I made my first visit in several years to the football chatroom at hornfans.com tonight. While the Aggies were bottom-feeding and the longhorns were soaring far above them, I really had no desire to read their commentary. As a subcategory of humankind, longhorn fans are some of the most repulsive people on earth. The only thing worse than your typical everyday hornfan is a conservative Republican hornfan.
The horns are 5-6 and have been stomped on their home field four times this year. But they won a huge victory last Saturday. Okay, it was only some podunk lower-tier Florida school, but by God, the horns hung 50-something on 'em. For one Saturday, the magic was back. And apparently so is the hubris. I was amazed by the number of comments predicting the horns would win Thursday night. Of course, four would've been three too many. Giving credit where it's due, there are a number of chastened hornfans who are showing a little humility, but I can tell it's not coming easy for them.
The bottom line: The Aggies are on the ascent, the horns are on the descent, and if TAMU is ever going to win a Thursday night game in Austin, this is the year to do it. I'm getting tense and it's only Tuesday. By Thursday at 6:00 pm, I should be a nervous wreck.
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