A MAN NICKNAMED DUDE DESERVES TRIBUTE

by Orson on Feb 13, 2009 11:17 AM EST

Texas A&M Aggie football player Ken "Dude" McLean died this week after a lengthy illness. He enjoyed a career as a successful defense attorney in Dallas, but was best known to Aggie fans as the receiver on the "Texas Special," a trick play we'd love to show you if Youtube had it. Rest assured, it worked, McLean scored, and he went on to have a 13 reception, 250 yard freakshow of a day against the Longhorns in a valiant 24-17 loss in the 1963 1965 rivalry game.

It looked nothing like this mess-o-play-tamia, we assure you.

The actual play involved a skipped lateral, a bit of theater over the "bad pass," and then the target wideout throwing a bomb downfield to a wide-open receiver. McLean also merits mention for being nicknamed "Dude" long before the Cult of Lebowski began, something indicating a man of great stature worth the admiration of all who beheld him. R.I.P., sir.

ps. Check out the pic of him on the site. We miss action poses.

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The Chinaman is not the issue here, dude.

by Walter Sobchek on Feb 13, 2009 11:49 AM EST reply actions

Not to be “that” guy, but it was the 1965 game where the “Texas Special” happened, not the 1963 game.

by Scott on Feb 13, 2009 11:57 AM EST reply actions

I believe this might be that play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYcJbGge_1Y

by Kenny on Feb 13, 2009 11:58 AM EST reply actions

’twas courtesy the great gene stallings, no less.

by kleph on Feb 13, 2009 12:09 PM EST reply actions

And the world today is down one “Dude”.

RIP, uh, Dude.

/did he have a son that grew up to be called “Brah”?

by GamecockTony on Feb 13, 2009 12:11 PM EST reply actions

Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, he eats you.

by sonofsamford on Feb 13, 2009 12:32 PM EST reply actions

What the fuck are you talking about, man? What is that, some Eastern thing?

sonofsamford, I’m pretty sure that after too many cocktails and viewings and thoughts on the matter, it is “bear” and not “bar.” Simply a matter of an overly effective (not affected) Western dialect by the incomparable Cowboy.

Sam Elliott is, for the time continuing, awesome.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Feb 13, 2009 12:47 PM EST reply actions

Great quote…

“And it also came with its share of sting for the victors. According to “The Twelfth Man”, Texas graduate and longtime Houston newspaper executive Lloyd Gregory said after the game, “Id rather lose to the Aggies than get fooled by them.”"

Still though, the forward pass has absolutely ruined college football, ’cause of girly crap like that.

by meatybob on Feb 13, 2009 1:13 PM EST reply actions