Oklahoma and Texas resume on Saturday a football rivalry that began in 1900. For those who played in past games, the feelings live on for decades.
When Texas faces Oklahoma, a football stadium turns half crimson and half burnt orange. He remembers feeling gobsmacked at age almost 18 that when he and his Oklahoma teammates stepped off the bus at the Texas State Fair for Texas vs. Oklahoma, they had to reach the locker room by slaloming through the crowds. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” he said.
He remembers feeling jarred that when he exited the tunnel into the Cotton Bowl, the Texas cannon blasted at just about the very same moment he looked over and saw Bevo, the famed Longhorn steer. “That scared the hell out of me,” he said.together Texas Coach Steve Sarkisian told reporters in Austin, “The Red River Rivalry is why we’re in college football.” Oklahoma Coach Brent Venables told reporters in Norman, “This is probably the first week of the season that y’all want to actually talk about this week’s opponent.
Go back 50, and that’s what Owens and longtime teammates/friends have been doing in different ways this year. They held a gathering, for example, to mark 50 years since Barry Switzer became head coach. “And I thought, ‘Hell, I was a sophomore in college [back then], and here a bunch of old broken-down players are limping in, or hunched over, or some have a cane.
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