New “We Forgot Stanford” shirts are rubbing the Oregon Ducks’ loss in the fans’ face.
The shirts expand on the storyline that the Ducks would face No. 1 Alabama in the BCS title game, because all the two teams had to do to set up that match was win the rest of their games.
Oregon students were selling green t-shirts emblazoned with “We Want ‘Bama’” on the front on campus for $10.
“It’s looking like if we both win out we will play each other, so this whole concept will take off,” Grant Otter, a senior who helped create the concept and was selling the shirts, told the student newspaper The Daily Emerald.
“Outside of Oregon, everybody else in the country thinks that Alabama is the best team in the country and we obviously disagree,” said Harrison Tingler, who along with Otter created and was selling the t-shirts.
The pair sold at least 200 shirts.
“People are saying we are going to jinx the team, but as long as we have the football players’ support on our side I think we are doing alright,” Otter said. “We just need the Ducks and Alabama to keep winning.”
But those shirts appear to be a bad buy after Oregon lost on Thursday night to Stanford, 26-20, in a shocking upset.
And now Alabama fans have changed the t-shirts that read “We Want ‘Bama’” that were being distributed by Oregon fans to a new version. The new version crosses out that part and adds: “We Forgot Stanford.”
