The Bears aren’t going to pose any real threat to the Oklahoma Sooners this upcoming Saturday. In fact, I am afraid the Bears are going to get the full wrath of a special Sooner team that is looking to use Saturday’s matchup as a springboard for the RRS coming up in just 8 days. For me however this game signifies a great deal more than another game against an over-matched opponent. Do we truly realize how far this team has come along in a few years. Does this sound familiar?
“Lying in a stadium tunnel, Juaquin Iglesias had no way to celebrate his touchdown catch in double overtime. He just knew he’d put his Oklahoma Sooners in position for a victory.
Iglesias caught a 21-yard touchdown pass from R**** B***** to lift Oklahoma to a 37-30 win Saturday night against Baylor and maintain the Sooners’ perfect record in the series.”
I can’t help but shudder at many of the words in the quote above. For starters it mentions the quarterback that I refuse to ever address by name. I called him the next Elway several years ago and cursed him for his mishaps, but here we are 3 years later with the best pro-style quarterback in Sooner history. So thank you nameless quarterback for allowing Sam Bradford to step in and shine for this new generation of Sooners. Secondly, we beat baylor by only one touchdown, and in double overtime no less!
“It was a good win,” Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said. “Any win is a good win.”
Now contrast that to Stoops’ comments about the possibility of being ranked number 1 following the TCU game:
“I don’t have any thoughts about that, not at all,” Stoops said. “You’ll have to talk to somebody else about that.”
Typical Stoops, it’s why we all love him.
As a fan it was tough to swallow a 7 point win over Baylor in double OT three years ago, because it was an indicator of what kind of season we were having. It was a rebuilding year that helped a group of young men (Iglesias, Manny “Man” Johnson, Nick Harris, Lendy Holmes … just to name a few) take a giant step towards reestablishing OU football as a traditional powerhouse. It was baptism by fire, and a then young team saw itself battle for a victory without AD. If only that team knew what was to follow the next year because some kid was pulling a no-show job at the local car dealership like he was a member of the Soprano crew.
No-show jobs are for mobsters, not for pampered quarterbacks!!
Fast forward three years and the thought of playing “Baylor in a close one” sounds ridiculous, right? Well it is Sooner fans, so enjoy the weekend scrimmage and start making preperations for another ridiculous weekend in Dallas.
