What a great game! I feel like I played in it as I’m worn out this morning from that tumultuous second half of basketball.
I ended up with some of my friends in Gracemont, Oklahoma of all places to watch the game at the Halftime Sports Bar. Great place to eat fried chicken and okra pretty much like Eichens.
The place was packed and they unfortunately had a one-man music act who literally played through both the TCU-Kansas and OU-Tech games. His stamina was amazing. This guy was oblivious to the importance of the OU game.
A couple of my friends bailed out at halftime to find a bar without this guy playing music. But I stayed because I figured at some point out of complete human fatigue he would stop playing and possibly pass out.
I mean this guy thought he was Peter Frampton up there. Sigh.
I had on my OU basketball cap and went up to him and said, “Listen, if I tip you fifty bucks right now would you stop playing for the second half?”
This guy had on some sort of O-State shirt on it with Mike Gundy’s face on it and says, ” You’re not enjoying the music?”
I said, “The music itself is fine. I get it…you like those three same Peter Frampton songs. It’s just that you haven’t stopped playing those three songs for three hours straight? Could we have a break? This is a big game.”
I can’t even describe the look he gave me as he struck into another Peter Frampton song. It wasn’t a good look, I’m pretty sure of that. But he didn’t have me banned from the bar. I’ll give him that much.
I go out to my car and get my radio head-phones on to drown this guy out and watch the second half of the game there at the Halftime Sports Bar in Gracemont, Oklahoma.
I’ve almost taken a page here and I haven’t even gotten to the game itself.
So…what I think I’ll do is break here and comeback and recap this great game later today as I contemplate all of my thoughts on OU’s gutty performance…which in my book has them in the NCAA Tournament field.
So much emotional irony for me last night having a guy wearing a Mike Gundy Mullet King shirt playing the same three Peter Frampton songs over and over while drowning out the wonderful broadcast with Fran Fraschilla’s breakdown on the broadcast.
I’ll recap the game latter because it’s the right thing to do given how hard OU played last night. I’m proud of them.
BOOMER!
Try this sometime for three straight hours and see what it does to you?
I dare you.