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Bread Pudding and Radar
Published: 11/21/2009 10:06 PM
Last Modified: 11/21/2009 10:06 PM

I've covered college football for 33 years but on Saturday night I had another first.
The Tulsa-Southern Miss game was stopped in the fourth quarter when a large weather cell, coming up off the nearby gulf coast, arrived in Hattiesburg.
It rained. The wind blew. There was some lightning. If you've lived in Oklahoma for any period of time you've gone through much worse every spring.
Yet, it forced a lengthy delay of a game that Southern Miss had a comfortable lead (44-28).
It was strange. The players left the field. The crowd of about 28,000 emptied the stadium. Radio broadcasts were suspended to wait out the storm.
What do you do during a weather delay at a college football game?
Well, if you are at a game in the deep south at Southern Miss, you get back in line up in the press box for the finest bread pudding on earth.
The fans headed for underneath the grandstands.
Everyone took shelter as heavy rain, high winds and lightning battered Roberts Stadium.
It was my first weather delay in football. I've been to games where the fog was so heavy you couldn't see the field from the press box (Gator Bowl).
I've been at games in snowstorms (Tulsa at New Mexico State in a blizzard).
I've watched games played in virtual downpours (Baylor at Oklahoma State).
But, until Saturday, I'd never sat through a weather delay.



Reader Comments 1 Total
'50s Man (3 years ago)
You're too young to remember the 1952 TU-Villanova game which was suspended for a while when lightening came much too close to Skelly Stadium during a thunder storm. I spent the interim in a tiny, outside ticket booth, squeezed in with a delightful girl.

The game? TU, on its way to the Gator Bowl, stomped its opponent, a nationally ranked team.
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