Back from the desert. Sorry I couldn't bring home the W with me or smoke the cubans I brought with my buddy, but that was one hell of a game (and one hell of a road trip!).
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I thought I would share what I gathered from my post-game interviews with the Longhorn fans while drowning my sorrows with the Buckeye fans at Fox Sports Grill & Bar after the game (all of the below I mention were all heard from
multiple fans I talked to):
-Pryor reminds them "big-time" of Vince Young. "He's one hell of a player and he's gonna be a special one for you guys." In my opinion, a compliament of the highest form from a fan base that knows their Vince. I can't tell you how many times they named Vince when talking about Terrelle or how many compliaments I got about Terelle. One guy was shocked to find out he was only a freshman and shook his head.
-They were "lucky to come out of there with a win" and big kudos to our defense. "Definetly the best defense we played all year."
-They "want
nothing to do with us over the next two years", for the most part because of Terrelle. Another huge compliament, considering McCoy's for sure coming back next year.
-The were "not expecting this to be a very close game", meant without disrespect. Believe me, no offense taken.
-They hate Sam Bradford with a passion and "pretty much the whole state of Oklahoma". If anyone understands that kind of dislike for another university (or state), it's us.
-They were also very compliamentary about Beanie ("That kid's the real deal when he's not sitting on the bench"), Boeckman, Robiskie, Ballard's catch, Jenkins ("We pretty much threw away from that #2 tonight"), Thad Gibson (half for his 2 personal fouls that pretty much made their first scoring drive, half for his play in their backfield), "Your punter" (Trapasso), and "That #1 guy" (Herron).
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Their words definetly quickened the healing process for me. Funny thing was that the majority of the Longhorn fans were sitting at the tables enjoying their food and beverages while the bar was made up primariliy of Buckeye fans. Another funny thing was that the Longhorn fans at the bar were MUCH more classy and hospitable than those we experienced during most of the pre-game festivities (which I'll admit, most of them really bad ones were fairly drunk). Every fan base has their bad apples, though.
I'm not sure how it looked on TV yet, but it seemed to me it was ~55% UT fans, ~45%
OSU fans. Believe me, us Buckeye fans were as loud as we could possibly be in section 416. Not only were we screaming on 3rd and 4th down when we were on defense, we were screaming on most 1st and 2nd downs as well. I hope we sounded loud on TV, because it sounded like we were louder than them in the stadium when it came down to crunch time.
Props to the Longhorns for an amazing bowl game. They are without a doubt the best fans in college football that I've ever encountered.