Thaddeus D. Matula
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Emmy & Peabody winner | Director of @ESPN @30for30 ’s PONY EXCESS + BRIAN & THE BOZ + @NFL ’s INDIVISIBLE | @BBC documentarist | @PBS sci fi filmmaker #gratitude
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Who am I? I don't know yet. My life's journey is the answer to that question. What do I do? That one's easier:
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Happy 40th ESB!! This is video from a screening in 1980 — audience reaction to the big reveal:
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Finnish TV — perfectly fine with the F-bombs. If you want to know why they are calling Joel Kiviranta JFK then you can find out right here. Obviously PG-13 for this clip with an F-bomb.
#GoStars
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This guy is lead the charge that eradicated smallpox in 1977. He has the very smart name
@larrybrilliant
and here he is on
#inthebubble
w/
@ASlavitt
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but frankly I also don’t know who doesn’t need to hear this... for the first time since 1985, SMU is the highest ranked team in Texas. Your 18th ranked
@SMU_Football
Mustangs, ladies and gentlemen. Sleep well
#MustangNation
and
#PonyUpDallas
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I like what’s happening in this picture. This is new
@SMU_Football
2021 commit Preston Stone — highest rated player SMU’s landed since the inception of player rating systems — with 2021’s
#1
running back 5 ⭐️ Camar Wheaton. Get in that backfield w/Preston, Camar!!
#PonyUpDallas
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12yrs ago today
#PonyExcess
premiered on ESPN after the Heisman ceremony — the 30th and final of the original 30 films in ESPN’s 30 for 30 series. It was the most watched documentary premier in the network’s history and changed my career and my life forever
#gratitude
#GIF_BUZZ
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“When we got here we had to learn the SWC rules of recruiting. Once we figured them out, we beat ‘em on recruits. Then we beat ‘em on the field with football’s rules. So then… they had to make up new rules.”
— Steve Endicott, SMU off. coord. 1976-81 off camera to me re: SWC foes
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Your
@SMU_Football
Mustangs up to
#15
in the AP Poll... and before I hear any complaining that 5 teams in front of us lost — all we have to do is go 1-0 this week. This ABC game will go a long way in shaping natl. perception. We’re right where we need to be.
#PonyUpDallas
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Sports can be a great teacher. BJ Hill having a teammate’s back while at the same time Ossai at one of the the lowest points in his life realizing it’s a game he gets to play and part of that is talking to the media even if at this point he didn’t have to
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Happy Pony Excess Day, people!!! 12.11.10 — one of the most important days in my life. Grateful for all those who played a role and all of you who have watched. We made this for you
@espn
@30for30
#PonyExcess
#twelveeleventen
#gratitude
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@stevejones20
Yes just watch. How ridiculously in shape do each of these guys need to be in to have this much hustle 42 minutes into the game?!? Also heart. They’ve got it. I like this team. A lot.
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10 years ago today Pony Excess had it’s World Premier at the Lakewood Theater in Dallas, TX. What a gift this life is.
Pictured here are the three grads from Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas at the center of it all.
#PonyExcessAt10Years
#PonyExcess
#ESPN
#30for30
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Gotta say, this was nice.
#2
dual threat quarterback in the 2021 class became the first junior to declare at the
@AABonNBC
—
@_prestonstone
picks
@SMU_Football
over LSU, Texas, USC, and Penn State
#PonyUpDallas
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ESPN needs to start filming "Pony Excess 2" ASAP.
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I’ve been sober for 7+ years. I went to an inpatient facility — it took two different trips to treatment for me two years apart. It was the hardest thing I have ever done. It has been the best thing I have ever done. Good for Coach Monty
#gratitude
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You guys misspelled SMU
The Best College Football Team In Every State
-Right Now
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Your SMU Mustangs are now ranked:
21 in the Coaches Poll
18 in the AP Poll
Your 18th Ranked SMU Mustangs
#PonyUpDallas
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Your SMU Mustangs received 55 votes in the AP Poll and 63 in the Coach’s Poll. They are a relative “28th” and “29th” respectively in the Top 25 polls. Life is good.
#PonyUpDallas
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Still amazed: one of my favorite columns to read each week is published... by Teen Vogue!?!? Thank you
@laurenduca
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Ironic. SMU takes 30 years to get back to relevance just in time for the NCAA to say — “hey, remember what ya’ll boys got in trouble for? Totally legal now. Too bad, huh?”
BREAKING: NCAA will permit athletes to be compensated for their names, images and likenesses, Board of Governors says.
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“Anything for a fan...” SMU’s all-time career leader in touchdowns and all purpose yards made my night after his last home game as a Mustang — and a 10 win season and a perfect record at home for the first time since 1968. He took hundreds of photos with fans... 1 of 2
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The streak is a alive!! ... Paul Layne with 525 straight SMU games
#PonyUpDallas
SMU at Tulane
Total attendance: 1
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Hey
@CollegeGameDay
see you on The Hilltop next week? The 6-0 SMU Mustangs are ready. Dallas is ready. We’re rolling out the red carpet already
#PonyUpDallas
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IT’S ALWAYS SONNY!!!!!! 41-38 Iron Skillet WON!!!
