Chuck Levine, here are your tats...

Chuckie, you asked that I give you more tattoo horror stories. Well, the gang at Disco Tech! obliged earlier this year. Plus, I got a link on a someone else's site. Good times. Combine this with the 'bama tattoos yesterday and you've got a party.

Coach, May I have your Timeshare?

Coach Stoops, I read today that you are interested in giving away a timeshare. Below are some compelling reasons I believe you should give it to me. If it’s not too much to ask though, things are a little tight in my household right now, and I read where you make over $3 million per year, so if you could continue to pick up the tab on the timeshare dues that would be great.

1. November 8, 1975. My first OU game. Sooners come in as heavy favorites, lose 23-3 to Kansas. The first loss for the program in 37 games. I’m still scarred.
2. Spring 1990 – I contact the OU Athletic Department inquiring about season tickets. I am put on the wait list. A few weeks later, I am contacted and get my first season tickets. The Sooners were coming off a record of 7-4, a mark they had not fallen to since 1981. Later that year I get to watch us lose to Iowa State for the first time since 1961.
3. October 29, 1994. I witness the first home loss to Kansas State since 1970.
4. September 28, 1996. We lose to Tulsa. Tulsa played the game with a SECOND STRING QB. It was the first time I’d seen a 99 yard TD pass. I would have rather seen us score it.
5. October 5, 1996. For some reason, I didn’t go to this game. I think it was because I didn’t want to watch us lose to Kansas. We outgained the Jayhawks 538-368, but they blocked a FG and returned it for a TD, returned a kickoff for a score and returned a punt for a TD. We also allowed two scores after keeping the drive alive on penalties, so we lost 52-28.
6. November 2, 1996. I watch the game in my seats. Section 36, I believe. Because of the confidence exuding from the program that year, the Sooners started selling seats in that section to all comers. I am surrounded by Husker fans. One gent in particular was wearing a robe, smoking a cigar. We lost the game 73-21, and the game was not as close as the score indicated. At the end of the season, I request a seat change, so I may sit next to Sooner fans.
7. September 6, 1997. We beat Syracuse 36-34. Fans storm the field. That should tell you where the program was at that point. We had opened the season on national TV against Northwestern, only to be shut out 23-0. Northwestern went on to a 5-7 record that year.
8. November 15, 1997. Texas A&M defeats us 51-7. We came back in the fourth quarter to close the gap to 51. This is the only OU game I’ve ever been to where I left at halftime. I would’ve left earlier (it was cold and rainy), but I wanted to see the Aggie bank. Had they not been there, I would’ve left in the first quarter. Good times.

Coach, I believe you will see that I have been a faithful season ticket holder since 1990, through good times and bad. Sure, many started before me, but few started when I did and stuck it out. It is my hope that you will pass over your interest in the time share to me. Maybe I can visit John Blake while I’m in North Carolina and we can talk about the old days.

Sincerely,

HeadThief

Top 5 Captions for this picture

1. That's the oddest looking kernel of corn I've ever seen.
2. The proper way to hug a toilet during your campus visit to Boulder.
3. Turn your head and cough.
4. Colorado promotes new plumbing degree.
5. Buddhist monk violates reincarnated William "The Refrigerator" Perry.

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Goal Setting at Boone State

Nice article in the Dallas Morning News about Boone State's quest for football championships in Stillwater. However, after reading about the game in several outlets, and reading the article linked to, I believe Boone State should reconsider. Following are my two favorite anecdotes from the story:

• regarding Les Miles last game as a Poke coach..."Then, that Alamo
  Bowl game against Ohio State proved to me he wanted out. Ohio State beat us like 100-to-nothing. I left at halftime, flew home and watched the fourth quarter from my bed.
• "Pickens wants to see one more drive. It ends with a punt. With 5:52 left, the Pickens party is heading out of the suite."

I guess the first goal at Boone State should be GETTING THE WEALTHIEST BOOSTER IN THE U.S. AMERICA TO STAY FOR THE ENTIRE FREAKING GAME when playing a top flight opponent.

Sorry I went all Stephen A. Smith on you there. Boone is involved with the program, but this fella is COMMITTED. Or should be.

Miami FL Preview

Kirby Freeman Starts.
Testaverde. Walsh. Dorsey.
Circle is broken.

Best Sooner #7

Rhett Bomar - Best car selling QB at Oklahoma ever. Passed for 10 TDs and 12 interceptions in 2005. Now throwing interceptions for the Sam Houston Bearkats.

Brandon Everage - stellar safety from 2000-03. All American in 2002. Shoulder problems limited his effectiveness the last couple of years, but Brandon was tremendous at run support, and I vividly recall a game against Air Force in 2001 where he had a monster game.

Scott Hill - 1973 - 76 DB and subsequently a assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Sooners. All Conference DB his senior year. Most noted for a HUGE hit on Tony Dorsett in the 1975 game against Pittsburgh. I played golf with him once. More on that some other time.

DeMarco Murray - talented freshman RB from Las Vegas. Presently on pace to score over 200 TDs in his Sooner career.

Jerald Moore - rushed for 1000 yards in 1995 when Howard Schnellenberger was coach. He should get special consideration for that. Shared backfield with James Allen and they were a pretty potent combo. Rushed for 1600+ yards during his career. Personally, I thought he was one of the great wasted talents by the coaching staffs of the mid 90s. Played briefly in NFL.

Kelly Phelps - QB from 78-82 who started 17 games for the Sooners during his career. Most of those games were during his senior year of 1982, when the Sooners went 8-4.

North Texas Comments

These are a little late in coming, but here as my view from section 38 Saturday.

• I was completely surprised that HeadVisor opened up the playbook
• Sam Bradford looked really good…Bradford missed on only two passes, he overthrow Malcolm Kelly deep downfield, and missed on a out pattern later in the quarter. Bradford completed his last 18 passes.
• North Texas was unbelievable bad
• Todd Dodge should’ve really considered changing up the play calling and offense after they were down 21-0 in about thirteen minutes of play. They continued with the no huddle offense for most of the game.
• Another thing I thought UNT mishandled was playcalling…there were very few options for the Mean Green QB in short areas…it seemed like there was a lot of pass patterns that required five or seven step drops and had deep patterns, but there were no short drop off options , so the QB ended up flinging it out of bounds. And stopping the clock, etc. Those two things combined allowed for 13 of 17 UNT possessions to be less than 2 minutes.
• I’m not sure I learned much about the Sooners this week aside from feeling better that we do appear to have a competent QB, but UNT was so unbelievably overmatched that we didn’t learn much about OU IMO.
• Malcolm Kelly can catch anything
• O-line struggled in short yardage situations against UNT front, which is concerning
• Jermaine Gresham’s nickname on this blog is now Keith Jackson, Jr.