While the OU-Nebraska series is as intense and competitive as any in college football, it has never been marked by the hate and hostility associated with many rivalries.
Castiglione's plan was aided when Nebraska fired Callahan last season. It also helped that the Cornhuskers replaced Callahan with Bo Pelini, who was on OU's staff for one season.
ources said that when Castiglione approached Nebraska AD Tom Osborne at the Big 12 spring meetings in May to gauge his opinion of celebrating the 1971 Game of the Century, the legendary former Husker coach "loved the idea."
Oh, how Jack Mildren would have loved it, too.
So, hopefully, both schools will also celebrate Mildren's memory on Nov. 1 by embracing Castiglione's plan with the spirit Mildren displayed in the Game of the Century and the dignity he brought to it the rest of his life.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! What a riot!
Wait, it gets even funnier. He copied a web page from the Daily Oklahoman, and replaced the story with his own creation, and then posted it on his own web site (albeit using his web site's internet numeric address instead of darthhusker.com) and then linked to it on a Sooner fan message board.
Sooner fans panic. How fun! Radio stations in Texas report the news as well. So cool! The Daily Oklahoman spends about 5 seconds identifying the perpretrator by simply checking out the home page for the server that hosted the farked story. Bahahahaha!
Wait! The hilarity doesn't end there! Now the Daily Oklahoman is considering legal action for reproducing their web site illegally, as is Jones' father. Isn't this the funniest thing you've ever heard?
Of course not. It's one of the most moronic things I've heard a Husker fan do, short of making death threats to Kevin Cosgrove. No, it's not satire. It's called libel.
It's not the first time Darth made the newspaper. In January 2005, Conradt was featured in the Lincoln Journal-Star talking about internet message boards:
"It's kind of a hierarchy, you know. The more people give their insider info that turns out to be true, the more they build their credibility. I'm not one of those people," said James Conradt, aka DarthHusker. "It's funny. New people come along all the time and are naive and believe too much of what they read. A lot of people just post stuff to stir the pot."
For any publication to have a defamatory meaning, it must be capable of being understood by a reasonable reader as stating actual facts. As the court held, a reasonable reader "does not represent the lowest common denominator," but is a person of "reasonable intelligence and learning."
3 comments:
this is pretty funny:
http://huskersgameday.com/2008/07/10/possible-punishments-for-james-w-conradt/
"...they just pull me back in..."
I had given up reading and posting to husker (and husker hating) blogs, but this story sucked me right back in.
I sure hope this falls through the huge hole in college football's attention span. This is really, really shameful.
Hope OU doesn't think we're all this stupid. Don't get me wrong I hope we clobber 'em good on the field, but afterwards have a good hearty chuckle about the real enemy..TEXAS ;P
Don't worry about it Huskers. I grew up in the day when even if we had the internet this jackass would have been shrugged off as a moron.
OU/NU have always had the best rivalry in college football. I've watched that fall apart over the last 10 years and that bothers me. I think both schools need to teach OU-NU 101.
That being said we're going to kick some Husker azz this fall.
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