Last night in San Diego my beloved Horns beat Arizona State 52-34 to close out 2007 with a 10-3 record. The game was on ESPN so I got to watch it from the comfort of my own living room. This was only the third game available through basic cable here on the Island, so I could watch it from home, and the previous two, OU and A&M did not end well. For the first time in 18 seasons I was unable to attend in person any of the Texas games and this was the first Texas bowl game I have missed attending in person since the '91 Cotton Bowl. Ironically Dennis Erickson who coached ASU last night was the coach of Miami, the team which took Texas behind the woodshed to the tune of 46-3 back in 91.
While I haven't gotten to attend any games, I have gotten to watch or follow Texas games at a variety of locations. These ranged from a mansion in West Bay, to a sports bar in Grand Harbour, at my home in Red Bay, a Holiday Inn Key Largo and even on a casino boat in international waters off the Florida coast. I missed two games that later had to be watched on the Internet and generally missed out on the normal day to day coverage you get when you live in Texas.
Missing football is the one draw back to living in paradise (well that and the hurricanes in August and September).
As Katie likes to say with football drawing to a close she gets her husband back. From the end of the Super Bowl until that first weekend in September when the rites of fall renew, our weekends are not spent trying to find the Texas game or tracking the score, back to biking and hiking and shows and snorkeling.
While I haven't gotten to attend any games, I have gotten to watch or follow Texas games at a variety of locations. These ranged from a mansion in West Bay, to a sports bar in Grand Harbour, at my home in Red Bay, a Holiday Inn Key Largo and even on a casino boat in international waters off the Florida coast. I missed two games that later had to be watched on the Internet and generally missed out on the normal day to day coverage you get when you live in Texas.
Missing football is the one draw back to living in paradise (well that and the hurricanes in August and September).
As Katie likes to say with football drawing to a close she gets her husband back. From the end of the Super Bowl until that first weekend in September when the rites of fall renew, our weekends are not spent trying to find the Texas game or tracking the score, back to biking and hiking and shows and snorkeling.
