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So imagine you’re headed up to the intramural fields in Stillwater. Your 2-2 team with the not-as-witty-as-you-think name is playing the Sigma Nu B team. Winner goes to the playoffs.
It’s a Monday night, Halloween, the real football team is 8-0, the campus is alive. You’re couldn’t be more excited about the 60-degree weather and smattering of friends and girlfriends sure to be there.
You warm up, get your flags on, win the coin toss, come out for the first drive, and get things rolling.
You score first, they answer, you get the ball back 10 minutes into the first half, look up across the field, and all of a sudden Kevin Durant is staring back at you playing free safety for the other side.
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Wait….what?! Who?!
And all of a sudden, 500 people are gathered around the field like Brandon Weeden and Justin Blackmon have just decided to throw a squad together.
Well, that’s what happened in Stillwater on Monday night. First, Durant tweeted this on Monday afternoon:
Then next thing you know Twitter turned into an “omg Kevin Durant is playing flag football at OSU right now” festival. A sampling of tweets and pics after the jump
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And finally, this from KD after he got done:
You know, just your average multimillionaire playing a flag football game with a bunch of giddy 20-year old guys on a late-October Monday night in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Most of the rest of his colleagues are probably out at posh Halloween parties, and who could blame them? That’s what we would do if we were multimillionaires.
KD though, I think we want to believe he’s different. And whether he is or not doesn’t much matter to the 6 dudes on his team and 7 dudes playing against him. They’ve all got an all-time story to tell their friends.
The guy owns Oklahoma right now, and nights like this are the reason why.
HUGE thanks to KT King on all the pictures. Be sure to check out the rest of his shots from the night as well as his other work on Flickr.
RG3 says he was just lucky.
^^ golden
HAHA! sorry, love that comment.
But seriously. I’m speechless. Only KD. Only in Oklahoma. Only OSU. Just amazing. Go Pokes!
pretty sure he would’ve done this at Texas if he was in Austin. but I find great joy in Oklahomans adoring a Texas grad. Hook ‘Em!
I couldn’t put my phone down. Thanks Kyle for bleeding orange and staying on top of things!
Way to be timely – this was awesome!
Love reading your blog, Kyle.
We need more people like Kevin Durant in this world. Simple as that.
Minor nitpick: the Sigma Nus forfeited their playoff quarterfinal game, giving up their shot at another year of winning the whole thing in order to play with Durant.
As OSU blogger in chief, please use all your influence to get Durant and LeBron to schedule their Twitter induced bowl game at the Boone.
Weirdest moment ever walking up to my 11 p.m. game and seeing 500 people there.
This is so awesome. One of the coolest superstars ever!
It kind of reminds me of the intramural game in which Desmond Mason made me look like a fool trying to cover him… All game long. Embarrassingly awesome.
This is UNREAL! Incredibly jealous of the other 13 guys on the field. That’s a story they will be telling forever. This needs to hit the ESPN wire…
Just did.
so awesome.
There must be one heckuva vibe going on in Stillwater these days….that’s awesome!
Here’s to the good feelings spilling over to the basketball team.
And continued success to ladies soccer, cross country, wrestling….the list is getting long!
OSU is a great place for any college athlete these days.
GO POKES!
Reminds me of playing intramural basketball back in the late 80′s and coming up against a team in the playoffs that started Thurman Thomas, Hart Lee Dykes, Garrett Limbrick,Byron Woodard and Barry Sanders. We lost…
PFB just picked up by deadspin!
/dong shot
Pistols Firing Blog is blowing up today! Nice work Kyle.
“I don’t see what the big deal is. 22 year olds play flag football every day. It’s not THAT cool.” -OU Students
George Hill did it first in San Antonio
He knew better than to show up at Norman and try to bring that UT flavor there, lol….. Glad to see the OSU intramurals are mediocre at best if an NBA player can be an all star there!!
He’s like a 6’9″-6’10″ freak athlete…I’m pretty sure he would have dominated at any intramural level at any school!
Chaps my hide……
http://cfn.scout.com/2/557866.html
BCS Championship
January 9, 2012 New Orleans, LA, 9:00 pm ESPN
BCS No. 1 vs. BCS No. 2
Projection: LSU vs. Oklahoma
Rationale: The LSU/Alabama winner will be here, while OU will finish up as the best of the one-loss teams, getting the nod over an unbeaten Boise State.
I’m trying to decide if this comment is intentionally funny or not.
that was awesome thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you Kevin for gracing us with your presence in Stillwater, Oklahoma last night!! You made a lot of people feel really special to get to meet you!!! You Rock!!!!
Class act. What more can you say about the guy?
Brandon jennings been doing this all for a minute this summer.
He’s not the first multimillionaire to play flag football. Remember in 1999 when Joey Galloway, who was a wide receiver for the Seattle Seahawks at the time, was “holding out” from playing because of a contract dispute? During his holdout, he returned to his hometown of Bellaire, OH and played in a flag football league in Wheeling, WV. This was a big story at the time and was even shown on ESPN. I played in the same league as he did after my high school football season was over that year and the following two years.