Your Sooner story?

[mightysooner]

So what's your Sooner story? How old were you when you became a Sooner and what was the defining moment in which you took your oath?

I was a little kid. Barely old enough to even know what football was. 6 or 7 I'd say. My defining moment was when my mother (rabid Sooner fan) switched on a game and I saw something incredible; something.....special. It was Billy Sims...running all over people and those Sooners were flipping the ball all over the field making people look like fools. I knew right then and there my mother was raising me right.

[MyT Oklahoma]

Try the Run of '71.

Nobody ran the wishbone better before or after. An NCAA record 472.4 rushing yards per game average.

Those were the days. :cool:

[GDC]

I was already a fan but as a youngster I remember sitting in the car trying to find an AM station late at night announcing OU had won the 1975 national championship after beating Michigan. I barely remember watching the OU-NU 71 game, or at least I have convinced myself I remember it since I was only five years old.

[FirstAndGoalOU]

This was the game I remember the most, as to be the one that LOCKED me in.
Had watched with my dad and uncles for a few years before, But this is when I was SOLD.9/24/77
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01qIrdfWlAs
I remember standing in the kitchen [snacking on all of the game foods] looking into the den, watching from a distance my dad and his brothers glued to the tv, hearing the uproar and excitement. Walked closer to the room, glued to the tv screen and witnessing the kick. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbjD8QWlKtU&feature=related All hell broke loose the celebration was to be ever burned in my memory.

[yankee]

I won't claim to have followed or even rooted for the Sooners for very long. I took a visit up to OU during Spring Break of my Junior year in high school to see what all the fuss was about at this school in okieland. I heard nothing but great things about OU, but I couldn't believe it since it was in Oklahoma. Knew it was the place for me 10 minutes into the tour. I've been religiously following OU sports since then. :pop:

[SOFSooner]

I can't remember when I wasn't a Sooner fan, I remember listening on the radio with my dad as the commentator described Steve Owens running over people, and celebrating when he won the Heisman.

[OUstud]

Since my dad would say "O...S...U..." and I would run by and yell, "SUCKS!" I was 3. :D

[AlbqSooner]

Six years old and my family got our first TV. That fall my parents would take over the TV during the College Game of the Week. OU was on and I watched with them. The Sooners were in the process of winning 47 in a row. Never wavered in my fandom since.

[BFS]

Don't want to be a downer here peeps, but it was Bedlam 76. At the ripe ole age of 12, I had just moved to Oklahoma and fell head over heels in love with "THE KING" in a manly kind of way. Little brother won that year and I knew at that moment I would always be one of "US" because some of the aggy love fests I witnessed after that game skeeered me and I wanted no part of it, plus it really pissed me off!

[MyT Oklahoma]

And what a great ride it's been over the years.

[cleller]

It was about 1969, I would have been 7; Steve Owens won the Heisman. It was a big deal, of course, which must have gotten my attention. It seemed everyone was talking about Owens and Chuck Fairbanks. It was the main source of pride in the state at the time.

[texaspokieokie]

sometime in the very early 50s.
was about 15.

[swardboy]

1963...just moved to Sapulpa from Missouri, and this 9 yr. old was thumbing through a LIFE magazine that had an article about Bud Wilkinson and his Sooners, including Joe Don Looney. Love affair forever....

[NMSooner'80]

My folks were OU grads, Class of '56, and I came along during the 47-game streak about 16 months later. But, we lived in NoCal for a time, when my dad wanted to try life with a big bank out west. We lived in Palo Alto, and my first live game was a Stanford Indians game in 1965 (that was before they switched mascots to the tree).

But, my dad had an OU-NU game on the tube back in '67 and I finally got to see an OU game when I really understood the game. We watched that '68 Orange Bowl win over Tennessee, then we wised up and moved back that spring. We became die-hards, although I didn't get to my first live OU game until 1970, an OU-Mizzou game for my 13th birthday. OU won that one, which was also a payback game, and the rest is history.

[sooner518]

I cant remember a time when I wasnt an OU fan. My parents went there in the late 60s. My grandfather and grandmother both earned their masters degrees from OU and my great-grandfather finished his PhD at OU. My parents went to the game of the century and numerous other games over the years. My dad had season tickets when I was really young, but my parents had 3 boys, all of whom played soccer and other sports, so they didnt have alot of time to go to games so they gave them up in the early 90s.

