Football!!!!

As long as I can remember Saturdays in the fall mean college football.  And as passionate as my parents are about football, so am I. And my team is the Oklahoma Sooners. We have a saying, us Okies with a passion for OU football. It's "Sooner born, Sooner bred, and when I die, I'll be Sooner dead!"  Well, I got at least the first one right! HA! Sorry honey!!! :-) Yes I married an OSU alumni, and football Saturdays can get pretty interesting to say the least.  But, this weekend marks probably the biggest rivalry in college football history. It's always played this weekend, and up until this year, always played at the Cotton Bowl Stadium smack dab in the middle of the Texas State Fair. Yep, it's the Red River Rivalry, also refferd to the Red River Showdown, or better yet, the OU vs. Texas game.  The game that has always defined the Big XII South contender. The game that sometimes means more than the National Championship. It's make it or break it. Yes, OU dropped 2 spots, yes, Texas has climbed the rankings, but as a fellow OU fan we all know that being ranked #1 can be a curse! So I say, farewell #1. I welcome #3, I'm glad the BCS thinks Texas is good enough to rank #11 or whatver it is.  Because come Saturday, Texas will be all but yet another sour word spilled all over the college football world.  Can you tell I'm not a Texas fan!!!!

So why all the hype associated with this game, you might ask?  If you have ever been privileged enough to attend an OU/TX game, then you know all too well why all the hype. The field is split in half, not at the goal lines but at the 50 yard line.  High school buddies become bitter enemies, husbands and wives force children to pick a side, and if you choose wrong, rest assured you will be disinherited! No, it may not get that bad, but trust me.....it could!  Oh and did I mention the food!!??!!  Yes, it's a state fair, and the further south you go to state fairs you know the more fried the foods get.  I mean really, chicken fried bacon, deep-fried pig ears, if you've heard of it, chances are it's been fried!  But back to the rivalry, football is big in the south, and a years worth of bragging rights is on the line. Not to mention the fact that when you by chance come in contact with that fan from the opposite team, you get to throw the fact that we, OU, beat them!!!!
Enjoy game day!

BOOMER!!!!!...........SOONER!!!!!
Julie

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