fishkin@ucbvax.UUCP (12/12/83)
I have a question about College Football, triggered by the recent Washington Redskin article titled "BIG GAME". Out here in Lotus Land, "The Big Game" refers to the Cal-Stanford game. To every god-fearing Midwesterner, the phrase "The Big Game" means, of course, Michigan-Ohio State. So, my question is this; how many "Big Games" are there out in Net-land? I don't mean a-game-that-is-really-important, I mean a game that is routinely called "the Big Game". For example, what do people in Texas call the Texas-Oklahoma game? waiting for my vtroff to finish, Ken Fishkin (Wisconsin '82) ucbvax!fishkin fishkin@BERKELEY
tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira) (12/15/83)
Around here (New England) it's just "The Game" -- Harvard vs. Yale, won
in 1982 by my alma mater -- MIT. Obviously, we don't take our football
as seriously as those god-fearing Midwesterners.
--
Tom Teixeira, Massachusetts Computer Corporation. Westford MA
...!{ihnp4,harpo,decvax,ucbcad,tektronix}!masscomp!tjt (617) 692-6200kaufman@uiuccsb.UUCP (12/16/83)
#R:ucbvax:-15300:uiuccsb:18400002:000:147 uiuccsb!kaufman Dec 15 21:36:00 1983 Of course there's the original Big Game which doesn't even need Big in its name. Yale - Harvard may now be Division 1-AA but it's still THE GAME.
zzz@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mike Konopik) (12/16/83)
On the subject of the "Big Game", I noticed that the majority of them take place at the end of the season, and have become classic rivalries. The first that come to mind include: Nebraska / Oklahoma Michigan / Ohio State Army / Navy USC / UCLA Alabama / Auburn Do I ever miss the yearly Thanksgiving NE / OK game! Now they have it on the weekend AFTER it... And now they have Army / Navy in Pasadena!? Sigh... -- -Mike genrad!mit-eddie!zzz (UUCP) ZZZ%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC (ARPA)
ron@uokvax.UUCP (12/19/83)
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uokvax!ron Dec 16 11:43:00 1983
here at ou, we call the oklahoma-texas game
'THE OKLAHOMA-TEXAS GAME'
ok, that was a little sarcastic, but we do just refer to it as
that. there are a few things to note:
oklahoma comes FIRST. it is NOT the texas-oklahoma game.
it is often called the oklahoma-texASS game. (in oklahoma)
the 'common' chant is 'beat the hell out of {ou, texas}'
yelled by both sides all year long.
we also have the famous 'tuck fexas' saying, a personal favorite.
'texas' is often writen as:
T EEEEEE X X A SSSSS
T E X X A A S S
T E X X A A S
T E X X A A S
T EEEE X A A SSSSS
T E X X AAAAAAA S
T E X X A A S
T E X X A A S
T E X X A A S S
TTTTTTT EEEEEEE X X A A SSSSS
with the 't' inverted, showing disrespect for everything texas
stands for.
and now, our fight song:
boomer sooner,
boomer sooner,
boomer sooner,
boom-aaaah, forget it.
ron
...!ctvax!uokvax!ron
...!duke!uok!ron
ps sorry mom, sorry dad. (both from dallas)
pps we call the oklahoma-nebraska game 'the oklahoma-nebraska game',
but it really doesn't have the hoopla associated with the
oklahoma-texass game.
ppps ok, ok, our BIG game is the orange bowl. now, if we can just get there...
pppps texass will NOT stop our offense next year.jsg@rlgvax.UUCP (JSG) (12/21/83)
How can you (kaufman@uiucdcs) say that the ORIGIONAL big game is Harvard v. Yale? Anybody who know anything about the history of college football knows that *THE* origional big game is Lafayette College v. Lehigh University. This rivallry has been going on for over 115 years (I can't remember the actual number). Get your facts straight. Jeff Grunewald [seismo, mcnc, brl-bmd, allegra]!rlgvax!jsg