Sam Bradford takes the podium
Acceptance speech Sooner says winning Heisman is ‘indescribable feeling’

refreshing.

I just laid down $500 on the game. I bet the Gators would cover the spread. If I lose (which seems to always happen), Then I will be glad to have lost $500 for an OU VICTORY! BOOMER SOONER!

I still stand by my earlier comments. Just watching it all week, Tebow is swaggering around like he KNOWS his team is gonna beat OU. I sure hope we don't get mentally man-handled by the gators.

Rohde, Trammel, Rodgers and all the jealous people, aggie bred or not need to shut up. OU has been a power and a good one without the amateurs that write against OU and their large Family. Billy Sims was the special back that naysayers couldn't stand back when he played. They still can't stand him, and they won't shut him up. They couldn't stand it when he ran up and down Owen Field hardly touched. Send Rohde back to Colorado where he came from, Trammell back to Oz, Rodgers back to Stillwater, and OU will be a stronger power. Reporters like them turn the National Media against us more than they already are. We will stomp Florida and their star Tebo January 8th! Tebo, McCoy remember there is not such a thing as a good loser....you are still losers!!! Boomer that in your pipe and smoke it!
Joe Bill Moad

In the words of Al Davis (Oakland Raiders) " Just Win..Baby"

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Just get NC #8. BOOMER SOONER!!!

Crud! We played Miami in Miami after the 1987 season in January 1988 for the football national championship on its home field. We played Kansas in the basketball final in 1988 in Kansas City for the basketball national championship. We played Syracuse in New York in the Elite Eight in basketball in 2003. We played K-State in Kansas City in the 2003 Big XII football championship game. We played LSU in New Orleans in January 2004's BCS Championship game. We played USC in the golden triangle of cocaine, Miami in January 2005. Now it's Florida in Miami in January 2009. (Of course, we have won some things in other folks' back yard such as FSU in Miami in January 2001.)

There were three very qualified athletes in attendance for this award, and I feel all three were very deserving. One has to win, and that was Sam Bradford. He is a quality young man and the type of young man we want representing our State and the University of Oklahoma. However, I was saddened and embarassed by the behavior of Billy Simms as Bradford was approaching the stage to receive his award. This behavior showed a distinct lack of respect for Bradford, and showed just how classless some people can be. It did appear Simms was attempting to divert all of the attention to himself, and I feel it reflected poorly on the State of Oklahoma, and our School. It reminded me of the times when a toronado rips through our state, and the media attempts to find that one person in the trailer park with no teeth and hasn't bathed in two weeks, asking them to describe what it was like to experience that type of situation. Simms was a great player for the University of Oklahoma, but he needs to be told that Oklahomans wish to be represented with a touch of class, and not put forth the image that Oklahoma is filled with nothing but uneducated rednecks.

A class act all the way around. One of the better attributes is his commitment to the classroom.

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Sam's having a fine, well-deserved moment. I think he'll be ready to play. And Tebow's comments about Big 12 defenses...Maybe he'll have something to think about out there himself. He's doing a lot of talking.

With extra time to prepare, one hopes Madu will provide at least some of what Murray brings. Not good news, but better we know now.

Roger that Alan, just can't help it and just wondering if others are feeling the same. Now, I read Murray is out....great. You know what Florida will be practicing for, the pass. Brown is good, but he doesn't have that cut and speed that Murray has.

Scott, come on man, lighten up on the keyboard. Try summarizing.

DeMarco Murray is out for BCS game. He's having surgery.

Great comments all...I think we are going to have to go in this game thinking we can win and stop treating Tebow and Florida like they have 7 national championships, 5 heisman winners, a bizzillion conference championships, ranked #1 in the BCS and have the #1 modern era program in the NCAA - NEWS FLASH!!!! THEY ARE NONE OF THE ABOVE!!!!! You don't think the SOONERS don't want to win this thing? ARE YOU KIDDING? Loosen' up - let them enjoy thier week off and then prepare to beat Florida. We didn't have the heisman "interruption" last year and look what happened to us in the Fiesta Bowl...maybe this is JUST the thing we needed. BOOMER SOONER!

got this off the Gainsville Sun, they are already using it....
NEW YORK — Good news out of the Big Apple Saturday night.

