Oy Vey...

What a week for heartbreaking events, huh? First my dream-crush goes and gets engaged and then my beloved Sooners don't show up for their season opening game. I even made the trip to Dallas this past weekend - ready to cheer them on to victory! Little did I know what I was in for...

I've never considered myself a superstitious person (in the words of Michael Scott, I'm only a little-stitious). So while the fact that OU shockingly lost the last season opener I attended back in 2005 against TCU (another Mountain West Conference team) did cross my mind, I immediately dismissed it as coincidence. I even wore my OU mardi gras beads that I've worn for every big game watching party even though we've lost almost all those big games recently. There's no such thing as an unlucky necklace, right? My presence at the season opener didn't cause us to lose, right? This is the Sooners chance at redemption against the Mountain West - playing #20 BYU while we sit happily at #3, surely we will win, right?

Wrong, wrong, wrong. It was a terrible performance by the Sooners only to be outdone by a terrible occurrence right before halftime. As I'm sure you know by now Heisman winning quarterback Sam Bradford went down hard with a sprained AC shoulder joint. Out for the second half and 2-4 more weeks...Heartbreak times three. Then today it was announced our best tight end, Jermaine Gresham is out for the season with a knee injury...heartbreak times four.

If you would like to sympathize with me and read more on the extent of the disaster that is the 2009 college football season you can click here to read an article that cautiously questions how much worse it can get for the Sooners. Or you can click here for details on how we're going to try to piece together a new team.

It's safe to say it would take a miracle turnaround from Saturday's performance for the Sooners to be in the National Title hunt this year, especially without their two star players. I've accepted the fact that this will likely be a rebuilding year for my Sooners. It's coming earlier than expected but it's not avoidable - every program has to rebuild at some point. After several mental pep talks I've also started to think it could be nice to be the underdog in big games this year, maybe we can pull of an upset or two? Fingers crossed that at least one upset will come against the terrible longhorns on October 17.

To end on a positive note, here's some pictures of the amazing Dallas Cowboys Stadium. It really is incredible, especially the sideline JumboTron screens. I think they should rename them to massive-ridiculously-large screens...it's more fitting.

Endzone shot, normal JumboTrons on these ends, retractable roof

Poor Sam...but this picture does highlight how large the side screen is!

"The Pride of Oklahoma" (our band)...the leader does this crazy back-bend-while-walking thing before the game when leading the band out. It's really quite impressive

Yay for the Sooner Schooner!

So this isn't at the stadium but it was in front of a house in our neighborhood, you don't see that very often in Charlotte so I had to take the photo opp. Maybe my roommates would go for this in front of our house?