One of my favorite stories in the history of football is the Bedlam Series of 1987. The Oklahoma State Cowboys are facing the Oklahoma Sooners.
“It was my senior year. We were getting ready to play the University of Oklahoma,” Cowboys running back Thurman Thomas said in an interview on A Football Life: Barry Sanders. “And Barry Switzer, who is the head coach at the University of Oklahoma said, ‘Whatever you do: Don’t. Hurt. Thurman.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, okay.’”
“They all looked at me like I was crazy,” Switzer said.