A new neighbor moved in this past weekend, my younger kids immediately made friends and I ended up chaperoning a trip to the local park for the kids while the parents unpacked.
Then I noticed the 9 yr old was wearing a gawdawful orange UT shirt. It turns out they are UT season ticketholders and will maintain their tix while in California (working for Google).
The son explained that last year wasn\'t so fun because of all the booing - particularly at the last game he went too. I assumed they were booing the opposing team but he corrected me to say they were booing the Longhorns! Must have been the A&M game but it\'s gone pretty far when the fans are booing at home games in Texas. Showers of malformed frogs and plagues of locusts can\'t be far off.
Nice folks by the way, both are UT alums and have followed some Stanford football. Turns out they were engaged in SF after they flew out to watch the UT/Stanford game in 2000. There was some joking about nearly returning the ring and trying for a more auspicious start after unranked Stanford beat #6 Texas 27-24 that afternoon.
I\'ll agree to not bring up UCLA in 2010 if they agree to pretend that Stanford football history went straight from Willingham to Harbaugh with nothing of interest in between.
Then I noticed the 9 yr old was wearing a gawdawful orange UT shirt. It turns out they are UT season ticketholders and will maintain their tix while in California (working for Google).
The son explained that last year wasn\'t so fun because of all the booing - particularly at the last game he went too. I assumed they were booing the opposing team but he corrected me to say they were booing the Longhorns! Must have been the A&M game but it\'s gone pretty far when the fans are booing at home games in Texas. Showers of malformed frogs and plagues of locusts can\'t be far off.
Nice folks by the way, both are UT alums and have followed some Stanford football. Turns out they were engaged in SF after they flew out to watch the UT/Stanford game in 2000. There was some joking about nearly returning the ring and trying for a more auspicious start after unranked Stanford beat #6 Texas 27-24 that afternoon.
I\'ll agree to not bring up UCLA in 2010 if they agree to pretend that Stanford football history went straight from Willingham to Harbaugh with nothing of interest in between.
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