New Mexico/New Mexico State Football Game
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 24-09-2009
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A quarterback controversy at both schools. State is 1-2 and New Mexico is 0 – 3, so the dad-gum old qb gets blamed for it all, at both schools. So, here’s the deal, pickle….New Mexico is going to alternate quarterbacks….I guess that’s ok if you are unsure who is the better of the two…One or two games should determine that, huh?….Down at State its a different story. The receivers have been dropping the ball so they are going to change qb’s….You read it correctly…Does the other quarterback put stick’um on the ball….Coach, please explain yourself…It’s no wonder some of our young ball players are confused…There is probably an “Aggie” joke in there somewhere, but both those coaches are having enough problems right now, so I will drop it there…One of these coaches will win this week, making the qb decision a good decision…..I still hope they both have good seasons, don’t you?…….
Have the Loboes ever had a good season? When I was in Albuquerque in the late Sixties, I only went to a Loboes game to watch the cheerleaders. Most of them were really winners. I was never able to say that about the football team. Perhaps things have changed. I hope so. Looking at the current record, I doubt it.
Please don’t get me wrong. Aside from the Loboes (football team), I love UNM. The university gave me a chance to get a brief respite from the humdrum life on Kirtland AFB. It gave me a chance to unwind from the discipline of Kirtland, at least on weekends and in the evenings. It gave me a place to go to watch the girls. Mostly all I could do was watch, but I watched them nevertheless, and watch them I did. These were the days when guys watched the girls in broad daylight, whether than stalk them in the night. UNM was a great place to go especially for a young GI so far away from home and so lonesome for a place called Bama. It reminded me to some extent of that place in Tuscaloosa, but it did require a lot of imagination since Tuscaloosa had no Sandias and Monsantos and the architecture. It was so different. I spent four years trying to figure out what happened to Bama. What happened to all the red brick buildings? What happened to Denny Chimes and the Quad? Where did all these buildings made of clay come from? And, in the fall of the year, what the heck were all those kids doing out there kicking a round ball up and down the field. It was my first contact with the game called soccer. Remember the popular song, “What it was was football?” This is the way I felt. I always thought that a football had a funny shape to it that caused an irregular bounce. Why were these people kicking around a round ball. Were they smart or simply lazy? So, I returned to the relative safety of Kirtland in order to try to figure that one out, but only to return another day. They would still be at it. Perhaps this was the way that football should be played after all. You see! I learned a few things at UNM too. But the Loboes? I gave up on them a long time ago.
Hey Errol, Rocky Long had a reasonable record at New Mexico taking us to a couple of bowl games and you remember Franchoine(ms) at Alabama, he had a good record here before moving on to TCU and he took us to a couple of bowl games. So, we have had some fair years, but our thing here is basketball as you know. I will put the Lobo’s up against any team for basketball and expect a very competitive game from them. Thanks for writing. We may win a football game this week…we will see…Pete