Top 10 Moments of the Little Debbie Era.

Discussion in 'On The Field' started by horngrad03, Nov 7, 2007.

  1. horngrad03

    horngrad03 250+ Posts

    I decided to compile my top 10 moments from the “Frantastic” era of Texas A&M football. This was a tough list to make because the volume of comedy over the last 5 years has been high, even for College Station. Please discuss and add your own moments.#1 77-0. (2003) The benchmark of the Fran era. I honestly can’t remember a more humiliating loss for a BCS conference team in recent history. And this is coming from a fan that had to sit through 63-14 et al. Some will argue Michigan’s loss this year to Appalachian is worse, but I still give the nod to A&M due to things like: the running clock in the second half, A&M did not cross the 50 in the game, and who can forget the “Jolly Dance” after the OU running back literally fell to the ground. The okies could have scored 100, but it appears Stoops does have a heart, or just was in a hurry to take a post-game growler.

    #2 Baylor 35 A&M 34 (2004)

    What else can I say? Losing to Baylor is embarrassing in and of itself, but this was actually not a horrible A&M squad. Was it? They made the Cotton Bowl. I still don’t know how the hell they lost this game. Couple this with the infamous Dave South radio broadcast on the winning 2 pt conversion, the BU players running around lost because they didn’t know how to celebrate, and you have some awesome, pure uncut aggie misery that Longhorn Lawyer would pay over 5k for a gram.

    #3 Texas 46 A&M 15 (2003)

    This victory wasn’t as sweet as it could have been. The aggies had a lot of wind taken out of their sails at this point. Nonetheless, when Fran had been brought in aggies were pointing to T+1 as the day Fran made his “statement” to the rest of the Big 12. I vividly remember predictions ranging from 21-10 to 40-3 from our resident aggies on hornfans. Fran made his statement alright. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the one aggies wanted, but it would be indicative of the Fran era. VY and Texas wasted no time as David Thomas went 60+ for the opening score. Cedric Benson went off. Ho-hum. All you could hear walking from Kyle field was several thousand aggies muttering “Get your licks in now”. The Big 12 obliged, and they didn’t really stop for the next 5 years.

    #4 Cal 45 A&M 10 (2006)

    God bless the Gomers. They truly believed they’d turned a corner after beating t. u. Unfortunately, you can’t put whipped cream on ****, and their reward was a matchup nightmare with a speedy Cal team full of playmakers at WR, RB, and LB. Fran’s mind numbing “keep away” offense kept this respectable for a half, and then the real A&M squad reared its ugly head. Fran proceeded to start all his post season public engagements at 6:48 (12 to 7). Only aggies can tell us if they ended promptly at 9:15

    #5 Utah 41 A&M 21 (Torbrush!) (2004)

    This is probably more a cult favorite among UT fans. In hindsight it was a pretty good Utah team that A&M was clobbered by. But it makes my list because it dashed the national title talk for our delusional friends earlier in the year than usual. And it also made us love Carl “Pornstache” Torbrush. Nothing like a close up of your exasperated defensive coordinator’s “o-face” on national t.v. during another lopsided whippin’.

    #6 UT (the other one) 38 A&M 7 (2004)

    Notice a recurring theme here? Aggies hopes are brought wayyyy up and then come crashing back down. The multiple embarrassments from 2004 could easily be washed away with a bowl victory. Fran had seemingly taken a step in the right direction in year 2. He had a winning record and made a bowl. Ags on the rise, right? Wrong. The Volunteers left no doubt, and it was the perfect way for me to ring in my New Year until Texas played a memorable Rose Bowl against Michigan later that day. Thanks Dennis.

    #7 “Listeater” (2004) > The first bowl game of the Fran era gave birth to Listeater. Chris Farley was reincarnated into the body of a “co-ed” at Texas A&M. In the process of obtaining tickets for the Cotton Bowl listeater cut in line, ate the waiting list, and finally proceeded to lecture those who waited for hours because she was “right with God”. Are there people out there that want to see A&M football that bad?#8 Iowa St. 42 A&M 14 (2005)
    I personally believe this was the beginning of the end for Dennis. A&M ripped off 4 straight losses to end the 2005 season starting here. However, A&M had no business losing to this team in this fashion. Todd Blythe made the A&M secondary look like a one-legged cat trying to bury turds on a frozen pond. Losing this badly to Dan McCarney can’t be good for any coaches’ job security.

    #9 Clemson 25 A&M 24 (2005)

    Ok, THIS IS THE YEAR. No, for real this time. 2005 is our year. All the pieces are in place. t. u. has an invalid playing QB, and they lost C-Bong and Derrick Johnson who were the only good players they had. Vince Young needed Benson to cover up how much he sucks. OU lost a ton of starters. The big 12 is down and ripe for the takin’. Right ags? We’ll start by going to Death Valley and cleaning the clocks of a very overrated Clemson team. And what’s with their kicker? He looks like a chubby transvestite. Much to our enjoyment, Jad Dean got the last laugh with a game winning field goal as time expired.

    #10 A&M 12 t .u. 7 (2006)

    Ok, bear with me here. I’m sure some of you are asking yourselves “What the hell?” While this loss knocked us out of the big 12 title game, and was very embarrassing. It provided us with a lot of comedy and for some like myself some important lessons.
    First, it provided the surge of euphoria for aggies that would make event #4 even sweeter.
    Secondly, it has had aggies all over the state behaving like well, aggies for the last year. 12-7 has suddenly swept away decades of ineptitude, and the last 6 years against Texas never happened. Gomers were flocking to have their cars inspected in December so that they could have inspection stickers that read “12-7” on their cars. No, I’m being serious. Their athletic department starting putting the score on some of their mail to alumni. We got to hear about what a wimp “Cart McCoy” was.
    Basically, we got to see the aggies show their *** like we haven’t seen since 1999. When I was an undergrad the aggie were always just annoying. Not really a threat of any sort, and they aren’t today either. There was a point when myself and some that I know felt bad for them. Well 12-7 reminded us why we should never feel sorry for those turds. And beating them, no matter how insignificant in the grand scheme of football, should always be cause for celebration.
     
