Everything posted by Texas73
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
The building opened in 1972.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
As a math major I took probability there in the fall of '72 and it was the PMA building. Yep, the Physics, Math, Astronomy building. It was named after R L Moore the next fall.
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Eyes of Texas
The Eyes will be louder than ever when games resume so your voice won't be missed.
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2020 Presidential Election -- Biden v Trump: Sleepy Joe vs Dopey Don [Results begin on page 409]
I've seen it on MSNBC many times in Austin. Pisses me off.
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Donald Trump 2020
Hope the fucking ends Jan 21, 2021.
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Donald Trump 2020
Aren't all Republican candidates for president against abortion and in favor of conservative judges?
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
We will never get this shit fixed.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Really? People make jokes to you about The Eyes because it is it the tune to I've Been Working on the Railroad? I hope you've gotten therapy and friends with better jokes. I remember once at the ou sucks game, probably 1971, okies sitting by us stood and said let's sing I've been Working on the Railroad. Like I gave a fuck. They are hurt we have a loud, proud song and they don't. We used to sing I've been Working on the Railroad back in the 50's when I was in grade school. I never knew we were racists when we sang it in 3rd grade. Shame on us. Who and where does anyone sing it in 2020?
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Donald Trump 2020
How about Florida?
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Texas Runoff Election - starts 6/29
The night she won she was smacking gum while at the podium and didn't give a good victory speech either. The gum smacking drove me crazy!
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Donald Trump 2020
This is northeast Texas in a nutshell. I'm talking Louie Gohmert territory. They don't care about tax breaks for the ultra wealthy or for giant corporations. They care about the Dems want to redistribute the wealth to minorities who want free stuff so we have to vote for Republicans.
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Texas Runoff Election - starts 6/29
I still can’t believe tzintzun Ramirez got so close to making the run off. Those types of candidates can’t win in a state like Texas. How about the democrat for governor in the last election? I'm a yellow dog democrat but geesh Texas isn't ready for a candidate like her.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Virtually no one living today knew that the song was sung at a minstrel show in 1903 until a couple of days ago. That negates your stance that The Eyes of Texas is specifically a minstrel show.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
We sing The Eyes in the way people used to sing songs at minstrel shows? I've been doing it wrong for 49 years.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
FYI, it has been sung at events that have not been minstrel shows in the last 117 years; hence, it is not a specifically minstrel song. You're welcome.
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Donald Trump 2020
Alexander from Tennessee said he knew Trump did what he was impeached for but he didn't think it was a removable offense.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Your boyfriend
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
I agree with your positive sentiments about the song. I was lucky enough to be in the Rose Bowl when Vince Young put us in the endzone. I have also read that the team is forced to do it and I'd like to know more about that. are aIn my 49 years as a season ticket holder there have always been players that don't sing The Eyes. They didn't stop me from singing it and I didn't care that they didn't sing it. Maybe they hate singing, maybe they were too tired to run down to in front of the band, maybe they needed to get to the locker room to piss or whatever, maybe they sat on the bench and didn't feel like singing it. I'm not giving much credence to the idea that they are forced to sing it and thus my enthusiasm toward the song is not as destroyed as yours, you having compared it to finding out Santa wasn't real. I might compare it to finding out the tooth fairy wasn't real since I never believed in her anyway.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Aggy and ou sucks will have won the war if we stop singing The Eyes. Yes, my opinion.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Exactly but I did mistype the date since I have been a season ticket holder, 1971 here. If people didn't give two shits about The Eyes, this thread wouldn't exist or would have ended. It is hard for me to believe anyone who has been to the games and/or graduations think the song has awkward lyrics and a lame melody. It is the act of the song, all being sung together that makes it fucking awesome.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Anecdotes prove nothing. I've been a season ticket holder since 1971 and I love the song. It is sung at wedding, births, funerals and more. WAY more people have the opposite opinion of your hot take. One swallow doesn't make a summer.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Prove your point. Were you there at the Austin Opera House? Did you talk to someone who was there? Provide their name and phone number. This excerpt is from the University of Texas about the origins and history of UT's songs: A Varsity Minstrel Show was scheduled for Wednesday evening, May 12, 1903, in the Hancock Opera House on West Sixth Street, and was packed with music, dances, skits, and even a tumbling act. Proceeds from the show would pay for the University Track team to attend the All-South Track and Field Competition in Atlanta. Leading off the show was an overture by the ‘Varsity Band, followed by “Oh, The Lovely Girls,” “Old Kentucky Home,” and “The Castle on the Nile” performed by the University Chorus or student soloists. The fourth piece listed on the printed program was cryptically labeled a “Selection” by the Varsity Quartet. You have no proof that all the music, dances, skits and tumbling act were all done in blackface and you continuing to post it as fact is not correct. Enough.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
Here is a picture of the quartet that sang The Eyes of Texas the first time it was sung, at the Austin Opera House in 1903. I bet most think it was sung on campus and by students, students dressed in black-face. Most probably think it was sung not only by students on campus but by members of the Cowboys. The Cowboys didn't exist in 1903.
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Texas athletes petitioning University to replace "The Eyes of Texas" and to no longer require athletes to sing it
The song is not steeped in racism. Statues of Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee and the confederate flag flying are steeped in racism. How President Prather ended his speeches admonishing staff and students to remember to do their best and the right thing because the eyes of Texas are upon you is not racist. I've marched in BLM protests several times, my significant other is black and we both stand and sing The Eyes before and after the games.
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Jimbo 2021: Meemaw's Got a Brand New Bag
What does yt mean?