And now...page two...

So with all of the huge, Big McLargeHuge games we see every week, such as (this particular week) the Missouri/Nebraska game (which Mizzou lost in magically craptacular fashion), we often forget about the "smaller" teams;  teams which have every bit of the talent as their bigger-conference counterparts. 

This week, we finally got a little glimpse of a university from the northeast section of Oklahoma - one that started out as a Presbyterian School for Indian Girls in 1882.  There have been several big names that have come out of (what eventually became) The University Of Tulsa, including Steve Largent,  Paul Harvey (And that's...the rest of the story), Mary Kay Place, and former Ram's defensive coordinator and current Chicago Bears head coach Lovie Smith. 

Another wonderful, beautiful, very talented graduate of the University Of Tulsa is my wonderful mother, Jo Ellen (Beeson) Fielding (love you, Ma!).  Because of her, and her affiliation with this university, I will always root for the Golden Hurricanes. 

Tonight these very same Hurricanes beat [supposedly] "America's Team", the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.  This was not only a huge win for Tulsa, as everyone just assumes that a "Big Team" like ND will just walk all over a smaller school like TU, but also for me personally, because I just really, heavily dislike Notre Dame!  They are among those big "storied teams" that I dislike so much, like Alabama's Crimson Tide, or the aforementioned Dallas Cowboys.  If you've had a movie made about you, maybe with the exception of Marshall University, I probably won't root for you. 

Anyway, tonight's stroke is for those wunnerful Golden Hurricanes of the University Of Tulsa:  I think with as much as they've developed in the last few years, and with the way things are going in college football in general, we could really see big things from this program in the future!  I hope so!  But then again, what do I know?