What used to be harmless taunting here or there thru facial interactions or even a random text has taken a new platform thanks to social media sites. I, a Sooner fan, with several other Sooner friends verses every other person whom is a Cowboys fan duke it out each year for bragging rights on facebook. If you think about it, its a modern day West Side Story played out online.
It all starts fairly friendly and simply by each person posting their team to win. Just a plain statement of "Go Sooners" or the "other" (can't say it because I just can't root for the other team :-). Then you have that one friend...the one who likes the "other" team who simply ruins your posting by slandering your team or even the dreaded "whom beat who" this season. Let's refer to this person as Bad John.
So after Bad John has posted his little diddy, you have your other die hard fans commented back with some random lie or joke or even slander against his team. We will call this person Die Hard Dave.
After a few rounds of Bad John and Die Hard Dave duking it out on your simple facebook post, you will have 23 other Fairweather Farrahs, Worthwide Wendys, BadMouthing Barrys, and Cursing Carsons dueling for final last words. I sit back and wonder what I did wrong, but then realize, these people are my friends, apparently.
So as of noon on Saturday, my facebook comment has 32 comments with everyone really looking like the loser in this game, only to have the final game played at 7pm tonight to see who the real winner is....God I love football...
Kelly, you really make me wish that I could get on face book and and have fun like that too! I did sign up for face book but it takes so long to pull up (you know how slow dial up is) that I just gave up on it. I do have fun arguing with friends and family though since half of them are Sooner fans and half of them are for the "other" team. I too love Sooner football and will be watching tonight.
ReplyDeleteI Love my Sooners and bragging rights are just that. It's football and that's the way it's always been. If your team is winning then the your winning but if your team is losing learn to take it like "A WOMAN" and move on.
ReplyDeleteThe comment that the cowboy made on the news after the game " It was just luck" I thought this is how this back and forth bickering starts. Lets get one person to start the sentence and before you know it " it wasn't luck, it was skill" and so forth and so on. The cowboy is the one who added fuel to the flame and away it went. Crazy but like I said this has been the way it's always been and I don't forsee it changing. Winners are Winners and Losers are Losers it's how you deal with it and then move on.. There's always next year!!
SOONERS RULE!!!
This is one Poke fan who thought we just got outplayed. I think both teams were pretty equal in talent, and like heavyweights traded blow for blow, but in the end, in the fourth quarter, OU was more aggressive, executed better, and completely deserved to win.
ReplyDeleteBut admit it, we gave you a scare after that Justin Gilbert return, didn't we?
I wonder if this season doesn't mark a shift in power in the Big 12 Less Two, with OU and OSU being the powerhouses and Texas falling back to the second (or third) tier. Texas is in deep, deep trouble, the kind that doesn't get fixed with one recruiting class.
Anyway, it was a great game, one that both teams could have won, and in the end the winner earned it and deserved it. Congrats, Sooners.
(Now enjoy it. Gonna be a loooong hoops season for y'all. Us too, probably.)
Great game! I am Sooners all the way, but what an interception by OSU!? That was one of the best games yet this seaswon that I watched. There were a bunch of other great games, but this one being Bedlam and evrything... just no comparison.
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