  2. TexasERod

    TexasERod 25+ Posts


     
  3. WideHorns

    WideHorns 25+ Posts

    Actually eating the Little Debbie cake on the sideline should at least get an honorable mention.
     
  4. TrashMaster G

    TrashMaster G 250+ Posts


     
  5. El Indio

    El Indio < 25 Posts

    Someone please post a pic of Fran eating the Little Debbie(s).

    Regarding 12-7, I can't agree with that being on the list, though it certainly revitalized by disdain for aggy.
     
  6. Octavian

    Octavian 100+ Posts


     
  7. Bookman

    Bookman 1,000+ Posts


     
  8. badandi

    badandi 100+ Posts

  9. wildcat09

    wildcat09 100+ Posts

    Nothing beats the day the emails were released. I almost died from laughing reading the best of those.
     
  10. Puffer

    Puffer 250+ Posts

    texas state '05: this was a frantastic 44-31 win for the aggies at home against the Div-II in-state power - heck, this was their superbowl. Despite the 17-17 tie at half, Fran was able to coach 'em up at half and pull out the victory, all while holding texas st to only 493 yards of total offense. if someone can find it, the post-game interview with little debbie was equally if not more frantastic.
     
  11. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts


     
  12. Beau Vine

    Beau Vine 1,000+ Posts

    Awesome work!

    Iowa St. 42 A&M 14 (2005) should be #2 on the list, IMO. That was horrendous both in terms of execution and emotion. And it was in The Tackle Box.

    If you're including off-field stuff, bump it down a notch and add VIP-Gate. That's honestly a story that I would have trouble believing if it came from any other coach/school.
     
  13. 13evO

    13evO 500+ Posts

    We'll miss you Fran. You were an instant classic! [​IMG]

    Also, in place of 12-7, I'd go with Colorado's destruction of A&M in 2005, when they literally could not cover Colorado's vaunted passing attack back then.
     
  14. Hobbes2702

    Hobbes2702 500+ Posts

    Some please post the list eater pic. Is there a video of it?
     
  15. S197HQQKEM

    S197HQQKEM 500+ Posts

    why limit it to the top ten?

    there are too many hilarious moments to limit it to 10.


    "Tellus Teabag" has got to be in there somwhere in the top 25.
     
  16. RyanUTAustin

    RyanUTAustin 1,000+ Posts

    This thread is powerpacked with emotions.
    1) Anger
    2) Joy
    3) Amusement
    4) Pity
    5) Frantasticness

    I for one will miss him.
     
  17. El Indio

    El Indio < 25 Posts

    Was '06 aTm v. OU the game that featured the girl hiding her face from the camera while sandwiched between two booing corp turds? That was a classic moment, second only to the national TV clip of the line of nut squeezing toy soldiers.
     
  18. royalewithcheeze

    royalewithcheeze < 25 Posts

    Seven of those games were nationally televised.

    I'll never forget the FSN guys laughing their asses off in the studio when BU beat aggsy on the last two-point conversion.

    Anyone have a clip of that or the commentators mentioning the continuous clock in 0-77?
     
  19. milk_monitor

    milk_monitor 100+ Posts


     
  20. Palladio

    Palladio 25+ Posts

    Maybe too early in his tenure for many to remember, but...

    "Can you help me with this?"
     
  21. milk_monitor

    milk_monitor 100+ Posts


     
  22. crimsonlonghorn

    crimsonlonghorn 100+ Posts

    Excellent list and nice work.

    In place of 12-7, I would put last year's OU game and the utterly cosmic 12th man penalty to ice the game for the Gooners.

    Don't forget also that the Texas State game was played in a strange, almost eerie atmosphere amidst the Hurricane Rita evacutation with the radio program overlaid on a silent FSN TV broadcast because FSN didn't want to fly in the talent. Ags back then were quick to point out that the circumstances shouldn't be held against them, yet Texas State seemed to play very well in the same circumstances, on the road.

    That same year, 2005, they also had to struggle mightily to hold off SMU at Kyle, too.

    Another one not to forget is the battle of the Alamodome against Real Army, which probably would have made your list had Bobby Ross not brainfarted and let the clock expire at the end.

    Good Lord, there are just so many memories.
     
  23. orange_pride

    orange_pride 100+ Posts


     
  24. danthehorn

    danthehorn 250+ Posts

  25. HornGrandioso

    HornGrandioso 500+ Posts

    You should do an "on the field" and "off the field" top 10. Off the field would include listeater, Fran emails, Dollar Bill ********, etc.
     
  26. ArmonTanzarian

    ArmonTanzarian 100+ Posts

  27. mez2

    mez2 100+ Posts

    damn there are too many to chose from.
     
  28. Hayden_Horn

    Hayden_Horn 1,000+ Posts

    the corps dudes squeezing berries on national tv was priceless.

    how about covering the field track because the ********* was causing staph infections? actually, that's more of a bill byrne list than a frantastic list.

    i really wish stoops had hung a hundred on the aggies that day. 98 would've been fine. it was easily possible.
     
  29. Bookman

    Bookman 1,000+ Posts


     
  30. UTmainman

    UTmainman 100+ Posts


     

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