The first game of the season is always fun. There's been an aching absense of football and time for all the hoopla and pagentry to start. Each campus has high hopes that this year's team is going to be the best, and University of Oklahoma is at the top of that list!!!
So here's my take on the first game (and by the way, I love OU football).
First you have to have the tickets. This is a major thing. Forgetting the tickets can set the whole day askew and make every one very testy!!!
OK - great - got the tickets.
Now to the car to travel to the game. We live just north of OU, so there's a trek through the city - here's our capital of the state of Oklahoma. We just recently got a dome for our capital, a huge controversy, but now that it's done it's really neat looking. I love it!
Then through the urban city....there's a boom (although not like the one in the late 70's), going on, and downtown is a great place for young kids to live. Lots of new construction going on. If I was a kid this is where I would live. But then when I was a young pup in the city, I worked downtown and thought I was the Mary Tyler Moore of the city!!!
Here's a phone number if you want to move into this place! Looks good to me
Now to Norman - here's the exit - I guess OU Stadium gives it away - this looks like a good place to exit!
Aaaaaaahhhh - the halls of higher learning!!! The campus is filled with beautiful buildings like this one. You think this is pretty - the inside is gorgeous, but more on that later....time for football.
Oh Walt....I have something to ask...
Oh Waaaaaaaaaaaaalt......getting on the phone doesn't let you off the hook!
Walt - wait just a minute - can you tell how anxious he is to hear every word I have to say!!!
Besides....I need to find what in the world these guys are doing?
This is part of the strange beahvior that happens around football season...guys setting up all sorts of mechanical, technical dishes, tvs and other equipment by which to have the best setup to watch all football games throughout the US. I'm sure they could get Mars if they had a football game!
I would like to ask Walt about this behavior, however he is already at Louie's and caught up in another game. I'm still here trying to figure out how they are going to get this hooked up and if it's going to work. It does in the end (I went back by), but it's pretty amazing!
