Oh boy! Now it's the Sooners and academics...
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don't know if you knew it or not, but Oklahoma University has the ability to spin up cyclones that accidentally tears down buildings from time to time.
We (I) appreciate your presence here. Some of the best discussions we've had over the years here have been with rival fans who had a sincere desire to analyze the teams and game objectively. I have been surprised by some of the remarks I've read by OU fans, and, most of all by the "administrator." I don't think I saw that kind of ignorance the last several times we played. The newer OU boards do not, IMO, improve the OU fan base image...
Local Oklahoma Radio station in OKC and Tulsa...'The Franchise' 107.7...The Morning Show...One of the crew stated that Alabama was full of morons and inbreds...This as I was driving to work...Yes, I live in Oklahoma. My license tag Proudly states..."ALABAMA" for all to see! They can be really, really irritating.
I have to say, having been stationed in the Sooner state, Oklahoma sort of lives in a glass house on that score. Oklahoma has some beautiful scenery and there are fine people in Oklahoma, but that state has its seedier side as well. And some of the inhabitants are, shall we say, "colorful."
I went to the OU-K State Big 12 championship in Arrowhead on 2003, fully expecting the Sooners to spank K State. Filing into the stadium, every ten seconds someone would yell "Boomer!" and the inevitable replies echoed across the stadium. K State won 35-7. The Sooner fans were a bit more subdued on the way out of the stadium.
Depending on the status of the lawsuit to convert the whole eastern part of the state back to a Indian reservation, that "Boomer-Sooner" call could ring hollow...
I'm half Cherokee and just fine with this if it does, thanks for posting it (seriously).Depending on the status of the lawsuit to convert the whole eastern part of the state back to a Indian reservation, that "Boomer-Sooner" call could ring hollow...
That will be interesting.
Before contact with Europeans, the native bands living in what is now Oklahoma were Wichitas, Caddos, Plains Apaches* (currently the Apache Tribe), and the Quapaws. The federal government took the land from them and sold it to the Five Civilized Nations (Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws and Seminoles). Who owns that land? I am not sure, but unraveling that knot is going to be difficult.
Maybe the University Formerly of Oklahoma (UFO?), can become the University of North Texas. Oops. That one is already taken. UFO it is, I suppose.
I lost some relatives to the Trail. My GGP Self were born in Bear's Village, Cherokee Territory, near present day Guntersville, AL, in 1822 and 1828...
Out of curiosity I went over to "DirtBurgler" and read the thread titled "TideFans.com" they have posted. May or may not be the norm but seems a few respect our forum and the general poster knowledge. Many others don't care for our forum rules and view us as toothless inbred hicks who can't use simple math to determine our number of championships, among many other flaws.
Why can't they just talk about the game and express opinion and expectations?
JEEZ!
Why can't they just talk about the game and express opinion and expectations?
JEEZ!
It's just a case of "boys, behaving badly" (and being egged on by their peers). Not one out of a hundred knows that the NCAA recognizes 15 of the total. (They recognize champion and co-champions named by any reputable organization in the pre-poll era.) The disparagers are generally too lazy to do any research...
You know I got curious and did a little digging. The states are neck and neck in per capita income, with OK coming in at 37th and Alabama at 40th. (I'm sure both would like to be higher.) OTOH, OK has nothing to match Huntsville's high tech center (2nd or 3rd in the country, depending on how you count), nothing to match Birmingham's medical complex and Alabama is the country's fastest gainer in auto-manufacturing jobs, and easily in the top ten. OK counters with the same linchpin - petroleum. If I had to make a bet on which state would be ahead in 20 years, my money would be on Alabama...
The last time i checked - and it's been a while, the NCAA recognized Alabama with 21 or so titles. (counting 2017, it is 21: http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/2017/FBS.pdf)
The only one that Alabama claims that is in any real dispute is 1941. That's another argument for another day.
Any other dispute with those claimed is really just sour grapes. Period.
If I counted correctly, the NCAA recognizes 14 for OU. They claim seven, including 1950.
Every school has its own criteria for claiming titles and every fan base seems to think their way is superior.
I've been duck hunting on Lake Guntersville. What a spectacular place! I was shocked by how many different species of duck fly into that area.
Yes. We're primarily Mississippi Flyway, but we get a little of everything. Thanksgiving, my wife had a cold a little too bad to drive from Huntsville over to Decatur to my nephew's house for the celebration. My daughter drove me over. She's a very serious birder who lives most of the time in the SF Bay area. As we drove over the causeway, short of the Decatur bridge, she starts shouting "Bufflehead, Bufflehead!" "I can't believe I saw a Bufflehead." My response was to get her eyes back on the road...
Northeast Alabama is actually very mountainous but you are right about Lake Guntersville and the Tennessee River—it’s beautiful. Look me up the next time you’re here, I’m only 35 miles away.
My dad and I were fishing on Guntersville lake and we ran out of gas right at dusk. I was scared to death because I was 5 years old and it was very dark! My mom was to say the least was really PO'd when we finally got back to the dock. We had a big mess of fish and I never realized that my dad had drank a mess of beer! My mom realized it however.
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