Chronicle of a Death Foretold

[danthehorn]

I could not get tickets at face on the Texas side before I left. So I went up with the family plus a high school sooner friend of my daughter's to the fair. Once I get there I am looking for 5 tickets and a sooner offers me five together at face in the sooner end zone 18 rows up.

What to do:

1) Texas may win if they play perfect.
2) Texas is probably going to lose but could keep it close.
3) My gut tells me I am in for a blowout if I get these tickets because that is just my luck. Always has been, I can't get one good thing to happen without a bad one to follow (Think Ketch on Fridays show).

So I get them and I walk in thinking I am in for a long day. Sure enough it starts to happen. As seats start to empty I can go to the Texas side but my daughters friend is attending her first football game ever and she is a sooner fan and is having a blast. So I decide we are already having a bad day why ruin hers. So I stayed in my seats until the Eyes of Texas at the end. I always stay for the Eyes of Texas.

Would you have done the same?

P.S. On the good side only one OU fan gave me **** and his girlfriend made him apologize. The guys behind me were great and we gave each other **** about rooting against each other in National Championship games and also they reminded me they had been there for bad days and would have sat in a sea of orange just to be at the game like I did. Now I do not know if they would have been as nice if they would have lost. Wish I could have found out.

 

[BurntOrange4ever]

Yep, that is an experience that your kids will remember for the rest of their lives, regardless of the outcome. The environment is unlike any other game in the country. Good Choice.

 

[danthehorn]

One of my girls said the OU players are being nicer to Texas than the fans are to the our team.

I told my girls. Take it in girls, take all the mocking the OU fans are giving because when we beat them it will be even sweeter. They now understand the rivalry and now have a deep desire to see OU beat.

 

[LonghornCatholic]

I'd rather eat the crotch off a dead camel than sit on the OU side.
But that's just me.

 

[bevo barry]

Sat in the BLoWu sections just once, the tie game in '76. At one point a Texas player (I think it was Earl, but that part may not be right) got hurt and had to be helped off the field. I'll never forget the cackling and derisive laughter all around me. So I took an oath then and there: "Never again!"

 

[Texanne]

I never sat in the BlowU section, but one year we had tickets on the front row right behind the BlowU bench. Their players spent the entire time standing on the benches so we couldn't see and flipping us the bird.

 

[huisache]

Keep in mind that most of those players were Texans.

 

[jlslayt]

I got more crap from drunk Ranger fans then I did any OU fans at the game.