Is BASKETBALL the KING in SE Texas? Or FOOTBALL?

[Guest DickVitale]

Yeah, I just wanted to give you a broader perspective of what it is in other areas and comparing them to this one...People WANT football to be the king around here, but its not....Really never HAS been....66 finals appearances to 32....Last title in 1987 for football? They spend more than they make? King? No.

BTW, the last state championship in football for this area is not 1987. Newton has one 2 state titles since then, last one in 2005 I believe. And yes, they are considered in our area.

Newton is 65 miles away fromthe golden triangle, and you consider it "SE Texas", yet Houston is 80 miles away and is not? Odd. : :

[Guest tigersvoice]

Yeah, I just wanted to give you a broader perspective of what it is in other areas and comparing them to this one...People WANT football to be the king around here, but its not....Really never HAS been....66 finals appearances to 32....Last title in 1987 for football? They spend more than they make? King? No.

BTW, the last state championship in football for this area is not 1987. Newton has one 2 state titles since then, last one in 2005 I believe. And yes, they are considered in our area.

Newton is 65 miles away fromthe golden triangle, and you consider it "SE Texas", yet Houston is 80 miles away and is not? Odd. : :

Not at all odd.  We can have our preferences.

[Guest DickVitale]

Yeah...I know what you guys preferences are around SE Texas too..... Yes I do, and you guys make it known!

[AggiesAreWe]

Yeah...I know what you guys preferences are around SE Texas too..... Yes I do, and you guys make it known!

Dick, if you want to continue throwing those innuendos, so be it. But as far as this site is concerned, we cover the districts that make up our area, which include Jasper, Kirbyville and Newton. I could say that Newton and Jasper is closer to Silsbee than Houston, would that help? Our boundaries as far as our coverage of teams has always been set. Basically, we cover what the local media covers(tv and print). Therefore when you talk about Southeast Texas on this site, that's what you get. It's all about the local districts.

BTW, 65 is less than 80, just so you would know. ;D

[westend1]

Yeah...I know what you guys preferences are around SE Texas too..... Yes I do, and you guys make it known!

In case you aren't sure, I prefer Newton Silsbee, HJ WB, Ozen, all of Orange County, Pt Arthur and Mid county over anybody in stinking Houston.     

[Guest DickVitale]

I meant SMALL TOWN, AAW! Stop making me out to be Louis Farrakhan!! LOL :D

[AggiesAreWe]

Yeah, I just wanted to give you a broader perspective of what it is in other areas and comparing them to this one...People WANT football to be the king around here, but its not....Really never HAS been....66 finals appearances to 32....Last title in 1987 for football? They spend more than they make? King? No.

BTW, the last state championship in football for this area is not 1987. Newton has one 2 state titles since then, last one in 2005 I believe. And yes, they are considered in our area.

Newton is 65 miles away fromthe golden triangle, and you consider it "SE Texas", yet Houston is 80 miles away and is not? Odd. : :

Same could be said about the fact that Orange is closer to Mobile, Alabama than El Paso, but Orange is still in Texas. The boundary line has to be drawn somewhere.

Oh, as for the Farrakhan remark, you said it, I didn't.

[Guest stevenash]

Yeah, I just wanted to give you a broader perspective of what it is in other areas and comparing them to this one...People WANT football to be the king around here, but its not....Really never HAS been....66 finals appearances to 32....Last title in 1987 for football? They spend more than they make? King? No.

BTW, the last state championship in football for this area is not 1987. Newton has one 2 state titles since then, last one in 2005 I believe. And yes, they are considered in our area.

Newton is 65 miles away fromthe golden triangle, and you consider it "SE Texas", yet Houston is 80 miles away and is not? Odd. : :

Same could be said about the fact that Orange is closer to Mobile, Alabama than El Paso, but Orange is still in Texas. The boundary line has to be drawn somewhere.

Oh, as for the Farrakhan remark, you said it, I didn't.

