5 Things We Know On A Sunday
- If you can close out the final days of a year looking back with great joy and appreciation over everything you experienced, while looking ahead to the next year with even more anticipation of the great things to come in your life…you’re doing things right.
- If New Year’s Eve did not exist, what would the drop is sales percentage be for ‘Lil Smokies sausages. You see them all year long, but they’re only showing up for about a two week window. You’d think they’d try to get in on the St. Patrick’s Day drunkfests and Cinco de Mayo just to stretch out the year.
- With Texas Tech playing Oregon in the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day at 11 AM Central, this may be one of the more muted NYE nights in Lubbock history. Then again, knowing some of my Red Raider friends, the ball drop at midnight may just be the starters gun to signal an all-night tail-gate party going right through the darkness in the first light of 2026. Pace yourself and hydrate my friends. Those ‘Lil Smokies might keep you alive.
- I miss being a kid on New Year’s Eve. The idea of getting to stay up all the way to midnight with all the grown-ups, getting to watch all the cool bands on Dick Clark’s show, eating queso and drinking egg nog, watching the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl featuring some SWC team other than Tech vs a random school like Maryland… it was almost as magical as Christmas Eve just in a different way. Now, I just hope I can stay up for the late local news and more importantly; make sure anyone I know isn’t on the late local news in a bad way!
- If we could wish one thing for you great folks out there in Raiderland for the coming year; it’s that you don’t wish away a single day or a single moment waiting or hoping for “something to happen”. Go out each day staring Thursday for the next year and create those moments yourself and reflect each day on all of the great and amazing things that transpired in just 24-hours. I promise that you’ll find at least one thing each day to treasure, usually more. At the end of the year, you’ll have thousands of moments and memories that you’ll take with you forever, all while building more.
Happy New And Thanks For Being Out There For Us!
Hyatt
