Finger: Fisher vs. Saban has nothing on Royal vs. Switzer

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The 1976 feud between the Texas and Oklahoma coaches played a key part in Darrell Royal...

If he were around today, he might warn Fisher and Saban to chill out and make amends before they drive themselves into retirement.

In 1976, Royal’s Longhorns had lost to the Sooners five years in a row, and he’d had about enough of it. He was convinced that Switzer was using a spy — oil businessman Lonnie Williams — to sneak intel from UT’s practices. Royal even dared Switzer and Williams to take a polygraph test, and promised to donate $10,000 to charity if they did.

Years later, Switzer would admit in his autobiography that the spying “did happen” in 1972, and that “Darrell was right to accuse us of that.” But the day the Longhorns and Sooners met at the Cotton Bowl in 1976, nobody was conceding anything. The Red River rivalry game that day ended in a 6-6 tie, but it drained just about all that was left of Royal, who told reporters after the game he felt like throwing up. In the Dallas Times Herald, Blackie Sherrod wrote that “Royal looked like he had driven a gravel truck without a windshield across Death Valley.”

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