It almost sounds like Cousin Fred has become a believer in the Evil, Capricious Football Gods.
No, dear jcg, you of course know well that's a preoccupation exclusively reserved for you burnt orange types, with your cries of "Doomed" and overall lack of froth even when you win coz you don't want to piss off the EFCGs by overtly exposing your hookem-inflated egos, but the joke of course is on you as there's just no way y'all can cover up that Texas sized arrogance that just constantly exudes from every crevice of your collective cowbrained unconscious, and will continue to seep forth unchecked, even after years of inexorable five and sevening and general gnashing of those bovine molars. The EFCGs will always just be a Texas mental kind of thing.
On my much more humble Sooner end of things, I do indeed get nervous when someone predicts an easy win for OU, because ... well everyone here knows good and well why. OU going into a game with big odds is sometimes an invitation to the nightmare that seems uniquely ours. Give a Sooner a big favorable and we'll just kind of kick back and say, oh, yeah, we've got this, and that's when disaster is most likely to strike. It's not Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn or Ohio State that gives us problems ... it's TCU, Texas in their down years, Baylor lately, and Texas Tech on occasion, all teams we should otherwise beat, that cause the biggest Sooner headaches. I've been watching this beloved program of ours for nearly 50 years, and I've seen too many Sooner eggs laid right there on the field when they're predicted to have an easy win. My first OU game attended in Norman was the 23-3 upset by Kansas in 1975, a year we beat Pittsburgh, Miami (Fla), Texas, Colorado, Nebraska and Michigan.
In those moments, the O in OU becomes un huevo, and we in Soonerdom all have to eat it raw. It's kinda like that Frazier ending song,
Hey baby I hear the blues a-callin Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs ... [stuff deleted] ... scrambled eggs all over my face! OU has left the ... stadium.
