FACENDA/SWC=VHT MONDAY YOUTUBE
Start your week off right, reader. We give you all the necessary vitamins to start your day off right:
Vitamin F–as in Facenda, John.
Vitamin P–as in play-action bootlegs galore from the 1982 Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Vitamin J–as in the wanky guitar ridden Jazz fusion which was the soundtrack for every sports film made between 1975 and 1985.
Vitamin H–as in Home Run Throwback, the most improbable of special teams plays, executed in the finest of pulled-from-the-ass fashions by SMU in the waning moments of the game.
There! Nutrition of the highest order. You’re more than welcome, unless you’re an SMU fan who, like the flabby ex-jock twenty years out of washboard abs wondering where his feet went, watches this with the bitterest of sorrows. For you, there is no consolation. Umm…sorry?
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George says:
You’ll note at the ~2:22 remaining mark, one Troy Smith coming up a little SHORT.
Ba-Zing!!!
May 14th, 2007 at 3:00 am
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immikfefazz says:
Ha! Those cheaters (yeah, I’m talking to you, Craig James) still whine about Penn State winning it all that year. Eat it, James!
May 14th, 2007 at 7:12 am
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BDoc says:
I had no idea that Zorro was part of the Texas Tech squad.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:34 am
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doubtingthomas says:
Kudos. Any 80’s footage is great. Players all seem taller, or probably just skinnier, and their shoulder pads seem oversized. I’m sure they all had pseudo mullets and Adam Morrison mustaches underneath.
May 14th, 2007 at 9:02 am
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Orangeblood says:
#3,
It gets better. Their human-stuffed mascot looks like Yosemite Sam.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:02 am
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Raider Red says:
A few thoughts from a Red Raider married to a Mustang:
1. Never realized the great Facenda did college highlights.
2. SMU quarterback Stan Gable? “NERRRRRRDS!!!!”
3. Yes, the Red Raider (dresses like Zorro) + horse is our mascot. Pretty sweet when he leads the team out riding at full gallop. Certainly better than a cow just standing there, or a dog surrounded by military wanna-be’s.
4. The glory days comment may have been more apt before last year…SMU is getting better, (although non-BCS private schools have a glass ceiling, so they will never get back to #2 in the nation). I’m slightly worried about the Tech @ SMU game this year (televised by ESPN on Labor Day afternoon); we never seem to play well in Dallas. I foresee a 3 hour ice cream headache.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:07 am
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Rush says:
Justin Willis for heisman!!! Book it.
May 14th, 2007 at 10:29 am
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Travis Swenson says:
Hey, Orson. Your boy, Walter Thomas was cut after one day (!) of Saints rookie minicamp. I guess there’s not much need for backflipping, fat asses in the NFL. Next stop…the circus!
May 14th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
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kleph says:
the shoulderpad phenomena is easily explained, doubtingthomas. all the smaller sized ones were shipped to australia to outfit extras in the mad max movies.
May 14th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
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JD says:
Of course, we know now that the current Tech coach would probably have called a fake field goal with a drop-kick option and then gone onside in the ensuing kickoff.
Yarr…
May 14th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
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yoyofutbawl says:
Craig didn’t play in the game. He wanted a raise & arbitration talks were stalled at kickoff.
Oklahomy & Clempson had competing offers too, which really complicated things.
May 15th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
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SeaTrojan says:
I miss John Facenda. What a great voice.
May 15th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
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David Klingler says:
Oh for the days of the Southwest Conference.
I have no sympathy for SMU though, things might have been broken before they started raping the NCAA rulebook, but they broke football Valhalla
May 19th, 2007 at 3:36 pm