T. Boone’s line on UGA-OSU: Cowboys by 363 points
I’ve picked Georgia to lose to Oklahoma State by 10 points. T. Boone Pickens, who has more money than Arthur Blank and I put together, likes Georgia to lose by 363 points.
When I read T. Boone’s “predicted” score of 387-24 in a post by Terrance Harris on Fanhouse — thanks to observant reader Dink for the tip — my first thought was that the oil wildcatter has obviously been scouting Willie Martinez. But after reading Dave Sittler’s original column in the Tulsa World, I’m not sure this was an actual prediction. Sittler used the word “requested,” which is a bit different.
Example: I would like to request that Mr. Pickens give me 165 million bucks, but I’m not predicting he will.
T. Boone is 81. (He and the fourth Mrs. Pickens traveled to Athens in 2007 when OSU lost to the Bulldogs. Both Boone — his pals drop the “T” — and Madeleine spent some time in the press box. They seemed nice.) Three years ago the oilman gave the OSU athletics department $165 million. The refurbished edifice Georgia will enter on Sept. 5 is, you’ll be shocked to discover, named Boone Pickens Stadium.
TBP is already on record as believing his Cowboys will enter their regular season finale against Oklahoma unbeaten. Sittler quotes Pickens thusly: “I know I stuck my neck out in that Tulsa World column when I said we’re going to be 11-0. And I still believe that’s what we’re going to be, but it’s going to be tough getting there. We have to beat Georgia first if we’re going to be 11-0, so I think we’re going to win that game.
You’ll also be shocked to know I have some experience being on the wrong end of a projected blowout. I picked the Rams to beat the Patriots 42-3 in Super Bowl XXXVI, and the Patriots not only beat my 39-point spread but won the doggone game. So now I’m thinking T. Boone might have jinxed his ‘Boys. And, since I’ve also picked OSU, jinxed me.
Great, I say. Just great. Give a guy $3 billion and he thinks he owns the world.
(Oh, and here’s another column on T. Boone, this by Jenni Carlson of the Oklahoman. If her name rings a bell, there’s a reason. Her column provoked the infamous Mike Gundy rant, for which we should all be eternally grateful.)
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yellow fuzz
August 22nd, 2009
8:25 am
Georgia = Georgia Tech’s bitch!
Tuscaloosa Tom
August 22nd, 2009
8:26 am
Georgia = Alabama’s bitch (31-0)
OSU Cowboy
August 22nd, 2009
8:27 am
Georgia = our bitch too!
LOL
August 22nd, 2009
8:31 am
can’t we keep these fanatics off our blog and just drink from the same cup and talk about how well we recruited and how we are going to dominate every team in the country and win the Outback Steakhouse Bowl?
yellow fuzz
August 22nd, 2009
8:33 am
can’t we just talk about how great our football team is and how tough our academic standards are like the good ole days?
45ACP
August 22nd, 2009
8:45 am
Alabama has a winning record vs Georgia.
You other chumps need to do a little research.
GA vs Oklahoma State W3 L0 T0
GA vs Georgia Tech W59 L37 T5
GA vs Florida W47 L38 T2
GA vs Alabama W25 L36 T4
yellow fuzz
August 22nd, 2009
9:09 am
I just base everything on last year (and of course this year).
And last year….
45-42 GEORGIA TECH
49-10 FLORIDA
31-0 ALABAMA
If you georgia azzholes want me to shut up, tell your team to put up. Until then, it’s still 45-42! LOL.
Dawghater
August 22nd, 2009
9:27 am
I hear after the Oklahoma State game, Richt will be asking Martinez to take a mandatory furlough the week before the Florida game and the GT game!
yellow fuzz
August 22nd, 2009
9:28 am
Seenitall,
I agree with everything but week 3. I think the dogs will drop another to Arkansas before they beat Arizona State.
Can’t wait to read what the regulars have to say here after THREE straight losses. LOL. I mean I CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LONG DAWG
August 22nd, 2009
9:28 am
Yellow fuzz. Payback is on the way. If you base everything on last year you forgot. Losses to Virginia, NC, VT and humiliation by LSU and Gardner WEBB. Your memory is very selective. You will disappear by mi-season and losses to Miami and NC.
Spike
August 22nd, 2009
9:33 am
Yellow Fuzz.. Your comeuppance is comimg, pencilneck. Your mom called and said you need to come home because you wet the bed again.
yellow fuzz
August 22nd, 2009
9:33 am
I hope none of the georgia coaches get furloughed. We need all those 5 star recruits to keep playing like average joes. We need them to keep drinking the KOOLAID themselves.
gratefuldawghead
August 22nd, 2009
11:16 am
GO DAWGS!!!!
