- We broke the UT streak in front of about 30K with a QB playing WR in the most anti-climactic, unimaginable way possible. We ran 2 plays and scored 10 points . . . and won! I mean, you couldn't dream that scenario into reality. As a matter of fact, the whole game doesn't even seem real or like it was played in some alternate dimension. Sometimes I even forget that Roark was a real player here. He sort of even looked like a "Create A Player" off of a video game. We were too ready to fire Joker to fully appreciate it, I believe.
With that said, might as well snap the Florida streak down in the swamp this Saturday. Would make about as much sense, probably. Maybe Blake Bone can run the Wildcat? And then we can get back to hating Stoops as we lose out to the rest of the SEC schedule.
- My children are old enough now to really soak in everything they hear me say. I make a concentrated effort to never curse in front of them. They think my wife (who is a much better person than me) curses more, which is not true at all, but she will let little stuff slide in front of them and I giggle every time she does. These good habits have spilled over into my profession as well. When I use language in-game or in the locker room, I keep it fairly PG - maybe PG13. But I never use GD or F-bombs (except once last year and it was well deserved). Now that my son is old enough to be on the bench fetching water, I will scale it back even more. I need some new vocabulary like "dingbat." Would the Brits get mad if I incorporated "bloody" as a substitute for "'touchin'"? Goshdangit is already fully operational.
- Along those lines, my mother hardly ever said cuss words when I was a kid. When she did, it was something very PG. Her go-to cussword was to call someone a "little shitass" when they really deserved to hear it! Cracks me up. She would never call them an "asshole" or "smartass." No, no. That wasn't classy. So "shitass" it was.
- No matter how much I clean up my language, give me a guys-only weekend with my buddies and I'm using f-bombs for every part of speech in the English language by Saturday afternoon. Have to catch myself when I return to reality.