#SMUTCU
#BeatTCU
#TCUBeat
!!!
#GoMustangs
#PonyUpDallas
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@Earthli00950434
@Crypto__Nick
@AndrewGillum
This is a quality gif redux... a gifolution if you will
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I can’t tell you how happy this makes me. The win. 2-0. Plus, like I said last week the players knowing the lyrics (used to be ONLY the band knew those words). And!!! Seeing it again this week. Looking forward to next week’s video
#makeit3
@SMU_Football
#gomustangs
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So it’s Dallas 3 and Philadelphia 0 in the weekend sports battle of Big D vs Philly:
SMU 45
Temple 21
Stars 4
Flyers 1
Cowboys 37
Eagles 10
Dallas... makin’ shady in Philadelphia
#PonyUpDallas
#GoStars
#CowboysNation
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Dear SMU, Back up the Brinks truck to Sonny’s house.
Signed,
All of us
#PonyUpForSonny
#GoMustangs
#PonyExpress
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#portrait
of SMU Super Fan
@paullayne
— he’s been to 516 straight SMU football games. You know what that means? He’s seen a lot of bad football. He deserves this more than most. 📷 tonight at It’s Always Sonny on the Hilltop over at Ozona’s
#gratitude
#ponyupdallas
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Just wanted to give an unsolicited shout out to
@JoeJHoyt
— really enjoying your coverage of my
@SMU_Football
Mustangs this year! Keep up the great work/coverage. Thank you!!!
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I’m ending my night with a post-game quote from TCU’s Head Coach Gary Patterson, “I'm going to just say this, you should give SMU all the credit."
Onward.
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Down goes Boise — SMU in the driver’s seat for the Cotton Bowl... a **lot** of season left to play but this is unreal. Just need to go 1-0
#PonyUpDallas
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👊🏼
Court has the right of it. Plus, I mean we’re 8-1... that’s pretty awesome. And speaking of receivers how good was Rashee Rice tonight? The future is bright!
#WRU
#PonyUpDallas
Still rocking with my boys until the end! They will have a strong bounce back and I can’t wait to see it!
#PonyUp
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I’ve heard some [warranted] moaning about where we are ranked. Hey you know what? This beats the hell out of any other 12th/13th week of the college football season in 30+ years. How awesome is it that we get to be distraught about where we are ranked?!?
#PonyUpDallas
#gratitude
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9-1 and ranked 20 in the AP but not even ranked in the second week of the College Football Playoff Poll? Insult? Yes. Motivation? Absolutely.
#PonyUpDallas
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EVERYONE
#PonyUpDallas
— hearing rumblings that we’re close on this, tweet, retweet get the word out... The Hilltop and Dallas, we’re ready.
Hey
@CollegeGameDay
see you on The Hilltop next week? The 6-0 SMU Mustangs are ready. Dallas is ready. We’re rolling out the red carpet already
#PonyUpDallas
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The head coach of your 4-0 SMU Mustangs. Let’s make that number behind him a 12, okay? + A couple bonus pictures from the football office.
#portrait
#a7riii
#voigtlander40mmf12
#PonyUpDallas
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SMU at Memphis. ESPN College GameDay — then tune in for the game on ABC in primetime with Fowler & Herbie. It’s good to be a Mustang.
#PonyUpDallas
@SMU_Football
@CollegeGameDay
@KirkHerbstreit
@cbfowler
@MemphisFB
Hey Memphis ... THE WAIT IS OVER! WE'RE COMING TO YOUR CITY!
@SMU_Football
vs.
@MemphisFB
. See you Saturday!
(📍
@HomeDepot
)
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How can you not love James Proche? He’s the type of player any program would want and SMU so rarely has had. A guy who genuinely wants to be where he is, to be great, and to make a mark for his school and his community.
#Channel3
@jamesproche3
"I want to be remembered as a winner."
WR James Proche reflects on his
@SMU_Football
career as it comes to a close. |
@SamBlum3
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For the 3rd week in a row... and again... I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. The players know the words and they are singing it with pride. I might tear up a little. Celebrate!! 3-0 for the first time since ‘84...
#ItsAlwaysSonny
#PonyUpDallas
#MustangsOfSMU
#gratitude
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Hey
@CollegeGameDay
see you on the Hilltop next week? The 6-0 SMU Mustangs are ready. Dallas is ready. We’ll rolling out the red carpet already
#PonyUpDallas
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Just arrived in St. Louis tonight and it yet again returns me to thoughts of
@sarahkendzior
’s The View from Flyover Country. Not to be missed. (Audible version is read by the author.)
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Big game tonight at SMU!! Biggest in 10 years. The Mustangs are in first in their division, at home, but are not favored tonight against Memphis who also controls their own fate in terms of a conf. championship. Tonight. 8PM. ESPN 2. I’m headed up. If you are in Dallas
#FillFord
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Looks like this Tweet has a chance to come true after all!