Tim Tebow didn’t win the Heisman.
Whaatt?!?
Yep, I’m saying it was good news.
Not for Tebow or his family. Back-to-back would have been unbelievable.
But for Florida’s chances of winning the BCS National Championship Game next month.
Sam Bradford will be the guy eating rubber chicken and posing for pictures and shaking thousands of sweaty palms over the next week. Bradford will be the guy being pounded with questions about the Heisman jinx. Four of the last five winners have lost their bowl games.
Gator fans wouldn’t mind if it became five of six.
Because for the second time ever, Heisman winners will face off and do it in Dolphins Stadium. OK, it was Pro Player Stadium when Jason White and Matt Leinart went head-to-head four years ago, but you get the drift. It’s kind of amazing that Heisman winners had never gone against each other and now will do it twice in five seasons.
So here’s what we got Saturday night.
1. The big game was injected with more juice because Bradford won the award.
2. Tebow was injected with an extra dose of motivation, like he needed it. He had that look. He doesn’t like losing at anything.
“Why get over it? Use it,” Tebow said. “I’ll be motivated enough. I think it’s more motivating for my teammates. They’re a little bit excited. I’ve already got a lot of text messages. I can’t share them but there were some good ones.”
Probably along the lines of, “We’ll show that guy who should have won the Heisman.”
We all remember what happened the last time Florida faced a Heisman Trophy winner.
3. More voters thought Tebow deserved to win the Heisman than any of the other quarterbacks. He received the most first-place votes. Must feel a little like Al Gore in 2000.
I asked Tebow if he took any solace in that.
“Not really,” he said. “If you lose, you lose.”
Let’s face it, folks, you don’t lose the Heisman Trophy. You just don’t win it. At least not this time.
But the good news I’m talking about is that Tebow is taking this like a loss. Maybe not in an Ole Miss way, but it’s there.
Just finishing third in a close vote was a pat-on-the-back achievement considering the way his numbers were dwarfed by the Big 12 quarterbacks. And the reason he didn’t win was that there were 154 voters who left him off the ballot.
Like I wrote Saturday, there was no wrong ballot, even if you left any of the three off because Graham Harrell was deserving as well. But the fact that there were 154 semi-educated voters who left Tebow off their ballots and 120 who dissed McCoy and 93 who snubbed Bradford tells you they must not get cable in a lot of places.
“They either love us or they hate it,” Tebow said. “That’s the Gator Nation. They didn’t think I was worthy, but I get one more chance.”
And then he blamed Steve Spurrier for costing him the Heisman.
Not really.
But what he did say is that love 'em or hate 'em mentality started with “Spurrier’s swagger.” And that’s when I told Tebow the headline in our paper would read, “Tebow blames Spurrier for Heisman loss.”
“Only if you write it,” he said laughing.
Maybe the most alarming information we received in frigid New York Saturday night was that 127 ballots were received before the last weekend of the season. Tebow was well back in third place after those ballots came in. Then he went out and led Florida past No. 1 Alabama. Among the 777 ballots that were received after that game, Tebow was ahead of Colt McCoy and just a few points behind Bradford.
You vote before the season is over, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
And if that’s not enough to drive you Tebow fans crazy, how about this — 41 different players received third-place votes and 20 received second-place votes. That means there were a bunch of people wasting their votes to make a statement.
All that said, a lot of good can come from this. Maybe it's the spark that keeps Tebow at Florida for another year. Maybe it's enough to cause issues in the Bradford brain. Maybe it’s enough to motivate Florida over Oklahoma.
I leave you with this, something Tebow said Saturday night.
“Don’t rattle the fence.”
The fence has been rattled.
Told you there was good news.

I hope Bob is letting his players have internet access....

I'm with Shepard. There are a LOT more stories out there on other websites that are absolutely dogging OU and Bradford. You don't think they will be zeroed in? You don't think they know about the Heisman Jinx? You don't think that because of Bradford, Teabags was "robbed?" You don't think they know it's home field advantage for them? (which could go the other way...) You don't think they know that OU stinks in BCS games? There is plenty of ammunition out there for them to be highly motivated. And that worries me. You think Florida wants to go down as the team that lost to a 4 time BCS bowl losing team? You could see it in Teabags face. Know, he's a spoiled arshe brat, but now he's using this a fodder. They are going to be blitzing the be-jesus out of Bradford the first half. Sam better be ready for the two step drop and throw routine. The first half, Florida is going to probably playing man to man or even double team the two top receivers. Time for Matt Clap to step up and Granger. But they know Granger can catch, so they will have him wrapped up as well. I think they feel that they can stop the rush and I don't think there will be a lot of rushing yards the first half. OU is going to have to ram it down their throats the first half and then wear them out by the fourth quarter and then turn on the gas.

*preparations

Thank God I don't have an English final anytime soon :-)

Thanks Shepard. I bet the only way the information will get back to the Sooners is if someone reads this article, reads the comments, and sees your plea to get the information back to the team if someone knows someone "in the organization personally". And as Pat said, they have time off before bowl preperations start. The thing Sam needs to get back for is FINALS - which is part of the reason the team has time off during this week.

Shepard get a clue. They were taking a week off already. If you think the gators had to have Tebow not winning the Heisman to motivate them to play then you are crazy. My gosh they are playing for a national Championship. If they have to have something motivate them to play they need to turn their stuff in. Please!

Amen Shepard!