🏈 I appreciate teams honoring past national championship teams. BUT, the way TX has chosen? (Let's s

[TerryP]

Texas is honoring the 50th anniversary of its 1963 title winning football team on Saturday against New Mexico State, and as part of the celebration the team will wear numbers above the Longhorn logos on the helmet.

The 1963 team, coached by Darrell Royal, the namesake of the Texas football stadium, finished 11-0 and beat Roger Staubach's Navy 28-6 in the Cotton Bowl for the university's first title.

The Longhorns wore numbers on their helmets in 2009 when they played Texas A&M. However, there's a chance that these helmets will be around for more than just New Mexico State. Coach Mack Brown said he's going to let the team vote on wearing the helmets for the entire season.

Hopefully the team votes "Yes." Numbers on the side of helmets never get old, and given that it's the 50th anniversary of that 1963 team, the celebration should be extended for the entire season. And if it is and the Longhorns win the 2013 championship? Those numbers may never leave.

 

[bama alum]

I think Mack Brown and Co. are grasping at any straw to rally their collective fan base since so many are disaffected by the crap he has overseen the last few years.

 

[gregkelley]

That's aweful!!!

 

[TerryP]

I think Mack Brown and Co. are grasping at any straw to rally their collective fan base since so many are disaffected by the crap he has overseen the last few years.

So, let's piss off the older fan base by messing with a tradition in place for 46 years except for three games?

I see why they are doing it based on this....

1957 - 1960	1961 - 1962	1963 - 1966

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1969	1967 - 1968; 1970 - 1976	January 1, 1982
		*see note 1 below

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[SUP]*Note 2[/SUP]



*1 For its appearance in the 1982 Cotton Bowl game against Alabama, Texas used a special version of the longhorn logo which included between the "horns" the words "COTTON BOWL CLASSIC" and a picture of a cotton boll.

*2 This design was used during the 2005 home game against Louisiana-Lafayette and during the 2009 game at Texas A&M.