Speaker 1: We're back with Craig Way, a voice of the Longhornsports.
Speaker 1: Longhorns playing this weekend in Dallas and actually in Arlington
Speaker 1: at AT and T Stadium in the Cotton Bowl semi final,
Speaker 1: the College football Playoff. They're playing Ohio State, which is
Speaker 1: slowly becoming a rivalry game if you ask me, going
Speaker 1: back many years, but before we went to the break,
Speaker 1: I asked Craig, if you had to do one of
Speaker 1: the sports that you call, you know, Craig does football, basketball, baseball,
Speaker 1: which one would you do for free?
Speaker 2: That's like asking you would you would you spin Duran,
Speaker 2: DURAN or ABC for free? You know, back at the
Speaker 2: eighties there, you know, It's like it's like who was
Speaker 2: once to work for free?
Speaker 3: Right now? I love I love what I do obviously.
Speaker 2: And that's a variation what you said, Sandy on the
Speaker 2: question when folks ask me what's your favorite sport to do?
Speaker 2: And I always give the broadcaster cop out answer. And
Speaker 2: while it is a cop out answer, it is rooted
Speaker 2: in truth. And that is whatever's in season. And what
Speaker 2: I mean by that it's more of a physiological and
Speaker 2: psychological thing in season. For example, in September, on a
Speaker 2: Saturday evening. There's no place I'd rather be than dk
Speaker 2: R Texas Memorial Statedum's one hundred and one thousand fans there,
Speaker 2: and you feel like you're supposed to be there. I
Speaker 2: will also tell you that in March in the NCAA
Speaker 2: basketball tournam there's nothing quite like describing a Final Four
Speaker 2: or an NCAA tournament game. There you feel you're supposed
Speaker 2: to be there. Same story in Omaha for the College
Speaker 2: World Series, that's a unique event. It's kind of a
Speaker 2: two week fortnighte that just kind of slowly unfolds and
Speaker 2: you feel like you're supposed to be in Omaha. I
Speaker 2: had somebody once call it the town that time forgot
Speaker 2: because every day for about two weeks, you get up,
Speaker 2: it's about eighty something degrees, You go to the ballpark,
Speaker 2: you do a game. Then you go to either to
Speaker 2: an Italian restaurant or a steakhouse or in Omaha what
Speaker 2: they have a lot of or Italian steakhouses. You go
Speaker 2: there for dinner, You get up the next morning, you
Speaker 2: do it all over again. Certain times a year, you
Speaker 2: feel you're in the right place and should not be
Speaker 2: anywhere else, And it just depends on the time of the.
Speaker 4: Year, Craig, did you know I grew up in Omaha.
Speaker 5: No, I didn't know that, though I love it in summertime. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a great tent, all right. Trust you're on the spot.
Speaker 5: You got to ask Craig a question. If you don't
Speaker 5: have one, I can whisper one to you and you.
Speaker 6: Can't ask them.
Speaker 7: Okay, but when I ask it, give me a look
Speaker 7: to make tell me if it's a stupid question. A right,
Speaker 7: But I have two questions, not unusual for me. My
Speaker 7: first question, what of this past Longhorn season, this current
Speaker 7: Longhorn season? What was the game you loved calling the most?
Speaker 7: Who did they play? What was the most exciting game
Speaker 7: for you this season?
Speaker 2: Okay, I would say, you know, it's kind of hard
Speaker 2: not to get excited about a win over those guys
Speaker 2: ninety five miles to the year, and the mere fact
Speaker 2: that it was the restoration of the rivalry between Texas
Speaker 2: and Texas.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I like the fact.
Speaker 2: That the company that sponsors, that has the title sponsor
Speaker 2: on the game is a restoration company. So that's why
Speaker 2: they called it the restoration of the rivalry and not
Speaker 2: just the renewal of the rivalry that was that was
Speaker 2: really cool on Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of great memories in Texas against
Speaker 2: Texas A and M on even on Thanksgiving night. So
Speaker 2: I think a lot of that was really really cool.
