Rattler not rattled, Sooners breeze to 48 point shutout
You wouldn’t have known there were 19 Sooner players missing the game.
When Oklahoma entered the second half they were dipping deep into a roster to find anyone who needed playing time, as the No. 5 Sooners breezed their way to a 48-0 shutout of Missouri State in the season opener.
It seemed like the usual Oklahoma blow out. But there was nothing usual about this.
In the hours before kickoff there was no backed-up traffic in the southbound lanes of I-35.
A cancelled football season would bring a financial crash to the Sooner Kingdom
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.