My first memory of OU games is from when they werent on TV all the time. My dad would have some other college football game on, and would turn the sound down on the TV and turn the radio on and listen to Bob Barry while watching another game. haha

My first game was the 1989 home opener against New Mexico State. We won 73-3.

[Mississippi Sooner]

For me, I guess it would be Bennie Owen's undefeated 1915 squad. Man, you should have seen the way we lit up Kingfisher College.

Yeah, I'm really, really old. :D

[the-rover]

I don't remember the first games I attended, since my dad says he was taking me to games before I could walk, but the first game I actually remember paying attention was 1975 vs Pitt. I was 8.

My dad kept saying "keep an eye on that #33 for Pitt, we gotta stop him." But I remember being amazed in watching #24 for OU run wild through that Pitt secondary.

I wish I could actually remember seeing "the hit by Hill"... I've seen it on video so many times I've nearly convinced myself I did.

[BillyBall]

1985 season, I was 6 and my parents had season tickets. Went to every home game that year including the beat down on then #2 Nebraska. Been rabid ever since.

[MeMyself&Me]

Defining moment? I don't know there was one single moment but it seems there should have been. No one in my family are big sports fan. My dad and my uncle would watch a game of just about any sport but it was very casual, as in they didn't care if they missed it, and there was no fan affiliation for them to any team. I remember when I was under 7 in the early '80s someone asked me if I want OU or OSU to win an upcoming game. I told them OSU because since I thought that the STATE in OSU meant they represented the state of Oklahoma and that OU must only be for Oklahoma City and we didn't live in Oklahoma City. LOL. I remember my dad got a good laugh out of that reasoning. By the time I was in high school, I was living and dieing with the Sooners though.

Some things that steered me in that direction might have been:

When I started playing little league at 7, all the adults around me would call me Marcus Dupree because my name is Mark. It was in jest of course, I was not a running back or particularly fast for that matter but it made me pay more attention to OU.

The first college football game I got my dad to take me too was an OU game against Tulsa in Norman where Tulsa was so scared of the OU return man that they kicked it out of bounds 7 times in a row... Switzer just had them back up and re-kick it each time.

1985 NC sure was fun but I was in awe of the history of the program as well.

[kbsooner21]

Been a fan my entire life as my dad went to medical school there and I'd watch the games with both he and my mom as a youngster. My first Sooner memory was the 89' season, I was 7 years old and remember watching Mike Gaddis run up and down the field all day long against the Sheep Humpers. Haven't hardly missed a game since :D

[CincySooner]

It wasn't a defining "moment" so much as a process.

My first OU games were as a freshman in 1998 when I was in Pride. I didn't really care about college football before I got to OU.

Even though the team was bad that year, I found myself looking forward to Saturday home games, and watching the few televised away games. Throughout the season, I'd occasionally do some research on the significance of the numbers 1950, 1955, 1956, 1974, 1975, and 1985 painted on the press box. I read about the significance of 47-straight. I found highlight reels on the Internet in the days before Youtube.

By the end of the season, I was in. I knew I'd have a good time following this team whether they ever amounted to anything or not.

... and then they hired Stoops :)

[hawaii 5-0]

My childhood best friend's Dad was a Sooner. He had a picture of him in his OU uniform punting a football. Perfect form.

Then in Junior High, in history class, we started out the class each day talking about current events. Of course in the Fall it was about OU Football and the exploits of Bob Warmack, Granville Liggins and Jim Weatherall.

When I got to high school my dad would sometimes get tickets to the games from alumni who weren't going that week and he would take me. Ya know, back when they still had Lil' Red.

I was in the stands of the Game of the Century and yelled out when Joe Wylie got clipped. That one was blatently obvious. That was a cold day.


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Trump/Gomer Jones 2012

[MrJimBeam]

When my aunt gave me a stuff orange and black osu football for my birthday and I cried.

[badger]

I am a n00b that types fast, don't be fooled by my post count :D

First OU game I saw was on TV - January 2001 :D

First one I attended was as a froshie the next fall, hosting UNC in the 01 opener. It rained as the clock finished ticked. No ponchos for freshman band members. I got drenched walking back to the dorm.

My favorite OU team continues to be the womens bball team though, as I was randomly assigned to the womens team's pep band that same semester and followed them ever since.

[virginiasooner]

The Game of the Century was my great awakening. It was Thanksgiving Day, and we had one of the few large color sets in the neighborhood, and there were a lot of neighbors watching as well. We were the only family cheering on the Sooners (we were living in New Jersey). But the first game I attended was the shellacking of West Virginia in 1978 -- that was totally awesome!

