Thursday, November 15, 2012

 

Happy Thanksgiving

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We want to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.  We have a lot to be thankful for – at the top of the list are our families and our country.  (And, Sarah is thankful even though she doesn’t appear to be very happy – the sun was very bright).


 

The Story of Us (in 2 minutes)

This is a very interesting video from the “beginning to the end” – including the “twist” at the end. I had to watch it several times to “see” everything; it goes by pretty quickly.



Thursday, November 8, 2012

 

Legendary UT Coach Darrell K Royal Dies

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The University of Texas at Austin and the Longhorn Nation mourn the loss of Coach Darrell K Royal, who died in Austin, November 7, at the age of 88. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

Coach Royal was one of the most successful collegiate football coaches in the history of the game, and he led his teams to three national championships in 1963, 1969 and 1970. He was an All-American player at the University of Oklahoma, but is most identified as the head coach of the Texas Longhorns from 1957 to 1976, compiling a record of 167-45-5. He continued to serve as athletics director at the University until 1980, a position he held for 18 years. The football stadium was renamed Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in his honor in 1996.
 
Royal will be remembered as a football innovator, a strong influence upon generations of players and colleagues, a passionate devotee of country music and a witty commentator whose homespun expressions have become legendary:
 
“Football games are decided from the twenty-yard line on in. All that other running and panting out in the middle of the field is just entertaining spectators and wearing out grass.”
 
President Lyndon B. Johnson once said of Royal, “I am not a football fan, but I am a fan of people and I am a Darrell Royal fan because he is the rarest of people.”

Read obituaries in the New York Times, the Austin American-Statesman, the Dallas Morning News and ESPN.com.


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