2/8/24: Either/Or Thursday, Raiderland Hot-Links Featuring Patrick Mahomes And A Frog, Spud Webb, Davy Crockett, And Lubbock Legend Junior Medlow On Stage At Stubbs

February 8, 2024 Ryan Hyatt Culture/WEST TEXAS/America Comments Off

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Happy Thursday, y’all!

Quick thoughts and then we are off. Busy day in Raiderland but we will be back tonight for the Daily Broadcast, I promise. Got derailed last night. Back on track!

Either/Or Thursday

What’s harder to win? Either the Super Bowl; OR the World Series? Which is the tougher championship to get and why?

Raiderland Hot-Links

Let’s see what’s out there today!

Good morning! pic.twitter.com/t6jHRZTPf4
— Dane Dewbre 🌵 (@MarlandDane) February 8, 2024

Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland was bedridden for 2 1/2 days this week and had 103-degree fever at one point, Tech AD Kirby Hocutt said Wednesday.

More from @AJ_DonWilliams https://t.co/VffstcUwck
— Carlos Silva Jr. (@cmsilvajr) February 7, 2024

The women behind Texas Tech Athletics. 🙌

We couldn't do what we do without you. Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day! pic.twitter.com/C1IUyJ7Zx8
— Texas Tech Red Raiders (@TechAthletics) February 7, 2024

Texas Tech coach Grant McCasland was bedridden for 2 1/2 days this week and had 103-degree fever at one point, Tech AD Kirby Hocutt said Wednesday.

More from @AJ_DonWilliams https://t.co/VffstcUwck
— Carlos Silva Jr. (@cmsilvajr) February 7, 2024

These guys are lighting up Vegas tonight & will do the same on Sunday. #SuperBowlLVIII

🎥: @NFL pic.twitter.com/wfetDOoWkN
— Big 12 Conference (@Big12Conference) February 8, 2024

A gif we need to get back in the rotation. https://t.co/TurqjHN94G
— David Collier (@CollieronTV) February 8, 2024

One of the first plastic facemasks made for football helmets. pic.twitter.com/XtvKaL5CCR
— FB_Helmet_Guy (@FB_Helmet_Guy) February 8, 2024

The growth of the #SuperBowl spectacle on television during its first three decades pic.twitter.com/h9QEZQAbTw
— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) February 8, 2024

Feb 8, 1986: Spud Webb, at 5'7", won the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. #80s pic.twitter.com/qVqjvA1chr
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) February 8, 2024

Feb 8, 1985: the series finale of The Dukes of Hazzard aired. #80s Began in 1979, ran 7 seasons & 145 episodes. Find out about the show's theme song here > https://t.co/5968WOOYMK pic.twitter.com/ula3HmPMJh
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) February 8, 2024

On This Day in Alamo History – February 8, 1836

Former Tennessee Congressman, David Crockett, arrived today in San Antonio.

Crockett came to Texas accompanied by a few friends and a nephew. pic.twitter.com/YgigZMv68y
— The Alamo (@OfficialAlamo) February 8, 2024

US Servicemen visit the Alamo, 1942.

During WW2, San Antonio was the location of several military installations which were used for training: Fort Sam Houston, Camp Bullis, Brooks Field, Kelly Field, Randolph Field and the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, which later became… pic.twitter.com/JzxE4Ty9c6
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 8, 2024

On this day in Texas history, in 1887, Timothy Isaiah "Longhair Jim" Courtright, former town Marshall of Fort Worth, in one of the few actual face-to-face shootouts, was killed in a gunfight with Luke Short in Hell's Half Acre. pic.twitter.com/Tr2SEXrSip
— Derrick G. Jeter (@derrickjeter) February 8, 2024

In 1996, at the Dallas Cowboys' peak, 51,118 fans sold out the Sun Bowl for a scrimmage between the Cowboys and Houston Oilers in El Paso. https://t.co/KrNLeGsCTG
— Texas Highways Magazine (@TexasHighways) February 8, 2024