#PonyUp
#GoMustangs
I like what’s happening in this picture. This is new
@SMU_Football
2021 commit Preston Stone — highest rated player SMU’s landed since the inception of player rating systems — with 2021’s
#1
running back 5 ⭐️ Camar Wheaton. Get in that backfield w/Preston, Camar!!
#PonyUpDallas
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I used to think that the day would never come
I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun
My morning sun is the...
MUSTANGS IN THE TOP 25!!!!
#GoMustangs
#PonyUpDallas
#Top25
#APPoll
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“New Boulevard Collective to pay SMU athletes $3.5 million annually through NIL” —
@On3sports
Looks like an immediate follow up article is needed
@ChrisVannini
And — sequel time
@30for30
?
(h/t
@FQ_SMU
for the meme)
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@thefemmethotbox
Be proud. I’m proud of you.
And, relapse is a part of recovery. We can’t use it as the excuse to relapse, but once relapsed we must let go of the shame and not let the relapse be proof of our inability to ever fully commit to surrendering our will and finding lasting recovery.
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Well, it was a helluva run... anyway, still have a chance at a conference championship
#PonyUpDallas
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National Reaction: SMU head coach Chad Morris is a "freaking wizard" | Dallas Morning News
http://t.co/6bvCxQYUFE
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Okay, okay, okay... I’ll throw my hat in the ring for head coach of my beloved
@SMU_Football
Mustangs. I promise to combine my
@30for30
‘s and bring the guy below with me as my defensive coordinator... my Secretary of Defense, if you will:
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I don’t like how much Razorback news gets on my Twitter feed. I don’t mind seeing Ark stuff from people I follow, but the Twitter algorithms keep sending me bonus info, not just when someone I follow likes something, but because someone I follow follows an account
#SMUfanproblems
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Pony Up
SMU gets the biggest piece in its 2022 recruiting class: four-star Southlake Carroll TE RJ Maryland commits to the Mustangs.
“It’s the better school for me. I get to start my own legacy.”
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Never have I been as dejected after a as thorough of a victory as I was today — a 59-14 trouncing. Losing Preston Stone left me gutted. I’m recovered now… but man. The dude had just hit his stride and threw for 275 yds IN THE 1St Q!!?! We’ll be fine with Kevin Jennings next
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Boy this transfer portal is really paying off. We’re all really excited by TE Grob Ronkowski strapping on that Mustang helmet next year!
#PonyUpDallas
@RobGronkowski
Everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon, even
@RobGronkowski
! Thanks for hanging at
@SMU
today!!
#PonyUpDallas
🔴🐴⬆️🔵
#BeatTemple
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I was asked if I was worried whether
@CoachDykesSMU
was going to leave for the Baylor job or the Wazzu opening — I said I wasn’t worried at all. He’s a man who realizes that he’s as right for us as we are for him. Read for yourself.
#PonyUpDallas
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Look at that beautiful crowd!!
.
@SMU_Football
homecoming was awesome. Stressful game, but seeing that many
#PonyUpDallas
fans turn out was truly special. Ford Stadium never looked so good and I’m so proud. My alma mater is doing an excellent job 🐴 ⬆️
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I approve of his workout stadium choice.
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Tony Romo made me believe in a glory of modern pro football || Tony Romo Isn't Going Anywhere via
@bleacherreport
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I’d personally like you to stay
@CoachDykesSMU
, but even if not just as ‘a favor to me’… seems like there are some people committed to your — and the program’s — future here in Big D
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Your
@SMU_Football
Mustangs are
#21
in the
@AP_Top25
,
#19
in in the Coaches… and
#1
in my heart.
Let’s keep it rolling
@CoachDykesSMU
!!
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I spy a me!
・・・
@SMU_Football
Insta post from late in the game:
Stay. Tuned. In.
#PonyUpDallas
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Free-spending boosters once killed the SMU football program. Four decades later could they propel it back to the big time? Money is no object.
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Your
@SMU_Football
Mustangs are at
#23
in both polls
#PonyUpDallas
#GoMustangs
#PonyExpress
#APTop25
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This sequence is so great you need all the angles. Side note, I love that Seven Nation Army was playing in the arena at this point in the proceedings. As
@MFollowill
said on the broadcast “BoomshakaLuka!” … BoomshakaLuka indeed, Mark Followill
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It’s Wednesday in Dallas… and local sports radio, including and esp. the Dallas sports station of record
@dfwticket
, is still abuzz about the
@SMU_Football
game this past Saturday. Great work plates. Great work coaches. Great work creative team.
#TheyTookAStepBack
#PonyUpDallas
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I’ve been waiting for what’s coming since, say, the afternoon of February 25th, 1987
Cue up 1986’s Big Time by Peter Gabriel
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Yesterday was 6 years sober for me. If you are suffering or know someone who is, there is hope. Gratitude. Always gratitude. Thrilled to be spending this anniversary shooting moving pictures for a cool new project.
#gratitude
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Take a moment to meet Nate Boyer
@NateBoyer37
— He’s special dude with an incredible story.
#gratitude
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