Well, Peruna, thanks for stopping by!
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:12 pmUnfortunately you are contributing to the losing athletic culture here at SMU and head football coach June Jones has put you in his cross hairs to eliminate.
So thanks for the 8+ decades of service you gave us: From representing us at the 1935 Rose Bowl, to representing us when Jerry L. broke the color barrier in the SWC in the 1960s to many good and tough seasons along the way including the Pony Express of the early 1980s.
We loved it when you were run across the field after touchdowns and quarters. You were feisty but that made you all the more lovable. Your handlers knew what the deal was.
You see, it's really all your fault we've had two seasons of non-losing football here on the Hilltop since our return from the death penalty in 1989. And here all this time we thought is was the morbid culture to impossible academic restrictions to just really bad coaching and bad players.
Our mistake. But you have to pay for those sins now.
You have 4 final home games left before you are led away for good to an unknown destination. It looks like when your time comes, you will not be able to be buried next to your predecessors. Guess the head coach who is only here to steal his money and bolt back to island doesn't want that to happen either. So you're pretty much out of luck. Wish we could help you.
The other problem you had is that the current SMU folks that run the place are only interested in sticking their hands out. But you've shown tremendous strength and maturity over this time of embattlement.
For us marginalized and half-crazed over 30 somethings, we'll always have your back. It's just the money grubbers and the me-first under 30 crowd could give a hoot and hell because they don't acknowledge tradition because they just don't care about it.
Please know that you'll always have a special place with us. To us, you are SMU -- AT LEAST THE SMU WE USED TO KNOW!
Be well, my friend. Be well.
The General
So thanks for the 8+ decades of service you gave us: From representing us at the 1935 Rose Bowl, to representing us when Jerry L. broke the color barrier in the SWC in the 1960s to many good and tough seasons along the way including the Pony Express of the early 1980s.
We loved it when you were run across the field after touchdowns and quarters. You were feisty but that made you all the more lovable. Your handlers knew what the deal was.
You see, it's really all your fault we've had two seasons of non-losing football here on the Hilltop since our return from the death penalty in 1989. And here all this time we thought is was the morbid culture to impossible academic restrictions to just really bad coaching and bad players.
Our mistake. But you have to pay for those sins now.
You have 4 final home games left before you are led away for good to an unknown destination. It looks like when your time comes, you will not be able to be buried next to your predecessors. Guess the head coach who is only here to steal his money and bolt back to island doesn't want that to happen either. So you're pretty much out of luck. Wish we could help you.
The other problem you had is that the current SMU folks that run the place are only interested in sticking their hands out. But you've shown tremendous strength and maturity over this time of embattlement.
For us marginalized and half-crazed over 30 somethings, we'll always have your back. It's just the money grubbers and the me-first under 30 crowd could give a hoot and hell because they don't acknowledge tradition because they just don't care about it.
Please know that you'll always have a special place with us. To us, you are SMU -- AT LEAST THE SMU WE USED TO KNOW!
Be well, my friend. Be well.
The General
