The trash came raining down Saturday at Texas Tech.
Water bottles. Tortillas. A vape. A beer bottle.
Much of it ended up on the sideline of the Colorado Buffaloes before they beat Tech, 41-27, in another big road win for one of the most upstart teams in college football. The Buffs (7-2) now control their own destiny in their bid to win the Big 12 Conference championship.
“They were throwing everything but my mama at me,” Colorado coach Deion Sanders said afterward.
Sanders shrugged it off for the most part, noting that he once played pro baseball and football, where the crowd sometimes had thrown batteries onto the field. Sanders also knew that Tech fans like to throw tortillas on the field, since that’s been a long-time tradition at games in Lubbock.
“But when they start throwing the water bottles and those other objects, that’s when you’ve got to alarm the officials, and say, `OK now, tortillas are one thing, but water bottles are another thing,” Sanders said. “That’s getting a little crazy.”
Texas Tech coach said it was ‘taking it too far’
At one point early in the fourth quarter, Tech coach Joey McGuire even took the microphone to address the home crowd of 60,229.
“Stop throwing stuff on the field!” McGuire told them early in the fourth quarter.
Afterward, he expressed relief it wasn’t worse.
“I got a vape brought over to me. I got a water bottle brought over to me. I got a beer bottle brought over to me,” McGuire said. “It’s great with tortillas and everything like that, but we got really lucky that we didn’t get a 15-yard penalty.”
He said Tech fans are “absolutely incredible, but when you get to that point, you know, that’s taking it too far.”
Yet Colorado didn’t seem to mind too much. Actually, they like such hostility. This was the Buffs’ fourth straight win on the road….
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