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HBick
10/1/2010, 09:57 AM
On Wednesday, you should of heard the people talking about this on campus.

Sorry if it's a duplicate, but I'm too lazy to look for it, give me a break, I survived Stoolwater last night.

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/content/texas-vs-ou


Editor’s note: Each year before the Red River Rivalry, The Daily Texan exchanges editorials with OU’s student newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily.

OU sucks

by The Daily Texan Editorial Board

If you are reading this, congratulations. You’ve already surpassed what we thought to be the mental capacity of an OU student.

We at The Daily Texan think it’s just adorable that your football team would care to play us once again despite losing four out of the past five seasons.

While A&M is our disappointing little brother, always trying so hard but laughably failing to be significant, we feel that your university is more akin to our awkward uncle — he used to be really buff in the 1980s when he was taking steroids but is now a shell of his former self, constantly asking others to pull his finger for attention.

I’ll level with you — we’ve never really taken the time to consider the idea of Oklahoma, so we figured we’d just Google it. What we found was a Broadway play and a bunch of public urination arrest warrants.

We would comment on the inferiority of the members of your team individually, but we can’t seem to think of any of note. Plus, we hate to criticize our fellow Texans.

Regardless, we don’t understand why you feel so much hostility toward our school — after all, we did send Kevin Durant on a mission trip to Oklahoma City to attempt to make your state relevant. God bless his charitable heart.

It’s just not in our nature to be combative. Longhorns are lovers, not fighters. After all, Men’s Health Magazine recently named Austin the most sexually active city in America. We tried to find Norman on the list, but then we realized farm animals weren’t accounted for in the study.

We feel it’s unnecessary to constantly hold your horns downward while playing against other teams, regardless of how flattering we may find it. It’s a cute gesture to always symbolize your status below us in the conference rankings, but the obsessive acknowledgment of our superior university isn’t necessary. Plus, we already get plenty of media exposure as it is, as you will learn once “television” finds its way to Oklahoma.

Really, it’s not that we hate OU or anything; we’re just hurt that your state has yet to issue an apology to the nation for producing Toby Keith. Shame on you.

I suppose this is the part where we compare the world-class academics at the University of Texas to whatever you have at OU. We could discuss the breakthrough research done in Austin, the competitively-selected student body or the dozens of nationally renowned programs at our university, but this would all be a waste of time. Comparing the quality of education at UT-Austin to the University of Oklahoma would be like pitting Heidi Klum against a microwave in a beauty contest.

We’re sure you’ll poke fun at our disappointing loss to UCLA last weekend. Perhaps the toughest part of the upset is that it ended our 36-week streak of being ranked in the top 10. Admittedly, our fans took the defeat pretty hard. We wish we could have taken it in stride like your fan base does, but we just aren’t used to losing big games. As sad as we are, we realize all streaks must end. After all, y’all won a bowl game last year.

Honestly, we’re sure that you’re all kind, hard-working individuals, but this simply does not detract from the fact that on an empirical level, you suck.

Good luck at the game and hook ‘em horns!

Love always and forever and ever,
The Daily Texan

No we don't

by The Oklahoma Daily Editorial Board

We would like to extend our sincerest condolences to you, University of Texas.

While we relished in UCLA’s 34-12 utter stompdown of your usually decent football team, we couldn’t help but feel a little sorry for you.

There’s no doubt we’ve had our own problems and many of our players are still inexperienced, but there’s a crucial difference: We’ve won all of our games this year.

What happened, Texas? When the underdog comes biting, you roll over and die like a little punk-*** bitch?

Please don’t die on us like that Saturday; at least make it a good game.

We love the Red River Rivalry. It sucks a little bit because we have to go to Texas, but at least the game is a lot of fun to watch, because no matter who wins, both teams are often on the same level of play.

During the previous decade, the games have usually been within 10 to 20 points, providing some great entertainment — besides our 2000 and 2003 thrashings we delivered to you — 63-14 and 65-13, respectively — those games just got old.

So please, UT, make our forced exodus to your cesspool of a state worth it, because there’s really no other reason to be there.

Here are just a few developments out of your state that prove it could be fairly titled the “scrotum of America.”

Take the Texas State Board of Education, which wants to replace public school teachers with little “Führers.”

The board’s latest attempt to reshape history to fit its xenophobic worldview is its approval to strike out “pro-Islam” biases in world history textbooks.

The resolution says textbooks that devote more lines to Islamic beliefs and practices than to Christian ones should no longer be used.

Yes, we remember finding ourselves strangely willing to convert to Islam after reading about the Ottoman Empire in Glencoe’s world history textbook.

