Becca :)🌻

I love: dogs, baseball, ice cream, texas a&m, taylor swift, target, s’mores, naps, george strait, dr pepper, sandwiches, laughing, coffee, tacos, the sky

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

Haynes King was willing to die in order to win the Hall of Fame game and I love him for that.

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

4 more Saturdays⏳

[Today In TV History @tvhistorytoday]

August 8, 2008 - The Beijing Olympics kicked off with a spectacular four-hour opening ceremony on NBC-TV.

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

The Romans would marvel at this

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

5 more Saturdays⏳

[Texas A&M Aggies 👍 @12thMan]

For the first time since 2021, the Red, White & Blue Game returns when @AggieFootball hosts Arizona State.

[Savannah Bananas @TheSavBananas]

Come on, ride on the magic school bus!

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

6 more Saturdays⏳

[ESPN @espn]

THE AUSL MAKES SOFTBALL HISTORY 👏

This is the first-ever professional softball game to be televised on broadcast TV!

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

Some news you deserve to hear from me

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

Maroon suit. Maroon tie. Maroon pocket square. Texas A&M lapel pin.

That's my QB.

[Andy Staples @AndyStaples]

Reporter: “How do you keep your players from being satisfied?”

Texas A&M coach Mike Elko: “I show them our trophy case, and it’s empty.”

[dank @cptdankkk]

Jason Sudeikis says Ted Lasso started as just a commercial for the Premier League before both NBC and Netflix passed on it, and Apple said yes

“NBC Sports got the rights for the Premier League back in 2013. An ad company came to me with five ideas. One was a football coach coaches soccer. This was like May of 2013”

“I was like, okay, can I bring two friends. They came over. We had the laptop open and just wrote out beats for ideas. We knew we were going to have two days. We were going to shoot it in London. It was one of those moments where I was just in a flow state”

“We go over there and make the commercial. It's a multi million dollar campaign. We did not write a script. We have no script. The ad company did, but we were only using little pieces of it. I came up with the name Ted Lasso. I was just like, what about Ted Lasso. I liked the idea of a first name and a noun”

“It was a little short film. It was three and a half minutes. It was just a commercial for the Premier League on NBC Sports. Here's a couple hundred grand to make this commercial. The commercial does so well with football fans, soccer fans, comedy people”

“Then we enjoyed doing it so much that we were like, hey, can we do another one. They said, yes, but we don't have the budget we had last year, so we can't fly you over there. The whole premise of the commercial is Ted Lasso gets hired by Tottenham Hotspur and then gets fired three days later because he doesn't know what he's doing”

“Then we did the second one. That's where the show idea came from. Ted gets hired, gets fired, but isn't mad at anybody. He falls in love with soccer, falls in love with London, and now he's living back in New York, waking up at 7 am to watch Premier League games, driving a Mini Cooper. All these silly jokes”

“We sit around for a week and wrote for three days. So many good ideas came out that in three days we had six episodes figured out. Joe had written a spit draft of the pilot, which was about 85% of what we ended up doing. That was 2015. Then it just sat there for years”

“Then it wasn’t until, Bill Lawrence had an idea for a show he wanted me to do that wasn't the right fit. I said, me and my friends have this. I handed him the stack, and he read it. Yeah, there's a lot of good ideas there”

“NBC passed on it. We went to all the people. NBC, Netflix. But it makes sense. Nobody knows, it's just an idea. And Apple was like, yeah, let's do it”

[Texas A&M Baseball @AggieBaseball]

Nico Partida named to the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team 👏🇺🇸

[ESPN @espn]

Breaking: Folarin Balogun will be available to play in USA's Round of 16 match against Belgium on Monday, FIFA announced.

The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has suspended the red card issued to the USA striker during their Round of 32 win over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[Barstool Texas A&M @BarstoolTexasAM]

Mike Elko effect

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Continental Congress HAS SIGNED A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! 

The UNITED STATES are OFFICIALLY INDEPENDENT from BRITAIN.

LIBERTY BELLS ring out throughout Philadelphia; the streets ERUPT IN ECSTASY.