Nebraska vs Oklahoma: The Lesser of Two Evils
by Cozmo23 on Dec 1, 2010 1:09 PM CST
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PrintThe regular season has ended. It's not what we had hoped for going into Saturday, but far far better than what we thought starting the season. As we wait to find out what bowl we go to, this weekend in Arlington the final Big 12 championship will be played. The conundrum I'm left with is who do I want to see win this game? On one side you have our most hated enemies who's fanbase we all have come to despise with their walmart sweat shirts, association of self worth with a football team most have no ties to, and inability to name 1 player not named DeMarco Murray, Ryan Broyles, or Landry Jones.
On the other side(see what I did there) we have a team that plays dirtier than the Tenessee Titans. Coached by Bo "I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull f#%& you" Pelini, this defense is "physical" to say the least. A fanbase that was once a gem of the big 12 first made the mistake as identifying themselves as The Greatest Fans in College Football. Then a move to the Big 10(+2) further amplified their delusions of grandeur. Thier pretentiousness soon turned to paranoia as they convinced themselves no matter how man times they watched that pass go out of bounds before the clock ran out that the Big 12 had a conspiracy against them. Then Eric Martin get suspended for just barely lining up his helmet to drive into the head of a player who had no idea he was there. Nebraska fans cry out that the Big 12 is punishing them for leaving the conference. The A&M game was an embarrassment for officiating everywhere, but to its hard to see whats happening on the field when Bo Pelini's flem is stuck in the officials eyes from him bearating them for most of the game. Bad calls happen, but you need to score more than 6 points to start bitching that the zebras cost you the game. As if this wasn't enought they throw another hissy fit when Dan Beebe doesn't fly up to present them with a trophy for knocking off the mighty Buffs and winning the North. Beebe defended his position that he was afraid for his life. Has it really come to this?
So we have one fanbase that has recently gone insane on one side, and a fanbase that has always been insane on the other. An ideal scenario is both Taylor Martinez and DeMarco Murray are found ineligible forcing a OSU-MO championship, but im guessing the odds of that are pretty low. I have to say as much as it pains me to say it I would be a little less nauseated to see the Sooners win. In reality OU will likely destroy Nebraska, but who knows. If Nebraska wins this it will go down forever as a cornerstone of their program. 25 years from now old alumni will tell of how it was Big Red vs the Big 12 and they defeated an entire conference that was out to get them. Though if OU wins its another day at the office. Just another Big 12 title to put in the crowded trophy case that for all we know will be overshadowed with a meltdown against Connecticut. This seems unlikely despite Oklahoma nearly making it an annual tradition to lose the Fiesta Bowl, but nobody said Boise had a chance either. So how about you? OU or Nebraska, pick your poison(literally).
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I'm rooting for the team that benefits OSU the most.
Nebraska.
And don’t get me wrong. I hate their coach, I hate their dirty players, and I especially hate their suddenly whiney fanbase.
But they’re leaving. We don’t have to recruit against them. If OU wins, they will be in yet another BCS bowl but this time against a junior varsity team from the Big East. Might as well call that a win right now.
On top of that, if Nebraska wins, OSU is more likely to get into a better bowl—namely, the Alamo. Why? Because Arizona is a virtual lock and Big Brother Bob has already made it clear that he will not play his brother if he has a choice.
it doesn't matter to you then
because according to you OU should get vastly better recruits anyway, based on their longtime success and OSU’s consistent failure.
It doesn’t make a difference anyway. I’m sure T. Boone is trying to buy OSU the best players he can.
