Prochein Amy

Cast your vote for your favorite performance of the Indiana Jones theme song!  Texas, of course!  You can vote everyday.

I watched all the others, and my favorite is still Texas. Maybe because I am used to their sound. LSU comes a close second. Everyone else did not seem to be into it.

Notice our baton twirler has flames?

So, along with football season, I am involved with the girl’s school.  Homecoming Commitee, Parent Teacher Fellowship (PTF), and Room Parent.  And I have been nominated for Secretary of the PTF. 

What is scary is everyone is telling me it gets crazier as the girls get older.

Work is busy with more than a full time job. 

My husband is working from home, so he is able to fix dinner most nights.  He wanted to take all, but I like to cook and claimed Thursday nights.

Now my blog is down to 8 readers instead of 11.

Texas plays Arkansas on Saturday at 2:30pm.

I don’t feel like doing a summary on Arkansas.  I don’t wanna know more.  Bah humbug.

Texas will play Rice University in Austin on Saturday at 6pm.  Can’t wait to see the MOB!!!

Here is the summary:

Mascot:
Owls. Their main mascot has been named Sammy. The story goes like this:

In 1912, Rice’s first president, Edgar Odell Lovett, chose as the school colors “a blue still deeper than the Oxford blue” and “the Confederate gray, enlivened by a tinge of lavender.” It has been suggested that blue and gray were chosen in recognition of the fact that Rice’s founder amassed much of the fortune that formed the initial endowment of the Rice Institute by trading with both the North and the South during the Civil War.

Location:
Houston, Texas

Main rival:
The only reference I can find is A&M. Maybe because of this story.

Unique traditions:

Rice has The MOB.

More interesting stuff here and here.

Linky Love:

Houston Chronicle

RiceFootball.net

Due to Hurricane Ike, the game we were scheduled to play yesterday has been moved to September 26th.   Rumor is that Arkansas wanted to just cancel the game.  Arkansas has been playing bad and know they will likely lose to Texas.  Can’t blame the speculation due Arkansas already cancelling next years game.  Typically big teams have a home-home series, so we should be playing Arkansas next year at their stadium, but they postponed the game until 2015.  They would rather play A&M.  Things that make you go hmmmm……

These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him – at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars- his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself – such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable. But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.

- Campaign Dinner Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, September 23, 1944. Washington, DC

Full speech here.

Texas travels to El Paso to play the University of Texas at El Paso on September 5th.  (Note:  Their website sucks. )  However, Wikipedia’s entry is awesome. 

Mascot: Miner’s.  Goes along with being The Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy.

Colors:   Orange, White and Blue.  Blue was added later, maybe to show their independence from the original University?

Location:  The northern bank of the Rio Grande, in El Paso, Texas

Main Rival:  Totally scammed from Wikipedia:

The winner of the UTEP vs New Mexico State University football game receives a pair of traveling trophies; The Silver Spade and The Brass Spittoon. The first spade used for this purpose was an old prospector’s shovel dug up from an abandoned mine in the Organ Mountains near Las Cruces, New Mexico in 1947. This was the symbol of victory, and the spade was given to the winner of the football game between the Miners and Aggies each year.

The idea of the present Silver Spade was from UTEP student Don Henderson, the student association president and now a very successful El Paso businessman and former mayor of the city. In 1955 Henderson secured the present spade and each year the score of the game is engraved on the blade.

Perhaps the idea behind the spade is the fact that at the time the prospector’s spade was uncovered, both schools’ major field of study had use for the tool, mining and metallurgy for the College of Mines and agriculture at then New Mexico A&M. The Brass Spittoon, officially known as the Mayor’s Cup, came into existence in 1982 when the mayors of the two cities; Jonathan Rogers of El Paso, and David Steinborn of Las Cruces decided to present another traveling trophy to the winner of the UTEP vs New Mexico State University game. This game is more commonly known as “The Battle of I-10″.

Spirit: 

This hand symbol represents the traditional tool used by Miners, the pickaxe. This is the universal way UTEP Students, UTEP Alumni, and fans of UTEP athletics salute each other. This is also the gesture fans of the UTEP Miners hold up when UTEP players are shooting free throws at basketball games, or any time UTEP kicks off at a football game.

 Last Season Record:  4 wins and 8 losses.

Famous Players: 

Don Maynard:  One of only 20 players who were in the AFL for its entire 10-year existence, Maynard was also one of only seven players who played their entire AFL careers with one team. Maynard finished his career with 633 receptions for 11,834 yards and 88 touchdowns. His 18.7 yards per catch is the highest for anyone with at least 600 receptions.

Chris Jacke was a placekicker for Greenbay from 1989 – 1996.

Tony Tolbert- Three time world champion with the Dallas Cowboys.

Seth Joyner:  Joyner played in the NFL for the Philadelphia Eagles (1986–1993), Arizona Cardinals (1994–1996), Green Bay Packers (1997), and the Denver Broncos (1998). Joyner’s unique combination of strength and quickness allowed him to excel in all defensive statistical categories and propelled him to three Pro Bowl accolades; being selected in 1991, 1993, and 1994.

Lee Mays, Jr:  He was selected with the 30th pick of the sixth round of the 2002 NFL Draft out of the University of Texas-El Paso. In his four seasons with the Steelers, Mays recorded 11 receptions for 154 yards [14.0 avg.], a long catch of 46 yards and 0 touchdowns. He returned 36 kickoffs for 750 yards, a 20.8 average, a long of 35 yards, and no touchdowns or 40 yard returns. Lee Mays was cut by the Steelers after training camp but re-signed with the team 4 months later following the release of running back Duce Staley and as of Fall 2007 he’s no longer with the team.

Linky Love:

Joe on utepia
NYT Profile
Kyyotes Den
MinerReport.com
MinerDigs.com

Hubby’s Game Prediction:  Texas wins 60 – 10.  As long as the team does not think they will win by just showing up, it will be fine.

Notes of interest:

Tickets are hard to get for this game due to the limited size of UTEP’s stadium of 52,000.  UTEP knew this and advertised season tickets in the Austin area, hoping to take advantage of Austin fan’s desire to go.  When it was all said and done, after season ticket holders, Texas’s alloted tickets, there were 1,800 left. 

Jack Handey is a graduate of UTEP.  

Day 26:  Girls are loving school!!!

Day 27:  My girls are cooks, despite my lack of patience.  Both can make taco meat, pasta-roni, salad, biscuits, and more that I can’t think of or we have not tried.

Day 28:  This challenge is almost over. 

Day 29:  Vacation Day to head to Austin for the first game of the season.  We went to the Co-op to get more burnt orange gear.  Found bags just right for the girls to pack their weekend gear.  Burnt orange of course.

Day 30:  Texas plays!!!!

Day 31:  Happiness is finding a new tailgate spot without a bunch of freeloaders.