It’s a good time to be a college football fan in Oklahoma Mr. Monday OU, OSU and Tulsa are all unbeaten, but all is not perfect — the Hurricane hasn’t cracked the rankings
Published: October 6, 2008
Mr. Monday barely has time to think (of references to bad 1980s movies) around here, it’s so busy. No. 1 team in the country. The OU-Texas game looming. The NBA rolling downtown. A brand-spanking new newspaper and a shiny Web site.
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Mr. Monday’s afraid he’s going to wake up in the morning and someone will have changed the sheets while he was sleeping.
That said, let’s get to a few things.
→Best week ever for college football in Oklahoma?
Mr. Monday votes yes.
Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Tulsa are all unbeaten, with huge games looming in Dallas and Columbia, Mo.
Of course, Mr. Monday doesn’t remember anything that happened before 1994, so the Sooners could have played the ghosts of Knute Rockne and John Wayne, while OSU played in a spaceship and he’d be none the wiser.
→Tulsa, honestly, should be ranked.
Apparently whenever a quarterback goes up there he pulls the sword from the stone and throws for 400 yards a game.
Must be the red jerseys.
Go Hurricane, beat whoever it is you are playing next.
→OK, so Mr. Monday has been rocking along with the abstract notion of having an NBA team in Oklahoma City for a long time.
Making cracks about overpriced coffee and stumbling, bumbling city attorneys are one thing, but actually meeting real life giants is another thing.
Mr. Monday snuck into Thunder media day last week, hiding behind the uniform fashion show fog machine and asking a few questions of the newly named men of Thunder.
As you know, Junior Monday is the world’s biggest David West fan. Getting him hooked on some guy from the Thunder is going to be tough.
Leading the way for favorite player in the Monday house?
Scary giant Robert Swift.
Just in time for Halloween.
Mr. Monday’s just kidding, Mr. Swift. Really.
See how busy it is? And Mr. Monday didn’t even get to rowing.
Sorry, don’t have time. Police Academy is on CMT.
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Cannot believe that you folks are so excited about getting a team full of thugs that run around in baggy shorts and play with intensity for about 8 minutes a game. But have fun.
Congrats to TU. I was there when that dumbass from Arkansas came in for a single year...talked smack and then was smacked. I like Poindexter (the current Louisville coach), and the current Coach. If TU fans in Tulsa aren't happy - ain't NOBODY happy. Glad to hear their stadium looks sharp, too. Now if only their basketball team would experience a resurgence. Again, congrats! GO POKES!!
Best week ever in college football? Really? That's a stretch. On a total different note, I do agree that TU should be ranked. They may not be playing the toughest competition, but they are handily winning week in and week out. Before the season started, I saw one analyst who thought TU could finish the season undefeated. I hope they do.
Here's an 80's movie reference...does mr. monday remind anyone else of Lt. Hauk from the movie, Good Morning Vietnam? Remember the guy played by Bruno Kirby, who replaced Cronauer in the middle part of the film? Funny, like watching Carl Lewis sing the national anthem funny. Or, more to the point, funny like watching Carl Lewis do a Hunter S. Thompson imitation funny.
My wife and I attended the TU Homecoming game against Rice Saturday night. The Hurricane won handily and the new Chapman Field is excellent. They lost 10,000 seats in the refurbishing, but who cares as long as you can play competitive football and graduate student athletes some of whom become NFL stars and Hall of Famers and the rest good, productive citizens. The new field is a football version of Wrigley Field because fans are literally right on top of the action. I was never so proud of my alma mater as I was Saturday. A world-class half time ceremony honored notable students and alumni and the marching band was great. Here is a university that, year in and year out, ranks among the elite nationally for private institutions.
Here also is a private university with the smallest undergraduate enrollment of any school in NCAA Division I football. Yet they have a rich history in football, occasionally ranked and often in bowl games. They play competitive football against OSU, sometimes thrashing them and they even stopped OU once in my lifetime.
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