Come on Texas, how could you let Islam gain an edge over our nation’s dominant religion? In place of the lines about Islam, Texas ought to add more about Christianity’s brutal smackdown of Islam during the Crusades. That way, students will know whose God is tougher. No other time period displays Christianity’s superior status. As Jesus said, “Let he who is without sin kick the first ***.”

You wouldn’t think Texas would have such a bigotry problem, given the fact that UT only accepts the top 10 percent of high school graduates. But this elitist mindset just fuels the state’s blatant “brain drain” problem.

Obviously, this doesn’t stop the best and brightest from fleeing the state in droves, leaving only those who ought to readily admit their KKK membership.

Still not convinced you live in hell incarnate? Your very own state Sen. Eliot Shapleigh, D-El Paso, has even admitted Texas is the worst state in the nation.

In his report, generously titled “Texas on the Brink” (we would’ve preferred “Texas – What Else Could You Expect?”), Shapleigh gives a few statistics on your state’s utter failure at existence. Here are a few favorites:

-No wonder your state education blows — teacher pay ranks 49th in the nation.
-How’s that abstinence-only education working out for you? At least 80,050 teen moms, reported by the Guttmacher Institute in 2004, no longer believe storks deliver babies. Congratulations, you rank first in the nation in teen pregnancy!
-Democracy? Why bother? Citizens of Texas don’t have any hope that things will change: The number of registered voters who actually vote is last in the nation. And Texas ranks third in the nation for number of convicted public officials.
-Obamacare won’t kill your citizens; Texas politicians are happy to do it for you. Those who voted against the federal health care bill weren’t worried about death panels; they just didn’t want to abandon their state-of-the-art, citizen-killing health system. A whole quarter of the Texas population is uninsured.
We disagree with all of those who fought to make sure Texas didn’t secede from the Union. The U.S. would have been better off without you.

HBick
10/1/2010, 10:03 AM
I did laugh out loud at this "Regardless, we don’t understand why you feel so much hostility toward our school — after all, we did send Kevin Durant on a mission trip to Oklahoma City to attempt to make your state relevant. God bless his charitable heart."

Sooner04
10/1/2010, 10:10 AM
Our paper got owned by their paper.

cdlbdd
10/1/2010, 10:12 AM
Our paper got owned by their paper.

Agreed.

jumperstop
10/1/2010, 10:14 AM
Journalism? At least the OU article had relavent info in an attempt to witty, albeit stupid. The Texas one was so poorly written it seems to have just been copy and pasted from Hornfans or something of the like.

Sooner04
10/1/2010, 10:17 AM
Journalism? At least the OU article had relavent info in an attempt to witty, albeit stupid. The Texas one was so poorly written it seems to have just been copy and pasted from Hornfans or something of the like.
I disagree. It looked liked ours was crafted through Google. Find a link where somebody said something bad about Texas and throw it into our rebuttal. To me, ours had no flow. To me, ours looked like something crafted by an 8th grader who realized at midnight his homework wasn't complete.

Ours was absolutely terrible. I was embarrassed before I finished reading it.

SoonerPr8r
10/1/2010, 10:17 AM
Wow totally disappointed in the Daily's response. It was more about politics than football. Most of those statistics don't apply to the hippies in Austin anyway. They are just a little slice of california in the south. Smack rebuttal fail.

humblesooner
10/1/2010, 10:19 AM
Unfortunately, I think Texas won the Smack-down. The OK article was difficult to stay with.

PS:
Texas didn't send Kevin Durant anywhere, especially not to OK.

All the Men's Health magazines named Austin the most sexually active city in America? I don't even know where to begin!!! Not saying he's wrong, I just don't know where to begin.

No apologies are necessary for Toby Keith anywhere outside of Texas. Now Matt Mygodimgay, that's another story.

And I just love Academic Smack - as if it's relevant tomorrow. Plus, I think our history of Rhodes Scholars can hold their own against "Heidi Klum".

As for the "cute gesture" that he thinks symbolizes OU's status below uterus in the rankings? Well if by "below" he means has won the conference 3 times as much as his whores..uh...whorns, then he would be right.

OU's mentality is "If you aren't #1, you aren't where you want to be". Texas? We'll take 36 weeks in the top 10. Really?

I will give him credit for using Google instead of Wiki. However, when they actually start offering Innerweb 101 in Austin, they will learn the complexities of tools on Google. If he wants more than the musical and police reports, he might have to click on more than two of the 5 million links provided.

jumperstop
10/1/2010, 10:19 AM
I disagree. It looked liked ours was crafted through Google. Find a link where somebody said something bad about Texas and throw it into our rebuttal. To me, ours had no flow. To me, ours looked like something crafted by an 8th grader who realized at midnight his homework wasn't complete.

