Sunday, September 05, 2010

Peace Reigns in the Kingdom

It has been a tumultuous eight months, but order and decorum is restored as football season kicked off yesterday. Now, I've got purpose returned to my life. I know that next weekend the NFL will return. College ball has started and a plethora of burnt orange garb appeared throughout the kingdom yesterday. Soon the build up to Red River Rivalry will begin and inverted horns will prompt dirty looks. Ohhhh Youuuuu will trigger an impromptu chorus of "The Eyes of Texas" which will get a "Boomer Sooner" response and maybe some fighting words. Most of it will be in good fun.

Yesterday there were the usual season opener college games. Some were fights, but a lot were inter-division match-ups meaning little but offering a record builder win for the big school and a TV showcase/paycheck for the little guys.

Texas played Rice and didn't win by the margin one would expect. Two factors involved. Loss of Colt McCoy for TX and drastically improving program for tiny Rice.

TCU looked exotic in "Horned Frog" scaled helmets and shiny scaled pants that looked slick on split ends and running backs but grotesque on broad-beamed lineman butts. They handled nationally ranked Oregon State quite nicely and looked like they potentially could best Texas and might even get respect despite playing in a second tier league.

Oklahoma and OSU both brought home the bacon as did Texas A&M. Texas Tech goes to war today. Colorado faced in-state rival CSU and won handily which says something. Air Force played a high school team from somewhere for a big but meaningless win.

Funniest game was Florida against Not-Florida Miami; the one from Ohio. How can a fourth ranked team muff thirteen shotgun snaps in a single game? This could make a music video by Britney Spears..."Ooops, I Did It Again!"

Life is good and beer consumption/pastrami sandwich creation is likely to accelerate in Texoma in the next few weeks.

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