Pop quiz, hotshots: Is the following passage a) Taken from Texas’ official athletic department recap of Saturday night’s win over Texas Tech, or b) The empurpled conclusion to a particularly frilly piece of fan fiction involving Mack Brown recruiting a Derby horse to kick for the Longhorns?
Texas Football Brings Out The Romantic In All Of Us
Observers, on the other hand, talked about the strange things that always happen in Lubbock. How a game on the brink of a possible runaway had turned into a neck-and-neck race with but thirty minutes to play on a moon-lit night on the South Plains. “Easy,” in fact, might have been fun and might have been cool, and there might even have been some hollow payback in that. But the truth is, it is the horse who is challenged and then holds off the challenger, who not only wins the race, but becomes the champion. It is then that the kid in all of us comes out to play, and shows that character is not built, but revealed.
Answer after the jump!
This torrid passage is, in fact, a), the work of a guy named Bill in Texas Media Relations striving to give an unappreciative audience a little more than the standard-issue dusty box score. But if he ever wants to get into the Nicholas Sparks market share, we know a guy. Just saying.
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