Most Texan Thing You’ve Done This Week, Raiderland Hot Links Featuring Joey McGuire Raiding The Transfer Portal, HBD “Bullet” Bob Hayes – Fastest Man In The World, Not Time For Announcers & A $9K West Texas Jail !

December 20, 2024 Ryan Hyatt Raiderland Hot-Links, West Texas, Pop-Culture, Questions Of The Day 0

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Happy Friday, Y’all !

The portal just keeps churning out players in Lubbock. Thursday Texas Tech claimed the services of now former USC RB Quinten Joyner as well as Romeo Height, an OLB, from Georgia Tech. For now that’s 16 confirmed pick-ups for the Red Raiders and one of the top classes in the country. Not the Big 12, but the country. The rest of the country is still trying to figure it out. We give them Two Eagles and a Womble. And a whole lot of others. Pretty amazing to watch.

We’ll talk about that, the CFB Playoff, NFL and more tonight on The Daily Broadcast LIVE at 6:30 Central. Join the show on X, YouTube and Facebook Live. If you missed last night, here ya go:

Daily Broadcast: Texas Tech Football Freaking Out CFB Powers In The Portal, Greatest Animated Christmas Specials And Why Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Is The Best Plus Folks Figuring Out How NIL Works… Helluva Show.

Most Texan Thing

Each Friday we finish the week strong, finding out What Was The Most Texan Thing You Did This Week….

So, tell us in the comments and we’ll discuss in detail tonight on TDB. The world needs more Texanness in it every day.

If you haven’t done anything Texan yet, get after it today and report back!

On to the Hot Links!

Raiderland Hot Links

Each morning we serve ’em up, Fresh and Hot…the Best Links from Raiderland and Beyond!

That's Rudolph the @redbull Reindeer to you! https://t.co/2tQxcuekuw
— A David Collier (@CollieronTV) December 20, 2024

Texas Tech linebacker Harvey Dyson plans to enter the transfer portal, @milesjordan40 tells @On3sports.

He has 17 career tackles, 2.5 sacks and a forced fumble. https://t.co/VxSGJETKD9 pic.twitter.com/vtm0N0QyGq
— Pete Nakos (@PeteNakos_) December 20, 2024

Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire says multiple players with their names in the transfer portal will play for the Red Raiders in the Liberty Bowl. Also, McGuire said Tahj Brooks is still weighing whether to play next week in Memphis. https://t.co/ykuASPey3C
— Don Williams (@AJ_DonWilliams) December 19, 2024

https://t.co/sFziUiD0sI pic.twitter.com/N6jZS8nIVr
— Nathan Giese (@NathanGiese) December 19, 2024

Curt Cignetti when he steps in front of a microphone. https://t.co/ozuBXctWik pic.twitter.com/5j7kTTmbKR
— Rob Breaux Show (@robbreauxshow) December 20, 2024

Utah vs #18 Washington State (1992)
Copper Bowl pic.twitter.com/acgf1Z3Xsb
— College Football Classics (@ClassicsCFB) December 19, 2024

December 19, 2010: 300+ lb Patriots OL Dan Connelly returns a Packers squib kick 71 yards. The longest kick return by an offensive lineman in NFL history.
pic.twitter.com/UCUKmKMMmv
— This Day In Sports Clips (@TDISportsClips) December 20, 2024

December 20, 1980

THE ANNOUNCER-LESS GAME

In an attempt to breathe ratings life into a late-season, Saturday afternoon game without playoff implications, NBC experiments with an "announcer-less" broadcast for their game between the #Jets and #Dolphins from the Orange Bowl. pic.twitter.com/CwsWAYj1jp
— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) December 20, 2024

BOTD Bob Hayes
Only athlete with a Super Bowl and an Olympic 🥇 (2)
Bob was the 🌎 fastest human by virtue of his multiple world records in the 60-yard, 100 Y 220 Y, and Olympic 100 M dashes (tied the then WR with a time of 10.06)#DallasCowboys pic.twitter.com/AsyCgkSkAR
— Old Time Football 🏈 (@Ol_TimeFootball) December 20, 2024

OTD 1980#HolidayBowl #BYU #SMU @BYUfootball QB @JimMcMahon throws a Hail Mary TD pass to Clay Brown, completing the 20 point 4th quarter comeback.
46-45 #BYU
pic.twitter.com/2Lee5EVxV2
— Old Time Football 🏈 (@Ol_TimeFootball) December 20, 2024

OTD 1971
Ken Houston sets the then NFL record for touchdowns with interceptions in a career.
He then takes another back to the house for his 2nd of the game becoming the 1st player with 2 pick sixes in a game.#Oilers
pic.twitter.com/gNtF4R4jDl
— Old Time Football 🏈 (@Ol_TimeFootball) December 19, 2024

“Old Days”Tough and Talented,Keith Magnuson was
an SI Cover Boy in 1970.#NHL #Blackhawks #Chicago #1970s pic.twitter.com/SRjNYQSIyQ
— Tom’s Old Days (@sigg20) December 20, 2024

🎄Brach’s Christmas Candies (1970) pic.twitter.com/2OIcVmbm6B
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) December 20, 2024

Remembering 2 different #80s parodies of The 12 Days of #Christmas Find out all about them & listen here > https://t.co/FVcWnUT15b pic.twitter.com/SuaoQS1CEN
— Old School 80s (@OldSchool80s) December 20, 2024

The new episode of “Stories Bigger Than Texas: The Alamo Podcast” celebrates the latest milestone of the Alamo Plan: this weekend’s opening of Plaza de Valero! https://t.co/3deot31ZxT

And thank you to the @MengerHotel for providing this birds-eye view just ahead of opening! pic.twitter.com/WZHYjQii6P
— The Alamo (@OfficialAlamo) December 20, 2024

On this day in Texas history, in 1980, the restored old jail of Albany opened to the public as a new art museum. The jail was the first permanent public building in Shackelford County, built in 1878 at a cost of $9,000. Prisoners were caged upstairs; the jailer lived downstairs. pic.twitter.com/QYO9bTCrCs
— Derrick G. Jeter (@derrickjeter) December 19, 2024

A day laborer in Ralls, Texas repairs a tractor tire. Ralls is in Crosby County, approximately 25 miles east of Lubbock. It was named after John Robinson Ralls, who, with the help of W.E. McLaughlin, laid out the townsite in July 1911. As of the 2020 census, it had a population… pic.twitter.com/rMhp7UaxtM
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) December 19, 2024

Traces of Texas reader Lois Gentry graciously shared this wonderful photo of a lovely young Texas woman sweeping up outside a Gulf station in Mineral Wells, 1981. Seems like I remember there were 10 billion crickets around the gas station lights during the summer of that year, so… pic.twitter.com/u9hldNleQ3
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) December 19, 2024

🥳 EXCITING NEWS 🥳

We're now the proud owners of Lake Colorado City State Park between Midland and Abilene thanks to funding from the Sporting Goods Sales Tax.

Details at https://t.co/vFipXa6v8P #TexasStateParks pic.twitter.com/2v4HcYt1Xt
— Texas Parks & Wildlife (@TPWDnews) December 19, 2024

Thus, Lubbock, Texas, America was born!
This calls for a cocktail and in honor of Lubbock, I'll go make a Chilton!! Guns Up! https://t.co/tG4tH8Dw1W
— Robert Powell 🌵🏴‍☠️ (@RPTexan) December 19, 2024

The 2024 winter solstice is here, bringing the darkest days of the year. Here's what to know about daylight savings time. https://t.co/XU6cIG6hOi
— Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (@lubbockonline) December 20, 2024