Posted on 11/11/2022 3:07:19 PM PST by C19fan
Tomorrow, Saturday, November 12, 2022 might be one of the biggest games in the TCU v. Texas intrastate rivalry. Number 4 undefeated TCU is attempting to keep its playoff bid alive vs. #18 Texas at Austin. The former head coach of TCU, who took the team to the cusp of a playoff bid and was unceremoniously dumped into the garbage by TCU when the team started to struggle, is on the Texas sideline plotting revenge. ESPN is bringing the Game Day crew to Austin and the game is being broadcast during the primetime window with Rece Davis and Kirk Herbstreit. That is all well and good. Perhaps my biggest pet peeve is how TCU has been misclassifying Phrynosoma cornutum as an amphibian not a reptile. TCU has taken a lizard and is calling it a frog. On top of that it is given this reptile a purple color scheme not its natural color tones ideally suited for its environmnt. Phrynosoma cornutum looks like a mini version of the Ankylosaurus genus of dinosaurs yet TCU has made this amazing animal a Barney type caricature. But I decided to let this go. If a man can call himself a woman and demand society accept this. If a white woman can identify as a black. If a man can dress up like a dog and require society to pet him like a dog than damn sure TCU can self-identify its mascot as an amphibian. TCU was quite ahead of the time deciding to self-identify as an entirely different class of the phylum Chordata.
Hook Em Horns
“The former head coach of TCU, who took the team to the cusp of a playoff bid and was unceremoniously dumped into the garbage by TCU when the team started to struggle”
He wasn’t dumped- he resigned before being fired. The fact Patterson was the HC at the same program for more than two decades is amazing by itself these days.
Horned frogs never sound very intimidating, right up there with Ducks or Zips (Akron - Kangaroo). But more pathetic are Trees (Stanford) and Orange (Syracuse). Syracuse could be as intimidating as Donald Trump, but they went woke and dropped ‘men’. That has been the left’s plan all along; to get rid of men. That’s the root of all this transgenderism grooming.
There is a story behind why Syracuse went from Orangemen to just Orange.
Pretty much everyone outside of Fort Worth is rooting for Texas.
They used to be the Stanford Indians.
Interesting. It is just these other fan bases wanting a shot at a Big 12 title or something deeper?
TCU losing gives a path to Tennessee, LSU and maybe even the loser of the Ohio State/Michigan game, if it’s close.
They used to be the St John’s Redmen
At least your mascot is interesting. All I have is a Buckeye. Nuts!
A game of millionaires running around in tights, chasing a ball, and not realizing how silly it looks
TCU’s lowest scoring game was last week’s win against Texas Tech at 34 points. It also was the QB’s (Duggan) lowest passing game. Texas has been right up there in scoring.
In my OK and AZ youth we always called ‘em “horny toads”.
In Cave Creek, AZ, a hippy-dippy town, there are two restaurant/bars: 1) the Horny Toad, and 2) the Satisfied Frog. LOL
Millionaires? College kids?
All this can be traced back to “White” chocolate.
Just the top rated ones on NIL deals....
https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaaf/highest-paid-college-athletes-in-the-nil-era
I hate TCU (Baylor grad and huge Texas fan here). But I find myself in the odious position of hoping they make it to the CFP. No one else in the Big 12 stands a chance, and I know the committee is just looking for any excuse to slide in another SEC team. I may have to hold my nose and root (ish) for them in their games against Texas and Baylor.
Man, I hate the frogs.
Lol, same here. Horny toads. Central Texas youth.
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