I apologize to all my fellow Sooners. 
Last weekend I didn’t follow my OU-Texas traditions.
I didn’t eat Bevo burgers in Marietta.
I didn’t play putt-putt on Friday afternoon like I had done every Friday afternoon before the Red River Rivalry in the last decade.
I didn’t have lunch and play paper football at the Humperdinks sports bar.
Heck, I didn’t even travel the same road to Dallas. I got cute and did an end run around that Denton traffic jam by taking I-35 West for a ways before sneaking back into Dallas from the west. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Never again.
I don’t know exactly how my poor choices generated enough bad karma to cause the Sooners to lose 36-20 to those steers from Austin, but I have no doubt in my mind they had something to do with it.
My not starting the OU-Texas weekend off with free grilled cow meat at that Carl’s Junior and listening to Bob Barry Junior do his radio remote from the parking lot full of fans willing to eat hamburgers for breakfast…well, it obviously created problems for the Sooners offense on first down. Blake Bell had too many third and longs to overcome.
I’m trying to figure out how my detouring caused offensive coordinator Josh Heupel to eliminate a zone read option game from the playbook. I don’t know. But, it did.
Somehow not swinging the putter on 25 foot narrow paths of carpet created a problem with the defense tackling. Oklahoma could have used a good five iron across the head of Texas running back Johnathan Gray, who seemed like he ran on every play of the game toward his 123 yards rushing.
When those Texans saw me taking the scenic route down 114 through Southlake instead of the more direct approach of I-35 via Lewisville, they knew the OU punt coverage team was suspect and there would be clear sailing for Daje Johnson to take a punt back 85 yards for a TD faster than Forrest Gump.
And, my not starting the OU-Texas weekend off with free grilled cow meat at that Carl’s Junior and listening to Bob Barry Junior do his radio remote from the parking lot full of fans willing to eat hamburgers for breakfast…well, it obviously created problems for the Sooners offense on first down. Blake Bell had too many third and longs to overcome.
Frankly, Bell is just an average passer at best (or worse when playing Texas). But, he counted on me to be a consistent fan. He needed me when he felt that pressure and threw those interceptions. And, I wasn’t there for him.
Sure, I wore the correct undergarments (we won’t go any further about my unmentionables, except remember our colors are crimson after all). But that wasn’t enough. Everything was just off this year.
I know some of you think it was you and something you did to screw Saturday up. And, mind you, I’m not discounting that may have been a contributing factor.
(You know who you are).
But, no, it was me this time. And I’m sorry.
Next year will be different….er, I mean it will be like it used to be. With OU flags on the car and everything.
-Mike
PS: Texas still sucks.
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