He provides a good insight for us to laugh at.

And say that you were wrong?

Texas wins, it will be 3 out of 4 buddy ; )
2005, 2006 and 2008

I’m willing to bet you’ll be crying like a little boy when the game is over.

the Whorns will not be able to keep up with Bradford and his crew of recievers. And Mcoy will not be able to run thru Granger, English, Beal, McCoy, Clayton,Lewis and company. Think about it? The Whorns have no running attack at all. We are NOT UTEP, Florida Atlantic or the other cupcakes your team has played this year. We are not over confident and realize that neither records or rankings mean anything in game, however we do take this seriously and will win.

After the Sooners win please. You probably won’t though because you are all talk and no substance and certainly not a man if you don’t come back after Texas gets it handed to them.

If Oklahoma’s #1 ranking is a joke and Texas loses to them then the Longhorns shouldn’t be in the Top 25, right? However, if the Longhorns win then they shouldn’t move up in the polls either because, after all, is was a joke that Oklahoma was #1 anyway.

You see how your own ignorant and stupid logic hurts your team. That is why I’m willing to bet Texas fans would just rather you keep quiet.

Because it drives Texas fans nuts!

The OU-Texas game has been going on for years, and has been huge for many of them. The game itself is unique in that it’s played on a neutral field, yadda, yadda. The game itself started more because it was a short train ride, and local than any other reason.

But it goes beyond just football. After WW2 Oklahoma, was still reeling from the dust bowl and depression in the 30’s, we were the poor cousins of America. “Okie” was a slang term basically meaning poor trash from Oklahoma. Texas was a big rich oil school, and treated the OU fans like 2nd class losers, and face it, OU wasn’t exactly the football reputation that Texas had at that point. The then president of OU and the Governor of Oklahoma decided that one positive they could do for the image of Oklahoma was to build a football powerhouse. They built facilities, payed money to have coaches (granted it was Tatum, who left, but left us that guy Bud Wilkerson). There is nothing like building a rivalry than playing a school, that looks down there noses at you!

Then in the 60’s OU was a little down, and the head coach of Texas was?…an OU grad that OU offered the head coaching job 3 times and was rebuffed 3 times, Darryl Royal. Finally OU hired Barry Switzer and didn’t offer Royal the job, which pissed him off…not sure why as he had turned down the job 3 times before, and even more slighting to Royal…no one consulted him on the job either. Switzer really recruited the black athlete, when Royal didn’t want too and Barry was the first one to have so many blacks that we consider common today.. There was a lot of bad blood, as Royal was old school establishment, and highly respected, and Barry…we was a loud mouth, brash upstart….who copied Texas’s wishbone, and took all these kids out of Texas. (trivia question. What was the last college football team to win a national championship, with an all white offensive starting backfield?….A: Texas in 68)

So you are asking why is Texas our rival?…state bragging rights? no…that’s Oklahoma State. Conference rival? that goes to Nebraska and the big 6, Big 8 days. Texas was always more…it was pride, winning against a program whose fans and coaches thought Oklahoma, the state the University and it’s citizens weren’t as “good” as they were, in such an amazing Cotton Bowl split 50/50. The upside down horn? just a symbol of that rivalry. Same as you having the line “Give ’em hell, give ’em hell! OU sucks!” in your fight song “Texas Fights”

Side note: All the Southwest conference schools had hand signs, like “hook ’em”, or “gig ’em” or the Tech pistols or the Baylor bear claw, or the Horned frog, or the SMU pony ears. Since OU was so close to those schools, we had to have one too….the #1 finger in the air!