It’s safe to say that Baker Mayfield wasn’t going to win too many bets on his Oklahoma Sooners this season.
If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback wanted to place a friendly wager on his Sooners beating Alabama, the lone Crimson Tide product in the locker room, rookie linebacker Chris Braswell, would’ve been at the receiving end. But maybe when you’re a 7-year NFL veteran, you only make those bets with a rookie unless you know you’ll win.
Nobody in the country had any idea that Oklahoma would take it to Alabama quite like that. And to be fair to Mayfield, nobody in the country has any idea what the Sooners would look like on a week-to-week basis. But that happened two weeks ago; Mayfield’s wager came in November.
After taking down Maine on Nov. 2, Mayfield probably thought that a chance to secure a bowl berth was enough to place a friendly wager. But alas, the former Heisman winner decided to enter into the classic rivalry bet with team reporter Casey Phillips, a University of Missouri grad herself.
Win? You wear my team’s gear. Lose? I’ll wear your team’s gear.
It didn’t end well for Mayfield, as the Sooners blew a late fourth quarter 23-16 lead that saw the Tigers score two touchdowns in the game’s final minute to secure an improbable 30-23 win.
Mayfield settled his end of the bet earlier this week — a little bit of a delayed response from the Nov. 9 matchup.
And in doing so, he donned a “Mizzou Grandma” hoodie.
#Bucs QB Baker Mayfield lost a bet to team reporter Casey Phillips as Oklahoma lost to Mizzou over the weekend and thus had to wear this today 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/ogie8WCQPO
— PewterReport 🏴☠️ (@PewterReport) December 4, 2024
You have to hand it to him, delayed response and all.
As someone who owns their fair share of random sports memorabilia, that hoodie indeed goes kinda hard — though he made it inherently clear that this article of clothing did not belong to him.
That said, if the Buccaneers secure first place in the NFC South with a win over the Las Vegas Raiders this Sunday, Mayfield may hang onto that hoodie for safekeeping — a good luck charm, if you will.
[PewterReport]
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Since the beginning of 2023, Sam has been a staff writer for Awful Announcing and The Comeback. A 2021 graduate of Temple University, Sam is a Charlotte native, who currently calls Greenville, South Carolina his home. He also has a love/hate relationship with the New York Mets and Jets.