FeistyFrog
Sir FeistyFrog
A Judy May backhand smash.
TCU 78, Houston 77 in 4 OTs, 1980 when UH was really good--Jeff Baker led with 24 pts and Darrell Browder played all 60 minutes of the game.
It was one of the first college basketball games on ESPN and they replayed it dozens of times.
It's so weird reading all of these comments about great TCU basketball memories. I became a TCU fan in 2000 and have never really had anything to cheer for in regards to the basketball team. The NIT run with the Santee group in 2003 (?) was fun, but that's about it.
Sneaking 8 beers into the stadium. I feel like that was very impressive and underrated amongst my peers.
It was also kind of gross when you retrieved them.
Jeff Ballard's incredible play in 2005 to snag us the win over BYU in Provo.. 51-50
That was a good 'un, WCJ - especially on the heels of the SMU debacle.Beating Utah in overtime - 2005. The utes were on an 18 game winning streak at the time.
Awesome moment, good call.
That was the weekend of Hurricane Rita in Houston, the hurricane that everyone evacuated from and all the local businesses closed down for, but then nothing happened in Houston at all. Well, I stayed in town and then the morning of the game, I had to call around every sports bar in town to find one that hadn't shut down. I finally found this tiny "sports bar" with like 3 TVs called Roeder's Pub off of Shepherd and got them to put the game on. A group of us went up there at like 11:00AM, and made friends with all the regulars.... by the 4th quarter, we had swung the entire bar to cheering for TCU, and the whole place was going nuts watching Ballard's comeback.
I think that actually might win my most underrated TCU sports moment
We saw that game (BYU 2005) conclusion from the Wanna-Wanna Beach Bar on South Padre Isalnd,
The outcome of this wasn't good, but my first year after graduation from TCU, I went to the Independence Bowl (1994). When TCU ran out on the field before the game and 85% of the stadium roared for the Horned Frogs, I couldn't believe what I was seeing or hearing. I just assume Virginia would have at least as many fans and hoped we didn't embarrass ourselves. After years of miserable football and dispassionate fans, the sound of 30K+ Frog fans roaring as the team ran out on the field and the band played, was an absollute dream for me. We rarely got 30,000 in ACS back then. The game is another story, but that's the first time I really felt pride not only in my football team, but also in our alumni base.
As a side note, I've only returned home from a gambling trips 2 times in my life where it paid for the entire trip. And this was one of those times.. so TCU loss aside, I still won.
Awesome moment, good call.
That was the weekend of Hurricane Rita in Houston, the hurricane that everyone evacuated from and all the local businesses closed down for, but then nothing happened in Houston at all. Well, I stayed in town and then the morning of the game, I had to call around every sports bar in town to find one that hadn't shut down. I finally found this tiny "sports bar" with like 3 TVs called Roeder's Pub off of Shepherd and got them to put the game on. A group of us went up there at like 11:00AM, and made friends with all the regulars.... by the 4th quarter, we had swung the entire bar to cheering for TCU, and the whole place was going nuts watching Ballard's comeback.
I think that actually might win my most underrated TCU sports moment
Somehow I missed the game and I'm trying to remember why. What network televised it? MTN? We had fled Houston up to Cedar Creek Lake (Tool, TX) and apparently couldn't find a bar that had access.