Speaker 2: So that probably that one.
Speaker 7: Okay, So that's funny that you say that, because my
Speaker 7: second question is I love it when the Aggies wear
Speaker 7: they're all black uniforms and they're all blacked out. Is
Speaker 7: that something we can get the Longhorn stew because I
Speaker 7: think that's so intimidating and super cool.
Speaker 4: I keep asking Sandy and he's like.
Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know if they would do
Speaker 6: that or not.
Speaker 3: Trisha, are you an Aggie?
Speaker 4: No, I'm not an Aggy, But they are all black uniforms.
Speaker 4: Why can't other people do it too?
Speaker 6: It's scary.
Speaker 3: Well a lot do do it.
Speaker 2: And what we've seen over the last fifteen years probably
Speaker 2: is an elevator of black as a third designated home color.
Speaker 3: For a lot of teams.
Speaker 2: Oregon with its Nike based uniforms, you know, and all
Speaker 2: that has all those different uniform combinations. Listen, there's two
Speaker 2: things that come to my two quotes. Two things that
Speaker 2: come to my one, the athletic director of Crystal Conti
Speaker 2: has said, our colors are orange and white. They're classic.
Speaker 2: We don't want to mess with them that much. The
Speaker 2: other is an old classic quote from when Daryl Royal
Speaker 2: is the head coach and JB and Sandy are old
Speaker 2: enough to remember Daryl Royal so that you know, somebody
Speaker 2: asked them about why wouldn't you add another you know,
Speaker 2: wear some black or something. This question goes all the
Speaker 2: way back into the seventies to early eighties, and they said,
Speaker 2: why wouldn't you change the uniform and where's something different?
Speaker 2: He said, He goes, Hell, these are work clothes. We're
Speaker 2: not going to candy them up. That was his quote
Speaker 2: back then. I think there's probably the athletic department is
Speaker 2: it feels pretty cool about out what they have. And
Speaker 2: I will tell you guys, this Texas is going to
Speaker 2: wear white in the Cotton Bowl on Friday Night. Even
Speaker 2: though Texas is the designated home team. They've gotten really
Speaker 2: fond of wearing those icy whites. Last year they were
Speaker 2: the designated home team in the Big curlt Championship and
Speaker 2: they wore those white uniforms when they blasted Oklahoma State
Speaker 2: in the big CURLT championship game. The players choose that.
Speaker 2: A lot of folks say, oh, I can't be are
Speaker 2: they super? The players like wearing what they call those
Speaker 2: icy whites, white helmet, white jersey top, white pants, or
Speaker 2: as I say, on the air, trousers, white socks, white
Speaker 2: shoes with burnt orange numerals, lettering and trim. They like
Speaker 2: wearing those, and that's why they'll wear white again on
Speaker 2: Friday Night.
Speaker 1: Craig Gay, quick question for you, A little trivia question
Speaker 1: about burnt orange. Do you know who claims to have
Speaker 1: kind of invented that color for the Longhorns.
Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of different stories about this. I
Speaker 2: heard it had to do with color shortages during World
Speaker 2: War Two, I heard, I heard lots of different they
Speaker 2: tell me educated.
Speaker 4: Did you ever hear the name Rooster Andrews?
Speaker 3: Of course I remember the Great Rooster Andrews.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he kind of told JB and I once that
Speaker 1: he was somewhat responsible for that classic burnt orange Texas color.
Speaker 4: Whether it's true or not, and it was.
Speaker 6: It wasn't secondhand, He did say that directly to us.
Speaker 2: So yeah, at the time, that would make it, would
Speaker 2: it would fit the timeline because Rooster played in the
Speaker 2: mid forties during World War Two. How else would a
Speaker 2: guy four feet eleven inches tall be even allowed to
Speaker 2: be on party Rock kick an extra point against Texas
Speaker 2: A and m as did you?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: But it might have started out if you go over
Speaker 2: to dk R Texas Memorial statem, you go inside Moncrief
Speaker 2: there with the athletic displays of trophies and things like that.
