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?
Filed under: Big 12 Conference, Coaches, the BCS, scandals, arrests, and other eccentri, College football, flexible curses, the mighty SWC by Orson Swindle
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You’ll note at the ~2:22 remaining mark, one Troy Smith coming up a little SHORT.
Ba-Zing!!!
Comment by George — May 14, 2007 @ 3:00 am
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Ha! Those cheaters (yeah, I’m talking to you, Craig James) still whine about Penn State winning it all that year. Eat it, James!
Comment by immikfefazz — May 14, 2007 @ 7:12 am
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I had no idea that Zorro was part of the Texas Tech squad.
Comment by BDoc — May 14, 2007 @ 8:34 am
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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.
Comment by doubtingthomas — May 14, 2007 @ 9:02 am
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#3,
It gets better. Their human-stuffed mascot looks like Yosemite Sam.
Comment by Orangeblood — May 14, 2007 @ 10:02 am
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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.
Comment by Raider Red — May 14, 2007 @ 10:07 am
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Justin Willis for heisman!!! Book it.
Comment by Rush — May 14, 2007 @ 10:29 am
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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!
Comment by Travis Swenson — May 14, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
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the shoulderpad phenomena is easily explained, doubtingthomas. all the smaller sized ones were shipped to australia to outfit extras in the mad max movies.
Comment by kleph — May 14, 2007 @ 3:48 pm
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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…
Comment by JD — May 14, 2007 @ 5:40 pm
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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.
Comment by yoyofutbawl — May 15, 2007 @ 1:45 pm
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I miss John Facenda. What a great voice.
Comment by SeaTrojan — May 15, 2007 @ 9:19 pm
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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
Comment by David Klingler — May 19, 2007 @ 3:36 pm