Did Mick Jagger really taunt the Sooners?
Published: 4/28/2009 2:23 PM
Last Modified: 4/28/2009 2:23 PM
A great day in the Emig household -- a pair of U2 tickets showed up in a FedEx envelope. I won't share how much I shelled out. I'm pretty sure I got jobbed. I'm also pretty sure the band's best days are behind it.
But I don't really care. I've wanted to see these guys in a stadium since I was in college and missed their Joshua Tree show in Kansas City.
I've been thinking a lot about the last time I saw a concert at Owen Field -- the Stones' show Oct. 28, 1997. And the thing that's killing me is I can't remember if Mick Jagger made some joke about Oklahoma's sad-sack football team at the time.
I remember a lot of jokes leading up to the actual concert. How Keith Richards could beat OU's corners deep. How Charlie Watts hit the drums harder than OU's linemen hit the blocking sled. How the Sooners would be better off with the Stones' playlist than John Blake's.
And I swear Mick took a shot between songs somewhere during the set. But I can't say for sure.
By the way, no chance Bono has a laugh next October, right? I guess he could make a crack about the Sooners and the BCS before launching into "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For." But I don't see it.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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