Speaker 2: There's a helmet there from the early fifties and it's
Speaker 2: a brighter orange shoe and then it went more burnt
Speaker 2: orange as the decade progressed, and I'm sure Rooster probably
Speaker 2: had some input in that.
Speaker 4: Craig Way is our guest JB.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I got to know this because you have a
Speaker 6: distinct voice. You know, it's very comforting over all these years,
Speaker 6: I'll say that very distinct voice. And in this era
Speaker 6: of AI cloning, has has anyone duped your voice?
Speaker 3: Yet?
Speaker 6: It's happened to Joe Rogan. You know, you'll hear some
Speaker 6: livery and you're like, wait, that's not me. Has this
Speaker 6: happened to you? Because there's a very high monetary value
Speaker 6: of your voice, and.
Speaker 4: Especially especially in gaming.
Speaker 6: Yeah, how do you protect that has anything happened and
Speaker 6: not how could you protect that if needed?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great question. Nobody.
Speaker 2: Nobody's done it yet. They probably haven't valued my voice enough,
Speaker 2: and that's fine. I have friends who do sports radio
Speaker 2: in Dallas, guys I went to college with, and they
Speaker 2: do what they call the fake Craig Way, where they'll
Speaker 2: are mimic some play by play of a high school.
Speaker 2: They call a game every week, the Craig wait Orial
Speaker 2: high School Game of the Week.
Speaker 3: And the first thing I told them was memorial, I'm
Speaker 3: not dead, but.
Speaker 2: They'll they'll take my voice and they'll do goofy things
Speaker 2: with it and things like that. So I've also had
Speaker 2: people take what's called the uh. They took this, i
Speaker 2: think from Jimmy Kimmel, the unnecessary editing of Craig Way,
Speaker 2: and then would take like actual play by play calls
Speaker 2: of mine and then bleep out certain words to make
Speaker 2: it sound like I was actually cussing on the air.
Speaker 3: Oh look at that, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and it sounds like I'm actually cussing. There was
Speaker 2: a game against Baylor and Basketball a few years ago,
Speaker 2: and there was a tense moment in the game where
Speaker 2: the two teams almost got into an altercation. They kind
Speaker 2: of got nose to nose And what I actually said
Speaker 2: on the air was the better be careful, there's about
Speaker 2: to be some serious stuff happen here. Well, I dragged
Speaker 2: the word S a little bit when I said serious stuff,
Speaker 2: and it sounded like I said the fourth out of the
Speaker 2: S worden when those guys got a hold of it.
Speaker 2: There's some serious you know. So people have had fun
Speaker 2: with it, JD. But I don't think anybody's aied it yet.
Speaker 1: Craig Way, our guests calling the game this weekend, Let's
Speaker 1: talk about the game. Ohio State a team that took
Speaker 1: a loss to Michigan earlier this season. That may be
Speaker 1: the best thing that ever happened to them, because they
Speaker 1: sure looked good against Oregon. And how do you see
Speaker 1: the Longhorns matching up with the Ohio State Buckets right now?
Speaker 1: They're six and a half point underdog.
Speaker 2: Yeah, first time Texas this season has been an underdog
Speaker 2: in any game. And this was a this is a
Speaker 2: this will be the most difficult test easily. Ohio State
Speaker 2: most of the season looked really good. They've lost by
Speaker 2: a point.
Speaker 3: Out at Oregon in Oregon at the time was unbeaten.
Speaker 2: Clearly they've avenged that with what they did to the
Speaker 2: Ducks in the Rose Bowl game last week. They had
Speaker 2: that one big stumble at Michigan, and I know folks
Speaker 2: are fond of comparisons in Texas. Of course, went to
Speaker 2: ann Arbor early in the season and really just dominated
Speaker 2: the game against Michigan. But a good friend of mine
Speaker 2: is Paul Keels, to play by play voice of the Buckeyes.