[Chuck Bao]

I learned to love the Sooners while driving a tractor and listening to John Brooks on the radio. The first game I got to see in Norman was OU-NU when NU pulled out that fumbleruskie play.

[bmjlr]

5th grade. Growing up in Kansas, there wasn't much to root for (still isn't). The Boz and Holieway sold me on the Sooners! I jumped on the band wagon and have never left!

[Flagstaffsooner]

In the womb in '55 and in diapers in '56.

[virginiasooner]

I learned to love the Sooners while driving a tractor and listening to John Brooks on the radio. The first game I got to see in Norman was OU-NU when NU pulled out that fumbleruskie play.

I was at that game! Mike Babb's interception was totally awesome!

[NMSooner'80]

I was at that game! Mike Babb's interception was totally awesome!


That was my last game as an undergrad (I graduated in May of '80). That is still my all-time favorite football game to have seen in person.

J.C. Watts was in one of my Monday morning classes that semester. When he walked in the door that following Monday, he got a standing ovation from the rest of us.

[soonerbrat]

My mom was a student at OU when I was in kindergarten & 1st grade...we lived on stinson and I could hear the crowd on Saturdays and I thought it was pretty cool....my mom's brothers took me to my first game when I was 13, and that's when I really fell in love with the Sooners.

[rock on sooner]

Looooonnnnggg time lurker...very first post! 1952...7 years old, shotgun
style house on an oil lease in southern OK. Didn't have a tv so it was radio.
Have lived the many highs and a few lows for the last 59 years.

[pac10SUX]

Growing up in Florida, I was never a fan nor did I dislike the Sooners. Always had great respect for Oklahoma. Moved to Dallas after college and had lots of Sooner friends. My first Sooners' game was 1990.

Became a fan at the ripe young age of 31 (1994) when I started dating a Sooner. Became SOLD, when I said "I DO" to her!! :D

[SouthCarolinaSooner]

Dad is a high school basketball coach, had a player sign and play with OU from 96-01. I would have been 4 in 1996, so all young and impressionable :D, but I got a lot of basketball highlight tapes and such, so I grew up watching the Sooners despite never having been there and living in SC. Lucky enough to say I can remember watching the 2000 NCG in my OU gear :P Finally got out to Norman for a football game last fall, hoping to get to the FSU game this year. Also planning on applying to OU for grad school when that time comes.

[opksooner]

Got off the train at the station on Main in 1951, my first year at OU. That year, OU played William & Mary, first game of the season. OU won.

We beat 'em both, too.

[KantoSooner]

About 15 minutes after conception.
Parents were OU classs of 1960. Grandfather attended for a year until the depression made him drop out. I was 10 or so before I understood that OU was not the farm club for the Dallas Cowboys, so greatly were the two revered in my house.
Kind of lost the Cowboys when Tom Landry retired.
Never lost, and never will lose, the Sooners.

[cccasooner2]

Been a fan since 1958; a nun that was a sports fan mentioned the Pittsburgh Pirates and Bud Wilkinson in the same banter. I think she thought Bud was hot. Anyway, to make a story longer than necessary, I became a fan. I do think Barry Switzer will go to hell though, I need someone to talk to.

[IB4OU2]

Born in Norman, listened to the roar of the crowd as a very young kid from my front yard on Cruce. Attended the games in the early 60's and worked at them in the late 60's. Watched Steve Owens run up the middle knocking defenders over like bowling pins. As a student watched Mildren, Pruitt and Crosswhite in the early 70's and then came Little Joe, Billy and Elvis...the list goes on. Grew up with a Dad and family that never missed a game from the mid 50's thru the 2000's. We sang Boomer Sooner at his funeral in 2007. It's in my blood.

[DCSooner]

I was on my way to a crimson themed party in Geronimo. Unfortunetly when I landed at the Anadarko municipal airport in my PJ, (private jet), I realized I had left my bags in Ponca. Well, I went to the Walmart on West Petree to find a shirt. I liked the Oklahoma shirts, and they matched my pants, so even though I didn't go to OU, I like the team.

