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Mike: If only we had a fan base of which the football team could be proud

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I remember when the only boos heard at Owen Field occurred when the band played the visiting team’s fight song.

And that always seemed perfunctory. A half-hearted, we-gotta-do it, buuu…ewe. 

Last night during the OU-West Virginia game, boos came when the Sooners were failing to convert third downs in the second quarter.

More disappointing was a chorus of “We want Caleb”  — a chant I didn’t hear in the stadium, but apparently was nationally broadcast on prime time ABC from a mic’ed up student section of drunken frat boys.

These booing and chanting apparently didn’t notice a Sooners offensive line that was getting whipped by the Mountaineers and causing QB Spencer Rattler to run for his life all night (until the final drive when it counted the most).

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Dave: Rattler better than you think, but still not there yet

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The rumblings got a little louder after the Nebraska game last Saturday.  What’s wrong with the offense?  Why don’t we throw the ball deep?  Caleb should be starting! 

That last one is what I hear the most.  But you know the old saying, the most popular guy on the team is the back-up quarterback. 

Starting quarterbacks get all the blame when things are going wrong and they get too much of the credit when things are going right. 

Rattler does not deserve all the heat he is getting.  It’s true that he seems to not be as sharp as he was at the end of last year and he has missed some open receivers. 

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Game of the Century marked the change in college sports for Black athletes

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It seems bizarre to imagine a time when college sports did not include Black athletes. In my lifetime, I cannot remember a time when my team, the Oklahoma Sooners, did not have significant football players who were Black.
 
The first I remember as a young fan was the outstanding nose guard, Granville Liggins, who starred in the 1968 Orange Bowl victory over Tennessee – the first television broadcast of an OU game that I can remember watching.
 
(At the time Tennessee had not integrated its football team. Their first Black football player came a year after the Vols lost that night to Liggins and the Sooners 26-24. I did not realize OU was playing against an all-white team when I watched the game in our living room. I don’t believe I, at age 9, knew the significance of that).
 

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