Bananas Take Over Boone Pickens Stadium

STILLWATER — One of our lovely PFB+ subscribers invited members of our forum to a tailgate Saturday. It was there I started hearing murmurs of bananas.

A group of students was going to wear banana costumes at the football game. It sounded like a fun idea, but I guess I didn’t fully comprehend just how many bananas there would be. It turns out, it was about a half a section filled with bananas.

They call themselves Pete’s Peelers. And they’re here to fix OSU football by wearing banana costumes.

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For the past two weekends, the national takeaway from Oklahoma State games had nothing to do with what happened on the field (thank goodness). Instead, the nation has fawned over the OSU fanbase’s ability to have fun in spite of the fact that the Cowboys have been outscored a combined 269-116.

It started last week when one guy waving his shirt above his head turned into a few sections filled with guys waving their shirts above their heads. That continued Saturday as Section 231 was turned into Section 2 “no-shirty” 1. All night, despite some chilly temperatures by game’s end, fans stood in that section with their shirts off.

Then the bananas manned a section on the opposite side of the Cowboy Marching Band, adding another element to a student section that is turning into a zoo exhibit (I say that in the most endearing way possible).

“It’s phenomenal, unbelievable,” OSU interim coach Doug Meacham said. “What a great atmosphere. You would have thought we were up 21. Whatever you call the shirtless people, it’s pretty awesome again. And it got a little nippy out there. I’m looking up there. I probably would have put my shirt back on. I’d go sit down somewhere. But they did a phenomenal job.

“I’m not really clear on what the banana people were, what that was all about. Is that something that nobody really knows? So they went up there and had a banana peel, I guess what they said. So that’s pretty, pretty awesome.”

As Garth Brooks’ ‘Friends in Low Places’ rang throughout Boone Pickens Stadium in the second half, the bananas formed a conga line going from one side of the student section and back. All of that happened whilst Section 231 was still doing its thing. It made it hard to look at the field.

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“I did (see the bananas),” OSU corner Cam Smith said. “I saw from the first quarter to the end. We really appreciate the banana fans, the shirtless fans. We appreciate all of them.”

Then late, two became one. The bananas peeled themselves and joined Section 231, waving their banana costumes over their heads.

It’s awesome. Pictures like the following will always have to be explained. Someone is going to scroll through in 2050 and be like, ‘Is that a section full of bananas?’ Why yes, yes it is.

“It’s just college kids having fun being at a football game,” Meacham said. “Man, it’s pretty cool, you know? And a lot of those kids are up there, they’re gonna to have a lot of memories and that’s, that’ll be part of it. They’re just having a good time. I appreciate it. I appreciate them and what they did during the game, it was unbelievable.”