During football season, two Clear Thinkers favorite subjects are the annual Texas-OU game and former Texas head coach Darrell Royal (here, here, here, here and here).

So, this Barking Carnival post on the epic 1976 game — Royal’s last as Texas’ coach — is a must read on the eve of this year’s game. The comment referred to in the title of this post was Royal’s reply to former OU coach Barry Switzer’s response to Royal’s allegation that the OU coaching staff was spying on Texas practices.

The raw emotion of the game — arguably the most severe of any rivalry game already — rose to a boiling point in the ’76 game as a result of the animosity between the coaching staffs.

Get ready to rumble!