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KantoSooner
10/29/2013, 09:24 AM
Can anyone here help me understand why playing for Texas Tech makes some large, otherwise masculine looking line men want to don eye makeup in the mode of a drunk, rejected, slutty trailer trash woman? It's been going on for long enough that it's become sort the Tech trademark; I don't think we can ignore it and have it go away. Since it's rather unsettling, I'd like to understand the phenomenon.
Thanks in advance.
Soonerjeepman
10/29/2013, 09:31 AM
They take it to extremes, but I've seen some/maybe one of OUr guys on D do that...

not sure....weird.
DarrellZero
10/29/2013, 09:38 AM
You have heard the rumors about their coach, right?
badger
10/29/2013, 09:46 AM
Lubbock has no trees, therefore no shade, a lot of sand from windy west Texasness and thus, nobody at Tech has their real eyes anymore.

Wealthy coaches like Kliff can pay for plastic surgery to impersonate Ryan Gosling. The rest of Tech needs to wear eye makeup
PrideMom
10/29/2013, 10:33 AM
Josh used the black under his eyes to help zero in. It acts like a telescope, I think. Or maybe it is just war-paint to look mean?
ouflak
10/29/2013, 10:45 AM
I actually thought that kind of thing was against the rules. But I might be thinking of the NFL.... Wasn't there something Tebow about this, that there had to be specific guidelines for what you could put under eyes for glare and what you couldn't?
badger
10/29/2013, 10:52 AM
I actually thought that kind of thing was against the rules. But I might be thinking of the NFL.... Wasn't there something Tebow about this, that there had to be specific guidelines for what you could put under eyes for glare and what you couldn't?

You can no longer scribble Bible verses, area codes or other stuff on eye black, but to my knowledge painting your entire face black is not against the rules. It's also not unique to Tech --- a certain cancer survivor did it at Boston College, for example:
http://www.metro.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/23d2125198d0b4e89babf19dfa0f4a36.jpg
Pricetag
10/29/2013, 11:05 AM
Didn't Tom Wort paint himself up like The Ultimate Warrior at least once?
fadada1
10/29/2013, 11:29 AM
...but to my knowledge painting your entire face black is not against the rules. It's also not unique to Tech...


Al Jolson played football for Tech? Who knew....
BigJerm7
10/29/2013, 12:23 PM
http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/156/936/BrandonCarter2_display_image.jpg?1266167545

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0925/ncf_i_carter_200.jpg
Brandon Carter was a boob.
bmjlr
10/29/2013, 12:24 PM
Didn't Dusty Dvoracek put a lot of black on his face as well?
8timechamps
10/29/2013, 04:22 PM
I actually thought that kind of thing was against the rules. But I might be thinking of the NFL.... Wasn't there something Tebow about this, that there had to be specific guidelines for what you could put under eyes for glare and what you couldn't?

I thought so too, but I guess not.

John Randall started it back when he played for the Vikings. All others are just imitators.
OkieThunderLion
10/29/2013, 08:38 PM
http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/156/936/BrandonCarter2_display_image.jpg?1266167545

http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2009/0925/ncf_i_carter_200.jpg
Brandon Carter was a boob.

I'm still scarred from that dude's butt falling out on Owen Field.
OkieThunderLion
10/29/2013, 08:40 PM
Didn't Dusty Dvoracek put a lot of black on his face as well?
Yes, but not Halloween make-up.
ouwasp
10/29/2013, 08:51 PM
Glad it's them and not OU. Looks like some of those bizarre Raider fans that briefly haunt my TV screen.
OkieThunderLion
10/29/2013, 10:10 PM
Yeah. Their fans do it too.
Therealsouthsider
10/29/2013, 11:47 PM
....should they change their mascot to Tammy Faye Bakker?

ss
OUDizzle
10/30/2013, 03:19 AM
Glad it's them and not OU. Looks like some of those bizarre Raider fans that briefly haunt my TV screen.

http://i.imgur.com/xes28KB.jpg
LiBeartarian
10/30/2013, 09:49 AM
Dis Al Jolson play for tech?

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swardboy
10/30/2013, 10:06 AM
Josh used the black under his eyes to help zero in. It acts like a telescope, I think. Or maybe it is just war-paint to look mean?

The purpose is reduce sun glare from one's cheekbones. Supposedly. I used it in my college qb experience, but really wonder about its effectiveness. I feel its use in night games is totally ridiculous.
KantoSooner
10/30/2013, 10:24 AM
That's what I thought it was for, too. Totally didn't work for me once I had a sweat going. Much better were black, fabric backed bandaids. No shine.