Every Monday morning I always read Peter King’s Monday Morning Quarterback. He brings a great insight to the game, lots of behind the scenes kind of stuff, and even veers off football to pop-culture a little bit. Well, he will be taking the next four weeks off, but he made mentioned there will be four surprise guest columnists . . . I’m very intrigued.
I found this very interesting regarding the Baylor and Texas Tech football game at the new Cowboys Stadium this November – alcohol will not be sold in the general concession areas like other college games per a provision Baylor included in the contract. Baylor tend to be the most liberal of Baptist colleges, but they are still Baptist, so that didn’t really surprise me. But I’m surprised that Tech would still play the game . . . that campus is known for drinking, and drinking heavily.
As I stated before, every person I knew from my home town that went to Texas Tech did not go there for an education, they went to party. And everyone of them came home either as a drop out due to excess partying, or because of a surprise pregnancy.
I remember how a lot of the Hardin-Simmons crowd use to get upset and make fun at how Baylor was losing all their morals. I was in student at HSU when Baylor allowed their first on-campus dance, and a lot of talk this was just the beginning of the end and how the lost Jesus.
When I was a student at HSU, we were required to go to Chapel twice a week and earn so many Chapel credits per semester for four semesters, if you didn’t earn the credits, no diploma. One Chapel was usually all serious and more religious s based, and the other was more less so. During one end of semester Chapel in December a local elementary school performed. During the performance you heard the Macarena being played and of course all the kids started started with the hand motions and such of the dance, when another kid ran onto the stage and yelled, “Stop you guys! This isn’t Baylor!”
I mentioned this before, but when I was a student at HSU we were tounge-in-cheek about not being able to hold dances on campus, so they were held off campus and advertised as “foot functions.”
When I was there the trustees or board of regents or supreme overlords wouldn’t allow a folks dancing class (a PE credit) on campus. I hear that today they are on campus, but I don’t know about full fledge dancing.
I’m still peeved that the first football game at the new stadium will be Oklahoma and BYU. Jerry has failed at the first non-sports, sports, and football events at the new place.
For the first time in the history of ever I really not excited about the upcoming football season. Old age? Lack of playoffs from the Cowboys in over a decade? I dunno.
Something happened yesterday regarding the Voting Rights Act and the Supreme Court. I read an article about it, listened to a segment about it on NPR, and heard Charlie Gibson discuss it and I still don’t understand what happened.
Last week I mentioned that Brian Williams has started to play some upbeat music during the news, I noticed that ABC has changed their intro-intro music as well.
As you know, one thing that really bugs me is the amount of prescription drug commercials that air, and that I think a doctor should decide what’s best to prescribe a patient, not what a patient sees advertised on TV. Well, I was trying to think back and remember a time when there wasn’t prescription drug commercials, I couldn’t recall any watching the evening news with my father. But I was reading this article and found out it all started in 1997 when the FDA first allowed drug companies market pharmaceuticals to the masses, not just doctors. The result . . . more patients asking for drugs that they don’t need.
I can only imagine the lobbying the drug companies did to get the FDA to allow that decision.
Southwest Airlines CEO agrees to be interviewed by an 18-year-old blogger. Link
I ate a snow cone yesterday, it was probably the first one I had in years.
Snow cones made great dates in college. I call up a girl and tell them I was on my way to get a snow cone and they were invited to tag along. If they said no, no big deal, I was on my way anyways. But if they said yes, I could afford a snow cone. It was a great no pressure date that usually resulted in great conversation as the sun started to set.
There was a local snow cone stand in my home town in which the lady that worked inside use to smoke, and you can smell and even taste the smoke that attached itself to the Styrofoam cups. Yuck.
What the heck is up with the missing South Carolina governor? It sounds like he’s safe, just hiding out. Rick Perry, feel free to follow.
Fathers that attended church in England got beer for Fathers’ Day. Link
While returning a movie yesterday, I parked next to one of my dream cars, the Magnum P.I. Ferrari, but this one was white. I would seriously drive one of those, I like the dated look.