Aggiesarewe:  Consider yourself forewarned.  Logic is looked upon skeptically by certain participants.

[Guest DickVitale]

Yeah. He's right AAW..... :...He walks around with a friggin dictionary in his hands trying to make people believe he is actually an intellectual, when in actuality he is nothing more than a self righteous, pontificating "has been" from the metropolis called Sour Lake....I can use big words too...

[Guest nostradamus]

DV.....warning....barking up the wrong tree padna.

[Guest spinks]

Yeah. He's right AAW..... :...He walks around with a friggin dictionary in his hands trying to make people believe he is actually an intellectual, when in actuality he is nothing more than a self righteous, pontificating "has been" from the metropolis called Sour Lake....I can use big words too...

I would love to see this challenge................love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest stevenash]

Pardon me, Dick Vitale, but I am NOT a "has been".  A more appropriate description would be "never been". (Once again, the difference being that I know what I am NOT and have no delusions otherwise) If you believe you are using big words and you also believe I need a dictionary to communicate, then you are definitely 1-a from the weakest of regions.  Better stick to basketball where you can, at least, make yourself believe you are  competent.  By the way, when you said " I can use big words, too"  were you referring to "pontificating", "metropolis" or "from"?

[Guest DickVitale]

DV.....warning....barking up the wrong tree padna.

Thanks...I think it is HE who knows not what he doeth in trying to combat Dickie V!! 

[no-look]

As far as popularity goes, it's still football in this area. A local school can have tremendous success in basketball but not so much in football and it will be shown by the support that they get. But let that same school start winning in football and you will see the support for their successful basketball team pale in comparison to the football support. I broadcast both these sports along with baseball for this site, I have seen it with my own eyes. Schools that are traditionally successful in basketball that start getting successful in football will see the support for football be dramatically more than basketball. Even if it's just one year of success in football out of the last 10 years for that particular school, for that one year, football will be KING at that school.

It is what it is.

Stop it!.. Quit running those finger nails down the chalk board.......lol......

[Guest stevenash]

DV.....warning....barking up the wrong tree padna.

Thanks...I think it is HE who knows not what he doeth in trying to combat Dickie V!! 

The "potential violence" card is as ineffective, if not more so, than the race card.

[Guest DickVitale]

DV.....warning....barking up the wrong tree padna.

Thanks...I think it is HE who knows not what he doeth in trying to combat Dickie V!! 

The "potential violence" card is as ineffective, if not more so, than the race card.

I meant a war of words you cretin... :

[Guest stevenash]

DV.....warning....barking up the wrong tree padna.

Thanks...I think it is HE who knows not what he doeth in trying to combat Dickie V!! 

The "potential violence" card is as ineffective, if not more so, than the race card.

I meant a war of words you cretin... :

1-a

[BLUEDOVE3]

Dickie, you're battng against all odds here. The throw empty beer cans in back of their pick up before classes start at their school in Hardin-Jefferson. They still think Houston is a foreign country. :

[Guest ECBucFan]

I am hardly "anti-basketball", but quite frankly, this is a laughable question! Football in SETX (with HJ, Kountze, Spurger excepted) is EASILY #1. No doubt whatsoever.

If you still doubt, repeat this thread in the football forum! 

[DP#1FAN]

Come on DV I thought you would know better! You know who is king.

[Guest DickVitale]

Dickie, you're battng against all odds here. The throw empty beer cans in back of their pick up before classes start at their school in Hardin-Jefferson. They still think Houston is a foreign country. :

That's pretty much how I thought they were down there!! LOL

[Guest nostradamus]

....because Hamshire Fannett is quite the metropolis... :

[Guest DickVitale]

He's ORIGINALLY from Houston too, so he can say that!!! LOL :D

[Guest stevenash]

He's ORIGINALLY from Houston too, so he can say that!!! LOL :D

Ken Lay was also from Houston.

[Guest DickVitale]

Not urban.