Red River Rivalry
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Game ticket includes a fair ticket as well, because you can't get to the stadium without going through the fair.
Yes that stadium sucks compared to Jerry's World, but that is what makes the Red River Shootout (or showdown or rivalry, whatever we have to call it today) great. Same two teams, playing each other in the same stadium since 1930's, during the Texas State Fair. You don't get that if you move the game and sanitize it. It becomes just another rivalry game at that point.
Yes that stadium sucks compared to Jerry's World, but that is what makes the Red River Shootout (or showdown or rivalry, whatever we have to call it today) great. Same two teams, playing each other in the same stadium since 1930's, during the Texas State Fair. You don't get that if you move the game and sanitize it. It becomes just another rivalry game at that point.
and the way they split the fans completely on each half of the stadium looks cool too. You wouldn't get that in the Jerry monstrosity.
Norman, Oklahoma and Austin, Texas are equidistant from The Cotton Bowl- both about 195 miles apart.
As if college football really cares about rivalries anymore anyway.
It'll eventually end up in Jerryworld, or on campuses.
OU and UT fans would shít a brick if they moved that game. It’s a very big deal to be at the Fairgrounds.
Yeah. I don’t think that game or the Georgia-Florida game are moving any time soon.
Fair vendors would also crap out a brown Fletcher's corny dog. That is the top revenue day, by an Austin or Norman mile, for the 24 days the fair is open.
As DCD said and as someone with a ton of UT friends and a handful of OU friends, they would sh*t brick if they moved it to Jerry World or on their campuses. That game isn't gong anywhere. Been to it a couple of times and it's fun as hell with the State Fair and football game going on. I will be interested to see how the 2:30pm kick goes this year and see if they keep it in that 2:30 time slot. I mean, the 11am traditional kick is a sh*t show. I cant wait to see how this goes. They are going to run out of jail cells.
I'm gonna hard disagree on that one. Jerry and Arlington tried to get that game right after they built AT&T Stadium and everybody involved said 'no thanks' and I don't think there's any more appetite to do it today than there was 15 years ago (wow... 15 years already. I've lived here way too long). Dallas is dumping $140 Million to update the stadium and OU/Texas signed an extension to keep the game there until at least 2036.
It's something unique in the world of college football and I hope it never goes away.
If they are updating the stadium then maybe so. UGa/Fla is at least at an NFL stadium that will constantly be maintained.
I equate it to baseball at the dumpy Hoover Met. Hoover spending a bunch of money too.
But I never say something will never happen anymore. Right mix of money and opportunity and a mess up somewhere else, and poof.
Everbank Stadium is a dump. I think they are supposed to renovate it soon but it’s not the greatest stadium in the world.
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