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« Reply #3052 on: November 30, 2021, 11:32:13 AM »
I'm familiar with the 2009 version
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« Reply #3053 on: November 30, 2021, 01:14:53 PM »


This happens when you play an "away" game at your rival's place and they are atrocious.  At least they sold out.


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« Reply #3054 on: November 30, 2021, 02:13:26 PM »
Husker's stadium looks similar during the halftime show

many folks use the restrooms and clog the concessions or otherwise stretch their legs

many football fans are not huge marching band fans
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« Reply #3055 on: November 30, 2021, 06:05:37 PM »
In the 1924 pic you can clearly see the Capitol building in the background, in fact it's the only downtown building standing tall enough to see in that pic. The Capitol is south of the stadium by 8 bocks or so, and west by 3 blocks.

And in the 2009 pic you can see much of the downtown area, south of the stadium, with only the rotunda of the Capitol peaking out amongst the other buildings.

And now 12 years later, downtown already looks much different than THAT.
Got it.  I remembered an E-W street at the south end of the stadium and was mistaken that street in the lower right for it.  And, now that I look at it more closely, that street in the picture is wider than the one I was remembering.
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« Reply #3056 on: November 30, 2021, 06:50:09 PM »
Husker's stadium looks similar during the halftime show
I'd bet the fans remaining are not nearly all wearing the colors of the opposition.


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« Reply #3057 on: November 30, 2021, 06:58:47 PM »
you are correct, Sir
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« Reply #3058 on: November 30, 2021, 09:31:25 PM »
Got it.  I remembered an E-W street at the south end of the stadium and was mistaken that street in the lower right for it.  And, now that I look at it more closely, that street in the picture is wider than the one I was remembering.
It's sometimes a little odd that so many of us have regularly attended the TX-OU game, some of us even making it 20+ years in a row, and yet we don't know each others' home stadiums because the game is always at the Cotton Bowl.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Still, I've visited Norman before, I dated a girl who went to grad school there, and so I've at least seen your stadium in person.  Most Longhorns never have.

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« Reply #3059 on: December 01, 2021, 08:04:22 AM »
I would guess that more Sooners have seen DKR than Longhorns have seen GF/OMS because more Texans come to OU than Oklahomans go to UT.  But that's just a guess.
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« Reply #3060 on: December 01, 2021, 08:43:15 AM »
I would guess that more Sooners have seen DKR than Longhorns have seen GF/OMS because more Texans come to OU than Oklahomans go to UT.  But that's just a guess.

Yes that certainly could be true. 

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« Reply #3061 on: December 01, 2021, 11:10:30 AM »
I would guess that more Sooners have seen DKR than Longhorns have seen GF/OMS because more Texans come to OU than Oklahomans go to UT.  But that's just a guess.
If an Oklahoma person goes to UT, would that not make them a longhorn?  And vice versa?  


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« Reply #3062 on: December 01, 2021, 11:47:00 AM »
If an Oklahoma person goes to UT, would that not make them a longhorn?  And vice versa? 


I believe he's saying that a lot of native Texas  kids, have potentially seen UT-Austin while growing up in the state, even if they end up going to college at OU.  The reverse case is not as frequent, not as many native Oklahomans end up at  UT.


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« Reply #3063 on: December 01, 2021, 11:54:43 AM »
OU gives full rides to National Merit Semifinalists in the country.

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« Reply #3064 on: December 01, 2021, 07:24:25 PM »
I believe he's saying that a lot of native Texas  kids, have potentially seen UT-Austin while growing up in the state, even if they end up going to college at OU.  The reverse case is not as frequent, not as many native Oklahomans end up at  UT.
Yep.  That's what I was at least trying to say!
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« Reply #3065 on: December 01, 2021, 07:25:49 PM »
OU gives full rides to National Merit Semifinalists in the country.
I'm not sure that that is still the case.  That was one of former-prez David Boren's pet programs, but we're two guys down the line from him and I think that program may have gone to the chopping block.
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