I don’t really know why it is, but I always take a tremendous amount of satisfaction whenever Ohio State loses at any collegiate sport, especially football. On a day in which I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be except watch movies and football, I was certainly pleased to see Virginia Tech beat an unranked Delaware and I even took some enjoyment in watching South Carolina beat Missouri since I kind of root for them now. Through great pain, I watched Auburn fail to move the ball, at all, against Clemson. And I took great pleasure in watching the always-overrated Notre Dame fall against, Georgia; whose fans basically dominated South Bend, and should be an embarrassment to the Irish, frankly.
But no other college football game gave me as much pleasure to see the end result than #5 Oklahoma taking down #2 THE Ohio State, in Columbus. I don’t really know why, but I just love to see whenever Ohio State loses at anything. I’m pretty sure, it stems from the royal THE that their fans and supporters are adamant to preface Ohio State with, but maybe it’s because they’re legitimately good at sports and they’re the titan that I personally just like to see get taken down from time to time. Regardless, seeing them choke at home and lose in just the second week of the season is pretty much all I needed to see to feel that this is going to be a fun season.
You know, my general animosity towards TOSU probably stems from the egregious amounts of arrogance displayed by TOSU, whether it’s their legions of obnoxious fans who have to use the THE, or like when TOSU tried to copyright the acronym “TOSU” despite the fact that there are two other NCAA programs whose abbreviated name is also TOSU. But in the case of their fans, nothing is more satisfying than knowing that every choad, broad, bro and douche that were at College GameDay, obnoxiously being TOSU fans and talking mad smack about Oklahoma is feeling that hangover of arrogantly supporting a loser.
But the cherry on top of this upset, was when Oklahoma’s quarterback, Baker Mayfield, took the OU flag, and planted it dead center of the TOSU logo at the center of the field. Non-sports fans don’t really get it, but it’s pretty much the ultimate disrespect to do something like that in sports. It’s like teabagging in FPS games, spamming taunts or laughs in League of Legends, or flying another country’s flag on a pole reserved for the national one.
Big stinks are always made when like Georgia or Georgia Tech beats the other at their home, and they plant flags or rip off branches from their shrubs, or when a guy like Terrell Owens celebrates on top of the Dallas Cowboys’ star, or when the Dodgers clinched the NL West in Arizona and celebrated in their hot tub.
Baker Mayfield planting his team’s flag onto Ohio State’s field is basically on the same egregious offense as the aforementioned slights. Obviously, none of those really mean anything in the grand spectrum of life, but in the sports world, they’re declarations of war. But because it was someone slighting THE Ohio State, I absolutely love it.
Especially after all the taunting TOSU fans were doing about Mayfield’s offseason DUI, and calling Oklahoma soft and that their defense sucks, etc… Oklahoma going into Columbus and owning Ohio State on their home field is just desserts. To the point where TOSU fans eventually began leaving early, instead of sticking around and eating the crow that most of them deserved.
Regardless, I loved it when Mayfield ran onto the field and slammed the OU flag on their field. There’s no better redemption for ridicule than silencing the haters, especially the arrogant TOSU ones.
