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Oil Bowl Blues
June 14, 2009It would have been a good game, but now we'll never know.
Halfway in-between Dallas and Wichita Falls, the sky began to darken Saturday evening as a storm system rolled into the Texoma area and sat down seemingly directly over Memorial Stadium.
The lightning crackling all over the sky made it abundantly clear that it was far too dangerous to play the game, so for the only the second time in 72 years, there was no Oil Bowl.
A game with so much promise is now doomed to be a footnote in Oil Bowl history.
What happens years from now when one of the players on the Oklahoma or Texas roster tastes success in the NFL or in some other endeavor?
Can they become part of the Oil Bowl Hall of Fame based on their selection for a game Mother Nature took away?
Perhaps the coaches - Mike Chaney of Alvord and Greg Gothard of Velma-Alma - put it best after the after the game when each talked about getting to work with the kids and building new friendships with the players and coaches.
That's the best legacy of any All-Star game and the one tangible thing you can take away with you - even if there is no game.
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