Neither was great, but the Daily's tried to use something other than 'OU sucks' and little kid jokes without facts to make fun of someone elses teams. School papers, what do you expect....

jumperstop
10/1/2010, 10:22 AM
I disagree. It looked liked ours was crafted through Google. Find a link where somebody said something bad about Texas and throw it into our rebuttal. To me, ours had no flow. To me, ours looked like something crafted by an 8th grader who realized at midnight his homework wasn't complete.

Ours was absolutely terrible. I was embarrassed before I finished reading it.

And their author said that he crafted thiers with google, just a bit better than the Daily's did. Lol

Look where good journalism has gone these days. I'm great with google does that mean I could be a journalist?

PDXsooner
10/1/2010, 10:22 AM
They won that one. Why on earth would the OU paper try to go the political route? As if OKlahoma differs in that area?

soonersweetie
10/1/2010, 11:09 AM
Yep, texas won that one. Man, that's hard for me to say. I was an OU Journalism major.

As previously mentioned, no flow to OU's, very choppy, nothing really to do with football and our teams.

badger
10/1/2010, 11:19 AM
A smackdown against Texas and no mention of the fact that we have more Big 12 trophies, more national championship trophies AND more Heisman Trophies? For shame. I think we could write a better one here!

Anyone want to get it started?

OklahomaTuba
10/1/2010, 11:22 AM
WTF was that?

rainiersooner
10/1/2010, 11:46 AM
I was embarrassed before I finished reading it.

I actually didn't even finish reading it. Wow, that was weak.

mightysooner
10/1/2010, 11:55 AM
Our paper got owned by their paper.


^^^^ This. Our response sucked. Whomever responded on our behalf was just an axe grinding liberal retard who missed the entire point of the exchange completely.

oksoonerdave
10/1/2010, 12:13 PM
Did the OU writer ever attend or even watch an OU Football game? What a chance to put it to them and came up miserable fail.

I love it when * says they won the last four out of five games conveniently not mentioning the six game win streak for OU. How bout how OU won the seven out of the last eleven games.

PalmBeachSooner
10/1/2010, 12:46 PM
"It’s just not in our nature to be combative. Longhorns are lovers, not fighters. After all, Men’s Health Magazine recently named Austin the most sexually active city in America. We tried to find Norman on the list, but then we realized farm animals weren’t accounted for in the study."

Actually, Austin is the best city in America for a gay man to find a partner. True story.

agoo758
10/1/2010, 12:55 PM
Islam and the Crusades?? I thought I just got out my ****ing Eastern Civ. class.

jumperstop
10/1/2010, 01:05 PM
"It’s just not in our nature to be combative. Longhorns are lovers, not fighters. After all, Men’s Health Magazine recently named Austin the most sexually active city in America. We tried to find Norman on the list, but then we realized farm animals weren’t accounted for in the study."

Actually, Austin is the best city in America for a gay man to find a partner. True story.

Lol, and I like how he totes the fact that they are the most sexual active city as a good thing. Sounds like he cited an article talking about spread of STD's...

MR2-Sooner86
10/1/2010, 01:15 PM
Somebody get some old National Lampoon magazines to the OU writing staff and show them what real satire is. Jesus they let the Texas paper butt **** them up one side and down the other. Hell I'm not even a journalism student but I KNOW I could write a better article by myself and their "staff" wrote this!? Jesus I'd expect that from OSU but NOT from OU.

WildBlueSooner
10/1/2010, 01:19 PM
:stunned: This is garbage!

jumperstop
10/1/2010, 01:23 PM
It's the Daily, I think you guys are expecting too much...

Crucifax Autumn
10/1/2010, 01:36 PM
Theirs was better and for that I give them their win of the week. We'll take ours Saturday.

OUby35
10/1/2010, 02:06 PM
Here is what I wish they would have said:

Dearest Daily Texan Editorial Board,

Color me impressed that you wrote that all by yourself. I’m guessing you outsourced it but good job. As for winning streaks we’ve won six out of the last ten so we thought we’d give you a break since players starting school at UT in 2000 didn’t get a chance to beat OU before their eligibility ran out.

It is too bad the Sooners can’t play your sad little team in Austin this year. We’d love to extend your home losing streak for you. Yes I’m referring to UCLA you make it so easy to smack talk when you don’t beat a .500 team that already lost to Kansas State and who can’t even pass the ball. They are ranked 118th in passing. You knew what they were going to do, they knew what they were going to do but your defense couldn’t stop them. The words man-handled seem appropriate!