[mightysooner]

First game I ever went to was a home game against Mizzery. I remember watching Bosworth EAT Missery's offense alive and being bored every time Missery was on offense because it was such an exercise in futility. Conversely, I remember every time WE were on offense it was like watching a greyhound running over a wet cat wearing soggy pants. I think we won by some ridiculous score of 77-3 or something absurd like that. Ahhhhh the good old days....when we could put the ball on the carpet six times a game and it made no difference for the poor schmucks on the other team because fumbles were the only thing that kept us from scoring.

[SunnySooner]

I was born into it, I'm a proud alum, etc., but it wasn't until I moved away from OK that I really began to appreciate how special the tradition of Oklahoma football really is. I've worn my crimson all over this country, and it almost always sparks a conversation with someone who loves college football and wants to talk to me about their experiences with the Sooners, win or lose.

It's become a connection for my kids, as the military moves us constantly--they don't have a hometown, or a home state, but they are Sooners!!! Born and bred. ;)

[mightysooner]

I was born into it, I'm a proud alum, etc., but it wasn't until I moved away from OK that I really began to appreciate how special the tradition of Oklahoma football really is. I've worn my crimson all over this country, and it almost always sparks a conversation with someone who loves college football and wants to talk to me about their experiences with the Sooners, win or lose.

It's become a connection for my kids, as the military moves us constantly--they don't have a hometown, or a home state, but they are Sooners!!! Born and bred. ;)

Thank you for your service, and raising your kids properly. Hell my dog has an Oklahoma game day jersey with his name on it! Still need to pick him up an away jersey though....

[jersey sooner]

Superman.

I was a little too young to fully appreciate the National Championship game. I had no idea my dad was a fan of any sports team, let alone a diehard. He was my mighty mite football coach, and the fact that a pop warner team in New Jersey was running exclusively the wishbone was probably very telling to the people who knew more football than the 10 year olds running it. I couldn't figure out why he was so invested in a football game that was on the tv, and to this day I still haven't seen him that riled up. I wondered where this team had been all along, not yet knowing they literally were MIA for the past decade. My dad has a keen football eye, and I can remember him telling me many times that night how good #38 was. "That kid, right there on the left! Remember him. They got a good one." I didn't quite grasp football at that point, but I remember being mezmorized by the way that defense played that night. I can also remember being told to go to bed before the 4th quarter started, and I never let him forget that. I'm sure I cheered for them that night, but only in the way a kid does when he's just trying to be like his dad. I can say for sure I wasn't yet hooked that night. Yet. I won't lie, there's a good chance I would have wound up joining my dad's side anyway and calling myself a Sooner fan. But that's not how it happened.

It happened less than a year later. By the time the '01 RRS rolled around, football had already become a much bigger part of my life. I can't remember which of the first four games, if any, we watched before texas that year. But I can sure as hell remember the texas game. Watching that game is one of the strongest memories I have, and I remember the day perfectly. It was the most beautiful sight my eyes had ever seen. The atmosphere. The stadium. The field. The way the colors of the two teams were perfect opposites. The speed. The precision. And most of all, the defense. I was absolutely intoxicated with the brand of football being played. Physical specimens attacking each other on each play at full throttle, with the smallest room for error. I was able to fully appreciate the level of difficulty it actually took to make it look so easy. My brain was on fire. By halftime I was addicted to football, and by the end of the game I was hooked on OU. It wasn't just the defenses, it was the Sooners defense. And it wasn't just the Sooner defense, it was #38.

It seemed like 38 played a part in every play the Sooner D made. My dad bragging to himself and reminding me he called it last year surely made it easy to focus on him, but I don't think it would have much mattered. He was everywhere. As seduced as I was by the unit as a whole, it was'nt anywhere near as impressive as he was individually. He was just always around the ball at the end of the play, and was usually the one who made it. If he got a finger on you, you went down. To this day he's the best tackler I've ever seen. And as that game went on, he got stronger. By the end of the game he was an absolute force. And then he went and did the unthinkable. I still remember not notcing him until he was already airborn. And I still remember my dad's chilling shriek. It may have been the first time this young man achieved full wood, but was lost with the moment. Because while we were still screaming our heads off, he then ran down on the kickoff and swallowed Nathan Vasher whole. And he then picked the ball off on the next play. It was the point of no return.

Roy Williams is still easily my favorite football player ever, and I can guarantee that will never change. I don't know if it's the Sooners because of Roy or vice versa, but each hold a special place in my heart. But my love for this team has only grown since he's left. Each fall I live a little and die a little with them. I root for other teams in other sports, but I'm a fan of only one team. Sometimes it borders being unhealthy, and other times I'm able realize it's just my favorite hobby. But I can tell you this. My blood is a little darker shade of red than most people.