I almost don't want to watch it
It’s like that Southpark episode, do you vote for the giant douche or the turd sandwich? But who is the giant douche and who is the turd sandwich? That’s what I’m worried about.
don't need to watch it, don't care
After moving here many, many decades ago, I knew very little about zero-u. I grew up in Texas as a child and always thought the Horns owned the Cotton Bowls and playing Oklahoma was just something they did every year, but the season would become special when Notre Dame would come to play. I don’t remember how long ago that was but THOSE games were the big deal. Then we moved out west just before the PAC 8 became the PAC 10, so we saw all we wanted from that league. I remember the fans from all those places but I just can’t seem to remember a more obnoxious, insecure, whiney (the list can go on forever) fan base as I did after moving to Oklahoma. When I first got here, I thought, “wow, the sooners are good!” But as I got closer I saw just what classless morons they really were, now granted, they aren’t all that way but the stupid ones far outweigh the lesser decent ones. I also started following the Pokes when I moved here. Not more than a year or so after that, I finally just had enough of seeing how zero-u’s fan base was and made a conscious decision to follow the pokes. Yeah, they didn’t win as much but the character of fan base was far better. As for the huskers, who cares, they were the biggies from the north and after seeing the pokes knocking the shit out of them lately, they just don’t seem as big or bad. These ain’t the Huskers from the Big 8 days. So, that game is meaningless to me and the only good thing about it is that it will give a good opportunity to go buy groceries and finish my x-mas shopping since the usual trailer park and half-way house denizens will be glued to the tube and not crowding the wal-marts and k-marts. I really don’t care about this game, except if the sooners lose will shut the gomers up till the bowl game. Never mind, I forgot who i was talking about, if they lose, they’ll spend the next decade crying around about bad calls, bribed referees, anything except that their team sucked more than the other for that game.
by Cabronicus Rezz on Dec 1, 2010 4:09 PM CST reply actions 3 recs
Classless and whiny?
Are they as whiny as your post?
No wonder you like the Pokes so much. Little brother complex can’t begin to describe their feelings of insecurity.
Nebraska for SURE
FUCK OU!
For what it's worth...
by Something Witty on Dec 1, 2010 11:58 PM CST reply actions
Wow
The class you guys present yourselves with is absolutely breath-taking! I know we may be just a bunch of dumb rednecks from trailer parks over here wearing our old Wal-Mart OU shirts, but I like to think we have a touch more respect for y’all than you do for us. I’m sorry things didn’t work out how you wanted them to this year, but it was still a hell of a year for you! Bedlam was a great game. OSU played their hearts out and definitely could have taken the game, but OU came out with the victory. Again, I’m sorry. But when you immediately start trashing the other team about being the biggest suck-fest in CFB for whatever reasons, it kind of reflects on your team and fan base…and makes you look stupid. A lot of Sooners already congratulated Cowboys for a great game and season, like I just did. I don’t see any of that going the opposite way. But hey…what do I know? I’m just a dumb redneck living in a trailer!
by Jeff Frederick Jr. on Dec 2, 2010 1:42 AM CST reply actions
First of all
I wasnt under the impressions that we had any class left. ZING!
Come on Jeff did those remarks hurt your feelings that bad? I had one sentence full of satirical Sooner stereotypes and let the Huskers have it for a whole paragraph. I even said I was pulling for you. I didnt even really take any cheap shots, a large portion of the Sooner Nation is bandwagon fans who dont really follow the team that well. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Helps fill the stadium.
I never called yall rednecks nor said you lived in trailer parks. Not sure where that came from as well as saying OU was a “suck-fest” When I said that OU winning the south was business as usual, and yall had a crowded trophy case those werent jabs at your program. Calling you out on losing Fiesta Bowls and National Championships was kinda poking fun but in reality OSU would love just to make it there, and you cant look me in the eye and say OU has been lights out in big games this decade. I apologize for forgetting to put up our congratulatory post for OU winning the South. We will make sure to put that up after you win the championship that is surely rigged by the evil Big 12 for Nebraska to lose.
Always have faith in God, yourself, and the Cowboys.
-Eddie Sutton
Mark this as the last time a Sooner fan should ever criticize anyone for not having class.
Jeff, maybe you have your head buried in the sand or maybe you’re just surrounded by the best of your brethren but the fact remains that Sooner fans have been voted NATIONWIDE as one of the worst fanbases in America.
Keep in mind that this is an OSU site and people are still a bit bent over the loss. Don’t take things so personally. Also, it’s pretty easy to congratulate a team and fanbase for a great season right after your team has beaten them. I wonder if those same fans would have been so gracious in defeat?
