#so funny that they went this hard for the baseball episode. it was required actually

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Custom Toonami Block Week 169 Rundown

Spy X Family: It’s a Bond and Loid adventure this week and I’m still never quite sure what the relationship is between these two, like they make it explicit Loid doesn’t know Bond has precognition and he hilariously chalks everything up to Bond using ‘smell’ to sense things regardless of how implausible that is, but he also thinks nothing of taking him on missions and stuff and does know he’s a Data Dog so idk if he’s just oblivious and has really strict training for housepets or is actually intending to take him in the field as an operative. Still it’s funny watching him try to help people and not having Loid understand what he’s doing like Anya can, emphasizes their relationship without her even being there. They also break into a burning building to save a puppy and with all the fluff on him you’d think he’d go up like a haystack but he only gets a tiny spark after he’s already left, they probably should’ve dumped the water on him before he went in rather than after he got out but there wasn’t much time and deflated Bond is still amusing enough to even get a laugh out of Loid. They catch the arsonist and like it isn’t very hard like he wears a baseball cap with FIRE written on it and carries all his oil and matches in a duffel bag and stands there to watch the place burn like how is he not caught already. It’s very sweet that Anya finds out and gives them a little award ceremony despite them not being able to tell anyone, and Loid telling Bond being Anya’s dog is his most important mission is very nice. Also apparently this is the season finale, I was REALLY not paying attention because I thought I had a couple episodes left but guess that’s it until the movie, looks like I’ll have to find two new shows for next week.

Inuyasha The Final Act: We kinda cut around a lot of semi-relevant filler arcs in this episode, like this is the closest we get to a breather episode in this season and it still is speedrunning like four different storylines. Firstly the most relevant at the beginning and end of the episode, Totosai senses Tokijin broke and Sesshomaru’s the minimum requirement of 20% less of a dick than he used to be so Tenseiga will allow him to murder people with it now. I always felt kinda weird about this because Meido Zangetsuha is a legit amazing ability and really cool but the point of Tenseiga was originally to keep Sesshomaru and Inuyasha in balance and while there is room in that for Sesshomaru’s character growth allowing some power creep the fact that it’s never been mentioned does make it feel like quite the retcon. Meanwhile as Kagome heads home and hears the incredibly important end of the Shikon Jewel story that has again never been mentioned before, she just kinda decides fuck school and goes back in time again. Like I get they play it off as Kagome being an impatient teenager that never listens to her grandpa but it feels like this again should’ve come up at some point given Kagome’s been searching for this thing for the better part of six in-world months. Lastly we have two Shippo filler episode arcs back to back with him playing pranks on the guys to go up meaningless ranks in a fox demon advancement exam which is mostly just funny how hilariously quickly Shippo’s willing to turn on his friends for numbers he admits are basically meaningless, though it does give him something to do for the Yashahime Timeskip so that’s nice. Also the transition between these two arcs is really blnk and you’ll miss it because I sure as hell missed it but there’s another ‘Shippo gets a girlfriend’ arc where the sexy girl with the counterfeit energy-stealing sword he’s chasing turns out to be a male badger doing a G.I.R.L. scheme on him and it mostly just ends up being a setup for the REAL Dakki which Inuyasha knows will somehow be important in some unexplained way just by looking at the fake. Man it’s real easy to get whiplash with how quick these Final Act episodes jump from point to point and like don’t even establish where they are in some cases like Sesshomaru and Totosai just kinda show up in the sperm demon dome without explanation to test the Meido Zangetsuha like I guess I prefer this to twenty episodes of filler between each plot point but there has to be some kind of middle ground, still the story is pretty solid when it’s actually moving, just a little disorienting.

