Ugly XVIV – ‘This Losing Shit is Getting Old’

Champions –
Good Flight: Vince Bogard & Mike Williams
Ugly Flight: Pie-Man & Crust-Boy

Tenison Park – Highlands Course
Dallas, TX
October 17, 2009
(L) OU 13 – TX 16

It’s amazing how this great rivalry is a series of ebbs and flows. The Sooners will win five in a row and then Texas will reel off four out of five. Unfortunately, 2009 found the Sooners in a definite ebb. A season that was set to start with such promise, was off track before the first game against BYU. Offensive weapon extraordinaire Jermaine Gresham went down two days before the first game and was lost for the season with a knee injury. Then salt was poured directly in to that fresh wound when last year’s Heisman winner Sam Bradford went down on the last play of the first half in a loss to lowly BYU.

Sam did manage to come back for the Texas game and looked great on his first drive, leading the Sooners to an early lead. Alas, excrement was thrown in our face yet again as Kevin Wilson decided to roll Sam out on a naked boot on the first play of the second series and Aaron Williams separated Sam’s injured shoulder rendering our other difference maker lost for the year – just like Jermaine.

Redshirt frosh Landry Jones came in and did an admirable job but he could not do what Jason White did in 2001 and will the Sooners to victory from off the bench. A heartbreaking 16-13 loss made it four defeats in the last five years to the hated Whorns. Something’s really got to change.

As for the tournament, it was a successful return to the fabled Tenison Park. The course has been redone since our last visit in the mid-90’s. Given the antics from Uglies past, it’s really no wonder. The Cigar Store Indians Vince Bogard and Mike Williams took home honors in the Good Flight and the Pie-Man / Crust-Boy team of Mike Winsky and Robbie Thompson sandbagged their way to the title in the Ugly Flight.