Messin' With Texas
Longtime readers of Kyle on Football and Dawg Sports know that one of my weblog's great supporters has always been Burnt Orange Nation, the outstanding Texas Longhorns blog.
They're good guys over at B.O.N. and they have a good sense of humor . . . or, at least, I (like William Shatner regarding the "Saturday Night Live" sketch poking good-natured fun at Trekkies) hope they do.
For, you see, Burnt Orange Nation has long expressed the hope that the University of Texas would become the first school in history to win national championships in baseball, football, and basketball back-to-back-to-back.
This would have been a stellar achievement and the Longhorns went a long way toward attaining that goal. Last year's Texas baseball team won the College World Series. The 2005 U.T. football team won the Rose Bowl and claimed the national championship.
The Longhorns' basketball team, though . . . well, it fell a little bit short. They only made it as far as the Elite Eight in the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament.
What a bunch of chumps! They ought to light up the Texas tower with a great big "L" for "losers!"

How many national titles did Texas win this year? That's right . . . two.
In order to highlight this massive failure of Texas athletics, I will be establishing a new website for the purpose of soliciting donations for a worthy cause.
The website will be called "Twopeat.com." Its goal will be to raise $12,000.00 so we can put a billboard in Austin mocking this pitiful excuse for a sports school.
The billboard will show Texas's baseball national championship trophy, Texas's football national championship trophy, and a great big blank spot for the basketball national championship trophy Texas didn't win.
Beneath the pictures will be the caption, "Shouldn't dynasties win more than two at a time?"
What an embarrassment. Texas fans ought to hang their heads in shame at the thought of falling a full three games short of being the national champions in all three major sports simultaneously.
Just kidding. It seems pretty clear that the University of Texas has the nation's premiere college athletics program right about now . . . and I say that as an alumnus of an institution that has a pretty good argument for second place (our men's basketball program notwithstanding).
I just wanted to highlight the silliness of the whole "Onepeat" campaign, which needed one more good skewering for old time's sake.
As for the Longhorns, how will they be able console themselves that they didn't make it to the Final Four? Somehow, I think they'll manage.
Go 'Dawgs!
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I do it anyway
The National championship ring BON displayed puts Alamo Bowl runner-up cufflinks we got to shame.
by Maize n Brew Dave on Mar 30, 2006 2:47 PM EST 0 recs
My bad
You may rest assured that I have nothing but respect for what Texas has accomplished this year and I was just kidding around, as Burnt Orange Nation's response and my subsequent posting hopefully made clear.
I was making fun of the "Onepeat" crowd, whose arguments I find lacking and whose focus on an opposing team rather than their own I find sad.
Believe me, bashing the "Onepeat" folks does nothing but pay homage to Texas, as it affirms that the Longhorns (a) beat a two-time defending national champion in a fantastic Rose Bowl and (b) won the first truly undisputed national title in several years, since this one was without controversy as to the champion, the outcome of the championship game, or the teams that deserved to be in the championship game.
I hope that clears things up and I thank you for reading.
by T Kyle King on Mar 30, 2006 7:23 PM EST 0 recs
athleticsdynasty
by Chuck T on
Mar 31, 2006 12:59 AM EST
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Clearing the air
Thanks again for reading . . . and thanks for following up.
by T Kyle King on
Mar 31, 2006 7:08 AM EST
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Gotta give you that one, Anon . . .
I never got the whole Elisha Cuthbert thing before. I get it now.
by T Kyle King on Mar 30, 2006 7:40 PM EST 0 recs
Can someone
by JP on Mar 30, 2006 10:17 PM EST 0 recs
Thanks, J.P.
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Mar 30, 2006 10:51 PM EST
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Sugar Bowl
by Chuck T on Mar 30, 2006 11:20 PM EST 0 recs
Thanks
Thanks for reading and for having a sense of humor. Winston Churchill said, "In victory, magnanimity" . . . which means Longhorns fans, more than any other fans in America, can afford to be magnanimous. I appreciate your living up to that Churchillian ideal.
by T Kyle King on Mar 31, 2006 7:27 PM EST 0 recs