Castlevania: Trevor’s gotta go on his first little D&D quest and like three collapsing floors that I’m not sure how the other guys got around given they were completely intact and led to the same place but it’s funny watching Trevor fall on his ass, guy’s got some real Jack Sparrow energy. But yeah he kills the Cyclops and they do the ‘the boy was actually a girl’ thing you see in like half of the Naruto filler arcs and a bunch of other dear horse things and idk really why they do it here because it’s not a shock for the audience to go ‘why did you assume it was a boy? #feminism’ like it usually is, it’s just kind of a worldbuilding thing that the Spakers are mildly sexist which is okay I guess but also makes me like the group we’re supposed to be saving a little less. Sypha thinks there’s still ominous shit down there to get but Trevor sees all the modern tech and is like ‘this is Dracula’s weird science shit, gonna get out of here’ and they at least agree to go tell her grandfather she’s alive before going to risk her life again. After he drops her off the church picks Trevor up and Frollo comes to see him like ‘bro just gto, you don’t have to do anything but leave I don’t want your video game protagonist shenanigans in my town while we violently murder the peace monks in the name of our merciful god okay?’and of course Trevor immediately goes back to get said peace monks back down into the D&D dungeon and ends up fighting off the angry mob. But also like… why? He could’ve just gone down there with them he didn’t need to be there to fight them did he just wanna make his admittedly cool speech? Like that’s a lot of work and several dead bodies to make a speech to some guys that you’re immediately going to kill anyway. I also don’t inherently see the difference between the Speakers adamantly refusing to leave town and then hiding anyway like the townspeople don’t know where they are so functionally they’ve left town like they could’ve just left and came back or some shit and had the same effect, in fact if they leave and still get attacked by demons that’s proof that they aren’t the cause of the demon attacks (also idk if they seem to be making the point that the demons attack everywhere under church rule specifically or if they are just spreading Dracula’s rage indiscriminately like the church gets blamed for it rightly so but also if the church didn’t move into this town and the all became buddists or something I don’t think the demons would do a Passover and not hurt them). But yeah in addition to the angry mob chasing Trevor through the streets we also have demons, so that’ll be fun.

Jujutsu Kaisen: So this episode’s just kinda really cool, the animators have a lot of fun with the colors and the symbolism on street signs and shit like that and it’s really neat. The entire episode is basically Choso versus Yuji and it’s really pretty neat because Choso basically has the better version of the other guy’s Gear Second blood powers in that he’s basically Suitengu from Speed Grapher and can even recycle the blood despite never having to worry about bleeding out. He basically just does a bunch of cool blood shit until Mechamaru gives Yuji a strategy to run into the bathroom and make this a good knuckleduster because all hot-blooded shonen fights end with the two punching the shit out of each other and Choso is apparently like Roy Mustang and can’t get wet because if blood gets too much water in it it’s not blood anymore it’s just dirty water and if there’s one thing a system based on curses loves it’s semantics. It’s kinda funny that both of them come up with the same strategy of ‘I’ll not use my offhand and then punch him in the liver with something from that hand’ and only Choso’s actually works but Yuji has enough shonen willpower to run through it for a bit. I like this fight a lot because by all means this should be a talk no jutsu fight about how Choso feels about his brothers being killed and how technically Nobara killed both of them anyway and they get down to their feelings and shit but Yuji even admits there’s no time for that and just comes out swinging. Eventually Yuji’s dead to rights and bleeding out but Choso miraculously feels a familial connection to him in a weird little cutscene that feels like that scene from Walking Dead where Negan tells Rick to imagine what life could’ve been like if all his friends made it out alive and they’re all eating at a table outside. But yeah I’m not surprised because the Venn Diagram of characters that have weird heritages and shonen protagonists is a fucking circle. Also the school girls find Yuji and are presumably going to stop him from fucking dying.

