Six years later, Peterson still feels "cheated" about Oregon loss
Published: 5/18/2012 7:50 AM
Last Modified: 5/18/2012 7:50 AM
Tuned into the promising new sports talk show Dusty Dvoracek and Teddy Lehman host on Norman's KREF the other day. The two former Oklahoma Sooners had old teammate Adrian Peterson on. They asked him to name a memorable moment from his career at OU.
The time he introduced himself to Texas with 225 yards?
The day he singlehandedly beat Tulsa on Owen Field?
His "I'm baaack" game at Nebraska?
Uh-uh. Those were all wins.
Instead, Peterson recalled the day OU lost at Oregon. He ran wild at Autzen Stadium Sept. 16, 2006, with 211 yards on 34 carries. But nobody cares to remember that. He doesn't care to remember that.
"Even though we came up on the losing end of that game, every single individual that walked out of that stadium knew who was the better team and who won that game," Peterson said on "The Rush." "It was clear that we got cheated. We got robbed out of that game. From the coaches to the players to every Oregon fan that was there, and every Sooner fan, they knew that we got robbed. In my heart we won that game, even though it went down as a loss."
Toward the end of 2009, Matt Hinton revisited the onside kick fiasco on his old Dr. Saturday blog on Yahoo! He labeled it the decade's "worst call." He wrote about the "head-exploding incomprehensibility" of awarding possession to Oregon, and how the officials' decision "directly cost Oklahoma the win and possibly a national championship shot at the end of the year."
You don't have to tell Peterson that, obviously. It's been six years. He's moved on to bigger things, a single-game NFL rushing record and gazillions of dollars among them.
But bigger doesn't always cancel out bitter. And man is "AD" bitter about what happened that day at Autzen.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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