As I was driving to my brother's house on Saturday morning to watch the OU game and chat about earthquakes, I flipped the radio over to The Sports Animal. Although it's something I try to avoid doing nowadays, I just couldn't resist the urge to listen to a has-been troll and cave goblin over-analyze a college football game before kickoff.
By the time I tuned in, Regular Jim, Al Eschbach and Mark Rodgers were already giving their final thoughts and predictions. While Regular Jim rambled about how this would be a "massive game" for Mike Stoops or whatever, Mark interrupted to inform them that "Coach" wanted to speak.
A few seconds later, a probably intoxicated Barry Switzer yelled into the phone some random semi-incoherent sentence about "Hangin' half a hundred on them." He then told a story about staying in a hotel in Waco in 1973 with Al Eschbach. It was sad and weird. He sounded like an old, senile grandpa talking to his grandkids about the past. He was getting names and dates confused and I'm pretty sure he thought OU was about to play and exhibition against the Houston Oilers. To make things worse, Regular Jim and Al were talking to Barry like he was an old senile grandpa:
"Yeah, that's nice. Oh really? Two hummingbirds by the feeder? That's neat. Yes... yes... Aunt Rita would have liked that... Wait... No, grandpa... Aunt Rita died 30 years ago."
Anyway, I'm sharing this odd tidbit because Barry Switzer recently "wrote" a letter to Non Doc – a site that I'm sure he has bookmarked on his toolbar – in opposition to SQ 777. Because we live in a state where the political opinions of hard-partying former football coaches who lied and cheated their ways to several college football championships before leaving their programs in disgrace and disarray for some reason still matters, Non Doc published it.