Oklahoma vs. BYU

Over the Labor Day weekend, we traveled down to Texas so we could watch BYU play Oklahoma in the new Texas Stadium! My honey and oldest son bleed blue for their beloved Cougars. We don't usually travel with the team to games but my son wanted to see the new stadium and since we use to live in Texas, we decided to go. The stadium cost over $1 Billion dollars to build. The replay screen cost over $4 million and is 7 stories tall! It is a massive stadium but even while you are there, it is hard to grasp how many people it holds or how huge it really is. The capacity is 100,000 people! Crazy!!!!

Oklahoma fans outnumbered the BYU fans by 5 to 1. BYU wasn't suppose to have a chance to win. Our team was suppose to be blown out of the water by 3rd ranking OK. What a fun shock we had when our team came back from behind and scored a touchdown to win the game! 14-13! Over 75,000 people were at the game and it amazed me to see how quickly the Sooners left the building.

Most of the Sooner fans were gracious with their loss that we talked too but we tried getting into the shuttle van after the game to go back to our hotel and was totally ignored by one woman wearing red (Sooner's colors). There was no way she was going to scoot over so we could get in the same shuttle as her. We just had to roll our eyes. Some people take football way too seriously.

 

I know. That doesn't look like a 7 story tall tv, does it?! It really is!

 

The clarity of the screen was amazing. It felt just like you were there. Oh wait. I was!

 

Final score! Yea Cougars!

 

A collage of pics I took while on the tour of the stadium.

We were only in Dallas for the weekend so didn't get to do much else than the game but we did head over to Ft. Worth to see the Stockyards. Not really my kind of place to be. There was a music festival going on and with it being Labor Day, it was a crowded place with lots of drinking and partying on the sidewalks. We were hoping to catch the show of the longhorns running down the street but we missed them by 15 minutes. We also aren't use to the humidity and heat anymore so we didn't stick around too long. At least I can now say we have been there.

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