1969: The Season - Longhorn Network documentary

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  @tedshort6260 · 1 year ago

  I remember the 69 shoot out with Ark and Tex.  As a die hard Ark fan that game broke my heart at 9 years old.  I now can understand just how good of a Coach Mr Royal was. The world needs more people like Coach Royal and Coach Broyles.

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  @vette31 · 3 years ago

  As a huge Nebraska fan, this has to be one of the best college football documentaries I've ever seen.  I certainly remember that Texas team and they ranked right up there as one of the best ever.

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• UT

  @UTEXTRACK · 5 years ago

  I’ll never forget when Coach Royal told the team about Freddie Steinmark’s cancer diagnosis in the Moore Hill Hall dining room. Very somber and emotional.

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  @brianherrington7226 · 4 years ago

  RIP to my favorite all time Longhorn Steve Wooster a great player on this 69 team.

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  @Greg-t6t5j · 2 weeks ago

  This hits hard for me. Colorado born and raised

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  @jeffharrington9771 · 4 years ago

  That is one of the best football documentaries and stories ever.

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  @777Outrigger · 8 months ago (edited)

  1969  - Star Trek, Moon Landing, Vietnam War, UT has one of the most dramatic football seasons ever....  DR stood the league on it's head with the wishbone, last 2 games were nail bitters, and the Freddie Steinmark story. It was a remarkable year.

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  @gutted3638 · 4 years ago

  Peschel's catch would've been an unreal highlight today. And he did it with no sticky gloves. Over the shoulder like that with 2 defenders right there. That's an all world throw and catch

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  @naturetrails8357 · 3 years ago

  I grew up an ou fan , but now a days just a fan of college football, this was an inspiring team. Freddie steinmark was a truly courageous overcomer, who had faith in Jesus! What matters most in life is not the trophy or the rings, but are we born again , have we trusted Jesus and received Gods free gift of salvation?

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  @ekojar3047 · 11 months ago (edited)

  Im a diehard OU fan, just now seeing this documentary just hours before the 2025 Red River Shootout. This documentary is fantastic! This is a part of history I&apos;ve never seen, i love President Nixons halftime report, he would have made an Awesome Football Coach haha! <br>My #1 sport is College Football, its the best sport in the world to me. <br>We all have rich traditions and history for our team that we grew up by. We&apos;re all very proud of our community or city. We all love this sport deeply, and we all have a...strong, belly rippling hunger to prove how great our home town is, and the best way to show just how great our place is .... is by winning big football games against other great teams and communities across the country.<br><br><br>I hear the word hate a lot when it comes to Red River Shootout, and sometimes there&apos;s absolutely real beef going on between our teams.<br><br>But I really think its a passion of our territory, &nbsp;meets respect for one another. <br>I mostly have fun talking &nbsp;with my Texas friends and family, a healthy place of unspoken rules of our little room for trash talking, when we have a good zinger. We always laugh, we don&apos;t take it too serious, its never a screaming match....nah, ...never!<br><br>Most of the time, Texas fans are saying far worse things about their own team than I could ever come up with!!! And vise versa with my Sooners, when we had no QB and sucked worse than ive ever seen! &nbsp;We was absolutely hopeless that year! For Texas it was like having to hunt food for survival, but you&apos;re stuck in a Walmart for today.... that meat in a pack in a fridge has no chance at all to survive ! Its already done before the game!<br><br>I know we talk a lot of trash online, but I know behind it all, at the root of the rivalry.<br><br> We respect each other <br><br>Us two fan bases are mostly smart football minds with a decent football IQ, &nbsp;we understand this sport and what it takes to win &nbsp;a the highest level. <br>That&apos;s what I love about the rivalry the most.<br>We understand our team and each others team, &nbsp;and how our team can win because fans, X or O<br><br>Like right now, &nbsp;the media is saying Texas best chance is for Arch to have to be a super man, rushing the ball &nbsp;and attacking the safeties deep with quick short passes.<br>But I disagree <br><br>that&apos;s the 1st obvious possibility that OU is anticipating to see, &nbsp;so I think Sark is going to have a completely different gameplan than the obvious 1st idea. <br><br>Im curious to see what Sark does, Im predicting &nbsp;2 fake punt plays for those bad situations.<br>And at least 1 trick play of some kind.<br><br>And probably just a mixed bag on offense of the regular offense with the predicted offense and a few trick plays, &nbsp;it might be enough to confuse my OU Defense

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  @Mr.56Goldtop · 3 years ago

  I didn&apos;t realize that so many of them have joined Freddie. Very sad.

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  @noelnewlon · 3 years ago

  As a Razorback fan, this doc moved me to many inspirational tears.

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