This weekend is the Red River Rivalry football game between The University of Texas and the University of Oklahoma. I have some considerably strong feelings regarding the outcome of this game owing to my law degree from The University of Texas. In consideration thereof, I give you an example of why Oklahoma sucks.
April 2003. Ballroom of the Omni Shoreham Hotel. The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Before competition begins, the organizers gather all 80-some four-to-six member teams in the hotel ballroom. Each team represents either a country or a region of a country, and each team hails from a particular law school. The organizers explain the competition rules, thank the sponsors and begin introducing each individual team. Assembled within this room are representatives of several countries who are historic and present day enemies. Countries that hold a deep seeded cultural, religious and historial animosity against each other that often results in death and war. Croatia and Serbia. Israel and Egypt. Greece and Turkey. India and Pakistan. France and everyone else. Yet, polite and even enthusiastic applause follows the announcement of each team's country, region and school name. Law students of the world join together in a spirit of peaceful unity....that is until one team gets booed. My team. The University of Texas. Gets booed. By Oklahoma. The Israelis, Serbs, Greeks and French can remain civil, but you, Oklahoma feel compelled to boo the University of Texas. A classless, yet class...ic example of why Oklahoma sucks.
By the way, we went on to compete against Oklahoma and absolutely crushed them. The low moment for them came when one of the mooters didn't understand the competition judge's Biblical reference to Paul on the road to Damascus. She repeated the judge's reference, only she called it "the road to the massacres." (The moot court problem dealt with the issue of genocide). That's right, good-old, home-of-the-heartland Oklahoma messed up a Bible reference. I'd let it slide.........if they hadn't booed us in front of representatives of the rest of the legal world and if Oklahoma were not evil.
So think on that, watch the Red River Rivalry, and Hook 'Em Horns!!!!!
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