Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

That is correct. Not all Oklahomans are Sooners. Only the best qualify.
 

Well. That will teach me to violate my own this-here-blog-is-a-sooner-free-zone policy! ;-)
 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....
 

My two sisters, my brother, my mother, my aunt, three of my cousins and an uncle all have degrees ranging from bachelors to masters to Ph.ds from OU. My niece just started school there. She will be the third generation to go there in our family. And we all agree on one thing...it's going to be a long footbal season..:)
 

ER, I was an NC State fan (for obvious reasons), until I got married. Since then I must nessecarilly pull for the Fla. State Seminoles (for obvious reasons as well). (Although I am wearing an NCSU ball cap right this minute...)
GO NOLES!
I never went to college anywhere, although I always wanted to go somewhere for something...
Just wasn't in the cards.
I am very jealous of all of you guys who have paperwork to prove your educational prowess...
I got my education the hard way.
I have a BA degree from the National University of Hard Knocks, and a Masters from the College of Real Life.
Doesn't earn me a lot of credibility in the academic world, however...
 

By the way, I just got through watching the Patriots beat the socks off of the Raiders, 30 to 20.
I was pulling for the Raiders, and I still believe that they are a team to watch this NFL season.
Oh, well...
(I know that your post was about College football, but I have a newfound interest in the game, whoever is playing...)
 

Tug, I get what you are saying, but make no mistakes about it. Getting my college education was damned hard work and I earned those pieces of paper with the letters on them. I know E.R. did too, and everyone else I know that had the privilege of going to college. It IS a privilege, but it's not just handed to us either.
 

I realize that, Trixie, and never intended to minimize your, Er's, or anyone else's accomplishments.
Like I said, I am jealous.
I never had the chance.
I know that college is very hard work, but it also provides very big payoffs.
I would like for you to realize that I have worked extremely hard to get where I am as well.
My wife has a four year College degree, which I am currently helping to pay for, and I make a little over $10,000 per year more than she does.
I know that nobody handed you anything, but nobody handed me anything either.
We each do what we can with what we have.
 

And you reinforced my point, by the way.
No credibility in the Academic world.
Absolutely none.
 

Tug, for what it's worth, when you put your mind and heart into it -- as opposed to when yer just blowing off, which we BOTH are purdy good at, :-) -- you are more articulate than most of the students I encountered in graduate school, workin' on a history degree. I am not kissing yer butt.
 

Yeah, but some of our great, great grandparents did have a "head start" homesteading parts of the state.

OU 0-1 "Ouch"...OSU 2-0 "whatever"
:)
 

(sigh) My alma mater no longer has a football team. After the entire team was killed in a plane crash, they just never got the football program going again.

Pity, they had a pretty new stadium too.

A friend of mine was killed in that crash. He was being scouted by the pros at the time.
 

How in H. did I "reinforce" your point? I take offense at that remark.
 

Pbththt. Take yer offense, and getyou a gate, and make you a patyio or garden or something. :-)

In yer rush to defend the work it takes to get a degree, you were a little condescending (or something like it) to Tug.

Tug, in his admitted jealousy, mayhap be a little quick to feel dismissed. Which was his point. Which you did seem to make, inadvertently, I'm sure. :-)

So sayeth the moderator.
 

OK, OK, let's get back on point: This is the first fall in many a fall I'm actually excited in college football. I enjoyed watching a sloppy OSU-Florida Atlantic game last night.

I will enjoy a full slate of Saturday games. And, as always, I shall root against the OU Sooners. :-) Makes it fun that way for some of us -- especially those of us who tire easily of the constant OU this and OU that on the airwaves and in the newspapers.

Big Horned Frogs fan this week. Also a big Golden Hurricane fan, then a Bruins fan. :-) Yes, all in fun.

After so many years working nights like last and so many Saturdays with both OSU and OU playing, this will be such a pleasant weekend. Last night was a precurser: Watching the Cowboys in Miami, flipping over to the New England-Oakland game.

Unfortunately, because of extenuating circumstances, I have to give up on my ticket to Sunday's Chiefs game. That's the way the world works, I guess.

You see, y'all, as a former college football player and a lifelong football fan, I'm looking forward to a football season for the first time in a long time. Long live leaving a miserable job. :-)
 

We are the boys from old Florida
F - L - O - R - I - D - A
Where the girls are the fairest,
the boys are the squarest
of any old state down our way. (hey)
We are all strong for old Florida,
down where the old Gators play.
In all kinds of weather,
we'll all stick together. for
F - L - O - R - I - D - A
 

Since my college no longer has a Football team, I will support Wichita State North, more commonly known as Kansas State. Go Wildcats!
 

Now, Mark, let's not get carried away. Kansas State and Wichita State share only one thing in common (OK, two things): Both schools are in Kansas, and they are regents institutions. That's about it. :-)

And when WSU dropped its football program in 1986, K-State easily could have and not missed good football.

I'm not sure I agree with your sentiment that the plane crash in 1970 led to the demise of the program that was shut off in 1986. I think traveling and other expenses led to that situation, as it did with other smaller programs. WSU had to travel quite a distance just to play an away game. And let's face it, it's costly just to suit up one player, much less the 100 or so needed for a college football program.

Let's face it: Had Bill Snyder not resurrected a bad program, Kansas State football might be in the graveyard, too. But Wichita State North? That's an insult, sir. :-)
 

You know, the important thing in all this is this: OSU WON! GO POKES!

And I'm so sorry that the Sooners got beat. SOOOoooo sorry ...

I'm hoping that sounded sincere.

GO POKES! :)
 

Howdy, Tech. Longtime no see.

GO TULSA!

--ER
 

Some great things are being shown in the OU-Tulsa game, and the biggest wonderful thing is that this OU football team isn't nearly as good. Tulsa's playing well.

I reckon OU will win, but it won't be a good win at all. And that's GOOD for the rest of us
 

Congratulations to ou. As we say in O-State Aggieland, "A win is a win." My sooner friends prolly otter start practisin' sayin' that now. Gonna be a loooongggg season fer Norman-oriented folks -- unless they find a way get that Alien Peter's son out front s'more.

--ER
 

Thank you, ER.

It IS going to be a very long football season for OU fans. Here are a list of things heard in Norman:

1. We lost a lot of starters. This is a rebuilding year.

2. A win is a win. (And, yes, we'll take it anyway we can get it.)

3. Being humble is not going to be a problem this year.

4. Wait until next year.

5. OU-Texas tickets for sale -- real cheap.
 

OK, here's the deal with most OU fans: While Crystal's comments are in fun, many OU fans I've met jump off that bandwaggon and begin selling tickets at any glimpse of possibly losing.

That's rooting for a winner, and you can change teams every season to do that. In my mind, true fans root for their teams until the bitter end, win or lose.

Anyway, I've stated my opinion enough about OU fans. Over the years, if you wanted to see good college football, Sooners football was it. This year it likely won't be.
 

(sigh)