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End: We get two little stories this time around, the first is a standard ‘Frieren sneaks around to buy Fern a birthday present’ which is a pretty paint by numbers plot but it is pretty sweet that it reflects Frieren’s efforts to learn more about the people she travels with and take their perception of the passage of time into account, plus it gives Fern a new accessory to mark the passage of time on her travels with Frieren. The second is Frieren training Fern on defensive magic only for it to immediately come into practice against an old demon that was sealed away during her initial travels. Luckily eighty years of collecting spells for tea and flowers have made Frieren strong enough to wipe the floor with this guy. No but seriously they basically wake this guy up, go ‘you’ve been powercrept bro’ and disintegrate his ass, it’s a pretty neat meditation on the ‘a better gun means people make better armor’ type of race between offense and defense. Though if we’ve reached the magical arms race point where the Armor Piercing Disintegrate you from fucking existence spell is ordinary and commonplace idk where you really have left to go from there like how do you get more powerful than atomizing someone. Also something something Luffy kid saw Frieren’s panties.

Vinland Saga: It’s the second half of the season and with the farm’s war with Canute on the backburner for right now we start off with a scene that can only be described as a breakway Slave reenacting the “Then Perish” Obama meme on his master. I figured this out early so I’mma just spoil right here that this is Arnheid’s husband Gardar even though it doesn’t come up until the end of the episode. Meanwhile the group is doing shenanigans at Sverkel’s house while he’s basically wasting away but it gives Einar, Thorfinn and Arnheid some time to bond and let their character developments sink in a bit. Plus Thorfinn is hearing Wolf read the Bible to Sverkel and it just so happens to cut to the passage that’s likely the most relevant to the entire series. It is kinda refreshing to see the series take the pacifism of the Bible so seriously like obviously all the Christian warriors are still murdering in the name of god and shit but with things like Castlevania and other anime and even just real life Christianity it’s easy to get lost in the weeds of how shitty people are about religion and I think Vinland Saga does a good job boiling it down to what people liked about it in the first place aside from it being a convenient vehicle to justify biases and get people to put up with a lot of bullshit on the promise their next life would be better, it really captures the beauty of the Do Onto Others philosophy in a way that a lot of other religious depictions are too cynical to. Still, Gardar murders one of Wolf’s men that has the least screentime and has charged the camp on a desperate attempt to reclaim Arnheid and she does not look happy to see him so there’s probably a story there.

[frazzledsoul]

Why The IMDB Ranking of the Top Gilmore Girls Episodes Is Wrong Wrong Wrong and The True Ranking of GG Greatness According To Me

Raincoats and Recipes - This is the greatest episode of the show and one of my favorite episodes of TV ever. We have Lorelai finally fulfilling her dreams, tons of Rory drama, and the culmination of the long burning Luke/Lorelai romance in the show’s absolute most perfect moment. I feel this episode kind of encapsulates the show at its best, when it is lighthearted romantic comedy and incisive drama without being either too cloying or too heartwrenching.

Bon Voyage - Objectively, this is a great episode and is in so many ways superior to the revival finale. Rory finally gets the send-off into the world that she deserves; Lorelai finally gets the affirmation of her life choices from her dad that she always wanted; she’s set to continue her relationship with her parents even without Rory around; she and Luke finally reconcile and even though we don’t have all of our questions answered, it’s clear from the gooey looks between them in the final scene that it’s set to last this time.

In a lot of ways I wish we had left it there and imagined that Luke and Lorelai settled into early family life together and that Rory became that globe-trotting journalist she always dreamed of being.

However, personally I can’t stand that Lorelai tells Rory she is giving up on her and Luke getting back together because he hasn’t responded to her romantic overtures after she told several people in front of his face that she didn’t mean things that way. Why is always up to him to make a move Lorelai? It just bothers me. Ugh.

And this is totally beside the point, but that line “I want somebody who can tell me he can feel” is used to devastating effect in a fanfic I won’t mention to argue that he is ultimately unworthy of Lorelai and that every moment she spent with him was wasted. This is why I am so picky about how Luke is handled in fanfic, because when you’re really emotionally connected to a show that’s disappointed you, you don’t want to see your favorites trashed in the venue you escape to to make up for what the writers wrecked. (And I know I’m a hypocrite in this, as I have written both Lit and Rogan fanfics in which the wisdom of those ships are openly questioned, though I like to think that I also point out the good things about those relationships as well). Sure, the episode ends with Lorelai realizing how devoted Luke is to her, and that he puts her happiness above everything else, even his hope of having his affection returned, and that’s how he shows her he can feel. But something about the beginning rubs me the wrong way.

