http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/09/11/oklahoma.texas.fight.ap/index.html?cnn=yes
I think I speak for guys everywhere when I say - Damn you Delta! I did not need that image in my head!
And the guy was a church deacon. Imagine what he would have done if he wasn't!
JH
Anyone find that avocado ad on the side oddly appropriate?
[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]And the guy was a church deacon. Imagine what he would have done if he wasn't![/quote]
He was also a 53-year-old combat veteran. Do you hear "tripwire vet"? Maybe he imagined Charlie wore orange pajamas.
Talk about prissy wire service editors putting quotes around a phrase everyone knows:
>>> 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.
QuoteAssistant 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."
Does Olbermann have an "Understatement of the Week"?
I smell a defense. "General environmental insanity." You gather up every story of violent nuttiness from the OK-TX rivalry (there must be thousands) and claim you were swept up in a raging, collective epidemic. "Well, you can do what you want with us, but I won't sit here and listen to you bad-mouth... the United States of America! Gentlemen!"