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Because of the wonder that is/was McLane Stadium's WiFi system (which wasn't without its flaws but was, somewhat remarkably, usable throughout), I was able to keep a pretty close eye on things via the Twitter. Here's the best I saw all evening.
Baylor’s pregame sequence is metal as hell. I’m serious. It hasn’t even kicked off yet and I wanna run through a wall.
— Holly Anderson (@HollyAnderson) August 31, 2014
She's not wrong.
if they’re showing this on tv, @matt_hayesSN can vouch that I was joking they would have players jump through a hoop of fire, ONLY THEY ARE
— Holly Anderson (@HollyAnderson) August 31, 2014
Baylor team running through an arch belching fire high into the sky. Yeah, just like the Detroit Pistons have been doing for about 15 yrs.
— Tim Griffin (@TimGriffinBig12) August 31, 2014
Pretty common theme. People liked the intro.
let's do this! #sicem pic.twitter.com/3Hll5eHDog
— nick pants (@nick_pants) August 31, 2014
That was a change-up. Now back to the intro.
Baylor team running through an arch belching fire high into the sky. Yeah, just like the Detroit Pistons have been doing for about 15 yrs.
— Tim Griffin (@TimGriffinBig12) August 31, 2014
.@BUFootball: bring out FIFTY FOOT TALL MECHABEAR.
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) August 31, 2014
Baylor built a Rammstein concert set.
— Spencer Hall (@edsbs) August 31, 2014
That was fun. Then the largest Baylor Line in history took the field.
Bad news: "World War Z" started at Baylor tonight. http://t.co/0YymVgpyi6 https://t.co/YfOuBlzS7d
— SB Nation (@SBNation) August 31, 2014
And here for the coin toss in Waco is accomplished realist painter George W. Bush.
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) August 31, 2014
I don't know how much they showed of the pregame festivities on television, but a couple things: 1) There were politicians everywhere, including both senators, the Governor, Justice Willett, and a former POTUS, and 2) George W. Bush is still wildly popular at Baylor. Not RGIII popular, obviously, but crazy popular. Didn't hurt that he was doing selfies with the band and might have been wearing the coat Christian Bale gave that homeless guy in Batman Begins.
This SMU-Baylor game ends with Art Briles being extradited to the Hague to face the International War Crimes Tribunal
— Brandon Larrabee (@TeamSpeedKills) September 1, 2014
This was the point where it looked like we were going to go full Baylor Offense on them. As it turned out, we did not.
And that’s why Deion Sanders, Jr. got a 5 in AP Fast Running at the Deion Sanders Real School of Not Fraud.
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) September 1, 2014
I can't express to you how much I laughed at this when I saw it. I thought I might die.
BAYLOR FOOTBALL MEDICAL QUESTIONNAIRE: 1. Are your legs still attached 2. Do you still have some blood 3. Football!
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) September 1, 2014
Then we thought Bryce Petty might die.
Baylor dropping the Hot In Herre, as one does of a Sunday night cc @lana
— Holly Anderson (@HollyAnderson) September 1, 2014
Josie Drago: Mistress of Beats and Winner of Hearts and Minds.
"Poison Control Hotline, how can I help you?" "I think my team got into the Baylor." "I…oh, gosh…do you have a shovel?"
— Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub) September 1, 2014
Had a blast with the Baylor Line at halftime #SicEm pic.twitter.com/dClftrbOri
— Robert Griffin III (@RGIII) September 1, 2014
PEOPLE ON TWITTER THOUGHT I WAS JOKING WHEN I TWEETED THAT HE WAS CONDUCTING THE BAND, EVEN THOUGH I SAID I WAS TOTALLY SERIOUS.
When a 400 pound lineman plays QB laying on his back: https://t.co/UbezWwVe7i
— Spencer Hall (@edsbs) September 1, 2014
I can't decide what was worse: that we had a kick blocked, got the ball back, and still didn't score because Shock Linwood has a pathological need to stretch for the goal line when he shouldn't
OR
That it took 15 minutes for the officials to clean this play up. It was like a second halftime.
Neal Burcham is going to look under his bed tonight for Shawn Oakman.
— OurDailyBears (@OurDailyBears) September 1, 2014
SALSA NACHO TOUCHDOWN. FREE ODB FOR ALL IN ATTENDANCE.
— OurDailyBears (@OurDailyBears) September 1, 2014
I originally wanted these to be in chronological order, but that's out the window now.
I'm grouping the next two tweets together because they are awesome. You can't properly understand one without the other.
I think I've decided the Tre'Von Armstead grenade launch into the band was my favorite penalty of dumbassery ever
— David Fankhauser (@dfank_BU) September 1, 2014
"I think I hit a flutist" -Tre'Von Armstead
— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) September 1, 2014
And finally....
I think I've decided the Tre'Von Armstead grenade launch into the band was my favorite penalty of dumbassery ever
— David Fankhauser (@dfank_BU) September 1, 2014
BUT WAIT, ONE MORE:
McLane Stadium is a big piece to a truth that seemed impossible not long ago: Baylor is Texas' best CFB program. http://t.co/YYlK7EYOFP
— David Ubben (@davidubben) September 1, 2014
Yeah, that's the good stuff.