Impermanence

If you have read the blog for any amount of time you would have noticed that I post tickets, pamphlets, things which have a very temporal existence.  Watching the history channel, Antiques Roadshow, Pawn Stars and the like, there always is a section about an item that no one knows about and no one preserved an example of one.  It struck me about the impermanence of everyday items we take for granted.  I scan and post something I ran across, found or attended so I can, in a very small way, add to the collective archiving of our lives of the things that have no permanence.

Galatians 6:9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

Baylor Bears Beats The Texas Long Horns at Austin!

My Baylor Bears have actually beat Texas at Austin.

Since the two teams have been playing football against each other (1901) Baylor has managed to beat Texas in their home stadium eight times.  A Chicago Cub like record.  The last time they beat Texas at Austin was in 1997, the year I started on the job, a long long time ago.

We are now bowl eligible for the first time since 1995.

We are ranked in the top 25 (25) for the first time since 1993.

Baylor has never beaten more than two Big 12 teams...EVER...(Baylor has wins over Texas, Kansas, Kansas State, Colorado).

Aaahhhh so this is what it feels to be a fan of a winning collegiate football team.  Been a long while.





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Baylor Wins an away game!

A Baylor University Football away game win is rarer than a gold coin in a sea of silver.  Baylor 40 Missouri 32.  The last away game we won in the Big 12 was against Colorado a couple of years ago.  Good win.

The Only Guarantee We Have Is

I was watching an ESPN special which concerned Tennessee Titans quarterback Vince Young (I know two sports posts in a row I promise this is not turning into a sports blog). If you are not aware Vince Young was in a game on September 8, 2008 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Vince was not having a good game and in the process threw an interception for which the local fans booed him. As a result Vince fell apart in an ugly and public way. His coach (Jeff Fisher ex-Chicago Bear) pushed and prodded him back on the field, soon there after he had a "knee sprain" and left the game. The next day he was scheduled to take an MRI (which if it was a "knee sprain" rather than a knee sprain he could not allow to be taken) which he failed to attend and disappeared. His therapist telephoned his coach told him that she had been contacted by Vince and he had mentioned taking a gun with him and suicide. The police got involved, intervened and probably saved his life which of course they do not get any credit for.

Vince Young of course has a different version of the story and I can not say that he is lying because I do not know even 1/2 of the facts but his nonverbal body language all scream deception, but then who knows, the truth is always somewhere in between.

I am a big proponent of finding the life script in interviews. It is a technique in interviews where you let the bad guy rattle on and on at the beginning of the interview. Everyone has a template of themselves in their mind as to how they would like others to view them, the goal is to understand what the bad guy's life script is. Most crime runs against their life script, so throughout the interview you are linking the different aspects of their life script to the crime so as to make the confession in sync with that template. Officers who are really good at this can create a situation where the bad guy feels he has to admit to the crime because of who he is, the best person I have ever seen at this has people practically jumping out of their seats to tell the truth.

OK that is a long explanation to get to my main point. I was listening to the interview and Vince kept emphasising "The Boos". Not people were booing but as if the boos themselves were a physical entity (IE the boos ran against Vince's life script as a winner-to put it crudely, it created a significant attack on his sense of self that overwhelmed him).

I was surprised that anyone could truly believe that they would always win, always be loved and never have hardship. Vince clearly believed he would never suffer. The one thing that the Bible promises us as Christians is that we will suffer. John 15:19If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. The Bible is full of analogies of hate, battle and evil as it pertains to us; John 3:20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 1 John 3:13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. Our own savior fulfilled a plan where he was beaten, whipped and crucified and he asked us to risk the same, Luke 9:23 Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me".

Our promise is that in the end we will be in Paradise with him with no more tears forever. But the promise for us here on earth is, John 15:18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first". We should not be Vince Young, we should expect hatred, which we are to respond with love, evil which we are to respond with forgiveness and sorrow, which we are to respond with joy.

In a way it is a blessing, suffering is an excellent indication that you are following the same path as our Lord. Acts 5:41 The apostles left the Sanhedrin, rejoicing because they had been counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name.

We beat Texas A and M!!! (Blog spot will not allow use of the "and" sign)

Griffin leads Baylor to 41-21 win over Texas A and M on November 15, 2008

Since I do not get to say this much about my Alma Mater/Baylor Bears football team I will use this post to celebrate this, an unfortunate all to rare, football victory. In the history of these two schools stating in 1908 the record is slightly in the Aggies favor at 54-28-8. The last time we beat the Aggies was in 2004, and that was when Baylor defeated its first ranked opponent since 1998, #16 ranked Texas A and M, by a score of 35-34 in overtime on a two-point conversion.

The following is the write up of the game from ESPN's web stie.

Link: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/recap?gameId=283200239

WACO, Texas -- With a couple of long passes and some nifty pitches, Robert Griffin helped lead Baylor to a rare victory over Texas A&M that ensured the turnover-plagued Aggies a losing season.

Griffin threw touchdown passes of 31 and 55 yards and Jacoby Jones ran for two scores after taking late pitches from Griffin in Baylor's 41-21 victory Saturday. It was only the second time the Bears won in their last 23 meetings against Texas A&M.

The Aggies (4-7, 2-5 Big 12) came in with slim bowl hopes in their first season under coach Mike Sherman, but had five turnovers. That included two interceptions by linebacker Joe Pawelek, the second coming in the end zone in the fourth quarter.

Jay Finley added a 12-yard TD run for Baylor (4-7, 2-5), which played its home finale for first-year coach Art Briles.

Griffin, an 18-year-old freshman, didn't start the season opener at home in late August. But he entered that game before halftime and has started ever since. The dual-threat quarterback has accounted for a school-record 25 touchdowns (14 passing, 11 rushing).

Jones had a clear path to the end zone along the right sideline for a 12-yard TD that made it 13-0 after Griffin, while shedding a tackler, pitched the ball. Then on a fourth-and-1 late in the third quarter, Jones scored on an 18-yard run when Griffin got rid of the ball just before being slammed to the ground by a defender.

Griffin was 13-of-23 for 241 yards and added 56 yards on 12 rushes. Finley carried 23 times for 116 yards.

The Aggies' Jerrod Johnson was 19-of-30 for 244 yards with four interceptions and a late touchdown. He had only four passes picked off in his first eight games before throwing two in A&M's 66-28 loss to Oklahoma last week.

Jorvorskie Lane scored on a pair of 1-yard runs, increasing his A&M school records to 49 career rushing TDs and 50 overall.

Baylor led 6-0 after Ben Parks had field goals of 42 and 28 yards, the first on the Bears' opening drive of the game and the second after Leon Freeman recovered a fumble caused when Johnson was tackled from behind by Zac Scotton.

Dwain Crawford's interception set up the drive that led to Jones' first TD and included Griffin's 49-yard pass to Ernest Smith to convert a third-and-14.

The Aggies finally scored when Lane plunged in over the left side after Johnson's 51-yard pass to Mike Goodson, who made a leaping, stretching catch between three defenders.

Woo Hoo!!!!!!