Well, the other night I watched what I thought was the best football game of the year. Man alive, I loved it! I especially loved the Longhorns winning because so many of the fans of the other team, what are they – Aggies? – gave me a bad time. They gave me a bad time and have all year long. Maybe it was deservedly so but anyway, Texas wins and A&M loses for the first time this season. I don’t think it will have too much of an effect on the Aggies playing in the Championship because one loss in twelve tries, you can’t beat that. Their loss will take them from number three down to whatever. The Aggies lost but I don’t think they will lose too much ground. They started at number three and they will fall some, but they have a heck of a ball club.
Their quarterback went a little bonkers late in the ballgame. The Aggies had the lead at halftime. I was sitting here on my couch mumbling to myself and I said, “You know we’ve had better quarterbacks than this at Brownwood High School.” From the start of the season to the end of the season they made unbelievably great improvements. The Longhorns, I didn’t think, were playing worth a flip at halftime. I was on “the Golden Boy” a little bit hard. I was rough on him but the second half played like a beautiful symphony. They scored all of their points, I think except for a field goal, and the kid ran like you wouldn’t believe. The Longhorn defense didn’t have any big problem. They just had hero after hero after hero. I was just thankful that they were able to hand the ball to him and celebrate a great win – a GREAT win!
Now, the problem is that the Texas Longhorns will have to wait for the seeding and everything. They take twelve teams. I believe in essence it’s four teams that get a buy in the opening round and then the other eight are basically at large teams – teams that qualified. Texas started at number eighteen or nineteen and they may have too many ahead of them to get in. The committee is going to make a scene here. We’ve already explained to you where A&M is going to go. I don’t think they will drop them all that far. If Texas starts at number nineteen they’ve got to get up to number twelve and that’s a scary type situation because you almost have to have freak things involved for that to happen. For that to happen, Texas would have to qualify. In other words they would have to go from nineteen to number twelve and that kind of a jump is pretty near impossible, but we’ll see.
It just feels good. It feels good, not that the Aggies lost but that the Longhorns won when they weren’t supposed to. It was a beautiful game and I’m happy with it. I’ll tell you if I get some straight forward apologies…….. I’ve got several people on my radar and I won’t bug them or I won’t say anything, but I might mention it if they come up to me and say, “I’m sorry. Texas played lights out and you ought to be proud of them.”
Until next time, so long everybody.
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‘Out of the Box’ with Dallas Huston is published each Monday morning at BrownwoodNews.com. Dallas was the radio voice of the Brownwood Lions and Howard Payne Yellow Jackets for more than 55 years. He currently is Pastor of Center City Baptist Church and hosts a Men’s Bible Study in Brownwood on Monday evenings. Your comments are welcome at [email protected].