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Christmas Eve bowl memory and forgiving Pat O'Brien
Published: 12/24/2009 4:55 PM
Last Modified: 12/24/2009 4:55 PM

Sixteen years ago on Christmas Eve, I was dispatched to El Paso to cover a Sun Bowl (then the John Hancock Bowl) game between Oklahoma and Texas Tech.
Richard Linihan (the Fair Meadows guy who has dated at least two Hollywood starlets) and I were riding a hotel elevator.
The elevator stopped on a floor and the doors opened. Pat O'Brien, who was part of CBS' bowl broadcast crew and more recently has anchored shows like Access Hollywood, took a look at the two ruffians in the elevator and decided he would catch the next one, or at least that's what we gleaned from his body language.
I've been offended ever since, even though O'Brien may have had a perfectly good excuse for choosing not to ride shotgun with us.
On this day, Christmas Eve, 2009, I am going to channel holiday spirit and forgive him.



Reader Comments 2 Total
JCD1978 (3 years ago)
Jimmie, I do not think you should have let it get to you. Back then Pat O'Brien probably was worried you would take his flask.
Lance-a-lot (3 years ago)
Karma is a b****. Now look at Patty...doing "Access Hollywood". I mean, seriously, what kind of crap show is that?
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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