Speaker 2: I had him on my show yesterday on A thirteen
Speaker 2: Under the Zone, and he was talking about how they've
Speaker 2: played angry since that game. And you think about their
Speaker 2: two playoff games, the win over Tennessee, a good Tennessee team,
Speaker 2: and the win last week in the Rose Bowl over
Speaker 2: Oregon were games where they got out of the gate
Speaker 2: very quickly and dominated and just blasted both of those teams.
Speaker 2: And that's one thing the Longerd's gonna have to guard again.
Speaker 2: Don't dig themselves a deep early hole, because it's going
Speaker 2: to be extremely difficult to rally against its Ohio State
Speaker 2: defense that way. I think, then stand toe to toe
Speaker 2: with them. Offensive line will have to play really well.
Speaker 2: They're going to have to run the ball better than
Speaker 2: the fifty three total yards rushing they had against Arizona State.
Speaker 2: I do think the passing game is set up to
Speaker 2: have success against Ohio State when yours is feeling better physically,
Speaker 2: I think the wide receivers will be ready to go.
Speaker 2: And then on the defensive side, there are a Mecha
Speaker 2: Buku and Jeremiah Smith are two explosive receivers. The log
Speaker 2: Warts haven't really encountered two like that in the course
Speaker 2: of a season. They're going to have to deal with that.
Speaker 2: And Ohio State has much like Texas does with Contrabuan
Speaker 2: Weisner and Jadan Blue. They have a two headed monster
Speaker 2: at running back and they're going to have to do
Speaker 2: in Quinn Shawn Judkins and Trebion Henderson, so they're going
Speaker 2: to have to be buttoned up against the run as well.
Speaker 2: This is this is gonna be their biggest challenge with
Speaker 2: the season, no doubt.
Speaker 1: Well it should be because they're playing for a chance
Speaker 1: to win to play in the National Championship Game. So
Speaker 1: hopefully Longhorns can pull it off this weekend. TB go ahead.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I do have one more question because I've there's
Speaker 6: no one to ask about this, because no one's an
Speaker 6: authority on this subject. You're the closest person I can
Speaker 6: think of, Craig. So we're going to the Cotton Ball,
Speaker 6: you know, on Friday, in the Cotton Bowls in the
Speaker 6: AT and T Stadium, all right, And I always hated
Speaker 6: that every other year we take the game out of
Speaker 6: Austin enough to Dallas? Why do we have so much
Speaker 6: to Dallas? But the real question is is the Cotton
Speaker 6: Bowl itself dead? Is it just the state fair that's
Speaker 6: keeping it alive?
Speaker 4: How do you talk about it?
Speaker 3: Your Cotton Bowl itself? The game's not having there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean is it is it.
Speaker 3: End of an era?
Speaker 6: Is it time to let that go? Or is it
Speaker 6: so classic it needs to stay.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I think there's two different, two different elements at work here.
Speaker 2: First of all, with the Cotton Bowl stadium itself and
Speaker 2: why the Texas hou game has played on the fairgrounds
Speaker 2: of the state of Texas every year, and listening to
Speaker 2: past athletic directors, the lost odds for Texas, the current
Speaker 2: athletic director at Oklahoma jokistigleone and even crystal'conte CDC the
Speaker 2: ad at Texas Now it's it's always been about being
Speaker 2: a part of the festivities of the State Fair of Texas,
Speaker 2: and the two teams, Texas and OU are almost identically equidistant.
Speaker 2: I think one ninety six one hundred ninety six miles
Speaker 2: and two hundred and one mile.
Speaker 3: Something like that.
Speaker 2: So it's it all and there's tradition. They've played that
Speaker 2: game on those fair grounds continuously since nineteen twenty nine.
