Christmas Eve Greetings From Raiderland! Enjoy The Day And Some Raiderland Hot Links Featuring – Texas Tech Walking In Memphis, Oilers At The Mistake By The Lake, Billy Squire On MTV, And ALF On Christmas !

December 24, 2024 Ryan Hyatt Raiderland Hot-Links, West Texas, Pop-Culture, Questions Of The Day Comments Off

We hope everyone has a great and enjoyable Christmas Eve. Don’t stress out too much on last second shopping or worrying about gifts or anything else. Just enjoy the day, the friends and the family. Slow down a little.

Be sure to fire up that Santa Tracker Today! Greatest thing ever!!!

We’ll be back with y’all on Thursday with our regular column and The Daily Show. If you missed us last night, here’s the Raiderland Christmas Party:

Daily Broadcast: Welcome To The Raiderland Office Christmas Party! Stay Away From The Copy Machine And Interns!!! Texas Tech FB, Hoops, CFB Playoff Is Not Broken And Egg Nog Cake Recipes. . . What More Do You Want!

Now, here’s a few Hot Links to get you fortified for the day!

Raiderland Hot Links

Each morning we serve ’em up, fresh and hot…the best links from Raiderland and Beyond!

Good morning! pic.twitter.com/9inJb3sxmg
— Dane Dewbre 🌵 (@MarlandDane) December 24, 2024

When in #GrindCity

Thanks for having us @memgrizz! pic.twitter.com/quIVHhLJwE
— Texas Tech Football (@TexasTechFB) December 24, 2024

Next up on our top 🔟 moments of the BNK season… ✨

We have No. 9- when a tortilla fight broke out in Lubbock 🤣😳 pic.twitter.com/PJK5BFa93c
— Big Noon Kickoff (@BNKonFOX) December 23, 2024

⛄Merry Creedmas⛄

A Charlie Brown Christmas Edition https://t.co/BPCoO3CoM5 pic.twitter.com/UryYQo7U1t
— A David Collier (@CollieronTV) December 23, 2024

Steve Sarkisian on ASU:

"We we're in the Big 12 for 27 years, we won four. This is their first year, and they won the Big 12 Championship. It's is a really hard thing to do…The last two months, I think they're playing as good of football as anybody in the country." pic.twitter.com/VTlTobD294
— Blake Niemann (@Blakes_Take2) December 23, 2024

December 24, 2011: Down 7-3 to the Jets in the 2Q, @EliManning connects with Victor Cruz (@TeamVic) for a 99-yard TD.

Giants won 29-14, squeezed into playoffs, then won Super Bowl.
pic.twitter.com/rtLdChP1j9
— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) December 24, 2024

🏈 OTD in Houston Oilers History 🏈

1988 – A week after losing to the Browns which meant a return trip to Cleveland for the Wild Card game, the Oilers take care of business and knock the home team out, winning a 24-23 nail biter at the Mistake By The Lake#LuvYaBlue pic.twitter.com/SEkwtX7PR9
— 𝕃𝕦𝕧 𝕐𝕒 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 (@BudsOilers) December 24, 2024

December 24, 1950
° 1950 NFL CHAMPIONSHIP °

One of my all-time favorite football photos

The #Browns' Lou Groza kicks a 16-yard field goal with :28 left to lift #Cleveland to a dramatic 30-28 win over the Rams.

The victory caps the Browns' first NFL season with its first #NFL… pic.twitter.com/a1DWzXM5Gh
— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) December 24, 2024

December 24, 1977

"The Ghost to the Post"

The #Raiders' double-overtime AFC Divisional Playoff victory in Baltimore pic.twitter.com/tMuTu6dam2
— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) December 24, 2024

December 24, 1971
Nick Buoniconti blocks a KC field goal attempt in overtime of the AFC divisional#Dolphins #GoFins pic.twitter.com/hO8ZANZDGj
— Old Time Football 🏈 (@Ol_TimeFootball) December 24, 2024

Memorable Athletes From the Past #Lions #Steelers #NFL #HOF #nostalgia pic.twitter.com/T9SkJaKq55
— Tom’s Old Days (@sigg20) December 24, 2024

“Old Days”A Playset of your favorite “Western” was a Big Christmas or Birthday Gift for a Baby Boomer in the 1950s and 1960s.#Holidays #Toys #1950s #1960s #nostalgia #gifts pic.twitter.com/vfXS8Q4g3P
— Tom’s Old Days (@sigg20) December 24, 2024

🎁🎄1 Day Until Christmas🎄🎁 pic.twitter.com/Cch5gqkuct
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) December 24, 2024

🎁1972 Montgomery Ward Catalog:

— Flip Wilson/Geraldine Doll pic.twitter.com/1Pkg6cEZRq
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) December 24, 2024

Dec 24, 1984: 40 years ago, Time Magazine listed VCRs as "Santa's Hottest Gift". #80s pic.twitter.com/wNb9CsmRv2
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) December 24, 2024

Remembering the Budweiser Clydesdales #Christmas commercials from the #80s Find out all about them here > https://t.co/6LWaVe44Go pic.twitter.com/xNAoyqV02Z
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) December 23, 2024

On this day in Texas history, in 1927, Marshall Ratliff, dressed as Santa Claus, with three others, robbed the First National Bank of Cisco. A shootout ensured, mortally wounding two policemen & wounding Ratliff & an accomplice. The fugitives were caught days laters in Graham. pic.twitter.com/eICAehW2W6
— Derrick G. Jeter (@derrickjeter) December 23, 2024

I am not sure why the subject of amusement in old-time Texas is of such interest to me. I suppose it's because I imagine the lives of folks who lived during frontier days to be filled with drudgery and occasional violence and so the idea of them doing what they could to amuse… pic.twitter.com/umL2gAdX6G
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) December 24, 2024

Traces of Texas reader Leah Katherine graciously sent in this hand-tinted December 1940 photo of Herman Gadeke with his brand-new train set at his childhood home in El Campo. Herman, who is a proud Texas Aggie, is now 90 years old and STILL owns this train, which still runs and… pic.twitter.com/j0ejeV70Rn
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) December 23, 2024