Football season's almost here, me hearties. For yours truly, that means bowel-clenching Sundays watching my fantasy team get pounded and nailbiting Saturdays hoping the Longhorns don't cough one up to Kansas. Imagine, then, my surprise to find this little tidbit nestled at the end of an article about UT's new defensive coordinator:
It also was announced Wednesday that the annual Texas-Oklahoma game will be called the SBC Red River Rivalry. The name change was announced as part of a new three-year sponsorship agreement with the two schools and SBC Communications Inc. The game formerly was known as the Red River Shootout.
The name change was aimed at political correctness and to coincide with this year's 100th meeting between the two teams, a UT official said.
You rotten, spineless bastards. I don't care that SBC attached themselves, remora-like, to the biggest game of the Big 12 season (sorry Ags). Hell, we should all be happy it's not the Cialis Boner Bowl. But you changed it from "Shootout" for what reason exactly? Are we trying to somehow convince the rest of the U.S. that people in Texas and Oklahoma don't own guns? I thought that was the only thing keeping all those Californians from moving in to take advantage of our lack of a state income tax.
Ah, who am I kidding? After the last five years, I'll just be happy if we can stop the bleeding in what has actually become the Annual Mack Brown Nutstomp. Oh, and I'm not looking forward to Sept. 10 against Ohio State, either.
Time to stock up on the Zantac.
Ah, fantasy football season. It's the most wonderful time of the year.
No, denny,
The weeks before fantasy football season are the most wonderful time of the year. At least for me. That's when I can still fantasize that my team will finally make it past the first round of the playoffs this season. That's hard to do at the end of month one when you're 1-3.
I feel for ya, Pete. That game has been a huge monkey for you guys for a while now. Much the same way that the hated 'Tors are for us.
I hate corporate sponsorship. What will happen three years from now when SBC no longer wants to "sponsor" the game?
Preseason is to football what foreplay is to baby-makin'; titilating, to be sure, but not close enough to the ultimate end-game to be enjoyable all by itself.
And if you need good FF advice, let me know. I'm pretty okay at it. There are a number of good sites out there, but I write for the huddle.com.
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Next year it will be the Cialis Boner Bowl. And YOU won't get the credit for naming it.
What is This Fading Republic coming to? Shortly, there will be NOTHING in this formerly great land that isn't corporate sponsored.
I've been thinking about auctioning off naming rights to myself, but unfortunately there's been great enthusiasm for not submitting bids among the corporations I've floated the idea to. Figgers.