Gunga Din
| Favorite team: | Oklahoma  |
| Location: | Oklahoma |
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| Number of Posts: | 3657 |
| Registered on: | 7/6/2020 |
| Online Status: | Online |
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Give Me A Chamber of Commerce Slogan For Your Favorite College Town...
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/12/26 at 7:00 am
I'll start....
Norman, Oklahoma
"Safest 7-11s and Donut Stores in America"...
Norman, Oklahoma
"Safest 7-11s and Donut Stores in America"...
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re: Good job SEC people! You guys are hospitable…
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/12/26 at 6:58 am to HClassof84
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The nicest people I ever met at an away SEC football game were Auburn people.
Can't wait until this post hits Lincoln, Nebraska... :lol:
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You can love rivalries without hating the other side. I know many will disagree. Plenty of Texas fans I know absolutely despise Oklahoma and Aggie fans. I don't get it and I never have.
Why don't you hate us? Are we not good enough for you to hate??? :lol:
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State & Ole Miss are rivals but I do not dislike Ole Miss. When I was young I did but in my old age, I actually want both of our teams to win so that when we play each other, the game means more.
I actually laughed when I read this...
I can't count how many times when I was young...
Some older guy would say..."I'm an OU fan... but I root for OSU when they aren't playing OU because I want all the state schools to do well."
I used to think "What the hell is wrong with you old man?".
re: Dellenger: LSU’s top 40 donors invited to governor’s mansion over financial future
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/9/26 at 3:08 pm to That LSU Guy
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Huey P. Long has entered the chat.
Here is an interesting fact for you...
Huey P. Long attended law school at OU and flunked out...
He blamed it on the wild living he did while in Norman.
You all never knew that Norman was a den of iniquity I bet. :lol:
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OU was already playing one tough out-of-conference opponent with Texas, so they didn't want to add another possible loss to their schedule
I realize this is a smart arse answer...
But OU played Notre Dame a number of times when ND was really good. They played USC a bunch of times when they were really good. They played Ohio State in a home and home when they were really good. Those three programs were as good or better than anyone in the SEC...
It just seems strange that they never scheduled any SEC teams.
re: Off Season Topic - Fight Songs
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/9/26 at 2:57 pm to Eldodroptop
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The fight song “Texas Fight” was patterned after “Taps”.
When I hear "Texas Fight"...
I envision F Troop charging a bunch of elephants in heat....
But its not a bad fight song.
The ones that are bad are the ones you can hear over and over again and never recognize.
re: Who will have the best backfield in the SEC this season?
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/9/26 at 7:38 am to SECCaptain
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Hollywood Smothers and Raleek Brown
Hollywood Smothers will be the first player in history to have played for OU and then Texas... Interestingly, there have been about six or seven Texas players who have later played for OU (depending on if you count Joe Don Looney)...
And Raleek Brown was a long time OU commit who decommitted when Lincoln Riley left OU...
It will be interesting this year because OU fans are going to be pretty familiar with the Texas running back duo.
re: Most SEC fans say something stupid about SPORTS to make it to Message Board Geniuses
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/9/26 at 7:30 am to Diamondawg
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Yeah - go for it. The prep is way worse than the procedure. That way you won't have to have a driver. Be careful driving with a pop cycle, though.
I had to do my first one in February...
Prep was just a nuisance more than anything. And the drink tasted like watered down/flat Sprite.
Was out for about 20 minutes for the procedure. They did quite a bit of work and told me I'll have to get another one in three years.
But at least I don't have to do the crap in a box thing anymore. I had a real hard time doing that.
re: Older LSU fans or any older fan
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/9/26 at 7:25 am to TigerintheNO
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WWL 870 out of New Orleans, is probably one of few you could get in Arkansas. Deke Bellavia was known as the Chief on that station.
Believe it or not... I remember listening to LSU games at night over that station in northern Oklahoma. As a kid I remember how I thought the PBP guy talked funny...
And later in life I actually became friends with a guy who was from Cordell, OK (Western OK) who was an LSU fan. I asked him how come he was an LSU fan and he told me it was because he listened to those games on Saturday night...
I think that signal is still going and you can still get it up here at night.
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Golden Flake potato chips used to be on Bear Bryant’s Sunday football review. Are they still interested?
I love watching those old shows. Just for the intro... Just hilarious to watch those guys eating out of a big bowl of potato chips and taking swigs from a coke bottle.
re: Top 5 Longest Winning Streaks current SEC Teams
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/9/26 at 7:15 am to armtackledawg
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An SEC winning streak in which you did not beat a single SEC team?
I have always thought it was strange how OU (and the Big 7/8 for that matter)...never played SEC teams in the regular season.
The only SEC teams OU played post WWII and before 2000 were a home with Vandy and Kentucky in the late '70s and early '80s.
