Thanksgiving was good and having an extra long weekend is always nice.
We ended up going to a high school playoff game on Friday night and got a look at the future UT quarterback. He was pretty good and it seems like he'll be a good fit for the offense. The fans we sat in front of were... interesting? No, annoying is probably a better word. Their team could do no wrong and the refs were "trying to give the game to the other team". As an impartial observer who was originally pulling for their team to win (they are closer to home and the team that has the future UT QB), I found myself hoping that the other team won just to spite the poor sports behind us. Does that make me a poor sport?
My high school alma mater won their game this weekend too and is one step closer to back-to-back state championships. Woohoo!
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Begin College Football Rant
And then there's college football... sigh. In a system where "every game counts" apparently games played on October 11th, 2008 don't, in fact, "count". Beating Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl almost always means a trip to the conference championship game... except this year, there was another good team in the Big 12 South. Now, ultimately it was up to Texas to finish out their gauntlet with a win in Lubbock. They almost did, but they didn't. It was a three-way tie, but the top two teams in the BCS rankings (and the only two who had a shot at the National Championship) were Texas and OU. And Texas beat OU 45-35 in the Red River Shootout.
Sooners like to say "but we beat Tech soundly and they beat Texas, so it doesn't matter that Texas beat us". Well, if you really wanted to use that logic, we've already beaten Florida (Texas > Arkansas > LSU > Ole Miss > Florida), but that's not how it works. Heck, if it was, all we need is for Florida to beat Alabama and we should be declared the National Champions.
But it is what it is. Now all the Longhorns can do is sit back and watch the "Can't Beat Texas Bowl" (otherwise known as the Big 12 Championship game) and hope that perhaps Missouri can pull the upset (not likely). And when that doesn't happen, put on a dominating performance in their BCS bowl game and then watch Florida stomp the Sooners.
I hope Colt McCoy comes back next year...
End College Football Rant
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The Sunday before Thanksgiving we got a new grill. The old one was in pretty bad shape. So while we should have been cleaning the house and getting ready for company, we were putting together the grill and cookin' up some burgers. But it was worth it, and it was fun, and we got the house clean anyway (because I have a sweet husband who helps out a lot!). :)
And yesterday we got the lights put up outside:
It's December!
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