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Your A-List: Best local sports team
Having three major professional sports teams’ affiliates in town (Toros, Stars, Express) is a pretty sweet coup for our little town. But let’s face it, one team reigns supreme here: the University of Texas Longhorns football team, winner of the Your A-List poll, with 48 percent of the vote. Two Heisman Trophy winners (Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams), four national titles (with a possible fifth on the way) and a string of beloved players (Tommy Nobis, Bobby Layne, James Street, Vince Young, Cedric Benson, James Brown, Major Applewhite and Colt McCoy, to name a few) are just part of the enduring legacy of one of the winningest college football teams of all time. Whether you fall in the camp of those who complain that the coach gets paid too much, or are more likely to lose your mind over a local sports columnist not putting one of their own atop his Heisman ballot, it’s safe to say you have an opinion on the Horns. They may not be the only game in now, but they’re certainly the most discussed, beloved and watched.
Others receiving votes: Texas Stars 31 percent, Austin Toros 9 percent, Texas State football 3 percent, Round Rock Express 3 percent, UT men’s basketball 3 percent, UT baseball 1 percent, UT softball 1 percent, UT women’s basketball < 1 percent
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By Dan
December 22, 2009 12:39 PM | Link to this
Last I looked Austin was like in the top 20 of populated cities in America…so I am not sure how much of a coup it is that we have minor league teams and not a major league team. We are bigger than many cities that have pro teams in all 3 major sports. I think the city has just been happy being a UT city. I am fine with that too as I am a huge UT fan but it is no coup for a city as large as us to have minor league teams.