is a pro-style prospect he projects to be able to do enough damage in the run game to be a credible and consistent threat. You wouldn't build a run game around him, but you wouldn't need to. He can definitely be a damaging constraint runner in college. He shows a good plant and go on outside runs and they aren't afraid to call his number.

    Of course he's best known as a passer. On the season he's completing 73% of his passes and holds a 16/1 TD/INT ratio.

    Ewers has long been known as the next big thing out of Southlake and now he's proving why. He holds offers from Ohio State, Michigan, and Florida, but I'm guessing he has some that are unreported as well.

    I think these comments from @datvideoguy are worth re-posting from the Prospect Board because of the amount of high school football he's seen over the years:

    Ewers = best sophomore HS QB prospect the metroplex has produced since Matthew Stafford. If Ewers was a baseball prospect, he'd be a five tool guy. No weaknesses in his game. Great arm, can throw with touch, accurate, great feel in QB run game. And plus speed. Sneaky athletic too. He'll easily add 20-25 pounds to his frame in the next 4 years. Just a terrific QB prospect.

    Last week I mentioned Ewers grew up a UT fan. While it's early to be concerned with this class, it doesn't seem like he will prolong the process.

    I caught up briefly with his father, Curtis. Curtis used few words to say a lot.

    Visit plans?
    "Not many. He doesn’t really want to go to many spots. And yes he’s focused right now; however, he’s going to visit Clemson and Alabama."

    What about Texas?
    "UT will surely get one. Nothing is planned yet- as he can make that trip a bit easier than others due to proximity. Texas is home, and the top to him, but he does want to see what those others are like as well- but again he’s not interested in accumulating offers and playing games. He may commit early. My guess."

    Ewers is very likely to be rated a five-star quarterback. The same people who acknowledged Preston Stone as such surely should have him rated that highly. I didn't have Stone as a five-star but Ewers is probably deserving.

     

    The differences between Preston Stone and Quinn Ewers, when it is all said and done, will be dramatic. 

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  10. 5 minutes ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

    aggy visitor list.

     

    Perroni

    These are guys we have confirmed will be there. We will update it throughout the week with more names and also once we know more about Donell Harris. Last week, his plan was to likely head to Baton Rouge this weekend, but it's still up in the air. We also need to confirm with Noah Sewell as there has not been much talk on him since he originally said he planned the visit months ago.

    Almost all of the in-state commitments will be there as well. Akinola Ogunbiyi and Devin Price play on Saturday, so they won't. Shadrach Banks won't be there either as he always rides with Dematrius Davis and Davis is not able to make it.

    Kenneth Phillips III could be added to the official visitor list. He will know later in the week.

    In addition to A&M-Alabama, there is Texas-OU in Dallas and LSU-Florida in Baton Rouge that will have a lot of visitors as well.

    OFFICIAL VISITORS
    5-star Tomball WR Demond Demas (A&M commit)
    5-star Orem (UT) LB Noah Sewell (maybe)
    4-star Camden (NJ) Woodrow Wilson DE Fadil Diggs (A&M commit)
    4-star West Memphis (AR) OT Chris Morris
    4-star Memphis (TN) Briarcrest Christian DT Omari Thomas
    4-star Dallas Jesuit RB EJ Smith
    4-star Gilbert (AZ) Higley DE Jason Harris
    4-star Bastrop Cedar Creek DE Albert Collins
    4-star St. Louis (MO) Lutheran North LB Amntonio Doyle
    4-star Manor DE Princely Umanmielen (Texas commit)
    4-star Miami (FL) Gulliver Prep DE Donell Harris (maybe)
    Fort Bend Hightower OG Smart Chibuzo (A&M commit)

    UNOFFICIAL VISITORS
    2020 4-star Charlotte (NC) Myers Park WR Muhsin Muhammad III (A&M commit)
    2020 Richland (NJ) St. Augustine DT Isaiah Raikes (A&M commit)
    2020 Atascocita OL Jermarques Bailey

    2021 5-star Katy Tompkins DE Tunmise Adeleye
    2021 5-star Texarkana Pleasant Grove DE Landon Jackson
    2021 4-star Texarkana Pleasant Grove DE Marcus Burris
    2021 4-star Southaven (MS) WR Isaiah Brevard
    2021 4-star Houston Episicopal OT Donovan Jackson
    2021 4-star Marrero (LA) John Ehret S Kaine Williams
    2021 4-star Katy Taylor OG Bryce Foster
    2021 4-star DeSoto DE Shemar Turner
    2021 4-star Dallas Kimball CB Ishmael Ibraheem
    2021 4-star Grandview TE/DE Dametrious Crownover
    2021 Houston Episicopal OT Cullen Montgomery
    2021 Denton Guyer CB Deuce Harmon
    2021 West Memphis (AR) DE Renard Gwynn
    2021 West Memphis (AR) DT Terry Carter
    2021 Forrest City (AR) LB Marco Avant
    2021 South Grand Prairie LB Marsel McDuffie
    2021 Atascocita WR/TE Landen King

    2022 Port Arthur Memorial CB Jaylon Guilbeau
    2022 Dickinson TE Donovan Green
    2022 Lewisville WR Armani Winfield
    2022 Katy S Bobby Taylor
    2022 West Memphis (AR) QB Tevin Carter

    2023 El Campo RB Rueben Owens

    It's a good list. It's somewhat perplexing how someone can be both "confirmed" and "maybe", but, well, aggie. 

    I wonder how many of these guys are interested in ATM as much as they are seeing Bama play in Texas? 

