Let Me Tell You A Secret: OU Sucks

by PB @ BON on May 20, 2007 11:47 PM CDT in Football Comment 11 comments

You may or may not be aware of one of the most interesting blogs on the interwebs today - a site that goes by the name of PostSecret. It bills itself as the largest advertisement-free blog on the web, and that's probably not an exaggeration.

Its content? As the name says: secrets. Readers anonymously mail in 4x6 inch postcards to the site operators, who sift through them all and post the best ones to the site. The postcards offer people across the world an opportunity to spill out something on their chest. As the site explains:

You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

The site puts up a new post each week on Sunday after sorting through the many, many submissions. One such submission caught my eye this week, for obvious reasons.

Whoa nellie! An OU national title winner - quite possibly from the 2000 football team - apparently has a male lover who's grown tired of their love remaining a secret.

While I hesitate to make light of the courage it must take to come out of the closet, and though this site is (as patienthornsfan and others will attest), and will remain, a friendly community for readers of every stripe...

This is too funny.

Way. Too. Funny.

Longhorn title winners? Okay, the ring may wind up on eBay. OU title winners? The ring surfaces on PostSecret.

Happy Monday, Longhorn fans.

--PB--

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oh internet...

when will you stop amazing me?

by the other Andrew on May 21, 2007 12:18 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

My guess is...

Josh Heupel or Tommy Harris or mabye Dusty had a weird moment while he was on drugs.

Will Rogers never met Barry Switzer

by Rand O on May 21, 2007 12:41 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

My guess...

Probably two guys you never heard of.

by GoHorns on May 21, 2007 7:59 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Sooner irony

This gets at the heart of an issue that has bothered me more and more in recent years: Sooners and Aggies insisting that Austin is "full of homosexuals" and saying it as some sort of insult. (Example: I recently read a comment by an Aggie somewhere boasting proudly that at A&M football games "at least our men kiss women!", as though to imply that elsewhere, ie Austin, that's not the case)

An effective insult has a grain of truth to it. Call me a nerd and it will sting a bit because, yes, I do enjoy reading books about the history of US foreign policy in my free time. Tell me that my adopted hometown is accepting of its gay and lesbian community and my response is, "And?" I'm supposed to be insulted because I'm not a bigot?

Wouldn't it be nice to have a rival fanbase worthy of some respect? And yes, I'm aware that there are a handful of reasonable Sooner and Aggies out there, but the rest... Ugh.

So take that.

by Kahuna on May 21, 2007 8:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Insults

Since you seem to have mastered English grammar, you have probably had people use this insult: "You think you're smart, don't you?"

by Caradoc on May 21, 2007 9:16 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

How is it...

...that no one has dropped a "Not that there's anything wrong with it" yet?

by Todd on May 21, 2007 11:14 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

ou

Do you think it's the culture of football or the culture of Oklahoma that's keeping this person "in the closet"? Either way, it's kind of sad.

by Jason Mayer on May 21, 2007 12:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Until Troy Aikman comes out of the closet...

... I'll say it's the culture of football. The NBA has had a role player come out, and most players seemed pretty cool about it. The NFL? None that I know of. All you have to do is look back at the infamous baiting of Jeff Garcia by TO in their days playing together - or not - in San Francisco to realise it probably ain't gonna happen in our lifetime.

I actually lived in Oklahoma City during my last two years of high school, and went to my first gay bar there. OKC has a surprisingly vibrant gay community, and the city is, for the most part, quite tolerant. I have no idea what the atmosphere is like on the campus in Norman, but i'm fairly sure just like any other major educational institution - ok, I had to force myself to write that - the student population is more liberal than conservative. It's just that the voices of ignorance and intolerance seem to be raised more often and more loudly in posts from Norman and B/CS than the voices of reason.

Officially a Limey Longhorn

by patienthornsfan on May 22, 2007 2:42 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Some guy for Green Bay

Didn't a former Green Bay linemen come out a few years ago? I seem to remember that, otherwise the only things you hear from players on the subject is the general 'no gays here' attitude. I'm guessing there have been more than two gay football or basketball players in the bast ten years.

by Bob LaBlog on May 22, 2007 3:17 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Ya the guy from Hawaii

I saw him on a documentary about gay couples adopting kids.
I think he played for Green Bay and one other team before early retirement.

Cats and dogs sleeping together.

by EYESofBEVO on May 22, 2007 8:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

actually, there was a rumor going around during

his career that one prominent Sooner star player was gay.
I first head about it from some Sooner alumni at a game, and their attitude was, "We don't give a shit, he's a good kid and a badass player."

I would say it is the culture of the locker room that is keeping him silent. There are still too many athletes who are uncomfortable with their own sexuality to be accepting of gays in the locker room.

by Beergut on May 22, 2007 6:26 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs