Now That’s Some Texas-Sized Taunting

Sports are good for the economy, and for further proof of this eternal truism, please ask the airborne-sign providers of the greater Texlahoma area. The taunting over the three-way tie in the Big 12 and its BCS implications have created a mini-boom for the non-passenger commercial pilots of the area.
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↵It began with Texas boosters hiring a plane to fly over T.Boone Pickens’ football palace in Stillwater during the OU/Oklahoma State game with a simple banner reading “45-35,” a reference to the final score in Texas’ defeat of the Sooners in Dallas in October. Well, dastardly Texans! Two can play at that game:
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↵You may see the banner waving in all its skyward glory here. The Sooners do have a point with Mack Brown’s endless politicking for a spot in the national title game, as the coach made an appearance by phone or via satellite in every college football game I watched over the past two weeks stumping for poll votes for the Longhorns.
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↵Now i don’t think he was whining, but he was certainly persistent, and as he usually he is, completely charming in the process. If and when he decides to retire, Mack should skip the grind of studio television and go directly to selling Magic Bullets on infomercials.
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↵He’d be amazing at them: “You mean i can make deviled ham and pina coladas with one handy appliance, Coach?” “Faster than Vince Young can run through the Trojan secondary, Spence!” “I’ll take three of them, then!”↵