The Adventures of Soonerguy
After a quiet summer of well-deserved rest, Soonerguy, that staunch stalwart of justice, is summoned from his secret sanctuary, secluded somewhere surreptitiously on the meticulously manicured campus of the University of Oklahoma.
The horrific honk of the Sooner distress signal has been sent via the Emergency Sooner Alert System installed on the Sooner Super Computer in Soonerguy’s inner sanctum:
An abandoned Swiss and Cheddar mine has collapsed, trapping unsuspecting Sooner fans inside!
Were they out for a leisurely stroll through the derelict den?
Were they seeking adventure in all the wrong places?
Were they overcome by a hunger for some tangy comestibles and were seduced by the surviving scent of the cheesy aroma?
Did they hanker for a hunka, a slab a slice, a chunka, hanker for a hunka cheese? Dairy try and help?
Sooners kick off Venables era with 45-13 win over UTEP
It wasn’t great. It wasn’t bad.
For a debut of a new head coach, new quarterback and many other players, it acceptably set the Sooners ship back on course after a tumultuous end of last season.
And it marked the beginning of the head coach career of what may be the next legendary skipper.
That is my take on Oklahoma’s 45-13 win over UTEP on a humid hot day in Norman on Saturday.
“At the end of the day, it was going to be about Oklahoma re-establishing the soul and the spirit of this program,” Venables said after the game.
Clearly, the Sooners did just that as soon as they stepped off the bus, to be greeted by several hundred screaming funs who lined the Jenkins Avenue path to the stadium.