Texas’s wishbone offense fondly remembered 50 years after the debut By LARRY CARLSON Aug 25, 2018 Ted Koy was at home in Bellville, trying to cool off after another hot, humid summer day of hauling hay and digging post-holes on his father’s farmland, an hour west of Houston but a million miles distant in feel,…
Larry Carlson has written several articles for Horns247 as a guest -columnist. Goodbye to A&M: No reason for Longhorns, Aggies to play again https://247sports.com/college/texas/Article/Horns247-guest-columnist-Larry-Carlson-on-why-Texas-Longhorns-should-never-play-Texas-AM-again-110971137/ Goodbye to A&M: No reason for Longhorns, Aggies to play again Guest columnist Larry Carlson doesn’t think there’s anything to be gained by Texas renewing its football rivalry with…
A Burnt Orange Christmas Ditty by Larry Carlson, with apologies to Clement C. Moore ‘Twas the night before Christmas, When throughout Bellmont Hall Not a creature was stirring, There hung quite a pall. The stockings were hung, though there would be no bowl, And many predicted just small lumps o’ coal. Longhorn Nation was tossin’…
LOOKING FORWARD TO FOOTBALL, WITH AN ASTERISK By LARRY CARLSON By Larry Carlson LOOKING FORWARD TO FOOTBALL, WITH AN ASTERISK Opinion, by Larry Carlson I can’t wait for college football. The countdown to kickoff has been a big part of the rites of summer for me since 1961 when I got my first issue of…
Number Eleven, And What Might Have Been By Larry Carlson Larry Carlson has followed the Longhorns since seeing his first orange tower in 1960. He hosted the Longhorn Locker Room Show on Austin’s KVET Radio and was later a co-host of Longhorn Pipeline on San Antonio’s ESPN Radio affiliate. Larry just retired after…
This comment highlights something the Horns did not do often enough pre-coach Sark. Alec Baldwin is telling his “players” that they should ALWAYS BE CLOSING in the game. Larry Carlson saw his first orange tower after a victory in 1960 and has been following Longhorn football ever since. He hosted the Fred Akers Pre-game…
Professor Carlson’s Musing by Larry Carlson Oct. 26, 2022 THE NEW POLITICAL FOOTBALL If you fondly recall the cult classic “Napoleon Dynamite” film, you still laugh about the high school election campaign promise of the affable but unremarkable Pedro. “Vote for me and all your wildest dreams will come true,” droned the reluctant candidate. Sadly,…
POSTCARD FROM THE INDIAN TERRITORY 8/12/2022 Catching Up With Lance Taylor by Larry Carlson ( lc13@txstate.edu ) I think it’s time for Tulsa to secede. It’s just way too pretty and pleasant to be part of the Indian Territory. My parents were here in 1950 for one of Daddy’s first jobs in the oil business….
THE TOUR DE SOUTHWEST: FLASHBACK TO ANOTHER ERA OF MEDIA by Larry Carlson 8/16/2023 As the years rush by at warp speed, and I consider Methuselah a brother in arms,it’s tempting to consider almost all facets of the past as “better days.” Watch “Mad Men” on TV and you’re liable to start wishing you could…
I MISS TIE GAMES by Larry Carlson (lc13@txstate.edu ) Paul “Bear” Bryant offered up long, long ago his disdainful judgment of any football game ending in a tie. “A tie is like kissing your sister,” the Bear said, of his lack of ardor for sixty minutes of football combat that decided nothing. Bryant’s opinion…