Stranger in a Strange Land

I am a UT grad and I love UT football. Since I have no children, my love of UT football borders on the love I would have for a child that I know about. I also live in ground zero of SC country, West Hollywood. It is now almost four weeks since the Rose Bowl and the SC homers still can't come to grip with the fact that UT won. It is amazing. I was a buddy's b-day party the other night who happens to be a SC grad and being a little drunk the usual subject comes up, the Rose Bowl. I get regaled (sp?) with the reason that SC lost having to do more with SC mistakes than UT's effort. That was followed up with a trip to a computer where my friend pulled up the rivals rankings that shows SC's 5 five-star recruits to UT's 3. So according to my friend, the wheels are falling off the wagon at UT while SC is simply reloading. Being that is was his birthday and frankly there is nothing more stupid than fighting over whose future team is better than the other, I let it go.

Cut to this afternoon. I was at a friend's 30th b-day party. It's more of a production that I anticipated with a sit down meal, etc. So my plan to pop in say "hi" and "bye" was ruined. So I am seated at a table with yet another SC grad. Topic of conversation? You guessed it. The Rose Bowl. Again the guy is going on about how it is more a testament to SC's mistakes than UT's proficiency that UT won. I was also told how much better a player Bush is than Young and that Young was a one man band, and yes, the wheels are falling off the wagon at UT. But not SC where they are replacing three crucial starters on there team. Again SC is reloading and UT is wandering like in the desert like the jews in biblical stories. The kicker was when I said (frankly to be nice) that if the game was played ten times it would be an even split at five a piece. I was actually being nice because, in my opinion, Texas would win seven or eight of ten because I feel our D didn't play its best game. So when I throw this out there, the guy goes "I'm not so sure about that. We had an off day." I hate to say it, even taking into account that UT is a world class flagship state school, we really don't get any respect. Is it asking too much that the football gods deliver another championship just to shut these people up. Jeez o' Peeze were we watching the same game? Unreal.