    Captain Obvious here, but if ATM pulls a rabbit out of their hat and wins or plays it close with the crowd into it the whole way, that will suck balls. If they come out and get pummeled or just look lackluster, holy shit this is a bad hosting weekend. 

    Bama is fielding its worse defense in the Saban era, perhaps outside of 2007. I'm not pointing to stats and haven't looked. Having watched their games, they tackle poorly, they don't get the push with the front 3-4 that they often do, at least not as consistently, and the LBs are depleted and inexperienced. Obviously, their offense is amazing. I'm assuming the racehorses catching passes for Bama wind up being the difference, and they go up by 28 before the first half is over because ATM can't keep up and can't get pressure. 

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  11. 14 minutes ago, Burt Macklin said:

    Baylor was already winning pretty handily when that happened and Tech needed 5 TOs to win by 10. Maybe Duffey can sustain their offensive production, but they also lost to a really bad Arizona team by 14. Anything can happen, but Baylor is a heavy favorite in that game.

    Arizona isn't really bad. They lost to a decent Hawaii team and haven't lost since. You can tell me that the other 4 teams all suck, and that's fine. They still beat each of them. They're at 4-1, 1st in their division and the QB is looking closer to 2017 than 2018 as a player. I don't think Tech's loss to them, in Tucson and late at night, is that dreadful of a loss. 

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  12. I've been down on Baylor the whole way. They played no one in the non-con. The offense is meh. They don't have a ton of talent on the field. But they get after it on defense. Credit where it is due. I'd rank them 3rd overall now, and that's after having them 7th two weeks ago. 

    I feel like it is Texas and OU, then Baylor, and then the fall off is real afterwards. ISU hasn't done anything new to validate the preseason hype. They're a decent to good team that will play everyone tough. 

    Oklahoma State is the 3rd best team when they don't shit themselves with turnovers, but so be it, that's what they did. Immaturity is a thing here. 

    I don't know what to make of KSU and TCU at this point. TCU has no OL and no QB. That probably means they're headed to 7-5. I *think* KSU is tough, but I don't know how far that takes them, I guess.

    WVU is better than Tech and KU. Maybe they figure out a way to eek out a bowl, but I assume they're a 5-7 team. 

    It's funny, it seems like OU's been doing this thing where they look great and then come into the Cotton Bowl and Texas punches them in the mouth, and then it is anyone's game. People claiming OU is far and away ahead of Texas have a higher opinion of their schedule than anyone I know.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Fud said:

    WVU has two dudes on their DL, and so does OU (Perkins, Gallimore)

    Gallimore is not a dude. He's a bully and a pussy. The minute he's punched in the gut, he wilts. He did it last year when they played anyone with talent. He'll do it again. He's been beating on sisters of the poor up to now. I feel almost certain we'll see him pulled off the field for an injury at some point, only to see him back in there on the next drive. It's his thing. 

    Perkins is solid, but he's not explosive. The Stills guy was explosive and quick. I'm interested to see what, exactly, OU brings to the table this year on defense that has any new value. I don't expect much.

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  14. Collins should be a fucking 5 star. It is comical to witness where he’s ranked versus what he’s going to do in college. The $9.95ers will claim that no one saw it coming. We said on this thread a year ago that he should be a 5 star. 

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    2 hours ago, Longhornfrenzy said:

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    I should just make up a few takes on aggie recruits. Perroni can then just plagiarize them, like the unscrupulous fuck that he is, and give his readers something fresh. 

    Don’t forget that this guy is a lying piece of shit. It’s just that ATM’s recruiting is in total disarray right now and none of their guys know where anyone is headed. Elko has checked out and has his agent looking around. Several of the other guys are legitimately incompetent. They’re going to have to moneywhip mercenaries to salvage a top 12 finish and they might not pull that off. 

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  16. Liucci may be the closest thing I’ve seen to a real life Ignatius J Reilly. He’s totally irrelevant with everything he says. He fake works as a way of life. He says a ton and bloviates as though it’s a source of oxygen. He’s perpetually in cahoots with buffoons. His fantasy world involves him being some sort of omnipotent savant, which constantly leads to wrongheaded idiocy. And he’s trending towards the kind of big, fat ass descriptive of the character. He also has zero sense of humor and yet is the source of continued high comedy for those spectating. It’s kind of fascinating. 

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  17. 13 minutes ago, Harvdog said:

    No bait.  He’s uninformed.  He’s like a 50/50 mix of Chin pubes and EJ’s replacement. His opinions are based on bullshit....that’s the Lucci coming out.   Funny thing is, when Tunmise signs with Texas, he will claim he knew it all along and didn’t want to jinx his pick....and that’s at a Roach level of prognostication. 
     

    Knowing him and his family for as long as I have, I will stick with what I said 2 years ago.  

     

    12 minutes ago, Machinator said:

    Holy shit, he's doubling down.

     

    9 minutes ago, Acropora said:

    You know HankScorpio is a satire account, right(albeit a pretty hilarious one)?  I'm a little new here but I thought that was pretty widely known?

     

    5 minutes ago, Thiefery said:

    forget it, he's rolling.

    Ahhhhhhahahahahaha. Holy shit, this is outstanding. 

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  18. 17 minutes ago, Harvdog said:

    Wrong. I said 2 years ago that his father was a stickler for education. I think that’s what will make him choose Texas.  Tunmise is a kid. He’s 16.  Let him enjoy the process.  All his friends are going to Texas. He loves Texas and the coaching. Most importantly, his father loves the education.  When all is said and done, he will be a longhorn and that’s all that matters. 

    Oh, my sweet, sweet harvdog. It is one thing to get serious or worked up about something I wrote, but taking the bait from HankScorpio? Sir!

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