The state of your football program is further revealed by the amount of campaigning Mack has to do to try to get you in to bowl games. When you need flyovers to whine your way into a fake Big 12 championship* it is obvious you are in trouble. I understand that watching OU win championship after championship is hard on you (we have twice as many as you do) but that isn’t much of an excuse. I bet Mack hands out little 1st place ribbons to every player after practice so they know they are winners. Maybe that’s why UT produces so many head cases with me-first mentalities. See Cedric “Heisman over team” Benson, Ricky “Rasta” Williams, and Vince “booing hurts my feelings” Young not to mention the guys who get arrested for more serious things than public urination. Wikipedia has a special section for arrested Longhorns in 2007 alone.

It is true we have many Texans on our team. It’s not like we don’t have Oklahomans too such as Heisman winner Sam Bradford. It’s just so fun to recruit your state’s talent, teach them how to play and beat you with them. Kind of like a big brother taking the little brother's arm and telling him to stop hitting himself.

I guess I have to concede that we don’t let academics get in the way of our football. That’s probably why we don’t lose to 2-2 PAC 10 teams at home. It isn't like we are academicly inept we do have more national merit scholars per capita than you.

I also have to concede that you have lower standards for sex partners. I could have guessed this already just by seeing your fan base; it isn’t really anything to brag about. Your state is also one of the fattest. How about that mental image? Keep a look out for the case of condoms and slim-fast we are sending you. We owe you that much for sending us Durant. You are absolutely right about him being charitable he probably made twice the money as a longhorn.

As for who owes whom an apology you won’t be getting one from us until you apologize for Vanilla Ice.

Finally, I wanted to wish Vince Young well on his campaign for his slightly used Heisman*. You guys can put it next to your Big 12 Championship*

Best Wishes,
Sooner Nation

P.S. Here is a future recruit you should keep in mind: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20018053-504083.html

Crucifax Autumn
10/1/2010, 02:17 PM
Good stuff!

ouduckhunter
10/1/2010, 02:23 PM
Our paper got owned by their paper.

Totally. Our response, for the most part, was lame.

jumperstop
10/1/2010, 02:26 PM
Here is what I wish they would have said:

Dearest Daily Texan Editorial Board,

Color me impressed that you wrote that all by yourself. I’m guessing you outsourced it but good job. As for winning streaks we’ve won six out of the last ten so we thought we’d give you a break since players starting school at UT in 2000 didn’t get a chance to beat OU before their eligibility ran out.

It is too bad the Sooners can’t play your sad little team in Austin this year. We’d love to extend your home losing streak for you. Yes I’m referring to UCLA you make it so easy to smack talk when you don’t beat a .500 team that already lost to Kansas State and who can’t even pass the ball. They are ranked 118th in passing. You knew what they were going to do, they knew what they were going to do but your defense couldn’t stop them. The words man-handled seem appropriate!

The state of your football program is further revealed by the amount of campaigning Mack has to do to try to get you in to bowl games. When you need flyovers to whine your way into a fake Big 12 championship* it is obvious you are in trouble. I understand that watching OU win championship after championship is hard on you (we have twice as many as you do) but that isn’t much of an excuse. I bet Mack hands out little 1st place ribbons to every player after practice so they know they are winners. Maybe that’s why UT produces so many head cases with me-first mentalities. See Cedric “Heisman over team” Benson, Ricky “Rasta” Williams, and Vince “booing hurts my feelings” Young not to mention the guys who get arrested for more serious things than public urination. Wikipedia has a special section for arrested Longhorns in 2007 alone.

It is true we have many Texans on our team. It’s not like we don’t have Oklahomans too such as Heisman winner Sam Bradford. It’s just so fun to recruit your state’s talent, teach them how to play and beat you with them. Kind of like a big brother taking the little brother's arm and telling him to stop hitting himself.

I guess I have to concede that we don’t let academics get in the way of our football. That’s probably why we don’t lose to 2-2 PAC 10 teams at home. It isn't like we are academicly inept we do have more national merit scholars per capita than you.

I also have to concede that you have lower standards for sex partners. I could have guessed this already just by seeing your fan base; it isn’t really anything to brag about. Your state is also one of the fattest. How about that mental image? Keep a look out for the case of condoms and slim-fast we are sending you. We owe you that much for sending us Durant. You are absolutely right about him being charitable he probably made twice the money as a longhorn.

As for who owes whom an apology you won’t be getting one from us until you apologize for Vanilla Ice.

Finally, I wanted to wish Vince Young well on his campaign for his slightly used Heisman*. You guys can put it next to your Big 12 Championship*

Best Wishes,
Sooner Nation

P.S. Here is a future recruit you should keep in mind: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20018053-504083.html

Much better, than either of those pieces of crap

ouduckhunter
10/1/2010, 02:28 PM
^^

OUby35's is much better!!! Good job!

OUby35
10/1/2010, 02:49 PM
Thanks :)