And I would of course have to grow a mustache and wear a Detroit Tigers hat with a Hawaiian shirt.
The PC (USA) seems to be having a tough time with membership and giving. Link
I am more surprised that Jerry acquiesced to Baylor's demands. Beer sales at the Jonas Brothers concert were probably pretty good.
As a TTU grad, I am not going to try and defend the indefensible. But I believe that if you head to college… any college… to "party" you are setting yourself up to flunk out. Being away from home for the first time and failing to handle it well is not unique to the so-called party schools. It's just that if they attract a personality destined to fail then your sample size of unwanted pregnancies will be higher than, say, Baylor.
One might argue that if you hold your students to a code of conduct that requires abstinence from vices you'll create a vice free environment. That might be true. You'll certainly attract students who are willing to live with those restrictions. Of course there are still folks who will "rebel"… you might have known some at HSU. I know of at least two of my buddies from Baylor who did.
Which reminds me… why do you invite two Baptists to go fishing with you? Because if you only invite one he'll drink all your beer.
Congratulations on your award at work. I am sure it is well deserved.
I love the little plane, it reminds me of the little Johnny jet cartoon from Tex Avery.
I went to Tech, and graduated, and can certify the reputation as truth. Congrats on the award, think the Musers would get tired head because of the generic name of the project?
Enter tI feel the same way about the Cowboys and I am relatively unexcited about the prospects for this season. It is the same heartless, gutless cast of characters that have failed for the past few years. Their season ends in November every year despite the fact that they are scheduled to play in December. Then you have an incompetent butt puppet of a head coach, combined with the same poor management structure that has been the core of the problem since structure was put in place @ 94-95= the same old thing we see every year. Been there, done that, but still hoping they prove me wrong.
"Rick Perry, feel free to follow" – that's classic!
I am more surprised that Jerry acquiesced to Baylor's demands. Beer sales at the Jonas Brothers concert were probably pretty good.
As a TTU grad, I am not going to try and defend the indefensible. But I believe that if you head to college… any college… to "party" you are setting yourself up to flunk out. Being away from home for the first time and failing to handle it well is not unique to the so-called party schools. It's just that if they attract a personality destined to fail then your sample size of unwanted pregnancies will be higher than, say, Baylor.
One might argue that if you hold your students to a code of conduct that requires abstinence from vices you'll create a vice free environment. That might be true. You'll certainly attract students who are willing to live with those restrictions. Of course there are still folks who will "rebel"… you might have known some at HSU. I know of at least two of my buddies from Baylor who did.
Which reminds me… why do you invite two Baptists to go fishing with you? Because if you only invite one he'll drink all your beer.
Keith, I think the reason for the OU v BYU match up will be a dry run…sort of like Jaundice Brothers before U2.
Here is my gripe. U2 on Monday night? Really? This stadium with this band on Monday night?
Congratulations on your award at work. I am sure it is well deserved.
I love the little plane, it reminds me of the little Johnny jet cartoon from Tex Avery.
I went to Tech, and graduated, and can certify the reputation as truth. Congrats on the award, think the Musers would get tired head because of the generic name of the project?
Geesh. Way to alienate all your Lubbock area readers…
(and we always said the same thing about Oklahoma State when I was in college)
Not excited for the upcoming football season? Please.
Just enjoy a few weeks of nothing but baseball and then let training camp get cranked up in July. You'll get riiiiiiiiight back up on the horse.
Enter tI feel the same way about the Cowboys and I am relatively unexcited about the prospects for this season. It is the same heartless, gutless cast of characters that have failed for the past few years. Their season ends in November every year despite the fact that they are scheduled to play in December. Then you have an incompetent butt puppet of a head coach, combined with the same poor management structure that has been the core of the problem since structure was put in place @ 94-95= the same old thing we see every year. Been there, done that, but still hoping they prove me wrong.