Runnin' with the Big Dogs: The True, Unvarnished Story of the Texas-Oklahoma Football Wars.
Mike Shropshire, "Runnin' with the Big Dogs: The True, Unvarnished Story of the Texas-Oklahoma Football Wars."
Publisher: William Morrow | ISBN: 0060852771 | 2006 edition | PDF | 224 Pages | 1.34 MB
Publisher: William Morrow | ISBN: 0060852771 | 2006 edition | PDF | 224 Pages | 1.34 MB
As an OU Alumni, who "was there" at more Sooner Red River victories in the "Switzer and Stoops Eras" than covered in the book, my recommendation is that "Runnin with the Big Dogs" should be renamed "Fightin with the Gladiators"! Shropshire numerous attempts at home spun humor often fall incomplete(not up to par with Dan Rather and certainly not Will Rogers). The book has the same familar style of Texan "truthiness" to it that we're use to hearing from another Longhorn Fan who lives in the White House. The author is clearly biased toward the Longhorn side of the barbed wire fence (otherwise he would have mentioned Oklahoma's victory in a real "Red River War" in a long standing border dispute between Oklahoma and Texas in 1931 with Oklahoma National Guardsmen standing down the Texas Rangers). The one subject covered extensively that I enjoyed was on former OU Player Joe Don Looney. It brought back memories attending football games with my Dad in the early 60s when Looney was star halfback at the UCLA of the Southwest (University of Cameron Lawton Area).