According to an article posted on the official University of Texas football website, the University of Texas football coaching staff participates in a proper etiquette dinner for the Texas football players instructed by Mary Ellen Oliver, former director of special events at the university.
The etiquette dinner gives incoming freshman and current football players an opportunity to learn proper etiquette for various situations.
"We learned a lot of valuable information that I really didn't even know," WR Marquise Goodwin said. "You can use the skills we learned tonight during bowl games, important dinners, or even when you take your girlfriend out on a date."
A team of young men who are aggressive on the field and polite off the field reflects well on Texas Longhorns football program.
When the Longhorns leave the stadium on San Jacinto Street and go their separate paths the way they conduct themselves reflects back on The University of Texas and its championship winning football program’s reputation.
The etiquette dinner has been a tradition in the Texas football program for 13 years when Coach Brown started it in 1998 in hopes of teaching his players the importance of manners.
"Coach Brown's theory was that he wanted his players to be able to go out in the world and be successful in whatever they did." said Oliver, who has taught the etiquette dinner since its beginning.
By implementing this dinner, Brown is insuring that the Longhorn’s gentle giants are also gentlemen.
This is pretty cool. Did you know that football players take ballet too? Ha Ha.
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