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» Sunday, October 7, 2007

Denial ain't just a river in Austin, either

The Austin American-Statesman, the hometown paper of the University of Texas, seems to have a slight problem with the outcome of Saturday's OU-Texas game, as seen in the following screen capture [Update: Yup, they fixed it sometime overnight; good thing I took a screen capture]:

The entire page is preserved as a one-page PDF here (260KB) for those interested in preserving "Dewey Defeats Truman"-type artifacts.

This is now clearly the funniest thing to come out of the game. That distinction was previously held by ESPN-on-ABC's choice to have "Bevo" introduce the Texas lineups at the beginning of the game. The voice added to America's Next Top Hamburger Recall said, while introducing the Texas defense:

And watch for that big old steer Scott Derry! Heh heh, he ain't no dairy cow.

Either ESPN's producers are unaware of the difference between a bull and a steer, or they really don't like Scott Derry.

(Entire page in one PDF file provided courtesy of the freeware Sunrise browser on Mac OS X, where you'll also find other geeky goodness at no charge.)

# - Posted to Rah! Rah! Rah!, The 24-hour cycle, The Sooner State on 10/7/07; 3:07:55 AM - Discuss -

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