The Burnt Orange Argus

In what has become a recurring theme here, I’ve slipped up a bit and missed about a week of posting photos.

Here’s to turning things around, then?

If you’re interested at all in the history and tradition of Texas football, this is a great read from Burnt Orange Nation. It’s a telling and touching look at what the game used to be and how it was played under Darrel Royal.

From BON:

One of my favorite things about running this website is the many wonderful people it has allowed me to meet. I recently had the opportunity to visit with Bobby Gamblin, who lettered for the Longhorns from 1961-63. Yes, he has a ring.

Mr. Gamblin, pictured below in the ‘63 team photo, was a left guard under Darrell Royal and on July 12th gathered along with 400 other players who played under the legendary coach to celebrate Coach Royal’s 85th birthday. The players were asked to write letters to their former coach, all of which would be gathered and bound into a book, to be presented to Coach Royal as a birthday gift.

From Bobby’s letter to Royal:

“When in doubt, fire out.” You taught us to be disciplined, but to improvise when necessary. Jim Besselman and I took your dictate to improvise very seriously. On kick offs, without his glasses, and at distances beyond about 20 yards, Jim Besselman was basically blind. This presented a challenge when we kicked off and the ball went farther than 20 yards - let’s say to the opposite goal line.  Luckily we lined up next to each other on the kickoff formation and we worked out a plan. As we ran down the field, I would relay directions to him to direct him to the ball. “Jim, he is going right. He is up the middle. Watch out for the reverse coming left.” were common instructions. He got credit for a multitude of tackles. I received no recognition for getting him there.  As I tell my grandchildren, “Life is sometimes not fair.”

Texas Pic o’ the Day:

President Obama holds Ricky’s Heisman.

I missed a couple days right off the bat because I was travelling.

But.

This picture is another good one. Again, the coaches and player in the background make it all the sweeter.

Somewhere in a box in an attic somewhere, I own an autographed copy of this photo.

Never forget.

I love the OU coaches in the background.

Back in Bla… Orange.

I’m back to posting. I’m not going to have much time to put much here, so I’ll start with something simple and hope the routine works its way into my daily schedule.

Football season is only one short, hot month away. So for the next 31 days or so I’ll be putting up my favorite Texas pictures and videos to help pass the time just a little bit.

It’s all I can do. This way you don’t have to watch that Southeastern Wyoming Technical State College v. New Hampshire All Girls School rerun that’s playing on espnu right now.

Hilariously, if you type the url www.chokelahoma.com into your browser and hit enter, you are redirected to the actual Sooner Sports site. They have officially embraced the moniker Chokelahoma. It is who they are.

As I understand it, it’s common practice to buy domains that may be unflattering to your organization or could provide your adversaries a valuable outlet to mock you.

Like I said, I understand this. It makes sense.

What does not make sense, is to then make those satirical domains that make fun of you ultimately lead you to your actual site, essentially mocking yourself.

That’s like Bob Stoops using the facebook username, facebook.com/pooponstoops, just so noone else can.

Just leave the link dead, dorks.

Ah, the value of a University of Oklahoma degree.

Hiatus

Tragically I haven’t had the time to post anything of anything in a long time.

I need more time than I have to make this what I really want it to be.

By the time football season rolls around I may find myself with the ability to push this lil baby, but don’t count on it, what with work and wedding planning and everything else going on I just don’t see it happening.

But at some point in the future I’m going to get on top of this thing, because I love it and I have neglected it horribly, and it deserves better.

Morning Hook Up 4.6

Sadly, I haven’t had a chance to watch the Spring Game yet. ESPNU was supposed to be showing it in my area, but when game time came an incredibly boring UCSD baseball game played instead.

The list of reasons I hate ESPN just keeps getting longer.

Anyway, that’s what all the news is about. And while I feverishly search the interwebs for some sort of copy of the game, I feel like I’ve already seen it since there’s such a glut of recaps.

Here they are though:

Mack’s Spring Game Presser Texas-Sports.com

Spring Game Wrap Up Texas-Sports.com

Spring Game Post Mortem Barking Carnival, Scipio

Wind Interrupts Offense In Spring Game Austin-American Statesman

UT Has Thorpe Award-Winning Talent Again Austin-American Statesman, Kirk Bohls

Longhorn Backs Show Greater Grasp of the Interception Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Texas Finishes Spring Ball With Great Scrimmage Houston Chronicle

Texas Baseball Takes Series From OSU Austin-American Statesman

Morning Hook Up 4.1

No April Fool’s jokes, I promise. We’re more mature than that here, right?

Texas Baseball Beats Oral Roberts on Walk-off Balk-run Houston Chronicle

Trey Mclean: The Secondary University Co-op: In the Stands

Sexy Dexy Returning For Senior Year Barking Carnival