So I vote to substitute it with Fall (although I would not rank it so highly). There was nothing missing in the OG series finale that necessitated the existence of the revival, but I’m very glad we have it. It was so gratifying to see Luke give that speech of undying devotion, to see Luke and Lorelai finally get married, to see Jess accepted as part of the family and Rory finally be fulfilled in her work. And yes, that ending, but the passage of time has softened its harshness: Rory is older, she has the support of her family, she did get to do what she wanted in the world, and she can handle it. She’ll get to play out a healthier version of her mother’s life story.

Friday Night’s Alright For Fighting - Woo, boy. Seriously, what the hell is this doing ranked #3? It’s a decent episode, but it doesn’t belong in the Top 30, nevermind in the Top 3. Yes, the fighting is sort of amusing, but I see it sort of on the level of Babette and Miss Patty comparing Lorelai’s love interests to barnyard animals in season 7, except it’s not even as funny as that was. And Lorelai being forced to watch with the rest of the town while Luke and April hang out in the diner is not funny: it’s sad. I kind of feel this episode gets to the essence of everything that went terribly, horribly wrong in season six: the writers want us to pretend that the show is an escapist romp, but that’s impossible when the characters are making each other so miserable.

I would replace it with the much undervalued Hay Bale Maze episode. I feel this episode is everything that the season 7 writers got right and that the Palladinos didn’t understand. (If you want an example of everything they got wrong, I invite you to watch French Twist or that horrid Great Stink episode). You see Logan and Rory being a sweet, healthy couple and that Logan can actually be mature and understanding and willing to admit fault (ASP really, really needed to watch this episode). You have quirky townie action and April and Lorelai acting warmly towards each other (again, another scene that ASP needed to watch). You see Luke and Lorelai actually able to come to terms with what happened in the past and apologize to each other and yes, while it was awkward and uncomfortable those moments always are awkward and uncomfortable and they needed to face that before they could move on. (And it was hugely, hugely vindicating for Lorelai to say what she did was wrong and that she was sorry. ASP would never have let her do that in a million years). I just feel that this episode is everything that is warm and positive and forgiving about the show and that it was a hard-won moment of healing after so much bad stuff had happened during the last two seasons.

Those Are Strings Pinocchio - This is Rory’s Chilton graduation episode and it’s perfect. The moment where we see Rory give the touching graduation speech dedicated to her mom and see both Luke and Lorelai break out in tears is so heartwarming. And it is awesomely rewarding to see her surrounded by the two people who actually supported her throughout the years, instead of having one be crowded out by the guy who only showed up when he was pretending at the role in order to curry favor with her mom.

Last Week’s Fights This Year’s Tights - This is a perfect, perfect, perfect episode but it needs to be ranked higher. This truly Luke at his most swoonworthy, romantic best and it’s hugely gratifying to see Luke and Jess finally make peace with each other.

They Shoot Gilmores Don’t They - The dance marathon episode! Yes, it definitely deserves its place. I kind of feel this episode gets the wondrous fairyland aspect of Stars Hollow right, and even though we are in the midst of Rory’s high school love triangle drama, it’s wonderful to imagine a world where that’s the worst thing that can happen.

If only the show had managed to stay that way.

Wedding Bell Blues - Okay, objectively this is a great episode. Lots of fun townie action (Emily’s bachelorette party!), Emily and Richard are adorable, and there are some nice L/L moments before it all blows up. I actually enjoy seeing Christopher and Luke trade off being Protective Dad and the speech where Luke lays out to Christopher all the ways in which he has actually been Rory’s dad when Christopher couldn’t bother to show up is epic.

