So, while everyone is off from work and school today, we Okies here in Norman are not...why, one might ask?...It is Columbus Day and all... Ya, but on Saturday OU played TEXAS, so schools and various places of employment closed on Friday so everyone could get ready for the "BIG GAME"! They are really nuts around here. Neal had forgotten that the game was Saturday, so last Wednesday he began assigning the reading for one of his classes on Friday. Several students immediately raised their hands, panic on their faces, reminding him that the university was going to be closed and hoping desperately that he was not going to make them be there. A graduate teaching assistant was telling me the other day that she had assigned a paper due that day and her students refused to do it. Can you imagine? Telling your college professor or teacher "no" to their assignments because of a football game?! And what is even crazier is that the dean of the university would back them up!
All year long you can find "BEAT TEXAS" paraphernalia anywhere around here. People wear hats, t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. all year long, just for one game! It is pretty pathetic too because it is such a one-sided rivalry. For UT, OU is just another team to beat. You will not find any "BEAT OU" paraphernalia anywhere in Austin.
This is quite indicative of the overall attitude that Okies have about Texans. Okies don't like Texans. They make fun of us, our sports teams, and anything they can think of. They claim that Texans are stuck up and proud. I think it is sad really. We Texans are proud. We are proud of being Texan. But, I have learned that other people, especially those in Oklahoma, are not proud of where they are from, so they have to put down those who are.
Oh well...
This year, the OU Sooners beat the Longhorns. Neal and I are some of the very few people disappointed by this, but at least the attitude around here is good. People are happy and they are happy to go to work and school on a holiday because their college football team won.
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Ok, while I can't condone stuck up attitudes, I can totally condone and sympathize w/ the no work before a big game. I'm that obsessed w/ football too, so I would be in the ranks of those protesting work that prevents you from preparing and tail-gating :-)
When we lived in Oklahoma, we got a big kick out of them too. Actually it seemed to us that Okies were always trying to BE Texans. The river project in downtown OKC is even based on the San Antonio Riverwalk. I think it's a giant inferiority complex.
It's the same way with the Tech/A&M rivalry. Tech gets all into it, and the aggies, well... *yawn*.
hehe.
Love, Annie the Aggie and Travis the Raider (and Mollie whose loyalties have yet to be decided)
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