Don't Mess With Texas

More people bought merchandise from the University of Texas in the last year than any other school. As a matter of fact, more was spent on that merchandise than ever before as Longhorn t-shirts, hats, bumper stickers, aprons, whatever flew off the shelves in record-setting numbers.

The previous record was set in the heyday of the Fab Five at the University of Michigan. Texas also knocked North Carolina from the top spot for the first time in five years.

The Longhorn logo is certainly cool and I suppose burnt orange goes well with a lot of colors (although white is the only one that springs to mind). But you know the national championship by the football team was the reason for the rise to the top spot.

Texas baseball won a national title in 2005 and Rick Barnes has his hoopsters in the national hunt regularly, but I still have to believe more paraphernalia had an oblong ball than a round one.

And just to prove that everything really is bigger in Texas, I guess they used some of the merchandise money to buy the ginormous new Jumbotron. It is the world’s largest HD TV. Now fans can get crystal clear images on TV! While they’re at the game! It’s the next best thing to actually watching the game in front of you.