However, it’s also the episode where Luke and Lorelai essentially break up because Lorelai is an idiot and has no reasonable boundary issues with Christopher (in what universe is it okay to show up with a bottle of tequila to comfort your ex boyfriend and stay all night drinking with him when you are in a relationship? Seriously, Lorelai. Can’t you just give him a hug and then leave?) and Luke doesn’t fight it when she thinks she’s serious about it, even though it’s clear he regrets it and tries to fix things. I don’t like that. I know they are only separated for a single episode and a few weeks in show time, but I still don’t like it.

So I vote to replace it with Written In The Stars, the episode where Luke and Lorelai consummate their love, we get the truly swoonworthy horoscope moment, and we discover that Luke is truly an epic example of manly yet sensitive romantic dreams. I know there’s not a lot else going on outside of that, but I don’t care.

Rory’s Dance - Okay, a fine quality episode with much family Gilmore drama some sweet Rory/Dean moments, but I just don’t feel that it really is amongst the show’s best moments. I also can’t remember anything cute Luke does during this episode, and that is an absolute requirement for me. So I vote to replace it with Rory’s Birthday Parties, which has the cute Luke/Lorelai ice moment, but also is full of lots of townie moments, sweet Gilmore family bonding moments, and is basically an episode full of sweetness and love and joy. Plus, Richard Gilmore taking teen girl magazine quizzes. Perfection.

I Can’t Get Started - An episode full of Lorelai mooning over Christopher, getting excited about finally getting a second chance with him, then getting her hopes shot down after (very unwisely) getting Emily, Richard, and Rory excited about the possibility of a reformed nuclear family. Ugh, can we not? I’m not going to go into how utterly moronic Lorelai’s behavior is during this episode (but even when she learns that Christopher is going to stay with Sherry, it’s clear that she knows that it might not work out and at no point was he actually broken up with her) but just . . . . no.

So let’s replace it with my absolute favorite Season 1 episode, the sublime masterpiece that is Forgiveness and Stuff. We have great Gilmore family stuff, the Santa Burger, the giving of The Blue Baseball Cap Of Love, Luke dropping everything for Lorelai and driving her to the hospital and staying with her through the entire ordeal, even though he has plenty of reasons not to be there. I’d take Luke being a constant, loyal, giving, selfless human being over Christopher being an inconsiderate jerk every time.

The Lorelai’s First Day at Yale - Again, nothing wrong with this episode. We have cute Rory/Lorelai moments and Luke being the grumpy surrogate dad that he is in almost all circumstances. However, I don’t feel that it’s worthy of making the Top 10, so I vote to replace it with The Bracebridge Dinner, which has cute Gilmore family moments, townie action, Luke and Jess snarkily bonding, and the sleigh bell rides with lovely moments for both Rory/Jess and Luke/Lorelai.

So, reordered ranking of episodes:

1. Raincoats and Recipes

2. This Year’s Fights Last Year’s Tights

3. Fall

4. Written In The Stars

5. Forgiveness and Stuff

6. Hay Bale Maze

7. They Shoot Horses Don’t They

8. Those Are Strings Pincocchio

9. Rory’s Birthday Parties

10. The Bracebridge Dinner

[junker-town]

Texas-OU rematch is the national championship of s***-talking

The Sooners and Longhorns have been JAWING.

Texas and Oklahoma play for the Big 12 title on Saturday. In a series that hasn’t had a same-year rematch since 1903, UT is trying to sweep its rival. OU is trying to wrap up a third Playoff berth in five years and can probably, though not definitely, do it with a win.

The game should be good. Texas is built to challenge a team like Oklahoma, whose defense has been horrible even after Texas got coordinator Mike Stoops fired. And yet Oklahoma has Kyler Murray and America’s best offense, making it a clear favorite.

