Stanford football @ Oklahoma, September 27, 1980 - Printable Version

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RE: Stanford football @ Oklahoma, September 27, 1980 - Nan3cy - 10-01-2025

The weekend that Stanford played OU in 1980, I was in Kauai with my then-husband. Sunday morning, I was curious as to what had happened the day before, and saw a couple of guys at the next table reading a Honolulu Advertiser. I asked if I could see the sport page, and when asked why I needed it, said I wanted to see how Stanford had done the day before. Lo and behold, one of these guys was a Stanford fan too and was all to happy to tell me that the good guys had won the game. When I read the article about the game in the paper, there was a quote from one of the OU players, saying plaintively, “Those guys aren’t supposed to win this game. They’re getting an education and everything!”

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RE: Stanford football @ Oklahoma, September 27, 1980 - JohnR34231 - 10-02-2025

(10-01-2025, 09:51 PM)Nan3cy Wrote:  The weekend that Stanford played OU in 1980, I was in Kauai with my then-husband. Sunday morning, I was curious as to what had happened the day before, and saw a couple of guys at the next table reading a Honolulu Advertiser. I asked if I could see the sport page, and when asked why I needed it, said I wanted to see how Stanford had done the day before. Lo and behold, one of these guys was a Stanford fan too and was all to happy to tell me that the good guys had won the game. When I read the article about the game in the paper, there was a quote from one of the OU players, saying plaintively, “Those guys aren’t supposed to win this game. They’re getting an education and everything!”

Interesting because I was in Hawaii too that day. When I heard the score, I thought maybe it was a mix up and it was Oklahoma that won the game decisively.

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RE: Stanford football @ Oklahoma, September 27, 1980 - Papa John - 10-02-2025

Great story, Nan3cy! 

I'm too cheap to pay for the Honolulu Star Advertiser story, but I was able to find a free archive for the Oklahoma Daily (the OU student newspaper) and pull up the story about the 1980 game:
https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1830367/m1/1/
https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1830367/m1/2/

Quote:"Well they kinda whipped us good, didn't they?" OU linebacker coach Warren Harper, as he left the OU dressing room.

Years from now, when people who were at the OU-Stanford game Saturday look back and review it, they will forget about the rain and cool weather.
But they will remember John Elway.

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