Recent content by beefeater

Usually, they are very easy to find on the street. This game is sold out, so it may be a bit more difficult than usual, but it still shouldn't be all that hard to find a couple of tix.

This is true, but with a morning start, there's no reason to be near there at night.

The thing to consider about 1939 is that the Southwest Conference had been dominant through the late 1930s, starting with the great teams at SMU and TCU in '35, the TCU championship team with Davey O'Brien in '38, and then the undefeated Aggies in '39. Rice fielded tough teams...

My good friend the bigtime Vol contributor/alum hates hates HATES two things: 1. Vol fans who think that "Rocky Top" is a school song ("DOWN THE FIELD" he yells); 2. Tearing down the posts after beating a no-tradition program like Florida. He has nothing but contempt for Florida, considering...

One other thing... if you like the glisses in "Texas Fight," you'd love playing in the SMU band. Their revision of "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain" consists basically of constant trombone glissandos.

"I've Been Working on the Railroad," uh, "The Eyes of Texas" isn't their fight song. It's their alma mater. Their fight song is "Texas Fight" (aka "Texas Taps" or, in Aggieland, "Texas Bite"), which is based on a combination of "Taps" and "I've Been Working on the Railroad."...

We used to, back when TCU was in our conference.

If the moniker doesn't give me away, I'm a Texas Aggie looking forward to our game in Dallas on New Years Day. I've been lurking around here for a few days to absorb the culture a little, and I think that you guys are much like most Ags -- you love your school and want badly to win...

You Vols don't know what you're missing by not having Texas Tech in your conference. And you're better off for that, believe me. Nothing worse than drunken fans at an academically inferior school who have never won a thing and therefore carry a permanent inferiority complex. Imagine...

Tennessee's fight song isn't "Rocky Top." It's "Down the Field." I'm an Aggie and even I know this.