P.S. I talked to Barry Switzer on the phone right before the 2000 Orange Bowl kicked off :D :D :D :D :D

P.P.S. My dad made me sit through every god damn mother ****ing play of the 2004 Orange Bowl. We didn't leave until the clock hit zero :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[soonerboy_odanorth]

6 years old. OU-OSU in Norman. Joe Washington. Smoke through a keyhole.

Done.

[soonerboy_odanorth]

P.S. I talked to Barry Switzer on the phone right before the 2000 Orange Bowl kicked off

P.S. I talked to Marcus Dupree the Spring game before he left school. I talked to Brian Bozworth just hours before his suspension for 'roids in the Orange Bowl.

P.P.S. I don't talk to players anymore. ;)

[jersey sooner]

Yea, I could not care ****ing less if you believe me or not ;)

[mightysooner]

P.S. I talked to Marcus Dupree the Spring game before he left school. I talked to Brian Bozworth just hours before his suspension for 'roids in the Orange Bowl.

P.P.S. I don't talk to players anymore. ;)

I won 1st place in a homeroom art drawing competition at my school as a kid. I drew a picture of Marcus Dupree running into the end zone against Texas with with his hand up flashing the #1 sign on a poster board. Money!

[cccasooner2]

Yea, I could not care ****ing less if you believe me or not ;)

You're a whipper snapper. :)

[jersey sooner]

You're a whipper snapper. :)

You're an old fart :)

[Collier11]

I started watching in grade school but no one in my family was a big sports fan so I didnt become a huge fan until late middle school which was in the mid 90s. Got season tix for the 1st time in 99, yep, the year Stoops came.

Got my degree from OU, have seen us play in the Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl(Natl Title), 5 OU-tx games in person and 10 total in Dallas, also been to Seattle, LA and Oregon.

Now days I tailgate off of Boyd and Asp for every home game

[soonerboy_odanorth]

Yea, I could not care ****ing less if you believe me or not ;)

Oh, but I do believe you. :D And I'm not kidding about Marcus or Boz. Still have my 14-year-old brace-face pic taken with Marcus tucked away. And though I don't have a momento of my meeting with the Boz, I can just say it was in an elevator in the Fountain Blue in Miami where the team was staying. (We were staying there too.) Though really, I barely got two words out (along the lines of H-hey...Boz.. ). Dude was intense and intimidating.

[MamaMia]

My mother was born in Florence South Carolina and raised in both Florence and in a home overlooking the ocean at Myrtle Beach. So naturally, she was a loyal Gamecock fan listening to every game on her transistor radio sitting on the beach. My father was doing the same thing in Texas, He was an avid Longhorn fan, so I was raised by parents who loved football.

One evening, she and her friends were standing in line to see 'Singing In The Rain', staring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. Right behind them in line was my father and his Air Force buddies. They started talking about football. They were married two years later. He was an Air Traffic Controller who eventually ended up in the F.A.A. Not too long after I was born, Daddy was stationed at the Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. Other than a few moves here and there, I spent most of my childhood in Oklahoma City. All my friends were OU Sooner fans. Our love for the Sooners has kept us all very close throughout the years.

The day I fell in love with the Sooners, I was a Girl Scout. One of my best friends, who's mom was the coaches secretary and our Girl Scout Leader, treated us all to a game one weekend we had a Brownie slumber party. We got all dressed up in our Girl Scout uniforms, and off we went to my very first game. We got to sit right behind the players. We were playing the Jay Hawks that day. We won too. I was hooked after that. I'll never forget all the players winking at us. I thought they were dirty old men. http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y86/OUmom/smilies/giggle.gif

So I owe being a Sooner to Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, the United States Air Force, my parents love for football, the Federal Aviation Administration and a really fun slumber party weekend. :D

[virginiasooner]

Superman.

P.P.S. My dad made me sit through every god damn mother ****ing play of the 2004 Orange Bowl. We didn't leave until the clock hit zero :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Did you report him to Child Protective Services on a child abuse claim?

[Leroy Lizard]

Got off the train at the station on Main in 1951, my first year at OU. That year, OU played William & Mary, first game of the season. OU won.

We beat 'em both, too.

That team had too many Marys, not enough Williams. (Sorry, Holtz.)

