Dumb Texas-Oklahoma shirt

[rainmaker17]

I get that the whole thing is going on a week after Saturday, but what a dumb idea. I don't mind the duelling helmet design, but the slogan...please. Why not use "we share a border," or "we play a big game every October?" Something that bland and overly obvious is silly.

Plus the "greatest" tag is arrogant. UT-OU is a historically classic matchup. No doubt. But there are several others in same echelon and everybody knows it.

Many locals won't care and buy the anyway. Or maybe they won't. I went to the TCU game and every other co-ed had a vulgar shirt on, a few refering to the Horned Frogs, many many more refering to Oklahoma. I'm not really fired up about this, after all it is marketing, business and it's really not geared to me in the first place.

[johnnysama]

The only thing that would've made it funnier is appending an exclamation point at the end of that phrase......... I dunno. The "We really don't like each other" makes me laugh, if for all the wrong reasons.

[jman077]

I can see the tagline for this years Michigan/OSU game:

"We hate each other much, much more than Texas and Oklahoma hate each other."

[BBTV]

Possibly the dumbest legitimate shirt I've ever seen.

[cheo25]

Possibly the dumbest legitimate shirt I've ever seen.

As bad as "No. 1 Dad" or "The World's Greatest Dad." Seinfeld fans can appreciate that.

And Oklahoma-Texas and Ohio State-Michigan have nothing on Alabama-Auburn. At least in the former two rivalries, the losers can go home and take solace in their home state.

[Luigi74]

Possibly the dumbest legitimate shirt I've ever seen.

As bad as "No. 1 Dad" or "The World's Greatest Dad." Seinfeld fans can appreciate that.

And Oklahoma-Texas and Ohio State-Michigan have nothing on Alabama-Auburn. At least in the former two rivalries, the losers can go home and take solace in their home state.

None of them have anything on Army-Navy.

[TruColor]

I went to a Texas-Oklahoma game back in the late '80s-early '90s. Now, I grew up in Big Ten country (my high school was less than a mile away from Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium), but the fans at that game were just dispicable. After UT-Austin won the game, I saw numerous UT fans who ran up to an eldery couple dressed in OU clothing and just screamed obscenities in their faces. Just horrific. Many other stories like that one as well.

I went to a lot of intense Purdue games growing up - both in football and basketball - but I have never seen pure evil like that.

[hwcsoul]

Speaking of how bad the OU-Texas rivalry has become, here's a news article from earlier this month about a bar fight in Oklahoma all because a guy was wearing a Texas shirt - it's pretty bad:

Football Rivalry at Center of Bar Fight

By SEAN MURPHY ? Sep 11, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) ? To some Oklahoma football fans, there are things that just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt.

That's exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texas-shirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to five years.

The shocking case has set off a raging debate in this football-crazed region about the extreme passions behind a bitter rivalry. Some legal observers have even questioned whether this case could ever truly have an impartial jury.

"I've actually heard callers on talk radio say that this guy deserved what he got for wearing a Texas T-shirt into a bar in the middle of Sooner country," said Irven Box, an attorney in this city 20 miles from Oklahoma's campus in Norman.

According to police, 32-year-old Texas fan Brian Christopher Thomas walked into Henry Hudson's Pub on June 17 wearing a Longhorns T-shirt and quickly became the focus of football "trash talk" from another regular, 53-year-old Oklahoma fan Allen Michael Beckett.

Thomas told police that when he decided to leave and went to the bar to pay his tab, Beckett grabbed him in the crotch, pulled him to the ground and wouldn't let go, even as bar patrons tried to break it up. When the two men were separated, Thomas looked down and realized the extent of his injuries.

"He could see both of his testicles hanging on the outside of his body," said Thomas' attorney, Carl Hughes. "He was wearing a pair of white shorts, which made it that much worse."

It took more than 60 stitches to close the wound, and police interviewed Thomas at a nearby hospital emergency room.

Beckett's attorney, Billy Bock, concedes that his client commented about Thomas' shirt, but said it was just good-natured ribbing and that he apologized to Thomas when it appeared to upset the Texas fan. Later, Bock said Thomas approached his client at the bar and threatened him.

"My client is a little man, and this guy (Thomas) is 30 to 40 pounds bigger than him," Bock said. "He's bigger, stronger, younger and probably faster, and he aggressively leaned in and touched my client and threatened to beat him up. ... My guy was defending himself and just took control of the situation."

Thomas' attorney disputes Beckett's version.

"That's total malarkey," Hughes said. "My client never said a word to him. He got up to pay and when he paid and left a tip, the guy grabbed him."

Beckett, a 53-year-old church deacon, federal auditor and former Army combat veteran, has pleaded not guilty. His next court appearance comes Oct. 4, two days before the Sooners and Horns tangle in their annual football game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

Thomas, who once lived in Houston and became a Texas fan during the heyday of star running back Earl Campbell, is still recovering from his injuries but has returned to work as a meat cutter at a Sam's Club warehouse store.

Like Beckett and Thomas, many fans of the two college squads never attended either university, but have come to identify so closely with these teams that they attach banners to their cars, wear team colors on game day and even have programmed their car horns to play school fight songs.

