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A cancelled football season would bring a financial crash to the Sooner Kingdom

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I had some idle chat in the check out line Saturday at Walgreens on Main Street.

It was on my first visit to a store since mid-March and of course I had to ask the guy standing six-feet in front of me the question ever on the minds of anyone who lives in Norman:

“You think we’ll have a (Sooner) football season?” I asked.

“Oh, I think we will play. I just don’t know how many people are going to be in the stands,” the man said, as he moved toward the plexi-glas barrier that separated customers fom the check out clerk.  

Then, he turned and said, “We got to play to pay for those other 20 something programs.”

That’s a good point.

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The perfect storm for college football

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Try this scenario on for size: It’s the afternoon of Sept. 10, two days before OU’s big game against Tennessee.

The anticipation for this long-awaiting game gets a kick in the gut when news has come out of the OU football program that an offensive lineman has tested positive for COVID-19.

One player. Just one player. He can’t be named because of privacy rules.

OU’s entire group of offensive linemen, who all train closely, must be quarantined for two weeks, up until Sept. 24, two days before the Army game in New York.

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