I thought it would take a little longer than three days to purchase my first Burnt Orange paraphernalia, but I was wrong. Madelyn and I scored free tickets to the University of Texas football game last night versus Oklahoma State. I finally got to experience what life in the Big 12 is like, versus life in the Mountain West. The crowd was 89,000 and everyone was on their feet the entire game. The crowd was loud, sang all the songs, and new all the choreography. You could tell these were fans that were still pumped from their championship last year. The atmosphere reminded me a lot of the year the Utes went to the Fiesta Bowl. But I got the feeling that this is how these fans always act, whether they are winning or not. There was a cute old couple sitting behind us who were big UT fans. The only words that came out of the man’s mouth were “Come-on Horns” in a raspy voice with a strong Texas accent. The lady would say things like “Well bless his heart, he sure did try!” The Texas Football Stadium has the largest video screen in the world (That’s what I was told, I have no evidence to support this), it was HUGE, but then again, everything is bigger in Texas right? (see below)
Unfortunately I did not have my camera at the time, but Madelyn and I did have a chance to meet the University Mascot. The University of Utah has a stuffed Eagle, the University of Texas has a live Longhorn named “Bevo”. This animal stands on the field the entire game, I just wish he would have thrown out T-Shirts….. that would have been impressive.
In preparation for a nightmare for parking we got to the game early, and in order to make it to the stadium we had to walk through the tail-gating area. This was tail-gating on a scale I have never seen before. Most groups had brought a big screen TV, a satellite, and a generator so that they could watch all the other football games throughout the day. They also all had a bar-b-que that was welded to a trailer, so that they could pull it behind their cars. It was pretty insane.
Anyway, the University of Texas won by a large margin, and it was a really fun game. The University Texas lights up their clock tower after a win, so I captured a picture of that.
4 comments:
Hey, you got Doc not only to comment, but get a "blogger identity." Cool! Also, burnt orange looks good on both of you. Love you both!
I will comment on your blog later when I have my act together. In the meantime, I miss both of you and though I am happy for you, I still have the right to miss ya. More in a while.
Daddy
I love the story of your drive to Texas! Madelyn feeding the giraffe is the coolest picture ever, but I am still confused that you can drive through a zoo, crazy southerners! Thanks for making a blog so that we can stay in touch!
PS. We played El Nombre on Monday!
Hey, where's an update? We're hangin' on the edge of our seats here wondering what happened to the MCs in tejas.
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