Rats From a Sinking Ship

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Texas Taps

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Thanks for leaving the game early. It's always good to weed out the weak
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Real fans do. They also don't act like children in their tantrums online or in real life. The usual suspects did not disappoint any more than they usually do.
 
We stayed until the bitter Eyes, just like the last two times we played UCLA in Austin. If they are the rats, we are the bat (crazies).
 
who cares what a player's mom has to say on the subject. 1) she got in free 2) she won't be here when her little darling moves on

at these prices , its entertainment. when the opera stinks you get the hell out to a good tailgate party.
 
As far as I travel to see these games, it would be nice if the players would put on a great show like I've come to expect. But regardless of this, I stayed until the bitter end and sang
The Eyes proudly as I always do.
 
If the horns are getting their *** handed to them I leave. I am not a fair weather fan. After sitting through the 1997 UCLA game I decided that i do not enjoy watching us get our *** kicked. I find it painful and do not enjoy pain. I still attended every other home game that season and continued to support my horns as always. I will not stay for a 4th quarter to watch the other team run up the score. I admit I do not understand staying until the end of an *** kicking. It's probably because I am not an Aggy.
 
I leave early. So shoot me. I don't enjoy having to watch garbage. If you feel staying to the bitter makes you "a true fan" so be it. It makes me feel like an aggy to stay for a lost cause
 
I don't mind checking out when it is abundantly clear that the team has already done so as well.
 
Leaving when the game is still in doubt, no matter how small the odds, is different. We had thousands of people heading for the exits in the 3rd quarter down 21. Probably the same people who left in the 2nd quarter of the Oklahoma State game in 2004.
 
Listen, that game was very hard to sit through and I've sat through a few loses. Fortunately we don't have to do it that often. I don't blame those who chose to leave early. That game was very hard to stomach... but the wife & I did our part.
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I have never left early before, even through many a OU beatdown, but I just could not watch this one once it was completely hopeless. Seeing a talented team like the Horns basically giving away the game over and over and over through screwball mistakes was just too much to stomach.
 
I left early. What did i miss?

Actually the silver lining... the first home game in a long time that i have not been pressured into giving high fives to the super fans who sit one row down from me.

No high fives offered last Saturday.
 
I typically stay to the end, good or bad.

But I have no problem with how people want to use their discretionary time.
 
The way we were playing against UCLA (down by three touchdowns in the 3rd quarter) the game was over and not in doubt. Which of our past three victories gave you any shred of hope that our offense could overcome a 21-point deficit in the second half?
 
Stat... that game against OSU (big comeback in the 2nd
half) had something that this game didn't. Vince Young.
Vince had a will-to-win that inspired and motivated that
team. This team does not have that leadership (at least
on offense). By the end of the 3rd quarter, there was
no expectation of a comeback.
 
Because that's what one does when they support somebody. Do you boo your kids? Do you walk out on them? While these guys are not your children, a true fan sticks through thick and thin.

Being wishy washy and fickle are human traits that many possess and that's cool. It's part of life. The Horns just mean more to some than they do to others. Some put conditions on their fandom and others do not. Their pride and their love of the Horns is greater, no biggie.

I am sure that the players on the filed, as dejected and deflated as they were, really appreciated their true fans that were there for them in the end, unconditionally. There is no shame in being a lesser. It is what it is and it is exactly that.
 
100p, let me be clear: I have left before the Eyes maybe five times in my 30+ years of attending UT football games as a season ticket holder. That said, I disagree with your definition of a "fan."

These young men have a heck of a deal. They get a free ride at a University that, frankly, not many of them would get into under the top 10% rule. They get to play the sport they love before 100K adoring fans every Saturday in the fall for four years, and they're trained and coached in a manner that optimizes their marketability to the NFL.

I pay $85-$110 per game, per seat for four seats to watch them play, plus a large annual payment to the Longhorn Foundation to keep those seats. During games, I can come and go as I please, and I can sit whenever I want to. There is no unspoken contract between me and the team that I will stand or stay when I choose not to. I have paid a hefty sum for the right to exercise my discretion in that regard.

When the team meets my expectations, I will stay. Almost always, they do. That does not mean I leave when they're losing, if I feel they have given the performance they're capable of (i.e., if they've played their hearts out). If, on the other hand, they're sloppy, careless, or just up and quit during the game, I am not going to reward or support their underachievement with my continued presence.

To answer your question about my kids, no, I never left their games early or boo'ed them (nor have I ever, ever boo'ed the Horns). But, I did let my kids know when I thought they weren't playing to their potential or giving it their all. Unlike my kids, I don't have one-on-one contact with these young men. Thus, I will express my dissatisfaction by my departure on the rare occasions when they inexcusably underperform.
 
Hey, no justifying needed, it's cool. If you are fine with it in the end, cool. That's all that is important. You should mix in some boo's here and there though just to try it on for size. You never know.
 
Horrible performance. One of those games but, let's not panic. We're gonna lose games and fans deal with it differently. But I'm sure the players read these posts and these are the times they need us to get over a bad loss quickly and show our support going into a rivalry game against a hated, talented opponent. Let's get behind the boys and fire them up. That's our job. Hook Em Baby! Kick the shite outta oklahma!
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My Dad told me when I was a kid and we attended UT games that we stayed until the end & sang Eyes - win or lose. He also said the players don't get to leave the game early when they are losing so why should the fans abandon them? That has always been my mode at Horn games and I taught the same things to my kids.
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There is no way I could play like those boys do, even when they are not playing terribly well. There is no way I know enough about the game, the team or the opponents to coach. So, my job is to sing the National Anthem and "The eyes" at the beginning of the game,yell, clap and stomp during the game, keep my orange clothing visible during the game and sing "the eyes at the end of the game. I always try to do any job I have well. So, I came early enough to sing, wore orange, made a lot of noise, when appropriate, and stayed late. That may not be everyone's job, but it's mine. Oh, and for difficult games I wear my Hornfans t-shirt and my lucky Longhorn socks.
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