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What exactly is the Red River Rivalry?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:28 am
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:28 am
I only know of the Red River Shootout. When did the name change??
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Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:31 am to JayAg
Years ago (2005ish), because media decided "shootout" was triggering (pardon the pun) and insensitive.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:39 am to JayAg
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I only know of the Red River Shootout. When did the name change??
I believe the Shootout is played a couple weeks before the Cocktail Party.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:45 am to JayAg
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When did the name change??
About the same time the left media realized you can't tell the sex of a newborn baby and that mention of any word remotely connected with ammunition or firearms meant you were a nazi-in-training.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:46 am to JayAg
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Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:47 am to AUTiger789
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I believe the Shootout is played a couple weeks before the Cocktail Party.
there ya go!
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:48 am to JayAg
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I only know of the Red River Shootout. When did the name change??
It wasn't so much about the game. It was about Deep Ellum the night before. Folks needed to be reminded this is a rivalry, not a shootout.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:51 am to Sooner a Reb
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Years ago (2005ish), because media decided "shootout" was triggering (pardon the pun) and insensitive.
Well, with wokism being phased out. You would think they would bring the shootout part back.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:51 am to MtVernon
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Folks needed to be reminded this is a rivalry, not a shootout.
Which folks are these?
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:52 am to JayAg
I always liked it being called the shootout because that’s a football term for a specific type of game. It’s like low scoring hard nosed defensive battles are not even allowed in this rivalry
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:54 am to JayAg
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because media decided
More likely, it came from the pussies in Austin.
Rodo
Posted on 10/9/25 at 11:57 am to JayAg
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What exactly is the Red River Rivalry?
If you want to be exact, it is the Allstate Red River Rivalry, played on the grounds of the Texas State Fair.
Not to be confused with the State Fair Classic, which is a football game also played at the Texas State Fair between Grambling and Prairie View.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:05 pm to Sooner a Reb
The last crazy one I remember was Anthony Richardson couldn’t be nicknamed “AR” anymore because it’s a gun. I wonder how much of it was his idea to apologize for his nickname at a presser and the AR pendant he had on prior, and how much was that Disney and the school forcing him.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:09 pm to MtVernon
Are you kidding? The games were always shootouts. High scoring. First team to punt twice usually lost. Defense was optional. It was the perfect name for the rivalry until media people tied it to gun violence.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:14 pm to Rodo
quote:We all hate it too.
More likely, it came from the pussies in Austin.
Rodo
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:17 pm to JayAg
Aggie sure is interested in this Texas/OU game. Funny thing, it would better serve Aggie if OU won. But it would ruin Aggie's tailgate party.
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:20 pm to genro
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I always liked it being called the shootout because that’s a football term for a specific type of game. It’s like low scoring hard nosed defensive battles are not even allowed in this rivalry
But I think the hard nosed D games are the BEST, and they have those too.
Think about it- the best Westerns are not the all hell breaks loose multi party gunests. It's when there's just two guys facing off in the end- good vs evil.
except here it's evil vs evil.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 12:22 pm
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:21 pm to MtVernon
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Aggie sure is interested in this Texas/OU game. . .
Scouting our end of season opponent.
Occam's Razor and all...
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:43 pm to Sooner a Reb
Yep that was lame. But the pendulum has swung back and nobody gives a damn about PC terms.
I’m glad the RRS is back
I’m glad the RRS is back
Posted on 10/9/25 at 12:44 pm to Sooner a Reb
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Years ago (2005ish), because media decided "shootout" was triggering (pardon the pun) and insensitive.
We should ignore that and use "Shootout" instead.
On a related note, the media also change the name of the Ole Miss - MSU rivalry to the "Egg Bowl," when the real name is "The Battle for the Golden Egg." The former saved some typing, I guess.
This post was edited on 10/9/25 at 12:46 pm
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