Parting the Red River

In the Bible Moses is said to have parted the Red Sea - you know so he could lead his people across. Well down here in Texas the dividing occurs at the Red River. The river creates the border between Texas and Oklahoma and no one is swimming across it in search of a better football team. For those of you outside the contiguous 48 states, the Bronx, South Boston, or Mars Oklahoma wears red and Texas burnt orange. In the Cotton Bowl, Red separates from Orange, not in cranberry orange juice cocktail kind of way but more in a grocery store apples and oranges fruit section kind of way. In a back and forth game, as this one was, half the stadium will go silent as the other erupts in a raucous. Thankfully, at the final whistle, those of us in orange weren't the ones to go silent. For those in red, it was as if the waters came crashing down.