Growing up in an east coast college town did not prepare me for Oklahoma fanaticism about their college football teams. Around the office this time of year, the bets, dares, & pranks get out of control. My favorite was when the OU fans decorated the outspoken Texas Longhorns fan's desk with Sooner party fixings - poor guy was picking crimson & cream confetti out of his files for weeks.
However, I have never gotten to go to a football game, so I try to keep my laughter down to a murmer...I've observed serious fans with little sense of humor. Friday I went out for drinks with some guys from work and Tom told us a vendor had given him two tickets to the OU-Miami game. He wasn't sure he wanted to go, and offered them up to the table.
I had a flashback to my childhood. At the time the rivalry was a bigger deal to WVU than to Miami - until the year Miami came to town and received a pounding. The crowd mobbed the field after WVU won and I'm sure their are pieces of the goal posts floating around fan collections all over the state of West Virginia.
Yeah, I wanted to see OU scatter Miami like those goalposts. I called my friend Rachel and claimed the tickets.
I am sitting here now, hours after the game, exhausted from walking, climbing to the top of the stadium seating, cheering, and the sun. I'm sunburnt. And I love football. OU delivered Miami the biggest loss they've taken in the history of their program. They gave me my wish.
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