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October 22, 2006

Of All The Games To Miss

I drove down to Waco Friday night. After my 4 moves in 20 months, all of my fall/winter shoes and sweatshirts ended up at my parent's house.

I thought traffic was a little heavy driving down, but it never occured to me that it was Baylor Homecoming Weekend... some alum I am, huh?

We spent most of yesterday out shopping and running errands and for some reason, I didn't even give a minute's thought to trying to get a ticket to the game.... partly because it was moved to 2pm and I really didn't feel like returning to work on Monday SUNBURNED.

So, as we were at the mall, my dad stopped and looked at the TV that was showing the Tenn/Ark game. They were flashing scores across the bottom of the screen. It showed a familiar site... Baylor was losing... on Homecoming. Big Deal. Kansas was beating Baylor 35-17 and it was already in the 4th quarter.

Baylor has lost every single Homecoming game since 1997. The last time I remember going to a Homecoming game was 1997. That was probably the most memorable Homecoming game ever... because we beat TEXAS 23-21 in the last seconds of the game. Yes, Kami... you heard that right.... Baylor beat Texas... twice, while I was a student there actually.

Anyway, we go on about our day... searching out some finishing touches for my Halloween costume for work and we stop by my grandparent's house for a bit. My grandfather is watching the last of the Tenn/Ark game. I wasn't really paying attention but all of a sudden my dad says, "They Won?"

Yep... Baylor pulled it out. The QB thru 3 TD passes in 9:22 minutes for a comeback victory. The Final Score... 36 - 35.

Baylor is now 4-4 (3-2 in Big XII) and this is the first year in I don't know how many years that they have won 3 conference games... I know that the last time that happened... we were still in the good ole Southwest Conference. They are also .500+ with 8 games completed, a feet which I don't think I've seen in even longer.

Now, I wish I had tickets to next week's game... because the Aggies are headed to Waco... anyone, um.. Football Widow, wanna make a bet?

Posted by FutureFoodTVStar at October 22, 2006 09:11 AM

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Posted by: Kami at October 22, 2006 01:28 PM

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