"In the land of the pick-up truck and cream gravy for breakfast, down where the wind can blow through the walls of a diner and into the grieving lyrics of a country song on a jukebox - down there in dirt-kicking Big Eight territory - they played a football game on Thanksgiving Day that was mainly for the quarterbacks on the field and for self-styled gridiron intellectuals everywhere."
-Dan Jenkins, "Sports Illustrated," Dec. 6, 1971
Aaaahhhhh, brings back memories of those other back to back championship years.....
Back when you could inject an orange full of vodka, knowing that after you were done with your screwdriver, you weren't going to be the only one to huck it onto the field while Oklahoma was scheming up some post game felonies to drown their sorrows...