Thanks for the highy entertaining reminder! Of one thing we can be sure: If anyone should decide to snap a photo of us while we’re reading your blog, we won’t have a thing to worry about–they’ll never catch us wearing a frown!

Thanks for another great post!
Jeanne

Er, sorry.

Hey, congratulations to Scotland!

So after that brief but rambling sports lesson I would love to think that with my sunny disposition I could not be snapped looking grumpy. But I bet - like you - that if I was ever going to be in a front page pic I would be looking glum.

So I will work on being prepared for photographers all the time….that’s a good focus (pardon the pun)

Jackie

On another funny note - my roomate had a Ford Torino that was Baylor green with the gold stripe down the side - Baylor colors! We gave him heck the entire year.

So…..why didn’t you give us the link to the photo? C’mon, you KNOW you need to do that to make this piece complete.

By the way I went to Baylor. 1980-84. In 1980 Baylor won the Southwest Conference and beat everyone they played except San Jose State. (The Rice band played “Do you know the way to San Jose” at halftime when they played us that year)

Anyway, there was this girl that I knew in high school. I always had a thing for her, and I kinda felt the same was true for her. But one of us was always dating someone else or whatever. I went to BU and she went to A&M. Then she called and invited me to come down and see the game with her. I was pumped because I heard the Aggies kissed their dates every time they scored.

Wouldn’t you know it. Baylor held the Aggies to zero points (or maybe there was a late score…I don’t remember but even if there was, no one was kissing by then)

I was rooting for the Aggies secretly that day. Just think of the scores of times the Aggies have slaughtered the Bears, racking up the points. What are the odds that I would be in the stands with an Aggie I wanted to kiss on that fateful day?

“Oh, yeah - you know ol’ number 41? He’s a personal friend of mine. Why, we had lunch just the other day!”

On a long winded side note I thought I would share an aTm story:
I made a trip down to “Aggieland” in the late 90’s (maybe 2000) with a cousin of mine (who was a huge Kansas State fan). We drove the 16 hours non stop so we could get to the aTm vs KSU game in time to tailgate. Since I had a small tv that could hook up to a car battery, a group of Aggie fans (about a dozen) invited us over to their big tailgate (as long as we would bring the tv). As we were munching on some fabulous ribs, we saw an older gentleman walking his dog in the parking lot, and he was headed our way. What I couldn’t figure out was why he had another gentleman walking 10-15 feet behind him.

Well, as he got closer, we realized that it was former President Bush (Sr. - you know, the one without the “W”), and his FBI issued body guard. He walked right up to our tailgate, introduced himself, and started munching on some ribs with us. (We offered him a beer, but he declined)! The neat thing was, he pulled my cousin and I off to the side (because we were the only ones in “Wildcat” gear) and chatted with us for quite a few minutes. He invited us up to his presidential library after the game.

It was a pretty neat experience for a couple early year college kids: to rub elbows and (literally) eat ribs with a former president. My only regret was not going up to the library after the game. K-State lost the game, so we decided to dead head it back home.

I told you it was a “long winded side note!” But, I thought it would be neat to swap some aTm stories!

By the way, my condolences on Mike Sherman being named the new Aggie head coach…