OU played PAC teams, ACC teams, Big 10 teams, and what were known as independent teams (FSU, Miami, ND, Pitt, Syracuse)... but never SEC teams.
re: Regarding Pete Golding's departure from Alabama...
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/8/26 at 6:43 am to ManBearSharkReb
[quote]His wife is from the delta. Takes like 5 seconds to find out Pete went to delta state.[/quote]
Sounds like Mama's big sister was calling Pete home?
Sounds like Mama's big sister was calling Pete home?
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Only parents and Arkansas fans care about T&F… guess that’s why the Olympics are so popular internationally
I think one thing to consider here...
Arkansas has arguably the best T&F program in NCAA history...
Yet despite all that... they have only ONE Olympic gold medalist in an individual event.
Which is just to demonstrate how hard it is to win an Olympic medal in T&F.
re: Soccer is like Baseball
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/7/26 at 7:29 am to SoonerKA1999
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How dare you compare America's Pastime to Commieball.
I was waiting for that one...LOL.
I remember the first time I ever saw an organized soccer game. It was in the fall of 1975 at Nimitz Jr. High in Tulsa Oklahoma...
We had just run regional cross country and next to our course... a soccer game was going on.
Our coach who was a real conservative Christian guy looked over at it and said... "that is not an American game"...and shook his head in disgust.
I was just thinking that Tulsa was maybe just a more upscale and sophisticated place than our town.
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State & Ole Miss are much more enjoyable campuses just for the fact that you are not crammed amongst 50-60-70-80+ thousand people. Smaller campuses offer a much more personal experience for students.
There is one thing I will never forget when I was on the MSU campus...
And that was how I felt I had room to breathe. Still plenty of open areas and space. There weren't parking garages everywhere that there wasn't a building.
One of the few campuses still like that.
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Alabama went from the early 70's to mid 90's not moving much at all in that regard. The Alabama I went to looked similar to the one my parents went to. It was such a cool place before all the condos perked up in the last 20 years with the all the cool little houses and neighborhoods around the stadium, all with porches. Good times. Whole city looks different now.
This is the saddest trend I've seen over the last couple of decades. All just generic looking high rise crap. It has just ruined the ambiance of many campuses.
West University district in Austin is now nothing but that stuff. Texas Tech has a whole district just east of campus that came up out of nowhere. A bunch of five story condos with retail in the bottom.
I went to Notre Dame about 15 years ago... and they were building that crap up just across the street south of campus. Where is this beautiful old campus with the Golden Dome facing these two sets of condos with stores in the bottom of them.
I am grateful that at OU... that stuff is not happening right next to campus. There is one street... Jenkins.. NE of campus where they are doing some scaled down projects that fit the neighborhood... but other than that... the five story projects are pretty much located away from the main part of campus and on the other side of the OU golf course.
And to think... I was flipping through the channels and watched a little bit of a Daniel Boone episode today.
re: At a cookout
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/4/26 at 1:29 pm to BootyFett69
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Neighbor is an Ole Miss fan
Dude is fat as frick. Do better, thanks.
I think that guy actually tours the country and appears at cookouts wearing various team gear.
Urf is short for Urford?
re: Which of your alumni are you most proud of?
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/3/26 at 2:05 pm to Faurot fodder
For OU... Candy Loving... Playboy's 25th (Silver) anniversary playmate.
She was picked after a nation wide search which was conducted during 1978.
I am convinced she won it because of her name... Which actually was Candy Loving.
Candy was one of those rare women who is tall and skinny.... except for her chest.... which was not skinny.
She was picked after a nation wide search which was conducted during 1978.
I am convinced she won it because of her name... Which actually was Candy Loving.
Candy was one of those rare women who is tall and skinny.... except for her chest.... which was not skinny.
re: Football (American Football)
Posted by Gunga Din on 7/3/26 at 6:56 am to LSUtigerNVegas9
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Soccer requires a different set of skills to be truly world class. While being big, strong, fast, and athletic helps in soccer it’s not an end all be all. In football if a player is big, fast, and agile he’ll win most 1v1. In soccer it’s not that way. The easiest way to think of it is which American athlete would be good at baseball, football, and basketball at a high level. Charlie Ward probably could have been a hell of a forward. Danny Ainge would have been a tempo setting play making midfielder. Jordan could have been one of the best strikers of all time. Le’Bron James would be a great center back. Basketball and baseball players fundamentally translate better to soccer than football does. It takes more hand eye coordination to be successful at soccer than it does for football. These world class soccer player’s are on a different planet than any American witnesses first hand.
The one thing Americans don't understand about soccer is the simple fact that soccer players have to run so much during a game with limited breaks. That is one reason soccer players look the way they do. Not like sprinters or football players...
Soccer guys look rather ordinary because their sport selects for prolonged running as much as it does the other skills it requires.
People need to kind of see soccer like they would if football still played one platoon with limited substitution. If football were still played that way... you would see guys who looked more ordinary because football would select as much for endurance as it does the other things it selects for.
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