One of the funniest things we heard in the Doak was while FSU's Chief Osceola was loitering on the field with his flaming spear during the coin toss, waiting to ride up and jam it into the logo at midfield. A Sooner fan sitting behind us piped up, "OK, Tonto, get the **** out of the way." Not very respectful, but quite hilarious. The pregame spectacle wasn’t quite what we had hoped it would be. Lots of the band standing around and playing, and the big finish with the spear came after the coin toss, after the Chief had been hanging around holding the thing for a few minutes. We know as a practical matter they don’t want to set the field on fire, but if it was truly an implement of war, wouldn’t you want to have the business end on fire instead of the butt of the thing?
The Chief himself.
Anyway, we had always known that FSU's seemingly majestic stadium was in fact, Rustoleum Southeast, and we finally got to see it for ourselves. It looks majestic, from the outside, to be sure, all bricks and grandeur. But up close, it's all held up on the inside by an erector set that would make Boone Pickens proud.
The Erector Set.
The FSU folks were quite cordial – far more so than we had been led to believe beforehand. Other than the odd drunken frat boy tossing a poorly conceived insult at our backs as we headed toward the stadium, we didn’t really hear anything but niceties from the locals.
Blimp.
Token Cow. There is always at least one.
Oh, they weren’t nice when they got fired up, though, at least in terms of the noise. There were times when that place was as loud as we’ve ever heard a stadium, especially after the “Noles tied up the game in the fourth quarter. Of course, what’s really nice is to hear how quiet a place like that gets after the Sooners head right back down the field to retake the lead. The chants of “Ooooo-kla-hooooma, Ooooo-kla-hooooma!” to the tune of the Seminoles’ Warchant positively echoed around that place. Delicious.
Herbie and Mushburger, rocking the ChromaKey.
We cant stress enough how big it was to see this team overcome adversity on the road against a top-five opponent, take control in the fourth quarter, and put them away. Been a long time since we’ve seen quite that situation take place.
We returned to our palatial room at the Tallahassee Quality Inn ($135.00 a night, regularly $50 or so) somewhere around 1:00 am EDT, only to discover that the OSU - Tulsa game had yet to kick off. This generated much mirth and amusement, if only because they were fools to ever schedule the thing to kick off at 9 p.m. in the first place. Of course, little brother didn’t have anything to do with that, either, so they were just the unfortunate victim of Tulsa and the weather on all counts.
In our never-ending quest to watch college football during the short time each year in which it is possible to do so, we made the mistake of viewing virtually all of the LSU-Mississippi State game last Thursday night. This was an experience akin to watching a goat gradually, but enthusiastically, strangled by a troop of rabid bonobo monkeys lacking opposable thumbs over the course of three hours or so. It was everything you might expect from such a spectacle - ugly, brutal, and suffused with a sure and certain disdain for the aesthetics of such an enterprise.
Some things we know after last weekend’s games:
1. Rick Neuheisel is so fired, it's not even funny how fired he is. Wait, yes it is funny. It’s Neuheisel, after all.
2. Missouri is in for a world of hurt on Saturday night.
3. Travis Lewis is one tough dude.
4. Florida State will be scary good next season.
5. Texas is really not very good, and that will show a lot in Dallas.
And now for the latest news in conference realignment: %^#*(&Q$#^$@^&^&^^&%%$. Wake us when it’s over. We’re too tired to talk about it anymore. We have officially adopted the Bob Stoops position: Just tell us where we’re playing, and we’ll be there.
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