'Fight ‘em until Hell freezes over, and then fight ‘em on the ice.'
TCU’s Dutch Meyer
'Three things happen when you pass, and two of them are bad.'
Texas’ Darrell Royal
'I believe.'
Baylor’s Grant Teaff
'Never been licked.'
Movie about Texas A&M and its Corps of Cadets
'I didn’t think anything of it at first. Then I thought to myself, ‘My God, he’s coming out here to hit me.’'
Rice’s Dick Maegle before Alabama’s Tommy Lewis came off the bench to tackle him in the 1954 Cotton Bowl.
'He could take his’n and beat yours’n, and then he could take yours’n and beat his’n.' Former Oilers head coach Bum Phillips on Don Shula.
If these phrases get you thinking about great football moments you have experienced, then maybe the
Touchdown Club of Houston
is for you.
TheTD Club assists area high schools through two community service projects. The Club has awarded more than $140,000 in scholarships to more than 175 high schoolers in Greater Houston in the past nine years, and have given out about $120,000 in weights and weight equipment to 24 Greater Houston high schools in the past six years. The high schools receiving weights are Booker T. Washington, Forest Brook, Reagan, Smiley and Houston Sterling in 2002; Kashmere, Madison, Scarborough, Wheatley and Worthing in 2003; Milby, Northbrook and Westbury in 2004; Furr, Sharpstown and Houston Austin in 2005; Willowridge, Jones, Sam Houston, Aldine and Yates in 2006; and Eisenhower, Houston Lamar, Pasadena and Scarborough in 2007.
If you become a member of the TD Club, part of your dues will go to the National Football Foundation's Play It Smart Program (www.playitsmart.org). Play It Smart puts academic counselors on high school campuses that are considered at-risk. Nationally, the program has allowed schools that had below a 30 percent graduation rate jump to a 90 percent graduation rate. And of those 90 percent who graduated high school, 80 percent enrolled in college.
NEXT TD CLUB EVENTS
University of Oklahoma Day with Bob Stoops, presented by ExTex, noon, Wed., June 18, JW Marriott, 5150 Westheimer. Come and listen to one of the top college coaches in America as OU head coach Bob Stoops will address the TD Club. Coach Stoops will talk about last year as well as what to expect from this fall's edition of the Crimson and Cream.
Cost is $45 per ticket. Tables are $450 (regular table), $500 (bronze table sponsorship), $1,000 (silver table sponsorship), $1,500 (gold table sponsorship) and $5,000 (platinum table sponsorsihp). All tables are 10 seats each. All premiun table sponsors will get their names in the event's paper program.
For tickets or more information, call TD Club executive director Neal Farmer at 713-849-9860, or e-mail houtdclub@comcast.net.
LSU Day with Les Miles, presented by HTK Consultants, Max Fugler, Woodrow's and Environmental Safety & Health Consulting, noon, Wed., July 16, JW Marriott, 5150 Westheimer. It will be a Cajun Lovefest as LSU celebrates a national championship. Les Miles will talk about last season as well as this fall. Also speaking will be women's basketball coach Van Chancellor, who is worth the price of admission himself. LSU officials will bring the crystal national championship trophy so attendees can have their photos taken with the trophy. This is the only Texas stop of the Tiger Athletic Foundation's annual Tiger Tour. The TAF also will have a silent auction of memorabilia at the event, the proceeds of which all benefit LSU athletics.
Cost is $45 per ticket. Tables are $450 (regular), $500 (bronze table sponsorship), $1,000 (silver table sponsorship), $1,500 (gold table sponsorship) and $5,000 (platinum table sponsorship). All tables are 10 seats each. Premium table sponsors get their names in the event's paper program. For tickets or more information, call TD Club executive director Neal Farmer at 713-849-9860, or e-mail houtdclub@comcast.net.
