On the way home the other day, I saw something that really irked me for some reason. Maybe it was just an accumulation of seeing these things every so often that set me off, so to speak. The object of my irritation was an Oklahoma Sooners fans' upside-down, chrome Longhorns decal. Occasionally you'll see Sooner fans wave a crimson flag adorned with an upside-down white longhorn. I've never really understood why they would choose the upside-down 'Horns symbol as their symbol of choice, perhaps just to rile their UT neighbors, but to me, this only smacks of unoriginality.
In my eyes, this means that they are not necessarily pro-OU, but anti-UT. Do they really care more about dissing their archrival than promoting their own university? Who knows.
And another thing... the formal name of the aforementioned university is The University of Oklahoma and not vice-versa. So why do Sooners call their school OU? Seriously, what's up with that?! Like one of my good friends, who happens to be from Oklahoma, once told me it's a part of the state's culture- "where else would a state choose mistletoe as their state flower?" Mistletoe is a parasitic weed.
Only in Oklahoma, I guess.
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