Texas Tech Tortilla Tossing On The Ropes,Most Texan Thing You’ve Done This Week, Raiderland Hot Links Featuring Tech Soccer Rolls In Opener, Big 12 Edicts, Atari Greatness, Smokey And The Bandit II And Some Buffalos

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Happy Friday, Y’all

This is the last Friday we’ll have this summer without college football coming up the next Saturday or Sunday…. This seems good.

It’s also a very dangerous time for college sports. Before the season committees still have time to meet. They create rules. They vote on rules. And just like that, Tortilla Tossing at Texas Tech and the Guns Up hand sign of the Red Raiders could be gone.

We spoke at length about that last night on The Daily Broadcast.

The Daily Broadcast: Send Lawyers, Guns And Tortillas, Texas Tech Vs. The Big 12…. How Far Is Texas Tech Willing To Go To Save A “Tradition”??? Our Perspective, Your Thoughts…

We will dig deeper into this story and the upcoming scrimmage Saturday night for Texas Tech Football with y’all LIVE at 6:30 tonight on The Daily Broadcast. Join in via X, YouTube or Facebook Live. All platforms Always FREE in Raiderland, so subscribe to them all.

Get you comments and questions ready and we’ll finish the week strong with y’all this evening!

Most Texan Thing

We have one standing order in this company. Each Friday you report in and all us The Most Texan Thing You’ve Done This Week. Big or small, we want to hear about it. Post your Texan Accomplishments in the comments below and we’ll discuss tonight on The Daily Broadcast!

Raiderland Hot Links

Each morning we serve ’em up, Fresh and Hot! The greatest links from Raiderland and Beyond!

Good morning! pic.twitter.com/SOXxTlSb2R
— Dane Dewbre 🌵 (@MarlandDane) August 15, 2025

Red Raiders, the rules can change.

But our tradition will not.

How about the @UnitedWestTexas Opening Kickoff Tortilla Launch? #15To1
— Kirby Hocutt (@kirbyhocutt) August 14, 2025

Pray for Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Had nothing to do with this but must face the consequences. https://t.co/TjKqdro0UU
— Nathan Giese (@NathanGiese) August 14, 2025

WATCH and subscribe!

Big 12 Winners & Losers This Week: Texas Tech, UCF Fans and a Halftime Show! @PeteMundo https://t.co/NqaXMvnYJK
— Heartland College Sports (@Heartland_CS) August 15, 2025

Analytics be dammed

I call for the immediate return of the .300 hitter pic.twitter.com/XsSSiUIPKc
— OldTimeHardball (@OleTimeHardball) August 15, 2025

Mudcat Grant & Doris Day, 1965 @Twins pic.twitter.com/OeJDW27siL
— Vintage Jerseys & Hats (@PolyesterUnis) August 15, 2025

@KevG163 The franchise the Vikings abandon will become the Raiders. ⬇️ https://t.co/a4EtSrNUun
— Dan WHENESOTA (@WHENESOTA) August 15, 2025

How an #NFL preseason game looked on your black-&-white television set 54 years ago tonight

August 14, 1971#Raiders 41, #Jets 20
Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum

Don Criqui, George Ratterman, and Bill Mathis on the call for WOR-TV New York

Numerous young, future stars on the… pic.twitter.com/eUtL58mFyo
— Kevin Gallagher (@KevG163) August 15, 2025

This week in 1978
Atari – Don't watch TV tonight. Play it!
People Magazine. August 14, 1978 pic.twitter.com/aYizQY11rM
— Chicago TV Guides (@ChicagoTVGuides) August 14, 2025

‘I don’t know’

— ‘You Can’t Do That on Television’pic.twitter.com/cA36JPJ19Y
— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) August 14, 2025

"Smokey and the Bandit II" debuted in theatres today in 1980. The film stars Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jerry Reed, Jackie Gleason and Dom DeLuise. #80s pic.twitter.com/sYtxR3yHtD
— LandOfThe80s (@landofthe80s) August 15, 2025

https://twitter.com/MusicJim2/status/1956319290153369864

Sold: 1993 GMC Sierra C1500 SLE for $7,400. https://t.co/vQWnRYvGvG pic.twitter.com/UnrHwbHGCY
— Bring a Trailer (@Bringatrailer) August 14, 2025

Taco of the Day.@RoaringHammy pic.twitter.com/AoIoyuNDfZ
— Taco King 𝕏 (@tacokingX) August 14, 2025

Loaded Bacon Cheeseburger Burrito with a Creamy Cheese Finish pic.twitter.com/ZtWz62A7Ku
— Summer's Savor (@summer_food) August 15, 2025

Celebrate the life and legacy of David Crockett!

Join us at the Alamo on Saturday, August 16, from 10 am to 2 pm for a day of fun and discovery, featuring games, living history demonstrations, and more as we pay tribute to the Lion of the West! pic.twitter.com/EZ4ajRxkWy
— The Alamo (@OfficialAlamo) August 14, 2025

A man poses in cowboy duds for Canadian, Texas photographer Julius Born circa 1910. I love those wooly chaps. Back then they were probably made out of genuine sheepskin but these days they are frequently made of a synthetic equivalent. I never saw them much around here in… pic.twitter.com/htwUwgie4M
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) August 15, 2025

Spectators line up for tickets at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show in March, 1940. Such a dynamic photo by Russell Lee —- and everybody dressed so formally, at least relative to today. A fabulous moment in time captured. pic.twitter.com/jkCt8ufNid
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) August 15, 2025

Texas Game Wardens near conclusion of the "Ghost Deer" Case: 24 suspects face approximately 1,400 charges filed across 11 counties. What began with a 2024 traffic stop uncovered one of the largest deer smuggling operations in Texas history.

DETAILS: https://t.co/DhRrU65vOq pic.twitter.com/ml98Waaw6A
— Texas Game Wardens (@TexasGameWarden) August 14, 2025

The gang at the beautiful Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge with a Caprock Canyons Bull helping out the herd. Tarrant County. pic.twitter.com/er1wgq7iye
— West Texas Mesonet (@WTMesonet) August 15, 2025

August 15th 1958 – 21 year old Buddy Holly was married to 25-year-old Maria Elena Santiago, a woman he had met just two months earlier. The wedding took place at the home of Buddy's parents in Lubbock, Texas only a few days after his song "Think It Over" entered the US Top 40. pic.twitter.com/URglSI1RGb
— Psychedelic Jukebox (@60sPsychJukebox) August 15, 2025

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