A reflective essay about my state and my team, courtesy of Orangebloods.com ....OKLAHOMA is a s****y little state that cannot produce enough quality football talent on its own to compete at a high level. Thus, their rightful place in terms of history, prestige, and modern football power is along side the Tulsa Hurricanes. However, instead of accepting their fate, which would be the honorable and respectful thing to do, they desperately resort to cheating to get the Texas athlete so their pathetic population can have at least one thing to take pride in and brag about even though it is a false misrepresentation that they did not legitimately earn. They can get a few scraps from Texas, we are all ok with that. But to have more than two-thirds of their team come from Texas and elsewhere while still calling it OKLAHOMA football is absurd. They should be ashamed, but they are proud and beat their chest instead. Ultimately, the SMU's, North Texas', Texas Tech's, and Baylor's of our great state are the ones who suffer because they are left taking the scraps. OKLAHOMA either needs to live or die by primarily recruiting the OKLAHOMA athlete or they need to lose the OKLAHOMA name and call it something else because they are not representing themselves. What if Argentina's Olympic Basketball team kicked team U.S.A's butt in route to a gold medal in the 2008 summer Olympics and did so with a roster full of Americans--Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnet, Lebron James ect. ect. and a couple of guys from Argentina? Would we all say "so what their players have to come from somewhere and there is a lot of talent in the U.S. and not enough in Argentina" and view it as legit Argentina basketball superiority over the U.S.A.? I hardly think so and none of us would accept them beating their chest and waving their flags in our faces full of false pride. However, too many seem to accept a similarly ridiculous misrepresentation and false pride chest thumping when it comes to the Texas vs. Oklahoma rivalry?
2 comments:
That is the most absurd thing I think I have heard in quite sometime. Can you really compare the makeup of college football and the makeup of olympic COUNTRIES?
Chad,
I think my favorite thing about all "fan hate" rants is that its not good enough to just go after the team. The attacker must condem the people of said state and their way of life. As this pertains to the Bama/UT post, anyone who has been to both sates can tell you how drastically different life is in Tennessee than in Alabama. Both states vote Republican, live of of NASCAR, hunting, bass fishing, and college football.
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