(2/23) Switzer joins Osborne, and Sooner Football Column
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Switzer joins Osborne's team: Barry Switzer and Tom Osborne were fierce college football coaching rivals in the 1970s and '80s. Now they're playing on the same team, trying to get Osborne elected governor of Nebraska. Switzer was the swashbuckler from Oklahoma, the son of a bootlegger who broke Cornhuskers fans' hearts so many times by beating their beloved Big Red. Osborne was the stoic, cerebral coach whose inability to beat Switzer's Sooners led him to emulate his nemesis' offense. After resigning from OU in 1989, Switzer went on to become a Super Bowl champion coach for the Dallas Cowboys. Osborne, after retiring in 1997 with 255 victories, became a three-term congressman. (More at SI.com)
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