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Post by nmsooner80 on Jul 15, 2011 12:19:32 GMT -7
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Post by nmsooner80 on Jul 17, 2011 12:07:44 GMT -7
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Post by crispysdad on Jul 17, 2011 19:56:20 GMT -7
Thanks for the article nmsooner80! The Owen Field board at OUinsider used to be my "go to" Sooner board. It was a great board! But that was BEFORE it went to The 247. Since it went to The 247 it has done nothing but go straight down hill. My new home as far as Sooner message boards is concerned is at landthieves.com . I really like landthieves, I spend almost as much time there as I do on this board, but not quite. Thanks again for the post! Funny thing.......I have only been a Sooner fan for a couple of years, just since Landry went there, but even in that short amount of time I have learned to completely despise/hate the OSU fan base. Funny how that works. Talk about an entitlement mentality! What a bunch of goobers! Nothing personal J-Dogg, you are still my favorite OSU Cowboy fan!
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Post by nmsooner80 on Jul 18, 2011 13:40:03 GMT -7
You learned quickly, grasshopper!
I grew up in a Sooner household, but my folks didn't hate OSU (then). In fact, they'd get mad at my brother and me because we didn't like the Pokes. They were both from smaller towns in Oklahoma, so a lot of their classmates went to what was then Oklahoma A&M (it became OSU the year after I was born).
I got my fill of the Orange back in '74, in the fall of my junior year of high school. A friend of mine wasn't an OSU fan, but his sister went to school there. She bought her family a block of tickets and said her younger brother could bring a friend. I accepted the invitation, but only because OU wasn't playing a home game - and my mom was then an OU grad student and had her own season ticket set for us.
My friend and I rode up to Stillwater with his sister's boyfriend, and we met them at a McDonald's near the OSU campus. Every bit of artwork on the walls there was depicting Pistol Pete doing awful things to the now-defunct OU mascot, Little Red. I knew that the OU-area McDonald's only had artwork of ex-Sooners and had nothing to do with bashing OSU.
Then we got to the stadium, which was Lewis Field back then. They were getting ready to play Colorado, but you'd have assumed they were playing OU, if you didn't know better. All the "spirit signs" ringing the playing field were anti-OU, and their students did that for the TV cameras.
Then, right after the game started in Stillwater, the OU-Kansas game kicked off in Lawrence. KU scored a fluke TD to take a 7-0 lead. When they announced the score in Stilly, the place went nuts. I had the game in my ear (transistor radio with small earpiece), so I knew that KU had scored first. OU rolled the Beakers eventually, but I couldn't help but notice that the PA guy at Lewis Field quit giving scores once OU started rolling.
Fittingly enough, OSU's players also seemed to be distracted by the anti-OU atmosphere. They were favored that day, but got ripped by CU, 37-20 (and it was 37-12 before they scored in the final seconds). A couple of weeks later, the Pokes also rolled over and died for an underdog Iowa State team, because it was the week before "Bedlam." Back then, it was the surest win possible for an OSU opponent - to catch them the week before they played OU.
I also went to both games in Stillwater as a student at OU. It's the only place you could go to a game, win 61-28 or 38-7, and leave angry. That had to do with things like seeing Billy Sims' minor ankle injury cheered as he limped off the field.
Even this past season, when they were so cocky before the Bedlam 2010 game up there, their fans got bent out of shape if there was any kind of positive OU coverage in the on-line edition. One article on DeMarco Murray emphasized how versatile he was as a college tailback. So naturally some Aggy posted below the article that the Daily Oklahoman must be trying to imply that OSU didn't have anyone who was also versatile.
And even with every scribe in that area picking them to win, they still insist that the Oklahoma City / Tulsa media types are conspiring to boost OU and to "keep OSU down." That's truly laughable.
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