The game before the game, though, has already been amazing. Texas and Oklahoma have spent weeks going after each other in public, both with actual taunts and more contextual burns. That’ll all make the win even sweeter for whichever side gets it.

1. Basically Oklahoma’s whole roster has beef with Texas’ QB.

In March, after former Oklahoma offensive tackle Orlando Brown had an awful NFL Combine that included just 14 bench reps, Horns QB Sam Ehlinger made fun of him on Twitter:

Hard work and @yjmcknight will buy you more than 14 reps at the Combine. I can promise you that! #HookEm https://t.co/m6b9NTxsxr

— Sam Ehlinger (@sehlinger3) March 12, 2018

Baker Mayfield, who at this point was in his own draft-prep process, was asked about Ehlinger’s dig at Brown. Mayfield played high school ball at Texas powerhouse Lake Travis, a rival of Ehlinger’s Westlake, though the two QBs were a few years apart.

“He’s never beaten Lake Travis, and he also hasn’t beaten OU,” Mayfield replied. “I’ll leave it at that.”

Baker Mayfield, on Texas QB Sam Ehlinger’s tweet about Orlando Brown’s bench press pic.twitter.com/SDtJs2Zwbk

— Jake Trotter (@Jake_Trotter) March 14, 2018

A bunch of other Sooners took exception to Ehlinger’s dig, too.

It won't buy you wins.... https://t.co/s6RSIvD2xX

— Kenneth Murray (@Kmurrayy_9) March 12, 2018

Everybody Worried About Reps, Watch The Tape and Count Your Wins..

— Marquise Hollywood Brown (@Primetime_jet) March 12, 2018

That’s just a tiny sampling.

Days before the title game, a reporter asked Kyler Murray, “How much do you respect Sam’s game?” It was supposed to be an easy question for Murray to give a non-answer to ahead of a big game, but instead Murray laughed and said, “I got no comment on that.”

Kyler Murray when asked on Monday how much he respects Texas QB Sam Ehlinger's game.#BoomerSooner | #BeatTexaspic.twitter.com/aRFvLhKPLo

— Sooner Gridiron (@soonergridiron) November 26, 2018

Murray might just not care for Ehlinger’s style of play. He might be mad about the dig at his former teammate Brown. He might still be mad about Ehlinger running up to him to shake his hand after the teams’ October game at the Cotton Bowl. I don’t know.

Ehlinger, pretty certainly replying to Murray, tweeted Texas’ 2018 rallying cry:

Ok. Cool Hook Em!

— Sam Ehlinger (@sehlinger3) November 26, 2018

Speaking to reporters later, Ehlinger added:

Texas QB Sam Ehlinger was asked about Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray’s no comment about him yesterday. Ehlinger responded by saying, “I’d like to comment on that. I respect his game.” pic.twitter.com/CU5X1UQxJR

— Anwar Richardson (@AnwarRichardson) November 27, 2018

2. One of Ehlinger’s teammates has multiple instances of beef with Murray.

“I guess ol’ boy don’t like losing,” Horns defensive end Charles Omenihu told reporters of Murray, referencing whatever the end-of-game episode with Ehlinger was in October. “His comment yesterday, I’m not surprised that he said that. If you know him or you know how he is, it’s not surprising. To be honest with you, I really don’t care. It’s funny to me, actually. I saw it and started laughing.”

Murray is an Oakland A’s draft pick who’ll go play baseball after this season. When Omenihu sacked him back at the Cotton Bowl, this is how he celebrated:

Has this one landed yet, @charless_94? ⚾️ #HookEm #ThisIsTexas pic.twitter.com/xzYCax5Rqz

— Texas Baseball (@TexasBaseball) October 9, 2018

3. One of Texas’ senior captains got himself a public reprimand from the Big 12 for saying Oklahoma sucked (debatable) and had a bad defense (true).

These two Breckyn Hager remarks came after UT moved closer to an OU rematch by beating Iowa State back in Week 12:

1. “OU has no defense.”

