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

This task should have been left to the A.D. That's all I'm saying. To have the president of the university himself get involved just feeds the notion that Oklahomans are just a bunch of dum dirt eaters for whom football is the end-all-be-all.

Or, it could be that I'm in denial, that Oklahoma is largely people by a bunch of dang hillbillies, includin' the one now runnin' ou.

SIGH.
 

ER, you've lived in the OU neighborhood all your life, yet you're surprised by this whiney bullshit from its officials? I'm shocked.

I spent six of the last seven years in OKC, and I saw it up close and personal the crybaby, woe-is-me mentality of the Sooners faithful. If the fans' team ain't winnin', they're whinin'.

They make me sick to my stomach. I miss my friends in Oklahoma. I miss OKC. I miss my church. But I don't miss OU fans. They've earned the right to misery.
 

Remember that this guy covered up a "terrorist attack" on the OU football stadium that if successfull could have killed hundreds (perhaps thousands with the panic). Why did he do that? Lives over Football? Because Football is first.
Now go to the blackboard. Write "Football is First!" one thousand times and please be finished before recess. And if you bring up this subject again I will have you write "OU Football is Number One" ten thousand times. So there.
 

Let's see... did you mention that Boren also was governor of the great state of Oklahoma?

And let's see... this is, what, football? And that's a game, right?
 

Alright Trixie get your chalk and join ER at the blackboard!
 

Hey. I'm an OU alum. And probably the only one who never attended a "game."

Teditor, where did your blog go???
 

I'm averagin' 'bout 75-80 hours a week right now. If I'm writin', it's bein' published in the periodical for which I work. I want to do somethin' with rodeo, ya know, but I'm runnin' on empty.

The tour finale's comin' up in a little more than a week in Omaha, which is two hours from here. Hope to have somethin' by then. Of course, it might help if I can get a day off. :-) Save Labor Day weekend, which I took off because of our weddin' reception in western Kansas, I've worked every weekend since the hitchin'.
 

The truth has been written. Read on:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2594247
 

Oh Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy, I do love that picture of David Boren! He has lost a lot of wieght hasn't he?
 

He does not look healthy, IMO. At least he is now owning the hairline God gave him.
 

Maybe the virus is getting the better of him.
 

What will appear in tomorrow's Maryville Daily Forum

David Boren, president at the University of Oklahoma, is a former senator and governor for the Sooner State.
David Boren is also a numskull.
For those not in the know, Boren sent a letter Monday to Big 12 Commissioner Kevin Weiberg, calling the officiating at last Saturday's Oklahoma-Oregon football game an injustice. He also wanted the game stricken from the record books.
The Sooners were screwed in the final minutes of the game in the Northwest, where Pacific-10 officials called. Two particular calls — an onside kick and a pass-interference penalty that both went Oregon's way and helped lead the Ducks to a 34-33 victory — were the target of Boren's fire.
Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops called the officiating blunders unacceptable and inexcusable.
"It is truly sad and deeply disappointing that members of our football team should be deprived of the outcome of the game that they deserved because of an inexcusable breakdown in officiating," Boren wrote in his letter to Weiberg.
Sad and disappointing — the mantra of the Sooners faithful for this season and years to come.
They're still griping about the officiating in the OU-Texas Tech game from last year, so know that this will hang on the edge of lunacy for many months to come.
Bulletin, folks. This was just a game.
In the last month, we've honored the five-year anniversary of 9/11 and looked toward the New Orleans area as we've remembered the South in its trials and tribulations from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Now some yahoo who sits in a comfy chair in the biggest office in Norman, Okla., wants to tell us the injustices of a college football game. I think priorities have run amok amongst the Sooner Nation.
But that's been a long time for those who have been there. I spent six of the last seven years in Oklahoma, working for a newspaper that covered the Sooners football as if it were second only to God. It's idiocy at its finest.
Gordon Riese, the replay official who botched the calls up in the booth, has received death threats and has had an unsettling look at life after Saturday.
It's only a football game.
If you want to know what is sad and disappointing in the world of sports, look no further than Duquesne University, where five members of its basketball team were shot after a school dance over the weekend. Look no further than Oklahoma State University, which lost 10 members of its basketball team's family five-plus years ago in a Colorado plane crash.
What's really sad and disappointing about Oklahoma's loss to Oregon is the egregious overreaction of the Sooners faithful, their football coach and their university president.
It's only a football game.

Football fanatic
I love sports, and I love being a sports fan. I even love rooting against rivals — I cheer for the Oakland Raiders' and Denver Broncos' foes.
In my former life, I spent my weekends reading millions of words written about sports as an editor for a large daily newspaper.
It became a drain on my sporting nature, especially during football season. Mine wasn't the glamorous, sideline reporting sports gig. I was a desk jockey, handling the editing and design for the reporters and photographers on the scene.
Rarely did I get the chance to sit down for an entire Saturday and enjoy college football, even though I played college football 20 years ago. But the last two falls have been spectacular. I moved into a different world. One day not long ago, I parted company with my wife and 4-year-old to enter "Man's World," where football was on the screen and testosterone was in the air. No Spongebob in this part of the house, I proclaimed. No "Dancing with the Stars."
My wife is still learning what it's like to live with a football nut, oftentimes laughing at my intensity as I sit on the edge of my seat during a Chiefs game. She giggles at my obsession, and rightfully so — I'm currently testing the waters as to which shirt I should wear during a Chiefs game since the Tony Gonzalez jersey seems to be a loser.
But when the clock has wound down and the game has ended — and sometimes, after a minute or two, when the anger subsides — I go about my day, loving my girls and carrying on with life in general.
Because with age comes reality, and the reality is, it's just a football game.
 

Alright Teditor get your chalk and join ER and Trixie at the Blackboard. Now 1000 times please:" Football is First!"
 

OU's biggest whiny titty baby is also a lifelong Democrat? Coincidence?

The irony here, which y'all will probably never see because it's just too much fun to hate the Sooners, and god forbid you give that up, is that you spend just as much time and energy obessing over the Sooners as they do over the last game. It do make for amusing reading.

And, yeah..duh..there are hillbillies living in Oklahoma, although, most of us quit eating dirt a generation or two ago.
 

Boren ain't much of a Democrat these days.

Reporting is not obsessing. Obsessing is obsessing.

To see a hillbilly in Oklahoma, all I have to do is look in the mirror. I just scrub up good.
 

Ah, tales of King David; Boren is a certified DINO and has been since the day he started voting with Reagan on his tax cuts and with BIG OIL and against the small oil men and the Oklahoma middle class (all 72 of them). His educational philosophy is elitist on the best of days, and his administrative style is just to the right of Ghingus Khan. He was born in Washinton D.C., not Oklahoma, and was raised on the knees of Uncle Sam Rayburn and Robert S. Kerr, and Uncle Carl Albert. His biography if ever written ,truthfully, will be one of the most interesting (maybe most salacious) stories ever to come out of Oklahoma (or politics). Google his name and you will find contraversy after contraversy after contraversy.
Kinda of hard to ignore him, sort of like it is hard to ignore all those pot holes between our homes and our work each day in Oklahoma.
Some of them, if you fall into, you may never get out of, so be Boren.