Dallas police Sgt. Andy Harvey, a 12-year veteran of the force, said it's not uncommon for fights to break out between fans of the two schools.

"People are passionate about their teams and their universities, and that's a good thing," he said, "but when you mix a real passionate sports fan and then get a little alcohol in there, sometimes it's not a good mix."

On both Texas and Oklahoma fan Web sites, boosters trade familiar tales of having their car tires slashed or windshields smashed for sporting the opposing team's sticker in enemy territory.

Assistant District Attorney Scott Rowland said the rivalry will have no bearing on the way the case is prosecuted.

"It appears that it played a part in the fight," he said, "but that won't play any more of a role in our handling of the case than would a fight over a girl or a car or a song on the jukebox."

[-kj]

Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow. Ow.

I'm not saying this was deserved. No one deserves to be beat up, especially to the point of having to have a wound closed in the testicular reigon.

But, you could question the man's intelligence for having worn the shirt there.

Still.... not deserved. And... ow.

[DEAD!]

But, you could question the man's intelligence for having worn the shirt there.

... well maybe he can hook up with the MIT student with the LED circuit on her shirt....

[JQK]

Ow.

I don't care if the man fu*ked this dude's wife, that is still beyond horrific.

Cut off an arm. Shoot him with a 12 gauge. Break his neck.

But never, ever, EVER mess with another man's marbles.

Ever.

Ow.

[powersurge]

You've got have some balls to wear a shirt like that into that bar....

...well atleast he HAD some balls.....

oh boy.

nevermind.

[leopard88]

Beckett, a 53-year-old church deacon, . . .

I'm guessing they don't have problems getting people to make offerings at his church.

[rainmaker17]

I went to a Texas-Oklahoma game back in the late '80s-early '90s. Now, I grew up in Big Ten country (my high school was less than a mile away from Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium), but the fans at that game were just dispicable. After UT-Austin won the game, I saw numerous UT fans who ran up to an eldery couple dressed in OU clothing and just screamed obscenities in their faces. Just horrific. Many other stories like that one as well.

I went to a lot of intense Purdue games growing up - both in football and basketball - but I have never seen pure evil like that.

Can't say I havent seen that myself, and it's a shame. I'd like to believe the "few bad apples" adage but you never know. I haven't attended a TX-OU game in years because you could just see the whole nastiness escalate every year. A lot of it is alcohol fueled. In fairness I'd say the bad blood at those games is equally crimson as it is burnt orange.

[koizim]

"We really don't like each other" Ugh.

What's next, "Red Sox-Yankees: They wouldn't even sit down for a Sunday brunch together."

[gordie_delini]

yikes. my balls hurt for this guy.

just.......

wow....

and ow......

don't mess with texas, oklahoma, or a man's balls......jesus christ...

thank god it's friendlier in Oregon.................................

[TruColor]

I went to a Texas-Oklahoma game back in the late '80s-early '90s. Now, I grew up in Big Ten country (my high school was less than a mile away from Purdue's Ross-Ade Stadium), but the fans at that game were just dispicable. After UT-Austin won the game, I saw numerous UT fans who ran up to an eldery couple dressed in OU clothing and just screamed obscenities in their faces. Just horrific. Many other stories like that one as well.

I went to a lot of intense Purdue games growing up - both in football and basketball - but I have never seen pure evil like that.

Can't say I havent seen that myself, and it's a shame. I'd like to believe the "few bad apples" adage but you never know. I haven't attended a TX-OU game in years because you could just see the whole nastiness escalate every year. A lot of it is alcohol fueled. In fairness I'd say the bad blood at those games is equally crimson as it is burnt orange.

Yeah - I should say that the hate went both ways. I didn't mean to single out UT fans only.

[illwauk]

I can see the tagline for this years Michigan/OSU game:

"We hate each other much, much more than Texas and Oklahoma hate each other."

Now THAT would be funny...

Possibly the dumbest legitimate shirt I've ever seen.

As bad as "No. 1 Dad" or "The World's Greatest Dad." Seinfeld fans can appreciate that.

And Oklahoma-Texas and Ohio State-Michigan have nothing on Alabama-Auburn. At least in the former two rivalries, the losers can go home and take solace in their home state.

'cept no one outside of Alabama give a damn about Bama-Auburn...

[gmat]

Aren?t all shirts that show one team versus another, lame? Aren?t they for the tool that is just showing off that he went to the game, while not wanting to rock the boat and pick a side? The people that buy these are the same politically correct :censored:s that don?t keep score during little league games and want to ban Indian imagery in sports. As the immortal George Carlin described them, they are pussification of America (for all my Canadian friends, you have always been like this so it is not a big deal to you).

[gordie_delini]

I was in Alabama on a road trip and I went into an Applebee's for dinner. The hostess, without saying 'hello' or 'how many' said 'Auburn or Alabama?'

I said "Aren't we in Alabama?"

She stormed off in a huff. Another hostess came up and said, "Alright, we like 'Bama fans!"

I said "I'm from Oregon."

She had a confused look on her face, as I assume I had a confused look on mine.

Shows you that regional rivalries are just that - regional

Not really relevant, but an amusing anecdote nonetheless.