I've talked to some Sooner friends/family
And they all tell me how great of a game it was. No. Not for me. We lost. It was a competitive game, great for sooners, not for cowboys. We are at a point where we need to win these games.
Okay, maybe I should have clarified
That my comment was for the two peeps above me. Go ahead and re-read what they said, then go back through mine. Hopefully that clears up the trailer park reference and why I said you weren’t so classy towards OU fans. Sorry to suggest you all were, that wasn’t my intention. Now, a couple of things- This nationwide vote that was held, I would love to see that if you could shoot me a link or something lol. Yes we have bandwagon fans and the rude/obnoxious types, but we also think they suck. We don’t want the majority of them. They only serve one purpose, which seems to be embarrassing OU at every opportunity they can possibly find. I imagine y’all feel the same about ones you have, but I could be wrong. This is college football though, and that just comes with the territory.
Oh, and about how I react when OU loses. Sure losing sucks, but I can and do congratulate others fans when they beat us. I had a great chat last year with some Texas Tech fans about that horrible show we put up in Lubbock where they took us out behind the shed. Look at the BYU season opener we lost last year. I was at said game, and let me just tell you…it is hard to be mean to a Morman. That is in no way a slight or anything towards them, but they just stare at you and smile. That makes for a VERY awkward moment if you lose to them. I would totally suggest you avoid that if at all possible. Now that brings me to Texas…I have to admit when OU loses to them it does suck. Hard. I usually end up burning the set of clothes I was wearing for that game and I feel so dirty I need a shower. So yeah, I do have that one team I just can’t see eye to eye with. You got me lol.
by Jeff Frederick Jr. on Dec 2, 2010 11:59 AM CST up reply actions
There was an article with a poll done a while back on the nation's most hated fanbases.
I’ll do some digging and see if I can find it.
OSU fans
have no class anyway, never have had. They are so insanely jealous of OU’s success on the field it’s embittered them to a ridiculous degree.
I’ve noted that a lot of mediocre team’s fans, such as OSU, Oregon, etc, have no idea how to comport themselves when they finally do experience a modicum of success.
No problemo
You sound like a pretty sound minded individual Jeff and are welcome here at CRFF. Every fan bases has fans they are ashamed of. I wanted to punch some drunk idiots behind me at Bedlam yelling when Murray was hurt. The fact is OU just has a larger population of bandwagon fans. This isnt a shot at your fanbase its just common sense. When the average joes that dont have any associations with a school are deciding which football team they are going to cheer for more often then not they are going with the winners. OU is a national power and pretty much the NFL team for our state. You have to admit its really tough to find a large number of OSU fans that didnt either go to the school or have a family member who did that influenced them at a young age.
Im going to pull for OU in this one but have to admit I wont be shedding any tears if they loose. As far as the Bowl game im confident OU rolls Nebraska and dismantles Connecticut by about 25 points in the biggest BCS embarrassment of the year. Glad the Big East got TCU so they can have a team autoqualify that is at least in the top 25.
Always have faith in God, yourself, and the Cowboys.
-Eddie Sutton
From a Nebraska fan
Gonna have to agree with Cozmo on the fact that every fanbase has raving idiots that they’re ashamed of, hell i’d even go as far as to admit that there are times this year where i’ve turned into a raving idiot to be ashamed of. All I know is, I wish you guys the best down the road. To me, as one of the younger fans (i’m 20) this program has really risen from kind of a joke in the 90s to something that the Huskers really circled on their schedule as a tough game where we knew we had to be on top of it to win. I think that speaks volumes about where you guys are going as a football team, and even as a university on a bigger level. Sure am glad we don’t have to play you guys again in the CCG, because in every sport its so stinkin hard to beat a team twice, and with Martinez banged up we’re not even in the position to get in a shootout. Also, hopefully down the road Texas will stop treating you and the other decent schools in the big 12 like their inferior and more like equals. Either that, or I hope you guys can find a conference that will really treat you well, or as a program on the up. All in all, maybe we’ll see you down the road, and Cheers :)
by Mactruck on Dec 3, 2010 3:49 AM CST reply actions 2 recs
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