"I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?"
- N. Bonaparte
"What if I told you that instead of gettin' older, I was gettin' younger than everybody else?"
- B. Button
On a Thanksgiving night when the Longhorns desperately needed to turn over a new leaf if they were going to hang on to bowl eligibility, a couple of familiar refrains forced their way to the fore.
The first was this year's strain of buzzard luck that blew past "somebody broke a mirror" and transcended "the staff angered an old Gypsy woman" to land firmly in the territory of "Charlie broke into one of those ancient, pointy Egyptian granaries and disturbed a Pharoah at rest.