The Morning After...

When we went to bed last night, errrrrrrrr, this morning around 1:45, we were fine. We expected Oklahoma to lose and they did, 24-14. But they played competitively and their defense was outstanding. The game ended and we could not stand (sit?!?) to watch FOX (and then ESPN) make-out with the person who from this point forward will simply be called The Male Cheerleader. So we DVR'd it for The Playmaker to watch tonight and then relaxed on the couch and watched a re-run of The Office before falling asleep watching The City. Woke up and went up to bed. Not angry. Not depressed. Nothing.

Then we got up four hours later.

And good gawd, man, we were pissed as sheeeeeet. Still are. In fact, it gets worse by the hour. We'd rather get gang-banged 55-10 to USC (like in 2005) than have to accept the crap that went down last night. The game was there for Oklahoma to take. They downright dominated the first half, but had nothing to show for it at halftime, tied 7-7.

Three stupid plays (two in the first half, one in the second) and one bad coaching call. That's all that separated the Sooners from being National Champions.

Stupid Play #1 Duke Robinson, perhaps the most overrated Sooner in recent memory, was flagged for holding. The play wiped out a first down at the Gators 10 yard line in the opening quarter. How the media can be so clueless on this stiff is mind boggling. Did anyone even notice that Robinson rotated at left guard this year with Brian Simmons?!? How can you be an All-American when you don't even play full time?!? Duke sucks. Duke is a stupid and lazy football player. (We made this point after the loss to texASS and got banned for 72 hours from our favorite OU football web site.) More than anything, OU needed to jump on top first. It needed to gain confidence after six weeks of hearing how they had no chance against the Gators. Robinson's penalty killed (killed!) a golden opportunity.

Stupid Play #2 Sam Bradford, Mr. Heisman, threw an absolute ass-backwards-stupid pass to Manny Johnson on the one yard line with five second left in the first half. Manny was surrounded by a sea of Gators. The ball bounced off his hand, touched the hands of, like, 12 different Gators before finally being intercepted. Even if Johnson had caught the ball, time would have expired, as the Sooners had no timeouts. Eat the ball, son. Or throw it to a receiver in the end zone. But for cripes sake, don't throw short of the end zone. And don't force the ball into triple coverage. 10-7 Sooners at half time is infinitely better than a 7-7 tie.

Stupid Play #3 Juaquin Iglesias let a pass slip out of his hands at the Florida 25 yard line as the Sooners were driving to take the lead in the fourth quarter. Trailing 17-14 with 10 minutes to play, Bradford threw a rope over the middle. Iglesias leaped and made the catch. However, on his way down he allowed Florida's Ahmad Black to strip him of the ball for the interception. Also stripped on the play was Oklahoma's emotional energy. Florida took the ball right down the field and score seven, in what was the only drive all game that The Male Cheerleader truly dominated play. If Iglesias holds onto that ball, things could have been so different. And for the senior Iglesias to go out like he did last night is truly queer (get a dictionary and look it up). He has been a model of consistency during his four years as a starter. Yet his fourth quarter miscue (as well as a dropped bomb in the third quarter) is how Sooner Nation will most likely remember him.

Stupid Coaching Call #1 Kicker Jimmy Stevens has not had a lot of chances for the high scoring Sooners this season -- well, except for extra points, of course. And he has never hit anything close the 49 yarder Bob Stoops called on him to make in the 3rd quarter last night. Facing a 4th and 5 on Florida's 32 yard line, Stoops went for the trey. Of course, Stevens had it rejected by Florida's D and the Legend of Big Game Stoops Woops grew by leaps and bounds.

Three plays and a stupid coaching call.

That's all is was. (Well, and some abysmal officiating in the first quarter. But that's for another post.)