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Homers
Published: 8/28/2006 5:01 PM
Last Modified: 8/28/2006 5:01 PM

You can probably add something like a year to your life by avoiding homers.

There's no such thing as a pro homer, just a pro bore.

A college homer is somebody who went to school at a particular place and can't get over it, is paid by the school he or she purports to cover, or is simply in love with a coach.

Homergate is where a media person, usually from TV or radio, is on a school's payroll. Newspaper reporters who write for a university magazine are in the same leaky boat.

Media homers are actually doing their beloved schools and coaches a disservice. Nobody listens to homers except pinheads who already know the song and dance.

Homers make neutral observers dislike a particular school.

How can you spot an OU homer?

These people are saying that OU will have one of the greatest defenses ever.

This may be the case. But it wasn't based on what everybody has to go on: last year. A season ago, OU's defense was torched by the Aggies and Nebraska.

OU's defense may very well be good. But it isn't yet, except to the cheerleaders. Covering the pass from a good thrower remains an elusive desire under this staff.

How can you spot an OSU media homer?

He or she speaks mostly of OU's woes.

How can you spot a TU homer?

There aren't any who really matter.

The truth is, the TU football story almost parallels the Miracle in Manhattan -- Kansas State's.

The smallest football-playing major college in the country is good! Yet TU is given the short shrift on stuff like the Sports Blitz on the in-state's two major CBS outlets, and is barely mentioned on the Sports Animal braying out of Oklahoma City.

Another good way to identify homers is they can't pick games so well.




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