Tradition (Sooners roll over Irish)

"Thank you Sir! May I have another!"

Mason Cooley, the famous aphorist, once said, “Preserving tradition has become a nice hobby, like stamp collecting.” Winston Churchill got up and shouted, “Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” Then my man Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, shut the building down when he said, “We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.”

Well, the Notre Dame Fightin’ Irish were so drenched in tradition on Saturday that they forgot that the Oklahoma Sooners were rolling into town and took an “L” 35-21 that they didn’t have to take. Tradition isn’t just about honoring all of the great Notre Dame players that walked the campus in South Bend but its about understanding what works and what doesn’t.

All props to the Sooners on Saturday for ending a 7 game losing streak against the Irish that dates back to 1957 when ND ended Oklahoma’s NCAA record 47 game winning streak 6-0. The Sooners are only 2-11 all-time against the Irish.

Don't think that OU came in like some bums! There are the winningest college football program in America since 1950 playboy! They've won 7 national titles & 5 Heisman trophies too pimpin'! So it wasn't like it was Little Sisters of the Poor rollin' in!

ND had the nerve to even have some of those old dudes from that 1957 team at the game too! It was unbelievable to see them still getting around! On some real talk, I wanted to run out on the field and tackle one of those duns but the escape routes weren’t very good. I wasn’t trying to get jammed up in South Bend for tackling some old dude that could probably still get it in.

In the first 2 minutes and 45 seconds of the game some dun forgot the tradition of blocking and left Tommy Reese’s backside naked as OU linebacker Eric Striker nailed him popping the ball straight up into the air for Corey Nelson to take to the house. Then on the very next Irish possession and play from scrimmage Reese forgot the tradition of making good decisions when he forced the joint and got it picked by Frank Shannon! Four plays later these boyz were down 14 points before the Leprechaun even put his girdle on and put out his Black & Mild!

Did you see that cat bruh? Now they were sticklers for tradition down to the freakin’ letter up there but somebody forgot to make the Leprechaun make weight for Saturday’s showdown. Or the Sooners must have kidnapped the real mascot and had him tied up in a Brooklyn basement because this dun looked like he was struggling to breath out there. His jock snapped twice in the 1^st half before they told him not to even worry about it. You know how a boy’s shoes start leaning over and kissing the pavement because they’re exhausted? That was ole boy on Saturday!

The Irish also forgot the tradition of just running the football! They were gashing the OU defense on the ground all day long (220 yards total) but kept going away from it. When it was 14-7 the Irish found themselves in the red zone threatening to tie the joint up before the half. Then all of a sudden Mickey Mouse started calling plays! Reese forces another pass that gets picked and Oklahoma being a good team turned that joint into points just minutes later!

Now it’s 21-7 and the Leprechaun is on a breathing treatment on the sideline and his shoes have given up on him. He’s got on Big Momma’s old tore up house shoes at this point playa. You know the ones that she never picks up while she’s walking and all you hear are them sliding down the hall before she beats the brakes off of you for knocking over the her fake porcelain dolls in the living room.

From that point on it was a game of keep away. Notre Dame looked good on defense and running the football but they were so drenched in tradition that they kept losing sight of it. The Sooners made zero mistakes and played a good ball game. Now even though Blake Bell went 22-30 for 232 yards and 2 TD’s it was all a dream like Biggie would say. He still can’t throw the ball over his shoulder. Give props to the OU coaching staff for calling joints that he could handle like bubble screens and short dips over the middle. They made him look like Sam Bradford at least on paper.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Tradition has its place and I think that it’s important to make sure that the past is never forgotten. However, these duns at Notre Dame don’t understand that that means celebrating the history of the program not by keeping the freakin’ stadium held hostage by it.

In all of my years of going to football games all over this country. I’ve never seen a stadium that didn’t have a jumbo-tron for instant replay in the modern era. So when there is either a good or bad play nobody gets to see it again! Therefore, the fans sit and complain about what would be an obvious call for the rest of the game like the obvious head to head call late where ole boy got ejected. If there was an instant replay available to look at folks could have seen it and moved on instead of saying that the Big 12 officials cheated as they walked out of the stadium.

Then it literally took me 3 and a half quarters to find the freakin’ play clock which they just stuck up in the nose bleeds at one of the exits. It’s like some fool just kicked the exit sign down and put it up! For the life of me I couldn’t figure out how the visiting players could see it.

Then the thing that really burned me up was as soon as I sat down in the most tradition rich place in college football. I got 3 splinters right in the butt to take with me as a souvenir because they had what looked like the same bleachers they had when Notre Dame ended OU’s 47 game win streak in 1957. Now I gotta sit through this game with my butt on fire and not move around too much. I swear I'm gonna leave these splinters in until I see the director of stadium operations or ole spitting Lou Holtz and make them remove them as we play the OU fight song!

I'll tell what though! When Notre Dame is good! It's good for college football because they've got the best fight song in America! That’s real talk playboy!  But Boomer Sooner!

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Jay Graves
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