Stinger
August 22nd, 2009
12:46 pm
Frankly I believe T.Boone has over estimated your defense. They should score 400+ on Willie’s boys.
Scaley Dog
August 22nd, 2009
1:05 pm
Lighten up on T. Boone – as a OSU fan he is only as rabid as we of the Dawg Nation. I really wanted to respond to say “Bank Walker, Texas Ranger” has the best moniker on the blog. As a fellow bank walker, I appreciate that humor.
Buckhead Bulldog
August 22nd, 2009
4:36 pm
Yellow Fuzz….shouldn’t you be out shopping at WalMart today for the fantasy costume you will be wearing in two weeks at Dragon*Con? You know that in two weeks it will be an out of control party on N. Ave with J’ville State and DragonCon all in the same weekend. Whoa! Sounds like a party……pudding boy!
Tim
August 22nd, 2009
4:47 pm
These guys think OK State will win. Tell them what you think http://www.respectfullydisagree.com/respectfullydisagree/Podcast/Entries/2009/8/22_College_Football_Week_3.html They did play our fight song though. Oklahoma State is soooo overrated. i’m tired of everyone picking them. didn’t we beat them last year? Yes
BulldawgMike
August 23rd, 2009
9:17 am
Hey T-Bone or T-Boone or whatever.. your conference still plays NO defense. Oklahoma learned that last year vs. Fla. Your memory must have failed you about what happened a couple of years ago in Athens. Dawgs by 14…….
Danny
August 23rd, 2009
10:13 am
Boone Pickens was NOT referring to the actual score of the game as has been reported and taken out of context. Boone was referring to a House/Senate vote for something energy related.
Of course, the press idiots twist and turn words into articles that they hope will fire up the reader idiots who’ll buy their stupid papers.
Sure enough, many a UGA Dawg fan are eating it up.
Not one realistic Cowboy fan thinks that Georgia will be an easy game. That includes Boone Pickens. We’re better than we were two years ago in that game in Athens. Plus, we don’t have an ineffective Bobby Reid quarterbacking anymore. We have a much better leader in Zac Robinson and a much improved defense — something we lacked in Athens.
OSU fans know that UGA will always play tough. We’re counting on our home crowd to give us that extra momentum to overcome Georgia. We’re actually very concerned about Georgia — knowing full well that Richt and the Dawgs just reload and are very talented.
So put away your Boone Pickens score prediction. He really doesn’t believe that we’ll walk over Georgia.
..and windmills on the plains is a very brilliant idea that has many forward thinking people already onboard. There’s a reason Pickens has money and those that don’t believe in wind energy continue to live in small houses.
Eric C.
August 23rd, 2009
12:50 pm
Danny – there is also a strong correlation between motivation and house size. Last year’s group of Dawgs was over-hyped, unfocused, and injury-riddled. This year’s underestimated team is very solid up front and very hungry to right the wrongs from last year. Regardless of how you twist it…Boone just threw the Dawgs a bone. Should be a fun game!
dan
August 23rd, 2009
7:24 pm
I’m calling it right now: UGA will BEAT OKST and it’s going to be a high scoring game! Remember it was me that predicted it!
reservoirDAWG
August 23rd, 2009
9:20 pm
Yellofuzz, bring it. After November the world will be right again and to the UF fan talking smack, your time will come.
ofonemind
August 23rd, 2009
10:27 pm
The grammer should be “than Arthur Blank and me do”. To put this properly, Mr. Bradley should have said He used to have more money than Arthur Blank and I do together. That was before his hedge fund went kaput.
Actually Boone gave much more than $165 million to the football program. More than $200 million . Before the fund went down the fund was up to about $420 million. After the crash Boone gave another $65 million in order for them to finish the stadium. He also gave the University an even $100 million for education.
I would say he gave them more money than he now has.
Incidentally, the predited score was intended as a joke . He was talking about an energy bill in the U. S. Congress that he supported and had passed 387 to 24. He then added that he hoped that was the score we beat Georgia.by. HA HA Ha.
Make no mistake, no one in Oklahoma is taking this game lightly. We are a little too much in awe of the Bulldogs, as a matter in fact. The fact t hat we are favored is a little puzzling to me. But here’s hoping.
Bisher
August 26th, 2009
10:29 am
It should be “me” [" ... Pickens, who has more money than Arthur Blank and I put together, ..."]. You’d think Bradey writes for the Montgomery Advertiser! He certainly would not have written for the AJC when it “covered Dixie like the dew”!
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