A fair statement about a team that recently fired its defensive coordinator and has now followed that by giving up 524 yards and 40 points at home to Kansas.

2. “What time is it? It’s 11:12 ... and OU still sucks.”

A statement of opinion, but one that any good Texas student or fan would wholeheartedly believe. The two fanbases regularly tell each other “OU STILL SUCKS” and “TEXAS STILL SUCKS.” “It’s [some time] and [Oklahoma/Texas] still sucks!” is common phrasing.

The Big 12, which has strict rules barring anyone in the Big 12 from saying anything mean about anyone else in the Big 12 in public, issued a PUBLIC REPRIMAND. That’s what conferences do to players when they can’t fine them, because they don’t pay them despite generating millions in TV revenue. The league also made Hager apologize.

4. Texas brought on Kansas’ fired coach as a pregame consultant, shortly after his Jayhawks hung 40 on the Sooners in Norman. This did not please Lincoln Riley.

Kansas fired David Beaty before it went to play Oklahoma. But Beaty was coaching out the string as part of his agreement with KU, and his team put up a shockingly good offensive performance against the Sooners. (Shocking because it’s Kansas, not because it’s Oklahoma.) So, Tom Herman wanted Beaty to pay the Longhorns a visit.

”Coach Beaty can do what he wants to do,” Riley said while the Beaty move was in the works. “I don’t like the precedent of it, of being able to bring in somebody from the league in the same year. I don’t think it’s good for the conference. But it’s not against the rules, so if they want to do it, that’s fine.”

Travel issues prevented Beaty from making the trip, so he helped by phone, ESPN reported. Beaty’s tight ends/fullbacks coach at KU was Garrett Riley, Lincoln’s younger brother.

5. Meanwhile, Oklahoma and its fans have angled to hit Texas with some vicious sets of HORNS DOWN, but the Big 12 might not allow it.

The Big 12, which appears to not care for its most powerful school getting lightly made fun of, has recently started calling the inverted Hook’em Horns hand sign a penalty. That’s despite there being nothing in the NCAA rulebook that requires it to be flagged.

Despite that, Herman’s public posture is that Texas is a victim here.

“We’ve been disrespected for as long as that hand signal has been around,” he told reporters before the title game. “We’re kinda used to it.”

“We handled ourselves with class, many, many, many times when we were faced with opportunities when other teams weren’t handling themselves with class,” he added.

(It’s not clear if Herman was talking about the time he mocked Missouri’s QB on the sideline during last year’s bowl game, in response to that QB’s non-taunting celebrations earlier.)

Oklahoma fans want to see the Horns Down badly. They’re putting it on T-shirts ...

these shirts, which i’m assuming are inspired by @jasonkersey’s piece this week (https://t.co/xjSgqNlc3n), are on sale for $32 at Opolis on campus corner. incredible. pic.twitter.com/wLggf00lnH

— George Stoia III (@GeorgeStoia) November 29, 2018

... and hell yeah, they’re putting it on billboards:

Spreading a little holiday cheer#hornsdown pic.twitter.com/EYZQRYiWYG

— Lamar of Oklahoma City (@LamarOKC) November 28, 2018

Actual Sooners players, obviously, would love to throw their own Horns Down. But amid indications from the Big 12 that it will continue to penalize this harmless gesture, Riley said he’d told his team not to throw the Horns Down.

If OU wins, though? On the field afterward, all bets are off.

Meanwhile, Texas has road signage hype of its own, again referencing Herman’s response to fired Ohio State assistant Zach Smith trying to get Herman in trouble with his wife:

Thanks for the input @_delconte and team; we have a winner. Look for them on the way to @TexasFootball @Big12Conference game. Drive Friendly - the Texas Way and buckle up. Let us know if you like the signs, but please don’t take a pic (unless a passenger). #OKCoolHookEm pic.twitter.com/jDEO1yD1fG

— James Bass (@TxDOTCEO) November 29, 2018