DALLAS -- The kid with the perfect name bounced around the field when it was over, collecting hugs like they were bobble heads, gazing into an end zone of orange, those eyes glossed over, a black Longhorns sticker underneath them both.
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| Texas coach Mack Brown has his hands full with his young QB this season. (Getty Images) |
"Great job, Colt!" hollered one small cheerleader.
"You played awesome, Colt!" screamed a group of fans from the front row.
And it went on like this for several minutes, cheers from every direction. All the while, the kid with the perfect name -- perfect, at least, if you're the QB at Texas and people with Southern accents are screaming it -- just kept bouncing around, nodding his head, never really saying much until finally the moment hit him.
It came right after The Eyes of Texas concluded, right after that cannon fired for what felt like the millionth time, right after the Longhorns had done again what it is they couldn't do for those five long years not too long ago: Dominate Oklahoma in a 28-10 beatdown in the Red River Shootout.
"Woooooo!" yelled Colt McCoy, to no one in particular. "Yeahhhh!"
A woo and a yeah.
That's it.
But really, are any more words necessary?
Doesn't that pretty much summarize things?
"After the game was over, the celebration was great," McCoy said 20 minutes later, his vocabulary now expanded for a horde of media in a tent somewhere between the Cotton Bowl, a tilt-a-whirl, a fried Twinkie stand and the other countless things from the State Fair of Texas that make this annual get-together more than just another football game.
"The celebration felt like it should when you win. What a tremendous feeling. I can't even explain it."
