Sunday, December 7, 2008

TCU vs Texas A&M Ticket Stub 1987

Title: Ticket Stub for the 1987 game between TCU and Texas A&M
Date: November 21, 1987
Final score: TCU 24, Texas A&M 42
Category: Ticket Stub
Current Status: The 3-ring binder with baseball card sleeves where I keep ticket stubs

For a couple of years in the 1980's, my mom and I had season tickets to TCU games. It was the first of three times we held season tickets and one of the two times where we held season tickets to a TCU team that sucked.
Back in the old Southwest Conference days, the Horned Frogs just couldn't compete with the ginormous state funded schools and so we regularly had our butts handed to us by Texas, A&M, Arkansas, and Tech. Baylor typically owned us (although in 1987 we did beat them 24-0 in Waco) and we'd trade wins with Rice and Houston. 1987 was the first year of SMU's death penalty so our regular beatings by the ponies came to an end in 1986.

The '80's teams were coached by the late Jim Wacker, a guy who never really could get TCU up into the upper half of the league (2 winning seasons in 9 years), but he's still remembered fondly because he at least got people excited about TCU football. And he looked like Bobby Bowden next to the dipstick Pat Sullivan who followed Wacker in the 90's.

I don't remember squat about this game as I remember very little about any of those games in the 1980's because many of them are childhood traumas that I have since blocked out.
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