UTexas.edu: Tower lights mark victory at Rose Bowl
I caught the last half of last night’s incredible offensively-driven college FB national championship game in which Texas beat USC (which previously had been undefeated since… goodness it’s been a long time) in a game that I think is one of the best college FB games I’ve ever seen.
BTW, for those of you who wonder, while I’m not a big sports fan, I do enjoy seeing Texas play. I became a Texas fan when I lived in Austin and lived a few blocks from the stadium. I was too broke to pay for tickets, but I did catch the last quarter of quite a few games when they quit checking the tickets. Texas games are something else, so much energy with the band and everything…. in fact this is mildly obscene but I think I got the biggest kick out of one part of the fight song when the whole student section yells (while doing the horns hand sign) “Give ’em ****! Give ’em ****! Make ’em eat ****!”
And I also have a lot of fond memories of my last year in Austin, when I worked as a pedicab driver on game days, taking fans dressed from head-to-toe in burnt orange from the stadium to either their cars or the Scholz Beer Garten, which was always a hoot.)
Talking about Scholz Garden, this story is a hoot…
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2003-07-04/pols_set2.html
Austin Chronicle: The Roots of the Left— Scholz, Texas Before Deodorant
This quote came right after the story told about the heyday of the Beer Garden when polticians and journalists often frequented the place… “Wilson believes the culture began to shift “when they started advertising deodorant on television. Suddenly, we weren’t supposed to be wet under the arms anymore, and here all this time we’d just been sweating and suffocating in the goddamn heat.””