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Sooners 42 - Cyclones 41
Tramel's article today was pretty on point in my view. A lot of parity in the B12. CFP rankings Tuesday will be interesting. CBS Sports has OU #4; Bleacher Report has Oregon #4; some ESPN have Bama #4.
Yeah, OU isn't a 4 ranked team. Can't be #1 every year.
FiveThirtyEight has an interactive predictor where you can adjust what happens going forward and it shows their predictions on what happens. Fun to play around with. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com...ll-predictions
What a comeback win!! It is the biggest comeback win in franchise history! I am so proud of our Sooners! Boomer Sooner!!
What a fun game to watch. There can’t be anyone happier than Coach Grinch. After a couple of tough games and a really bad first half, they made the adjustments and stepped up on defense. We only gave up 69 yards in the second half. Keeping their offense on the sideline contributed to their defense being gassed in the fourth quarter... I would hate to have been that guy that got so disgusted with our play in the first half that he turned it off...haha
Are we witnessing a return to Sooner Magic...
Interesting: OU defense did not allow Baylor to score the whole second half.
So apparently this is a thing
"According to the OU Daily, the Undergraduate Student Congress met Nov. 12 to mandate a name change for the “Sooner Freshman Council”, citing the words “boomer” and “sooner” as offensive to the Native American community."
https://campusreform.org/?ID=14011
As an OSU alum (and a parent paying for a kid at OSU currently), I fully support an initiative to ban both words...
I wonder which is more woke--finding the words boomer and sooner as offensive to the Native American Community by a group of presumably non-native students or telling the Native American community what they should be offended by?
They are so woke, they're running laps on themselves.
I actually played on a team called the Outlaws as a child, however, the team was previously known as the Braves and was involved in one of the biggest on field brawls in the league, mind you, this was a 12 and under league. So the name was a take on that event. However, Sooners aren't exactly the best of breed show up storm the castle and take all your women type figures in history. They were literally just cheaters in a contest...dare I say cowards even. Comparing the names of legendary characters to Sooners doesn't seem quite fair.
While I can't speak and tell people not to be offended by something that may be offensive to them, I have a hard time getting too upset over the use of the words Sooner or Boomer. I think we've reached a consensus that you can't use minority groups and/or caricatures of minority groups as your mascot. but I feel like if we go down this road, we should just eliminate any mascots which represent any humans in any ways. The argument could be made that using "Cowboys" is culturally insensitive to Native Americans, and it also represents a whitewashed ideal of the cowboy perpetuated by TV.
(as for sooner vs raiders or pirates or vikings - I find it interesting that the inclusion of rape, pillaging and murder somehow makes the mascots more acceptable - or at least least offensive)
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