[Leroy Lizard]

I was born into Sooner fandom and started following the team somewhat in the 1960s. My first vivid memory of a game was the 1971 OU/Nebraska game. Losing that game totally pissed me off.

[Mississippi Sooner]

It's like deja vu all over again. :pop:

[MojoRisen]

4 years old and my old man dragged me and my older brother out to some remote motel location in Oklahoma that was carrying the OU/Stanford game on TV. I remember having a electric race car set we were playing with. The room was full of Cigar smoke and big cheers! Ever since that game I would have the report of what down, yards to go for first and score! I naturally loved the game of football since then..

[Okie35]

Born in Oklahoma and became a fan when I was 6 (1990). Not really much to it but losing those close games almost made me cry (so I was told).

[OUMallen]

Grew up a MEGA OSU fan. (Dad went to State.) We traveled to bowl games and everything in the late 80s. I had initially been awarded a full tuition scholarship to a halfway prestigious school out-of-state. Decided last second not to go and to stay in-state. My folks lived closer to Norman than Stillwater and it was the 11th hour and I needed to apply, get admitted, admitted to the Honors College, and get a scholarship all starting in July. OU was easier to get all that done.

And it was the best decision I ever made.

[Leroy Lizard]

Born in Oklahoma and became a fan when I was 6 (1990). Not really much to it but losing those close games almost made me cry (so I was told).

Is that all? You didn't try to blow your brains out with a shotgun? You didn't try to impale yourself on the nearest fence post?

A Sooner loss is supposed to destry your life! You must tie all of your self-worth in the Sooner football team.

So what kind of Sooner fan are you?

[humblesooner]

USC 7-7. I remember the Game of the Century and had been watching (when on TV) and reading about the Sooners since I was little. But the USC 7-7 game was the one I remember most. I remember at that time saying that we beat the crap out of SC everywhere except the scoreboard. I knew right then that OU was the best team in the country and the failure to put up more than 7 points in a game they dominated, was responsible for screwing up their season.
This is how you know you are a "spoiled" Sooner - a tie in the first game of the season is a bad season. :)

[IB4OU2]

Grew up a MEGA OSU fan. (Dad went to State.) We traveled to bowl games and everything in the late 80s. I had initially been awarded a full tuition scholarship to a halfway prestigious school out-of-state. Decided last second not to go and to stay in-state. My folks lived closer to Norman than Stillwater and it was the 11th hour and I needed to apply, get admitted, admitted to the Honors College, and get a scholarship all starting in July. OU was easier to get all that done.

And it was the best decision I ever made.

It took a while to collect the frequent flyer miles I would guess.

[jersey sooner]

Losing that game totally pissed me off.

I thought you were just "pissed"? Now it's "pissed off"?

[SoonerDood]

I wasn't quite 6 and watched the 1988 Orange Bowl. saw Mark Hutson score on the fumblerooski. seethed with hate as I saw the plastic hair guy with the smarmy grin get carried off the field. :mad:

[ouwasp]

My Dad (osu alum) has always been a Sooner fan. When I was a kid I remember Sooner games being on the radio a lot, some table talk about OU. But the first vivid memory was the '76 Nebraska game, listening to the improbable Sooner Magic finish while parked at the Southroads Mall parking lot. I was hooked. I remember choking back tears a couple yrs later when Billy fumbled at Lincoln...:(

But the good :D has definitely outweighed the bad Hook 'em

[ictsooner7]

Been a fan since 1958; a nun that was a sports fan mentioned the Pittsburgh Pirates and Bud Wilkinson in the same banter. I think she thought Bud was hot. Anyway, to make a story longer than necessary, I became a fan. I do think Barry Switzer will go to hell though, I need someone to talk to.

AAAAWWWWWW come on now.

[Leroy Lizard]

I thought you were just "pissed"? Now it's "pissed off"?

I remember being both pissed and pissed off, especially since they both seem to be the same thing.

[Sam.England]

My first Trip to America was in 2004, I was already a huge NFL fan but had never really seen any College ball as it wasn't easy to watch over here like it is getting now!

October 30th 2004! Tuned in to the TV, Oklahoma vs Oklahoma State... a certain AD ran for over 200 yards and Sooners won by 3! And that's where it all started!

[SoonerPride93]

The 2000 Nebraska game is when i fell in love. This is my first OU game I ever remember since i was 6 at the time. My family has some OU diehards in it and that day we inducted a new one into the club.