Speaker 2: There was even before the current Cotton Bowl Stadium itself
Speaker 2: was built. In the early thirties, they had an old
Speaker 2: fairground stadium, wooden stadium, burned to the ground, and then
Speaker 2: they built the new concrete stadium. And if you had
Speaker 2: that tradition of it being exactly halfway split down the middle,
Speaker 2: no other college football game has that, where the north
Speaker 2: end of the stadium is all burnt orange and the
Speaker 2: south end of the stadium is white, and it ends
Speaker 2: right at the fifty yard line. I always said that
Speaker 2: if I wasn't broadcasting the game, I'd like to sit
Speaker 2: on the outside of that row right at the fifty
Speaker 2: where Texas ends and OU begins, and vice versa, and
Speaker 2: just listen to the conversations. So there's a lot of
Speaker 2: tradition and history that goes to that. Also, City of Dallas,
Speaker 2: to their credit, put up about fifty million dollars in
Speaker 2: renovations back several years ago. Now they'redue for more and
Speaker 2: I think that that's been approved because the toilet's still
Speaker 2: overflow in the cop Ball Stadium. I'm that people have
Speaker 2: told me so there's there's things that need to go.
Speaker 2: But that's the tradition of why that game is there.
Speaker 2: I will tell you this JV. If they ever decide
Speaker 2: that they're not going to play that game in the
Speaker 2: Cotton Bowl Stadium itself at the State Fair, Texas, it'll
Speaker 2: go home and home. They're not going to go to
Speaker 2: Jerry World. It's a different thing at at and T Stadium,
Speaker 2: Jerry World as we know it in Arlington. That's where
Speaker 2: the Big twelve Championship game is played every year. It's
Speaker 2: part of the college Football Playoff. The number one reason
Speaker 2: why that Cotton Bowl Stadium, Cotton Bowl Game, the Cotton
Speaker 2: Bowl Classic as they call the Cotton Bowl Game, moved there.
Speaker 2: Climate controlled environment. You know January games. Think about it
Speaker 2: this this Friday night. What the temperature is going to
Speaker 2: be like in dow the Dallas for where there's going
Speaker 2: to bee in the low twenties with possibly snow so
Speaker 2: that you know when Sark was playing for BYU, they
Speaker 2: played in the Cotton Bowl Game in ninety six against
Speaker 2: Kansas State and therember snow everywhere all over the ground.
Speaker 2: He said, we were used to it because it was
Speaker 2: at BYU, you know where they were in the Wasatch Mountains.
Speaker 2: But uh, they in order to be part of the
Speaker 2: Cotton Bowl Game and someff it needed a newer, modern
Speaker 2: look and that's why they moved that to AT and
Speaker 2: T Stadium at Arlington. It's in the rotation and it's
Speaker 2: hosted national championships. In fact, the last time Ohio State
Speaker 2: won a national title, it was in the AT and
Speaker 2: T Stadium.
Speaker 3: So that is there to stay.
Speaker 2: I think for the foreseeable future, the Texas OU Game
Speaker 2: is going to remain at the Cotton Bowl Stadium on
Speaker 2: the fairgrounds of the State Fair of Texas. If it
Speaker 2: were to ever leave, I think they'd go home and home.
Speaker 2: But I think they're planning to keep that there as
Speaker 2: part of the history and tradition and in environment and
Speaker 2: atmosphere of the State Fair.
Speaker 6: As to say I had a feeling you you would
Speaker 6: sway my opinion on that, I mean a cold tempts
Speaker 6: would certainly favor Ohio State.
Speaker 4: You know, great point, great.
Speaker 3: Point, it'll be nice to be indoors.
Speaker 2: I remember saying that everybody was really really happy that
Speaker 2: the playoff game at home against Clemson. It was sixty
Speaker 2: five degrees, wonderful and the sun is shining at his
Speaker 2: great time. And then I remember thinking, as Texas finished
Speaker 2: off that game, they're indoors the rest of the way
Speaker 2: to Atlanta. And by the way, it was cold when
Speaker 2: they won the Peach Bowl that day. It was cold
Speaker 2: Atlanta and then here, and if they win again, it's
Speaker 2: back to Atlanta one more time for the National Championship.
Speaker 1: Catch Craig Way every afternoon on our sister station AM
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred Zone. Of course, he's got the call of
Speaker 1: the game this weekend against Ohio State.