Month: September 2017

Caligula’s Big Week of Being a Dem Again…Kinda

I had to take a few days off from the blog. Harvey, Irma, and Caligula were too much for me all rolled into a fortnight. Seriously, the world seems surreal to me right now. Like I’m drunk and can’t see anything with much of any clarity. Our country has gone crazy. I can’t sleep much and I’m having some bizarre dreams.

I have to admit though, I did laugh my ass off when Caligula joined forces with Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi this week. Will it continue to happen? Maybe. Caligula likes to win and in case you haven’t noticed the Republican party despite having won all these governorships and state legislatures can’t govern. Oklahoma is a prime example. It is the most shit ass run state government imaginable. Borderline third world nation. If only Puerto Rico can become a state then Oklahoma can rank 51st in education and in overall adult stupidity. So—eventually if Caligula wants a few things on his presidential resume he might need to hook up with the Dems here and there.

The simple problem with the Republican party is simple—they are held hostage by the American Freedom Caucus and these idiots will never allow any mainstream legislation to pass through their gauntlet. Keep in mind, this group for the most part supported Ted Cruz—enough said. Math, science, reading, globalization…nah—who would need any of that bullshit.

Maybe I’ll be better when the Thunder start playing again. It’s not like I enjoy writing about this shit on my basketball blog, but it’s like watching a car burn on the side of the road. I can’t take my eyes off it even though I swear I will.

I don’t think I’ve had Reverend Al on my blog to date. This might be the right spot. Is Caligula a Dem? Nah. He’s nothing. He doesn’t believe in anything except pleasing himself. He has no ideology. I wonder which former great GOP prez Mike Pence will compare Caligula to this week? Actually, this would be the week to compare him to TR in that what transpired this week was somewhat Bull Moose Partyesque. But none of the core know anything about Teddy Roosevelt so don’t waste it.

Sooners Start Lincoln Riley Era With Win Over UTEP

OU last won a football national championship in 2000 when it opened the season with a 55-14 win over UTEP. It was Bob Stoops’ second season and the Sooners were coming off a 7-5 season in which the Sooners lost to Ole Miss in the Independence Bowl. I was there with my dad, so I remember that New Years Eve well when a near drunken riot broke out in the stands in that piece of junk Shreveport stadium which would be subpar for the upper tier Texas high school programs. None of us had any inkling whatsoever that the Sooners would be twelve months away from winning the national championship.

Obviously, Lincoln Riley and his Sooners have a Herculean task in front of them against the Buckeyes next week in Columbus, but if you look at this team it kind of has that same feel as the no names from 2000 who went on to beat Florida State 13-2 in the national championship game. Back in the opener, not too many took notice of linebacker Torrance Marshall’s suspension, but as the season wore on–Marshall and fellow linebacker Rocky Calmus became the competitive soul of the team.

I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the 2000 opener against UTEP and remember the names of what was basically a blue collar team which had great chemistry and somehow found a way to win it all.

Any real OU fan gets goose bumps when they watch this Torrance Marshall pick six — which basically saved the season in College Station versus the A&M Aggies. Probably the single most defining play in the Bob Stoops era at OU.

Brent with the call.