Great win over Tech. Not so much because it was great football, although there were certainly moments, but because we overcame adversity on the raod and won back to back games in Lubbock for the first time in a long time. We gave up a trash TD late, but for the most part we were ahead by 10 or more points the whole way. We ran back a blocked FG for a TD (thank you Dustin and Trent) and really killed any momentum they had going. The refs were bad. The crowd was bad. But the good guys got it done. Bring on the next victim.
Baylor. Man. I'm not sure what to think of Baylor. Hell, I'm not sure what "Baylor" even means. I'll look it up.
OK. At the crossroads of Google Avenue and Wikipedia Drive, I found the following information. Baylor was founded by an Alabama lawyer, Robert Emmet Bledsoe Baylor, who in 1845 convinced the two other founders to name the university after him (sounds lawyerly). REB Baylor was later a judge and one of the men who penned the unintelligible Texas state constitution. He was also a Jacksonian, the political party that later became the modern day Democratic party. It's unclear why he left Alabama for Texas, but I imagine it had something to do with the ncaa and freeloading. Somehow it's not surprising that there's a lawyer at the root of all this.
I also checked on the other primary source of internet goodness, TexAgs.com for information on Baylor. No definition, but many versions of the name "Baylor" including Bailure (like failure), Gaylor (seems rude to gay people), and Baylro (I don't get this one but it's out there a lot).
I have nothing but contempt and animosity for Baylor these days. For 15 years Baylor did nothing to improve the Big 12. They just sucked from the teets of schools that actually care about football. It's very much like welfare. Not very greatful for the freebie, but watch what happens when you try to take it away. When the whole longhorn / aggie thing became untenable, we decided to part ways amicably but Baylor screwed it up. Ken Starr, a stained blue dress of a human being himself, wrote op ed pieces in the New York Times, the Houston Chronicle and any other paper that would carry his message. He threatened litigation, and draped himself in the American flag while eating apple pie and stabbing TCU, SMU, Houston and Rice in the back. We were held hostage by the man who spent $58 Million to prove that Bill Clinton was a liar and a cheater (stunning revelation). But now that the Big 12 Conference is stable, hey, let's all be friends. Right?
To quote one of my favorite movies, Hoosiers: "Look, mister, there's... two kinds of dumb, uh... guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and, uh, guy who does the same thing in my living room. First one don't matter, the second one you're kinda forced to deal with."
All I can say is that I've never much cared about this game until this year. I hope we put RGIII on his butt. I want to see this team come out fired up and just stick it to the bears, in both halves.
That said, RGIII (Robert Griffin the 3rd), really is a special talent. He has world class sprinting speed and he's having a phenomonal year. His QB rating is through the roof. He has 19 TD's and one interception. He's completing 80% of his passes. He's got more touchdowns than incompletions. He's the most legitimate Heisman candidate that Baylor has ever had. He's not the toughest hombre in the saloon, but he's a heck of a gun fighter. My recommendation when you're fighting a better gun fighter is to hit him on the head with a chair while you're still in the bar. Don't go out in the street and expect to beat him on the draw.
In football speak, the answer to RGIII is to hit him early and hit him often. He's not a QB that handles contact well. We are one of the top sacking defenses in country. Hopefully we can get him on the ground enough times to shake him up.
In a turn of rotten luck for the Ags, the game is at 11:00 AM. So the crowd may be relatively subdued. I think that's a shame, but it'll work out ok. I'm planning on serving screw-drivers and bloody mary's before the game. It's ok to drink before noon if you have a good reason or a drinking problem.
We'll have breakfast burritos before the game and fajitas after. Let me know if you're coming so I know how much fajita meat to buy (+/- 10 lbs).
Gig 'em and Beat the Hell Outta Baylor!
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