A junkie speaks, volume 2 (UPDATE!)

First of all, I cannot tell you how happy I am to see -- for the second year in a row -- the two Oklahoma schools battle for the Big 12 Title.

It does not look good for the Sooners, to be sure (they are trailing 24-3 at the half) but the thing you have to know about Bedlam (as this series is called) is that the Sooners always get the calls in this series, and that the Sooners own the Cowboys.

I really want the Sooners to win but I am not going to be heartbroken if that does not happen.

Good for the Cowboys, for once, right?

(But, I bet if you talk to any serious OSU fan right now, up 24-3, they are still freaking out.  It is like the Red Sox v Yankees before the down three love miracle.)

I still wear my #22 jersey with pride.  Tonight.  Even if the Sooners go to the crummy Holiday Bowl, I am still proud.

It is not over yet.  Yeah, it pretty much is.

And kudos to the frickin Cowboys if they win.  

They deserve it.  What have they won in football? Pretty much nothing.  Oklahoma State is a basketball/wrestling school.

Pistol Pete or Boomer Sooner, the world will be alright tomorrow.

(Plus, Baylor beat the 'Horns.  Ha ha ha.)

I will give you an update later.

Kisses,
Ardent

Boomer!

Sooner!

UPDATE! It is over, folks.  All congrats to the Cowboys who frickin whooped the Sooners tonight.

Their first (Cowboys) Big 12 Title.  Have fun in the Fiesta Bowl.

The Sooners are headed to some bowl like the Holiday.

It is all okay in the universe.

Kisses,
xxxoooxxx

A junkie speaks: (Updated x 3!)

So, I get home, and Oregon is getting waxed by USC.  Stanford lost.  Oklahoma St lost (gosh, I feel bad for them.)  And the Sooners are in a dogfight with Baylor.  (I cannot watch this game, I am following it on what our family calls, "tap tap" i.e. the computer.

Really? This is what the College Football Gods want? A rematch of the "Game of the Century", the most boring college football game evah, or to see LSU obliterate the Sooners for the Title?

For the record, there are no College Football Gods.  There are baseball Gods, however, and they are capricious, vengeful bastards, that often reward the nastiest of folks.

-Ardent

PS:  I'll keep you posted.

AH

UPDATE:  Sooners trail by one touchdown late in the third (I am not too concerned, yet.)  I am more concerned that the Ducks are creeping closer to the (hated) Trojans.  Ick.  (It is like rooting for the Yankees.)

More soon.

UPDATE x 2:  The world is returning to normal.  Sooners really in a hole now.  Oregon has a chance to tie or win, late in 4th.

Final update, prob v soon.

UPDATE x 3:  Oregon loses.  The Sooners are within one TD.  Less than six minutes left.  Is there some Sooner Magic available?

I have bashed Bruce Jenkins enough (UPDATED w/ the good newspaper version quote!)

Times to be honest and give him his due when he is right.  (And I have never had any problem with his writing style.) 

No one wants to play with you anymore.  You are such a pain in the arse.

And in his most recent 3-Dot Lounge column of Saturday, Nine, Twenty-four, he is most righteously right.  Unfortunately the link I am about to give you here is a shortened version of the newsprint bloggy column, but I have saved that and will update later. 

Basically, Randy Galloway is also right, all "Texas does is greed." 

The Longhorns are about to destroy their second conference in as many decades.  I, and many others, are sick of their arrogance and greed and smugness. 

I wish the Sooners and OSU would just leave the frickin' Big 12 (9?), join the SEC, and let Texas play Baylor and Tech and Rice over and over and over again, watching endless replays of these pointless contests on their Elite Network, alone.  In the basement, with a bag of chips, and a Mountain Dew. 

Ugh.

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UPDATE:  Here is the rest of what Jenkins had to say, from the complete newspaper edition of his 3-Dot Lounge column (9/24/11):

"As Randy Galloway wrote in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 'Texas doesn't do equality.  It does greed.' ... That includes the competitive angle, as well.  In a weakened and vulnerable Big 12, Texas has a better chance to dominate than if placed in a 16-team conference including USC, Oregon and Stanford ... One of the great athletic universities in the country, Oklahoma, has been made to look foolish in all this.  How we'd love to see the Sooners smoke Texas- say, 38-3- at the Cotton Bowl in two weeks ... Texas' opulent network comes in a massive conflict-of-interest partnership with ESPN.  What if the 'Horns break a few recruiting laws and come under investigation? Does ESPN ignore the story?"

Jenkins goes on to talk about Jayhawk basketball, too.  You have really got to feel for them, as well.  I agree with Jenkins.  Imagine Kansas in the ACC (?!).  That would be a basketball Super-Conference.

Bedlam delivers.

Sooners make Pistol Pete cry again.  

What a fantastic college football game last night in Stillwater.  You gotta feel for the Cowboys.  Let us see, the Cowboys run back a kick for a TD w/ about two minutes left in the game, have one of college football's plays of the year (that amazing tag-team interception), put up forty-one points and still lose the game!  Always the bridesmaid.  This was their best chance in ages and the Sooners rained all over their parade.  


Of course, I did not get to DVR this game because I live on the left coast.  I got the pissing down rain snoozefest, also known as Notre Dame/USC.  Ugh.  Oh well, I'm sure ESPN will replay the game soon.

Meanwhile, in the twelve years Bob Stoops has been at OU, this will be the eighth (and last) time that the Sooners have represented the Big Twelve South in the Big 12 Championship Game.  Big Game Bob has never lost the Big 12 Championship game, either.  But we all know what happened last time the Sooners played at the Cowboys new Enormodome.  


Way to go Sooners.  Sorry OSU fans, Longhorn fans, A&M fans.