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Fuck.  I never took a class at Texas, but I spent time with Wilson on more than one occasion.  He and I went drinking in San Diego before a Holiday Bowl, and he totally cockblocked me with the beautiful bartender.  I'm not kidding.  What a cool cat.  I hope he's OK.  He always drove to Cali in an old Ford Pickup that looked like it had seen better days. 

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Looks like one of my grandfathers, but with a bunch of Texas stuff. 

Get well soon and I hope that the hospital room has ESPN. 🙏

Let’s have the boys win one for the superfan. 
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3 minutes ago, ztejas said:

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it's true.  She was a beautiful Blackfoot Indian.  

1 minute ago, Napoleon said:

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Looks like one of my grandfathers, but with a bunch of Texas stuff. 

Get well soon and I hope that the hospital room has ESPN. 🙏

Let’s have the boys win one for the superfan. 
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seriously, this guy deserves a mention on Gameday. 

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Jacksonville is a pretty big medical hub. Plenty of good hospitals to make sure he gets the right care. Hopefully, he's back on his feet soon

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2 hours ago, Noozak said:

Jacksonville is a pretty big medical hub. Plenty of good hospitals to make sure he gets the right care. Hopefully, he's back on his feet soon

Thank goodness we aren't playing Mississippi State this weekend.

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Posted (edited)
22 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

What’s his current football streak?

this was going to be game 597.   so, due to the obvious hospitalization it will end at 596

 

baseball is 1500+    He missed a series back in 1999 or 2000 otherwise that streak would have been close to 3,000

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1 hour ago, Lamar said:

Thank goodness we aren't playing Mississippi State this weekend.

To be fair (Letterkenny quote protected), I would think Mississippi would be the prime location to have a heart attack considering how frequently their medical facilities are required to treat them. 

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4 minutes ago, Vanilla Strange Gato said:

To be fair (Letterkenny quote protected), I would think Mississippi would be the prime location to have a heart attack considering how frequently their medical facilities are required to treat them. 

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They don't appear to be very successful. 

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1 hour ago, Lamar said:

Thank goodness we aren't playing Mississippi State this weekend.

As someone with a lot of family near Starkville, you ain't kidding. Dad was over there several years ago visiting and had chest pains. He got sent to Tupelo. Then there is the whole Leach thing. RIP pirate. 

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18 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

As Steamboat has mentioned Scott has been stabilized and a path forward is now being considered as to what procedures to take. We have a very large group email that consists of nearly every Wild Bunch person and others from UT Baseball and UT Football. It keeps us informed on each other pretty well. Steamboat and I are a part of this group email, and we know each other.

I have known and traveled with Scott and before his passing Jose Pena to so many games in the past. It started with my first year as a student at UT and one of my professors was also a college umpire that had done games at Disch-Falk. He taught production for doing live sports. He also did that kind of work and was still doing that for CBS for the Sun Bowl in El Paso each year. We talked about baseball, and I told him I had followed Texas sports since I was a kid and couldn't wait for baseball season. He told me he wanted me to meet some people when the season started, and I said ok.  When opening day at that the Disch came that season I met him at the front gate, and he led me around to section 2 and down the steps where Wilson and others were. I didn't know any of them. He just addressed the whole section and said that this guy belongs with you. He loves UT, he knows his baseball, and he is a real smartass. I have to go work a game and I leave him for better or worse in your hands. He turned and left and after a period of time I became a part of this motley crew for so many years. Through my student days and after graduation. 

I have told some of the stories in various UT Baseball threads and some included Scott, such as the picture I posted of several of us with a hog head before a game with Arkansas in Omaha. I have known him for I believe 48 years now and hope to share more stories from the past and the future.

Please pray for Scott to return and start a new streak!

Man I remember we roasted that hog and ate it before the game.

Then someone put the head an a spike and took it into Rosenblatt.

By the fourth inning the smell was getting pretty nearly.

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35 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Man I remember we roasted that hog and ate it before the game.

Then someone put the head an a spike and took it into Rosenblatt.

By the fourth inning the smell was getting pretty nearly.

Nearly what?

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I think the word Steamboat was going for was narly. It did get quite ripe after a while. It was warm that day and the flies did start coming around.

The guy in the dark red shirt is Wilson and the guy in the jeans would be me. 

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3 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Just got an informative update from a friend in Gainesville …

 

Wilson is stable, but he is sedated and intubated right now.

 

Not able to speak.

 

Doctor’s are determining path forward, bypass surgery vs. multiple stents.

 

Friends at the game are there to support around the hospital, and he has family currently flying in from Texas.

 

I’ll pass more details as I have them.

*Doctors

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37 minutes ago, NBHorn7 said:

I think the word Steamboat was going for was narly. It did get quite ripe after a while. It was warm that day and the flies did start coming around.

The guy in the dark red shirt is Wilson and the guy in the jeans would be me. 

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It’s hard to see the silver lining right now, but it’s fortunate he had the heart attack at the airport after landing.  
 

