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A cancelled football season would bring a financial crash to the Sooner Kingdom

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I had some idle chat in the check out line Saturday at Walgreens on Main Street.

It was on my first visit to a store since mid-March and of course I had to ask the guy standing six-feet in front of me the question ever on the minds of anyone who lives in Norman:

“You think we’ll have a (Sooner) football season?” I asked.

“Oh, I think we will play. I just don’t know how many people are going to be in the stands,” the man said, as he moved toward the plexi-glas barrier that separated customers fom the check out clerk.  

Then, he turned and said, “We got to play to pay for those other 20 something programs.”

That’s a good point.

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CeeDee has already made Dallas Cowboy Stadium his place

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After a long drive from Norman I stepped on the hotel elevator about 8:30 pm in the Dallas suburb Los Colinas, looking forward to the deep pillows the Omni Mandalay had waiting for me.

I had passed dozens of college kids I recognized in the lobby. 

Previously unknown to me I had booked a room at OU’s team hotel the night before the 2018 Big 12 Championship.  

Sooners were everyone when I arrived and checked in. Kyler Murray was on a bench with his parents eating carry out. His offensive line was near the lobby piano, in not what you would call a raucous carrying on, but it was a lively conversation just the same. 

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