Please go back to Texas as I'm sick of the rain and the Purple Horde is the most obvious cause.
You do realize the Tournament of Roses Committee has a contract with God to always have perfect weather on January 1st to give the middle finger to the rest of the U.S.
Then, on January 2, it is Winter as usual with cold and rain which is never nationally televised.
My "poofy" Huntington Harbour neighbors had a Rose Bowl watching party (Tri-Tip, Chili, and CornBread) for the game and not a single one of them knew who or what or where a TCU and/or Horned Frog is/was.
I did my best to explain and they finally had some comprehension when I mentioned SMU (which of course they had significant knowledge).
I advised them that they were SMU's jealous rival as they were relegated to existence in Fort Worth (I had to explain that FW is a suburb of Dallas!
); I then explained that they had worked really hard to build their self esteem by pouring significant time and resources to build their FB team.
I told them that TCU's FB team was better than they imaged because they really needed to feel superior to SMU in at least something and that it was a TEXAS self-image kind of thing.
Most were still disappointed that they had to watch "our" Rose Bowl be-spoiled by the interloper from "God Knows Where" Texas when Stanford of the evil no-cals should be representing the Pac-10 against the despicable big, slow, fat Big Televen as GOD intended!
Finally they started getting the picture that TCU was damn good and they even started giving you purple grape Popsicles polite respect and in the end even slightly celebrated your ultimate finger nail biting victory.
Seriously ...
WELL DONE!
and
The L.A. Times Ad is a keeper!
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 11:54 pm
