Texas Fans Are Mad As...?
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It’s not often you can write about Paddy Chayevsky and Bevo in the same sentence but check out this video making the rounds that seems to indicate Texas fans have not quite gotten over getting left out of Saturday’s Big 12 title game in Kansas City.
Peter Finch’s classic portrayal of a deranged television anchor in the move ‘Network’ is the inspiration for this take on the ‘outrage’ of the Big 12 using the BCS standings to break a three-way tie in the South Division involving Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
Texas beat Oklahoma when the schools met in October, but Oklahoma got the inside track to the national title when it finished higher in the BCS standings.
If Oklahoma ends up beating Missouri and goes on to win the national title, expect a workup on Twisted Sister’s head-banger: ‘We’re Not Going To Take It.’
Forget ‘The Eyes Of Texas.’ This might become the school’s new fight song:
Oh we’re not gonna take it (Texas 45, Oklahoma 35) No, we ain’t gonna take it (How about bolting to the Pac-10?) We’re not gonna take it anymore (Moving TV package to Versus)We’ve got the right to choose (Who chose that crummy Big 12 tiebreaker rule?) And there ain’t no way we’ll lose it (Lost to Texas Tech, though) Oh we’re not going to take it anymore (Have fun in the Fiesta Bowl).
-- Chris Dufresne