Your academia

Originally Posted by bladerunner

How often do you wearyour cowboy hat and boots and go line dancing and listen to Le Ann Grimes ..... yee haa.?

I've done it only once during the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. I'm not a Le Ann "Grimes" fan, more like Kerry Underwood and Taylor Swift type (they're both so gorgeous). NO I DON'T ride a horse to work...LOL! Houston is actually more of a hip hop and rap (3rd coast) type of music. For a more diversity of music in Texas ya have to head out to Austin (about 3 hours drive north west of Houston).

Originally Posted by petty officer1

I live in Dallas, so... how bout them Cowboys?

Cool!! I like Dallas alot. I got two cousins living in Dallas and we would go to Dallas couple times a year to visit them.

However, I hate the Cowboys, man (love their cheerleaders though)! My cousins are huge Cowboys fans. I'm a Texans fan! 2:0 baby!!

Also most of my cousins are Longhorns, so on every Thanksgiving day, we would watch the Texas vs. Texas A&M game together and having fun trash-talking to each other. Too bad, A&M is moving to the SEC... The Big 12 is a a lot more fun...

Originally Posted by petty officer1

how about our beloved governor?
well, most people don't know, the Governor of Texas have less powers and responsibilities than his Lieutenant Governor and the State budget comptroller. Rick Perry is more like emperor of Japan than any thing else.

He was more powerful back then when he was the agriculture commissioner of Texas, IMHO.

The best way to describe Rick is... a Republican. Which most of us Texans are, And he is an Aggie.
But, most Texans will get more interested in him, if he makes through the Republican Primary.

Yes, he used to be my dad's boss (since my dad used to work at TDA) and a fellow Aggie. So I support him.
But 100% agreed on that Texas governors are weak...

Originally Posted by Equation

I've done it only once during the annual Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. I'm not a Le Ann "Grimes" fan, more like Kerry Underwood and Taylor Swift type (they're both so gorgeous). NO I DON'T ride a horse to work...LOL! Houston is actually more of a hip hop and rap (3rd coast) type of music. For a more diversity of music in Texas ya have to head out to Austin (about 3 hours drive north west of Houston).

I have a love-and-hate thing going on with that show. I love the show because it's a lot of fun. I hate it because I live close to the Reliant Center and the traffic becomes soooo bad during the 2-3 weeks of the show that it would take me almost an hour just to get out onto the innerloop, which normally takes me 5 minutes...

I think Houston has a lot of country and Latino music. Since Hispanics is now the minority majority in Houston, their music is now very popular.

Originally Posted by vesicles

Cool!! I like Dallas alot. I got two cousins living in Dallas and we would go to Dallas couple times a year to visit them.

However, I hate the Cowboys, man (love their cheerleaders though)! My cousins are huge Cowboys fans. I'm a Texans fan! 2:0 baby!!

Also most of my cousins are Longhorns, so on every Thanksgiving day, we would watch the Texas vs. Texas A&M game together and having fun trash-talking to each other. Too bad, A&M is moving to the SEC... The Big 12 is a a lot more fun...

That's funny, my brother lives in Dallas and he's a big time Cowboys fan. Every year my brother and I would have our annual bets(anything from money, food, doing favors) whenever Dallas plays against the Washington Redskins.

I know it sad to see the Big 12 gets broken up like that. All because UT wants their own Longhorns Network just like Notre Dame has a deal with NBC. In the long run it might be good for college football for the state of Texas because that way Texas has at least a major university team representing all the major conferences like Pac 10, Big 10, SEC, ACC, and Big EAST.

Dang it my TEXANS lost to the SAINTS! Aaarrghh and my fantassy football team lost also, what a bad Sunday in sports for me! Oh well, I can still root for my Redskins tomorrow.

Cool!! I like Dallas alot. I got two cousins living in Dallas and we would go to Dallas couple times a year to visit them.

However, I hate the Cowboys, man (love their cheerleaders though)! My cousins are huge Cowboys fans. I'm a Texans fan! 2:0 baby!!

Also most of my cousins are Longhorns, so on every Thanksgiving day, we would watch the Texas vs. Texas A&M game together and having fun trash-talking to each other. Too bad, A&M is moving to the SEC... The Big 12 is a a lot more fun...

I actually don't care too much about the cowboys. They been doing a lot disappointing things with huge amount of money wasted since the 2008 seasons in my opinion. I do have to agree about the cheerleaders.
I have been a Maverick fan for years. I am really disappointed there will not be a season this year.

Btw I think we made this "your academia" thread into a Texans reunion. Way off topic haha!

Humm? we have one major member from Texas not posting in this thread. He must want to remain "The Unknown Texan"

Originally Posted by petty officer1

I actually don't care too much about the cowboys. They been doing a lot disappointing things with huge amount of money wasted since the 2008 seasons in my opinion. I do have to agree about the cheerleaders.
I have been a Maverick fan for years. I am really disappointed there will not be a season this year.

I hate the Cowboys from top to bottom all the way from Jerry Jones to Tony Romo. I too love the Maves though. I am happy for Dirt. In my mind, he is everything an MVP should be. I wish they can do it again in the near future. However, I honestly doubt they could because of their age...

Originally Posted by petty officer1

Btw I think we made this "your academia" thread into a Texans reunion. Way off topic haha!

guess we got a little carried away with the Texas stuff... The nation of Texas is always charismatic...

BTW, the things we talk about are the normal stuff being discussed in college dorms and are also the things that college students care most about. So in that sense, we are still talking about academia

Originally Posted by bd popeye

Humm? we have one major member from Texas not posting in this thread. He must want to remain "The Unknown Texan"

Who might that be?

Originally Posted by Equation

Dang it my TEXANS lost to the SAINTS! Aaarrghh and my fantassy football team lost also, what a bad Sunday in sports for me! Oh well, I can still root for my Redskins tomorrow.

I hope that Texans don't do what they did last year when they won 2 games in a roll to start the season and ended up having a losing season (2-8 to end the season is kind of pathetic).

Originally Posted by vesicles

I hope that Texans don't do what they did last year when they won 2 games in a roll to start the season and ended up having a losing season (2-8 to end the season is kind of pathetic).

I hope so too. Knowing the Texans loves to play the what I like to call Prevent Offense (Opposite of Prevent Defense scheme with the offense doing it instead) towards the 4th quarter instead of keeping the pressure on by scoring and controlling the momentum of the game.

Who might that be?

Can't say..I'm sure he would have visited this thread to discuss Texas..I will invite him!

You are not talking about me are you Popeye?

Originally Posted by Equation

I hope so too. Knowing the Texans loves to play the what I like to call Prevent Offense (Opposite of Prevent Defense scheme with the offense doing it instead) towards the 4th quarter instead of keeping the pressure on by scoring and controlling the momentum of the game.

On top of that, they get Schaub who is a good QB, but not a franchise player whom they can depend on to win games.