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Cougar Blackout
R. Alex Whitlock
The University of Houston Cougars have been pretty much blacked out of television around here. Their contract with channel 55 lapsed and oddly no one picked it up. Even Rice has a local contract, but not our Cougs. I've groaned this before, but it's a rather irritating thing when Rice (2-7 at the time) and SMU (0-10 at the time) are on TV and UH (5-4 at the time) aren't.
But I digress. Or I did digress until this weekend. They were blacked out again as Rice was televised playing UTEP (1-9 or so). I was willing to forgive it because Saturday afternoons are a competitive college football market. Except that Saturday was a half-day and there weren't a whole lot of good games on. Yet instead of the Cougars (in a large media market) and Louisville (a team once ranked), I got to see... I-AA Stephen F. Austin vs. Northwestern State.
That just hurts.
Observations
Winning takes care of everything. Those damn losers at Rice are not going to crowd out Art's team for long, especially if we beat UAB and make it to a bowl game. BTW, the last thing I did before leaving town for Thanksgiving was to grab a couple of UH-UAB tickets (back to a thread on my site's comments). I'm planning on hanging out at the CoogFans.com tailgate party next Saturday before the game. They charge five bucks for a plate of food and all the booze you can drink before they run out. That, my friend, is a good deal, and I plan on taking advantage. Hope to see you (and whoever else may be interested) there. Go coogs, beat UAB and secure a bowl!
PS Rice really has a bad football team, in a bad conference. It's a disgrace that THEY have been the "marquee" college football team in this city the past few years. Thank gawd we have Art Briles.
Look forward to seeing you at the game! I've mulled over the Cougfans dealie. I may go under a pseudonym since they don't care for me much over there :).
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