Hot Hot Fun Fun

Yesterday evening, I got a call from a friend who jumped way up the list of people who make me happy... she wanted to give away two tickets to the UT/NTSU game -- for free. Needless to say, the only way to obtain tickets to the game these days is to buy them from a scalper, as every game is a sell out. I even took the kids to the stadium this summer to find out about getting last minute tickets from the visiting team's allotment, should they not use them... odds of that happening, very low.

Anyway, I had two tickets and after asking one other special person and getting turned down, took my biggest UT fan in the family, Mr. Max. We had fun. Spent tons of money on bottles of water because it was HOTTER THAN HELL, in the stands. It was also a blowout, which actually keeps a 7 year old very interested, since everytime we score, the cannon goes off, the cheerleaders do special cheers, the flags run the field, and the Longhorn Band plays the fight song:

Texas Fight, Texas Fight,

And it's goodbye to A&M.^[1]

Texas Fight, Texas Fight,

And we'll put over one more win.

Texas Fight, Texas Fight,

For it's Texas that we love best.

Hail, Hail, The gang's all here,^[2]

And it's good-bye to all the rest!

Yea Orange! Yea White!

Yea Longhorns! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Texas Fight! Texas Fight,

Yea Texas Fight!

Texas Fight! Texas Fight,

Yea Texas Fight!

The Eyes of Texas are upon you,

All the livelong day.

The Eyes of Texas are upon you,

You cannot get away.

Texas Fight, Texas Fight,

For it's Texas that we love best.

Hail, Hail, The gang's all here,

And it good-bye to all the rest!

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Notes

1. ↑ A&M refers to UT's in-state rival, Texas A&M University.
2. ↑ "Hail, Hail, the gang's all here" is almost always replaced with "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell! Go, Horns, go!" Students generally replace the line with the more vulgar "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell! Make 'em eat shit!" or "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell! OU sucks!" whenever Texas plays Oklahoma. They also replace the line with "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell! A&M sucks!" whenever Texas plays Texas A&M or sometimes "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell! [Name of university] sucks!" against other high profile opponents. Sometimes, the chant is used against other universities that are upcoming on the schedule, vs the school actually being played at that moment. For example, during the 2005 Big 12 Championship blowout of Colorado, some fans began looking ahead to the Rose Bowl by changing these last words to "USC sucks!"

Pay special attention to note number 2. When I was in school, "Give 'em hell, give 'em hell! Make 'em eat shit!" was all the rage. So I said that softly and when Max heard others around me say that, or the OU version, he became the cussing police.

We stuck it out for the whole game, even though about half the fans left by the third quarter. When David, Emma and Joey picked us up, Max told the story about the song's words. I told David about the crowd leaving early, and Emma said, "Mom, it was probably because of your cussing."