If this happened during the flight, they get diverted to who knows where and maybe they don’t have the same quality of healthcare facilities. 

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Just now, Player said:

Read the fucking room, you pedantic putz. Nobody gives one flying fuck about a stray apostrophe.

Dork


Read the board, bitch!

There’s no need for name calling, you fucking regard!

Did you not see the multiple fucking posts on how “gnarly” is spelled? Perhaps you should take some time to get acquainted with how things are done around here. In the meantime…

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3 hours ago, NBHorn7 said:

I think the word Steamboat was going for was narly. It did get quite ripe after a while. It was warm that day and the flies did start coming around.

The guy in the dark red shirt is Wilson and the guy in the jeans would be me. 

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I was behind the billboard smoking weed with RD.

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57 minutes ago, Player said:


Read the fucking room, you pedantic putz. Nobody gives one flying fuck about a stray apostrophe.

Dork

 

52 minutes ago, Napoleon said:


Read the board, bitch!

There’s no need for name calling, you fucking regard!

Did you not see the multiple fucking posts on how “gnarly” is spelled? Perhaps you should take some time to get acquainted with how things are done around here. In the meantime…

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Yeah, that was a stupid post after all the hog head discussion.

Chill, skippy.

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6 hours ago, lemonandaturd said:

A close friend of Scott invited me to go with them to a game in Fort Worth against TCU several years ago.   We rode in his Cadillac.  The only necessities were a big bucket of fried chicken and lots of whiskey.  During the game, some TCU pricks had broken the horns off the hood of the car.   I was the only one sober enough to drive us back to Austin.  He wanted the Doug Supernaw song "Red and Rio Grande" on a loop all the way home.   When we got back, Scott gave me a t-shirt that said, "I drove the caddy home."  That was my first and only trip with them, but it was a blast. I hope he has a speedy recovery.  

I feel like Wilson made a lot of those shirts. 

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19 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

Fuck.  I never took a class at Texas, but I spent time with Wilson on more than one occasion.  He and I went drinking in San Diego before a Holiday Bowl, and he totally cockblocked me with the beautiful bartender.  I'm not kidding.  What a cool cat.  I hope he's OK.  He always drove to Cali in an old Ford Pickup that looked like it had seen better days. 

Did he bang the bartender? 

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56 minutes ago, VRHorn said:

I feel like Wilson made a lot of those shirts. 

He did. If I had gotten one of those shirts for every time I drove the Caddy home, I could supply all the kids in third world nations with them better than those losing sports teams shirts.

 

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Great article on Scott from The Daily Texan...

https://thedailytexan.com/2018/07/17/ultimate-longhorn-baseball-fan-continues-to-cheer-on-texas/ 

I loved "The Wild Bunch" -- always remember a guy coming into the Texas baseball games wearing a President Nixon mask and always accompanied by some Secret Service guys... 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I was a kid at a baseball game when the Houston Cougar players climbed into the stands and went after "The Wild Bunch" after one of the Coog players girlfriend threw a Coke on "The Wild Bunch".

Pretty sure a guy in " The Wild Bunch" retaliated by throwing his spitcup contents back on her.  My Dad and I were sitting only a few rows behind what went down.   It was... 

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FYI, the reason Scott can’t speak right now is the sedation.  They will take the breathing apparatus out in the morning and they will drop the sedation.  Doctors have assured that normal functions will resume at that time.  He has a long recovery ahead, including more stents in a different artery.  That will occur in Austin after recovering from this one.

As mentioned, great treatment at the airport & UF Downtown Hospital were vital to his pulling through.  Thoughts & prayers are appreciated and a win tomorrow would lift his spirits too.

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9 hours ago, lemonandaturd said:

A close friend of Scott invited me to go with them to a game in Fort Worth against TCU several years ago.   We rode in his Cadillac.  The only necessities were a big bucket of fried chicken and lots of whiskey.  During the game, some TCU pricks had broken the horns off the hood of the car.   I was the only one sober enough to drive us back to Austin.  He wanted the Doug Supernaw song "Red and Rio Grande" on a loop all the way home.   When we got back, Scott gave me a t-shirt that said, "I drove the caddy home."  That was my first and only trip with them, but it was a blast. I hope he has a speedy recovery.  

Red and Rio Grande should be played at every home game. 
 

Give em hell Scott

RIP Supe

 

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9 hours ago, lemonandaturd said:

A close friend of Scott invited me to go with them to a game in Fort Worth against TCU several years ago.   We rode in his Cadillac.  The only necessities were a big bucket of fried chicken and lots of whiskey.  During the game, some TCU pricks had broken the horns off the hood of the car.   I was the only one sober enough to drive us back to Austin.  He wanted the Doug Supernaw song "Red and Rio Grande" on a loop all the way home.   When we got back, Scott gave me a t-shirt that said, "I drove the caddy home."  That was my first and only trip with them, but it was a blast. I hope he has a speedy recovery.  

Scott hates TCU with a passion.  Don’t think this was his only misadventure with the toads.

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