Oklahoma's football players will be a lot easier to indentify this season

[Misty]

Good! I didn't like the nameless jerseys last year at all.

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NORMAN -- Oklahoma's football players will be a lot easier to indentify this season.

OU head coach Bob Stoops announced at Friday's Media Day that the Sooners will once again have their names on back of their jerseys this season.

Last year, the Sooners didn't have their names on the back of their jerseys. It was the first time since 1973 that there were no names on the back of OU jerseys.

"People don't realize that the reason to put the numbers on there was to identify them," Stoops said. "But I guess some people don't identify them that way, so I guess we had to put (the names) back on.

[rugbybrado]

who cares...OU football sucks anyway. Even the NCAA thinks so...


GO POKES!!!

[SoonerBorn1973]

who cares...OU football sucks anyway. Even the NCAA thinks so...


GO POKES!!!

So true. I mean, OU doesn't have nearly the number of football championships LosuR has.

[rugbybrado]

[Midtowner]

Series between OU and OSU: 78-16-7

Who does OU "suck" in comparison to?

[kmf563]

Why can't we have a conversation about the jerseys without the slander? God knows Boren is getting enough money down there with all of the tuition increases. It's nice that they can afford to have names on their backs. Maybe next they could work on the actual college and get rid of the roaches and mold in the classrooms??!!

[CuatrodeMayo]

Divert Athletics money into the Academics?...HERESY!!!

[rugbybrado]

Series between OU and OSU: 78-16-7

Who does OU "suck" in comparison to?

just wait till this year buddy.

[traxx]

Why can't we have a conversation about the jerseys without the slander?

Because the poke started it. OsU would have to win every "bedlam" game for more than 60 years straight to get even with us but, OU sucks. Whatever. At least with texas they only own us by about 18 games.

[MadMonk]

I like how the OSU fan has to use an image from a Texas game to make his point. That's like getting your big brother to do all your fighting for you.

[Midtowner]

just wait till this year buddy.

What's going to happen this year? OSU goes 7-5 again and is a "team on the rise"?

I'm not all that afraid of the 4th/5th best team in the division, thanks

At any rate, as far as the names thing, I'll like it. While last year, I pretty much knew who all the starters were by their numbers, when the backups played, I had no clue who was doing what.

With OU's depth at receiver, running back and O-line, this is going to come in handy (receivers will be rotated in and out a lot) on offense.

[ultimatesooner]

some people hate ou more than they like their own school

[kmf563]

I like how the OSU fan has to use an image from a Texas game to make his point. That's like getting your big brother to do all your fighting for you.

exactly. I guess it was too difficult to find a score from their own games to show as a "you suck" example. Much easier to find a rare texas game. We have so many to pick from to show you scores, but it's much funner for me to just whistle and ask...remember the alamo? That was bucktastic.

[SoonerBorn1973]

I like how the OSU fan has to use an image from a Texas game to make his point. That's like getting your big brother to do all your fighting for you.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Typical aggy.

[rugbybrado]

some people hate ou more than they like their own school

I dont see OSU people putting upside down OU stickers on their cars and nothing else.


Wait, i wonder what type of people would be that childish?

[kmf563]

there's not enough room after all the "fishin" and "huntin" stickers you guys plaster all over your trucks. don't you all have some kind of 1980 circa calvin taking a leak on OU?? that's much classier than the upside down longhorn. and again with the longhorn...what is your obsession with texas?

[traxx]

As long as we're doing this, does anyone have the Stunned Aggie picture from the OsU/A&M game from one or two years ago? I love that pic. If anyone can post it that'd make my day.

Oh, and BTW, the upside down horns is part of a real rivalry not a perceived rivalry like the one you aggies think you have with us.

[Dave Cook]

Anyway...back to the original topic.....Stoops brings up a good point. Numbers were intended to identify players......how did fans survive back in the Bud Wilkinson era?

[SoonerBorn1973]

As long as we're doing this, does anyone have the Stunned Aggie picture from the OsU/A&M game from one or two years ago? I love that pic. If anyone can post it that'd make my day.

Oh, and BTW, the upside down horns is part of a real rivalry not a perceived rivalry like the one you aggies think you have with us.

Here ya go. This was freakin' classic.

[SoonerBorn1973]

there's not enough room after all the "fishin" and "huntin" stickers you guys plaster all over your trucks. don't you all have some kind of 1980 circa calvin taking a leak on OU?? that's much classier than the upside down longhorn. and again with the longhorn...what is your obsession with texas?

You beat me to it, kmf. I see those "really awesome" Calvin pissing on OU stickers all the time. Right next to the "Git `R Dun" stickers.

[rugbybrado]

what is your obsession with texas?

Mack Brown is the greatest coach in the history of the big 12.

[rugbybrado]

Oh, and BTW, the upside down horns is part of a real rivalry not a perceived rivalry like the one you aggies think you have with us.

I have many friends who go to UT in austin and ive never seen them post any OU stickers upside down on their cars. Or Use the phrase 'oklahoma sucks' outside of the football game....

Maybe thats because they are above you...

You guys are the only ones who seem to care about the rivalry for more than 1 day. You also wont walk into restraunts in Austin and see upside down OU flags or turned over sooner scooners. Wait, you only get that in norman, maybe you are the ones with the percieved rivalry. Austin and UT doesnt even seemed concerned with you in the least.
Even in stillwater you wont find anything bashing OU, i guess us cowboys are above it as well.

[rugbybrado]

here you go

http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

[Martin]

this is such a pointless discussion. however... it's interesting how you contradict yourself, rugbybrado. the point of this thread was to discuss the return of players' names to sooner football jerseys. to this, without provocation you broke topic and replied that 'ou footall sucks.' in your last post, you now you claim that the average pokes fan is above ou bashing. you might try to live up to your own paradigm. please keep in mind that derailing topics and flame baiting are both violations of this site's tos. feel free to root for whatever team you want, but don't derail a thread in order to use this forum to start pointless flame wars. i think we both know that's the only reason for your original post.

in any event, i prefer the names being on the jerseys. as it was stated, most people know the numbers of the first-stringers, but when the backups start to play it's not so easy to know who's on the field. besides notre dame, what other teams choose not to print their players' names on jerseys?

-M

[SoonerBorn1973]

here you go

http://l.yimg.com/www.flickr.com/images/spaceball.gif

That is one HECK of a non-working link.

I have many friends who go to UT in austin and ive never seen them post any OU stickers upside down on their cars. Or Use the phrase 'oklahoma sucks' outside of the football game....

Maybe thats because they are above you...

You guys are the only ones who seem to care about the rivalry for more than 1 day. You also wont walk into restraunts in Austin and see upside down OU flags or turned over sooner scooners. Wait, you only get that in norman, maybe you are the ones with the percieved rivalry. Austin and UT doesnt even seemed concerned with you in the least.
Even in stillwater you wont find anything bashing OU, i guess us cowboys are above it as well.

Well, your "friends" must not get out much. Don't think for one second those people don't want to win the game as badly as we do. And this REAL rivalry has gained steam (as if it needed anymore) the past few years after everyone with half a brain found out the BIG XII championship game is actually played on the first Saturday of October. BTW, I have seen many texas fans with an inverted OU on their cars. Difference is you can't really tell unless you're looking for it.

And give me a break about not seeing anything bashing OU in stoolwater. That is ALL you see up there. Trust me friend, you people are NOT above anything. The fact that you reply to a thread about the Sooners having their names on their jerseys with "Who cares... blah blah blah... OU sucks!" just cements that.