{"id":326,"date":"2010-01-08T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/2010\/01\/08\/tx-21-al-37-sweet-defeat-bitter-victory\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T21:22:00","slug":"tx-21-al-37-sweet-defeat-bitter-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhr.tiltedchair.co\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"TX 21 AL 37: Sweet Defeat, Bitter Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 8, 2010<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided that every now and then I can do a \u201choopdedoodle\u201d (with a nod to John Steinbeck) on the blog and write about things that have little or nothing to do with Down Home Ranch. <\/p>\n

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Like most of Texas last night, Jerry and I settled in to watch the Texas-Alabama<\/a> game. I really don\u2019t care much about football, but this game was a must. Even the maroon-bloods (Aggies,<\/a> to you non-Texans) at the Ranch all drove in to Taylor to watch the game on the Howard Theatre<\/a> screen. We were all rooting for the Horns.<\/p>\n

Alas, the evening was not destined to go as planned. When Colt McCoy\u2019s<\/a> injury took him out early in the game I commented to Jerry, \u201cThis stinks for both teams. What a pity!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d he retorted. \u201cThis hands Alabama the game on a platter. It doesn\u2019t stink for them!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy point exactly,\u201d I said. \u201cTexas doesn\u2019t get to be the team they are, and Alabama doesn\u2019t get to play the team they came to play.\u201d<\/p>\n

But I was wrong on both counts, and so was Jer. Alabama won, but the victory sure as heck wasn\u2019t handed to them on any platter, and they\u2019ll never know how things would have turned out with the great McCoy in the game. That\u2019s got to sting.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you can\u2019t help being as proud of a loss as you would a win, when a kid a few months out of high school has to walk out on the field and take over for a legend and your team closes the gap and darned near seals the deal.<\/p>\n

I call it a sweet defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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