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The defense has been named

Posted by HenryJames on October 25th, 2009 under Football

According to the Statesman the Texas defense has named itself ‘The Goon Squad.’

Why? Lamarr Houston came up with the name, and he says “It means that we’re just a bunch of blue-collar guys who don’t care about anything else but playing football.”

It’s been a longtime Longhorn internet meme that we should come up with a name for the defense. Any defense we’ve had. But cooler heads have always prevailed and managed to mock those who came up with suggestions.

But I’m fine with it because the players came up with it and not the fans. I actually kind of like it. They’ve knocked two Big 12 quarterbacks out of the game, forced one to be replaced due to poor performance and knocked the f*ck out of Tech’s Taylor Potts.

So now we can call them The Goon Squad. Even if they’re not aware of what that term actually means.

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  1. EyesOfTX said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 9:40 am

    Actually, I kind of like it. I’ve been unalterably opposed to all the damn “name the defense” efforts we see on teh Longhorn Interwebs each year, but this on might actually be ok.

    Hook ‘em!!!

  2. Woody Bombay said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 9:52 am

    A wonderful tribute to Mr. Elvis Costello.

  3. BEHorn said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Inigo Montoya and I both would have preferred “The Brute Squad.”

  4. doomsday d said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 10:36 am

    No, “we” don’t call them that. You may call them that. They may call themselves that. Everyone else may call them that. But I don’t call them that.

    I hate it.

  5. JustSayin said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 11:09 am

    I was slightly embaressed that they didn’t understand the negative connotations on them being the goons. I am even more surprised that muschamp did t pull them aside and say, guys you k know you might not want to be known as goons…

    From the urban dictionary:

    goon – a real man or n**** (originated in Florida)

    goon – someone hired to beat someone up, usually someone big and dumb who commits acts of violence for money.

  6. spider said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 11:27 am

    The word “goon” was popularized by the cartoon “Popeye.”

    Popeye in Goonland (1938)

    1921, “stupid person,” from gony “simpleton” (c.1580), of unknown origin, but applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (1839); sense of “hired thug” first recorded 1938 (in ref. to union “beef squads” used to cow strikers in the Pacific northwest), probably from Alice the Goon, slow-witted and muscular (but gentle-natured) character in “Thimble Theater” comic strip (starring Popeye) by E.C. Segar (1894-1938). She also was the inspiration for British comedian Spike Milligan’s “The Goon Show.” What are now “juvenile delinquents” were in the 1940s sometimes called goonlets.

  7. Don Gato said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 11:30 am

    I don’t like the name…Actually, I don’t like this “name the defense” stuff; I find it gimmicky and small time. “The Defense” suffices. Although, you could call them “The Wall” and play Pink Floyd’s tune when they take the field; now that would be gimmicky.

  8. fitzhume said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am

    “Inigo Montoya and I both would have preferred “The Brute Squad.””

    I’m on the Brute Squad.

  9. Orangeblood said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 11:42 am

    I like ‘Legion of Boom’.

  10. StregaHorn said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

    ‘Legion of Boom’ is the best I have heard.

  11. raoulduke said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    I liked Big Cock Defense. I think The People’s Elbow coined that.

  12. Hanson Brother said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    What’s wrong with goons?

  13. RomaVicta said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    Hate it. And even the players say they didn’t intend for it to go public. But I can already hear the sportscasters at the game using it and chuckling as though it’s clever. I’d rather go with something ironic. “Sieve of Death.” Or pithy, the “OMG! Defense.” We could chant “L-O-L! L-O-L!” after great plays.

  14. Steve said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 12:43 pm

    Fitz, you are the Brute Squad.

    I like the fact that they have given themselves an identity and can fall back on it in times of duress. That being said, it’s going to be really annoying when the announcers talk about it all the time. The VA Tech lunch pail drives me nuts, and I watch them only by necessity.

  15. HenryJames said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    I’m on the Brute Squad.

    You are the Brute Squad.

  16. RichUT said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    I don’t give a damn what they want to call themselves so long as they keep kicking ass all over the field.

  17. UT wildcatter said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    me too

  18. Bookman said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    He actually said “Poon Squad” but was misheard.

  19. Doperbo said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm

    I always knew that one day, in a glorious act of irony, someone would distill Burnt Orange Hitman Posse into an actual name for the defense.

  20. jon said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    judging by the way we seem to handle other team’s quarterbacks, i’d say the moniker is rather accurate.

  21. AZHorn said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    “I don’t give a damn what they want to call themselves so long as they keep kicking ass all over the field.”

    I’m with you.

  22. j.r.69 said:

    October 25th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    I always favored MASH Rats (Mean As Shit House Rats). Or maybe Big Meanies.

  23. spider said:

    October 26th, 2009 at 6:54 am

    I supposed “Orange Crush” would have gotten the lawyers involved?

    That’s a pity, because I was going to call it Davis’ “Orange Crutch” if that one got going.

    Oh well.

  24. ut755ln said:

    October 26th, 2009 at 7:16 am

    There is a website called somethingawful.com that is a multi topic forum. Memebers of that site have many interest including online gaming and they form guilds, all known as the Goon Squad.

  25. TxTower said:

    October 26th, 2009 at 11:47 am

    But, but.., what about “Branding Iron” ???

    Seriously, if they are finding a cohesive identity its all good no matter how ridiculous the name they call themselves.

    As for me, I will call them the Boom Squad.

  26. lurkerinthedark said:

    October 27th, 2009 at 3:22 am

    Could have been worse…

    The Wild Horns.

    The Rampant Steers.

    Beeves of Pain.

    Although, to maintain the Mafiaesgue overtones, they could simply be The Enforcers.

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