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  1. 7 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    Pleasanton High School,  Jalisco, the old version arranged by Doug Williamson back in the 60's. The new arrangement started in the late 80's or early 90's and sounds like shit.

    I like that one too.  I remember Lanier in San Antonio used that too.

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  2. Now, I know many schools, too many in fact, use college fight songs and that’s ok.  I still would like to know what fight songs y’all thought were best.  Of course, I’m biased to my alma mater, South San Antonio High School, because it’s a very unique song that I don’t recall any college ever using.  In fact, I was almost certain that nobody else uses our same fight song.  Unfortunately, I was wrong and I found out that Abilene Cooper High School has the exact same fight song.  Now, I’m on a mission to find out all I can about the song and to see who started using it first.  My alma mater is older than Cooper, 1922 compared to Cooper’s 1960, but that’s not enough.  Sadly, my high school sucks when it comes to media and school history so I don’t have a link to post of the song, but it gets me pumped up.  So, let me hear it.  What are the other fight songs out there?

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  3. I was raised on Gus Ball and learned how simple fundamentals could influence the outcome of a game.  My late father, who graduated from South San in ‘59, would always regale us with stories of how Coach Gus and the South San players would out coach, out hustle and out smart more talented teams to win several state championships.  My first trip to Disch-Falk Field was in 1976 to see South San play a state championship game against Duncanville and I was hooked.  The aura that is Texas Baseball and Coach Gustafson consumed me.  I followed every pitch, every hit and ever out from then on out.  I, too, graduated from South San in ‘86 and knew from a very young age that my South San Bobcats owed their identity to our basketball coach, Jimmy Littleton Sr., and even more so to baseball coach Cliff Gustafson.  It was a true honor when South San, again, made it to the state baseball championship game in ‘91 against Brazoswood and Coach Gus was in attendance at the game.  Since the ‘70’s, South San’s home stadium has been named Burrows Field.  Thankfully, in 2008, the South San Antonio ISD renamed the baseball stadium Burrows-Gustafson Field and presented Coach Gus a plaque memorializing the 50th anniversary of his first state championship at South San.  Here’s to hoping the UT administration will rename the stadium UFCU Disch-Falk-Gustafson Field and the baseball stadium after Coach Garrido.

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  4. It can be called The Lone Star Bowl sponsored by Dell or the Keep Austin Weird Bowl.  Austin has the stadium, the hotels, the entertainment venues and the fans willing to support it.  I know some will say we have too many bowls already, but with the increased number of FBS football schools, teams will be available.  Just an idea.

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  5. 1 minute ago, Skipper said:

    Interesting. If accurate doesn't necessarily mean part of the traveling party.  Regardless, for purposes of this thread, I think the report that practice is on is proof to the conspiracy theorists we aren't shutting everything down for the year because Herman is getting fired imminently.

    Eight total players that include one starter and one contributor.

  6. 2 hours ago, ChingoHorns said:

    My Tio and Tia have their house across the street from Burbank on Golondrina. When I would stay over we would frequent Blue Moon, Bolners for the pit and Diamond Shamrock or Sunglo for snacks 

    We used to throw the Southside Sun from about Division all the way to Burbank.  I used to remember they had a street called Bigfoot that used to make me chuckle.  We passed by Bolners all the time.  Bill Miller’s always had coupons in the paper and they would always wonder how we had them a day before they were supposed to be active.

  7. 1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

    After the Alamo Bowl we went down to the DR Tortilla Factory to pick up the 24 dozen cooked & frozen tamales the wife ordered two weeks before.. Have yet to discover any better.

    I remember hitting up the Tall Texan and getting some charbroiled burgers after kicking ass or getting our ass kicked at Don Bosco during CYO baseball on Saturday’s.  Then, my dad would take us to Baskin Robin’s on SW Military for a cone.  Sunday morning my mom would wake us all up with the smell of two pounds of all-meat barbacoa from DRTF with a dozen tamales, a pack of flour tortillas, a tub of hot sauce and three liter Big Red.  Spanish Mass always followed at noon and the world was right again.

  8. 10 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

    The waitstaff situation is correct.  It's been more than a few years since I've been over there (and need to get back),  so I don't know whether that is still the case or not.

    What year did the brothers have a falling out that resulted in the knock off?   I don't remember what year it was, but I though DP's opened a second location on Rittiman Road, or was that the knock off?   I remember drunkenly telling my coworkers let's eat there, their original location is great.  Turns out the food was "ok" but nowhere near DP's.   That's why I'm wondering if in my drunken haze I saw Don Pedro's, and not Dos Pedro's.

    The fallout between the brothers happened around ‘85 or so.  Our valedictorian was a waiter at the knock off restaurant and used to give us the rundown.

  9. 12 minutes ago, ChingoHorns said:

    All this talk of the southside has me missing home. Next time I’m up there I’m gonna be a fat ass and hit up all the spots. 

    Same here.  I live in Katy now, but my parents still live in the same house.  When I go down, I hit up DP’s and Blue Moon Cafe (right behind Burbank).  Little Red Barn every now and then too.

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