At my age, I have lots of friends who attended the broad berth of Texas colleges and universities.
But it so happened that three esteemed Texas Tech graduates – all three close and two go back to high school football years – felt the need to call mid-day Saturday.
Coincidence?
Hardly, because mid-day Saturday was roughly halftime for the A&M-South Carolina game.
One of those Red Raiders called before half, when South Carolina was leading 24-3 over the Aggies playing in front of more than 100,000 at Kyle Field.
Color this crowd unhappy and hot. In mid-November at that.
Just to bring everybody on board on the reasons for the phone calls, A&M is and was ranked No. 3 at the time of the Red Raiders phone calls.
Tech is ranked by most pollsters in the top 5 and was last Saturday.
Still, no reason to call me with bad football news. I follow Aggie football closely on Saturday, as does the rest of the Aggie Nation.
Now, if they were called while A&M and Tech were playing, I’d get it, but that hasn’t happened in over a decade.
In fairness, one of these guys actually called about bi-district score of our high school alma mater, Tivy High School, in Kerrville.
Tivy lost 50-75 to Gregory-Portland last Friday night.
Cue Rod Steiger: Imagine if you will playing for a team that put up 50 points and lost by 25.
Texas football, that’s what.
But my friend had the Aggie score ready for announcement just the same, but held off when I told him that our Tivy teammate and his fellow Tech grad called to ask if I knew the score.
Anyway, I bore the brunt of the condescending Red Raider remarks of my Aggies and its timing.
Ah, the timing of those calls.
Well halfway through the Bay City game, I pull my cell phone out and see the Aggies came back from a 30-3 halftime score to a final score of A&M 31 and South Carolina 30.
I immediately thought of calling them – everyone – about the score, but Bay City still had a half left in the exciting game with Tuloso-Midway the Blackcats eventually won.
Why waste my froth now when Tech still has two left in regular season like the Aggies and the playoffs after that.
Neither of Tech’s opponents are favored to win, but neither was South Carolina.
For the Aggies, our last regular season game awaits at DKR Stadium the end of next week.
Step off on Hullabaloo.
