FACENDA/SWC=VHT MONDAY YOUTUBE

by Orson on May 14, 2007 12:16 AM EDT

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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You’ll note at the ~2:22 remaining mark, one Troy Smith coming up a little SHORT.

Ba-Zing!!!

by George on May 14, 2007 4:00 AM EDT reply actions

Ha! Those cheaters (yeah, I’m talking to you, Craig James) still whine about Penn State winning it all that year. Eat it, James!

by immikfefazz on May 14, 2007 8:12 AM EDT reply actions

I had no idea that Zorro was part of the Texas Tech squad.

by BDoc on May 14, 2007 9:34 AM EDT reply actions

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.

by doubtingthomas on May 14, 2007 10:02 AM EDT reply actions

#3,

It gets better. Their human-stuffed mascot looks like Yosemite Sam.

by Orangeblood on May 14, 2007 11:02 AM EDT reply actions

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.

by Raider Red on May 14, 2007 11:07 AM EDT reply actions

Justin Willis for heisman!!! Book it.

by Rush on May 14, 2007 11:29 AM EDT reply actions

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!

by Travis Swenson on May 14, 2007 4:06 PM EDT reply actions

the shoulderpad phenomena is easily explained, doubtingthomas. all the smaller sized ones were shipped to australia to outfit extras in the mad max movies.

by kleph on May 14, 2007 4:48 PM EDT reply actions

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…

by JD on May 14, 2007 6:40 PM EDT reply actions