SoonerInKCMO
11/26/2006, 09:12 PM
It's called The Blind Side: Evolution Of A Game (http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Side-Evolution-Game/dp/039306123X/sr=8-1/qid=1164592727/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-5106972-2693264?ie=UTF8&s=books) by Michael Lewis - the guy that wrote Moneyball. I was expecting something of a Moneyball in shoulder pads, so to speak, but instead got something like a cross between Pygmalion and Friday Night Lights. Anyway, all that's beside the point. My point is that as I was reading it Saturday morning, I came across a passage that seemed particularly apropos considering the day's upcoming football contest.
The central character of the book is Michael Oher; he's an offensive lineman for Ole Miss. The timeframe is just before the last game of Oher's freshman year - the one against Mississippi State.
...Mississippi State was a land grant college, originally called Mississippi A&M. The desperate contempt Ole Miss football fans felt for Mississippi State was echoed in the feelings of fans of the University of Texas for Texas A&M and fans of the University of Oklahoma for Oklahoma State - formerly known as Oklahoma A&M. These schools were not rivals; they were subordinates. Theirs was not a football team to be beaten but an insurrection to be put down.
Yep. :D
The central character of the book is Michael Oher; he's an offensive lineman for Ole Miss. The timeframe is just before the last game of Oher's freshman year - the one against Mississippi State.
...Mississippi State was a land grant college, originally called Mississippi A&M. The desperate contempt Ole Miss football fans felt for Mississippi State was echoed in the feelings of fans of the University of Texas for Texas A&M and fans of the University of Oklahoma for Oklahoma State - formerly known as Oklahoma A&M. These schools were not rivals; they were subordinates. Theirs was not a football team to be beaten but an insurrection to be put down.
Yep. :D