COME NOODLE AND LOVE WITH ME
Throw to your wide receiver flying across the water at 40 mph all you like: the real wonder is in the clip above, where Tulsa’s Mike Bryan demonstrates the time-honored Okie fishing method of noodling, also known as “fishing for non-pussies.” Someday this concept will expand to grouper, tuna, and if you’re a real man, sharks. Take footage, send post-haste plz in Youtube-ready format.
The real miracle in there is Bryan’s girlfriend, Brittany, who not only goes out there with him, but is county fair hot and actually likes wrestling with fish for fun.
“I’d rather come out noodling than go out to eat and the movies,” Brittany says.
If we hadn’t already proposed, married, and had a wonderful relationship with a woman who knows how to properly dose the tranq dart fired from a blowgun that puts us out every Saturday night, Brittany would be be choice 1a for Madame Swindle. A woman who will watch the air bubbles while you fight a giant mutant catfish at the bottom of an Oklahoma lake is a special, special woman indeed. Promise her anything, sir, and never let her get away from you. (HT: Smoking Musket.









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CincySooner says:
…a woman who knows how to properly dose the tranq dart fired from a blowgun that puts us out every Saturday night…
I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext… I will not read into subtext…
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:19 am
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beattherush says:
I was wondering what TCOAN was going to make of that line. I know my wife would not be pleased.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Hush now. It’s literally a blowgun with a dart, and it’s loaded with vodka and thorazine.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:29 am
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ALGator says:
Yep, those types are few and far between. 100 cocktails to Brittany, and 1 beer for the catfish she just threw in the boat.
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:39 am
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TCOAN says:
So “blowgun” is the new term for a gin and tonic with a Xanax chaser, eh? Kids these days…
(and to commenters 1 and 2, I thought the same thing and immediately went to IM to laugh at Orson’s delicate sensibilities.)
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:41 am
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DanF says:
I’m from the Northeast – what is county fair hot?
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:47 am
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NCT says:
DanF, #6 …
I think “county fair hot” is the same thing as what I call “Six Flags good-lookin’”: hot (at least, definitely doable), but in a trashy (whether vague or overt), tailer-park way. I’m open to being corrected, though.
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:18 pm
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Jack Fact says:
What NCT said, but I’d go with “Jersey Shore Hot.”
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
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jakldawg says:
Is that a scar on his chest, or an NPHC-style brand of the Chinese symbol for “making up for in balls what is lacking in common sense”?
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
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The Holy Grail says:
Being from Iowa, yes… Brittany is “country fair hot”… we have them in Iowa, but they are more used to wrestling cows, pigs… Iowa Point Guards, Gopher power forwards equipped with the Yellow Pages, but then again we need more heartwarming stories like this about college football….. let me tell you watching her noodle warms the cockles
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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Coop says:
Is he in a black fraternity? Or is that team-building at Tulsa? Or did he learn a painful lesson about combining alcohol and livestock branding?
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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Sweet Lou Holtthsss says:
I onth trith with a fith and it bit my tongue.
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
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DanF says:
#7 #8 – Perfectly explained – thanks./
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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Diamond M says:
Speaking of “country fairs,” the state of Texas once again proves that nobody does state fair food with the gusto that Texas does:
http://cbs11tv.com/food/Unique.Fried.Foods.2.1157330.html
The big buzz this year is about the newest deep fried delicacy: fried butter.
Every 5th person who attends the state fair wins a complimentary quadruple bypass.
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
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Jigga says:
I’m vegetarian, and even I think this is pretty awesome.
Hunting barehanded… now that’s a fair fight.
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 am
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EdHoo says:
I’m impressed that he’s a linebacker at a Div IA school (albeit the smallest) with a noticeable lack of defined muscularity. I’m just sayin’… Looks like he needs to be lifting something heavier than a catfish or occasionally the delectable Brittany. OBTW–perfect “county fair hot” name!
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:24 am
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Coop says:
@ 16
Our conference brethren in Winston disagrees with your assertion.
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 am
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Jonathan K says:
You want to see a guy wrestling bigger fish?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUQ0crI5byA
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:47 pm
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EdHoo says:
Dear Coop:
The student enrollment at Wake Forest University was 6,788 in 2007 (6,694 full-time equivalent).
The student enrollment at University Of Tulsa was 4,165 in 2007 (3,881 full-time equivalent).
Source: http://www.braintrack.com/
I might have racked up a D in calculus during my one unremarkable year at WFU, but I stand by my comment.
September 4th, 2009 at 5:33 am