If Oklahoma and Oregon Meet at Glendale, Will Sooners Shut Up About 2006?

Potential National Championship tantalizing match-up: OU Sooners vs Oregon Ducks

Horsies vs. Duckies. Solid, maybe bland red-and-white colors vs.blinding green and yellow uniforms. 

High speed no huddles, spread offenses, two of the more exciting backs in college plus a history.

Ah, yes... HISTORY

Even though the Sooners own a 6-1 record over the Ducks. Even though Stoops has a 2-1 record on them, the OU fans cannot forget the shafting they got in Eugene in September of 2006.

Possibly making this game even more exciting. CAN IT BE?

Can a game with a guy named Pheasant dressed up as a Duck be more exciting?

Can a game with quarterbacks like Landry Jones and Darron Thomas be more exciting?

Can a game with coaches nicked "Big Game Bob" and "Big Balls Chip" be more exciting?

Can a game that features running backs like LaMichael James and DeMarco Murray be more exciting?

Yes, just add receivers like Ryan Broyles, Kenny Stills and Jeff Maehl, and yeah, it can be even more exciting.

Especially if you mix in the HISTORY.

Yes, the Sooners have owned the Ducks. 6-1 and under Stoops victories of 31-6 in 2004, and 17-14 in the Holiday Bowl of 2005. But in 2006, the Eugene Experience left a fowl taste in Sooner fans mouths.

Enough so, Sooner fans, even though they got an apology from the refs and an apology from the Pac 10 commissioner, they still expected a reversal of the outcome. They even suggested suing for a outcome reversal.  The below is a scenario of how an Oregon courtroom scene may have looked had that suit gone forward. Let's look back, shall we:

Here-a-Duck, There-a-Duck

Future Scene: Oregon court room where replay review official, Gordon Riese, is on the witness stand in the Oklahoma-Oregon game nullification case.

Plaintiff’s Attorney: Mr. Reise, on the Captain Hazelwood Scale-of-In-Competency with 1) being mildly incompetent to 10) piloting your jumbo jet upside down while drowsy drunk, how would you rate your performance?

Reise: Did you say IN-competency? It was windy, I was hurried, fans were screaming and ABC was slow to feed me.

Plaintiff’s Attorney:  Mr. Reise, you’re now saying you blew the call because ABC didn’t send you proper feed?

Reise: Yes sir, it was improper. It was all their fault.

Plaintiff’s Attorney:   And what kind of feed was ABC to provide you, Mr. Reise, CHICKEN? POTATOES?? What was it, Mr. Reise?

Defendant’s Attorney: Object. Counsel is badgering the witness.

Judge: Charlie, you know in these parts, we call that “Beavering the witness.”  

Plaintiff’s Attorney: Sir, he’s ducking the question.

Judge: That’s what we do around here. He’s a Duck. I’m a Duck. Everyone’s a Duck…
Duck.
   
Plaintiff’s Attorney: Can you make him answer the question? He clearly screwed up. We all saw it, yet he’s trying to blame ABC.

Defendant’s Attorney: Everyone around here knows that ABC is owned by Disney.

Plaintiff’s Attorney: What the…? What in heck does ABC being owned by Disney have to do with anything?

Judge: Around here, we call ABC the Mouse. You probably wouldn’t understand because back in Oklahoma you have sales tax. We don’t have sales tax here in Oregon so we don’t see things eye to eye.
   
Plaintiff’s Attorney: This is ridiculous.

Judge: Like I said, you have sales tax so certain concepts may be hard for you to comprehend. Up here, Mice and Ducks don’t always get along. Mr. Reise, upstanding Duck that he is, knows he can’t always depend on a Mouse. So when he screws up, misses a call as obvious as the five webbed fingers on my hand, he knows he can blame the Mouse and we’ll all understand.

Plaintiff’s Attorney: Okay, so we have sales tax, but have you ever heard the term: Getting shafted? Being bent over like a pretzel? Are you familiar with that one? How about Getting Jobbed?  How about getting jobbed like a newby in maximum security?

Judge: Those are all terms people who pay sales tax know. We’re unaware of those terms. We like to call it: Getting Ducked. Getting your feathers ruffled in a brand new pond. Getting pounded like a squawking goose loaded up on Viagra.