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    Question "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Went and saw the movie "Leatherheads" this week-end. For some reason they use "Boomer Sooner" when the Chicago team is introduced and runs on to the field during the final game of the movie. Anyone have any insight into this? Sure was strange.....

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    The tune was originally Yale University's fight song. I haven't seen the movie, so can't even guess what that has to do with a Chicago team.
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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    I haven't seen the movie, but given the era that the movie takes place in I don't think it's Boomer Sooner. Yale's fight song, "Boola Boola" (and it sounds identical to Boomer Sooner. Like the wishbone that was born in that unfortunate state south of Oklahoma, OU took it from Yale and ever since it's been almost 100% associated with OU) is likely what they were playing.

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Nope, apparently it includes the part we stole from North Carolina.

    That was my first thought, since John Krazynski's character went to Princeton.
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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    was it a ringtone? I've been looking for one...

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    No moola, no boola I always say.

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Quote Originally Posted by TheUnnamedSooner View Post
    was it a ringtone? I've been looking for one...
    Yeah can anyone post a link to the Boola Boola ringtone?? And people ask what a Boomer Sooner is!

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Was that the recess bell???

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Heh -- just try to imagine the reaction inside Austin-area theaters when that came on ...
    8timechamps: The thought crossed my mind too. But, I'm too lazy to go back and reference every play from all the games. So, I'm just going to say "I agree", and if you're wrong, then let me be the first to call you a moron.

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    We stole parts of our fight song from Yale and North Carolina...the tune we got from from Yale and the "born and bred, and when I die I'll be..." part we took from the Heels.

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Quote Originally Posted by OUrules View Post
    Went and saw the movie "Leatherheads" this week-end. For some reason they use "Boomer Sooner" when the Chicago team is introduced and runs on to the field during the final game of the movie. Anyone have any insight into this? Sure was strange.....
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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    It's so-so.

    It would have been much better if it had stuck primarily with football hijinks instead of straying off into a love triangle between Rene Zellweger, George Clooney, and John Krasinski. It wanted to be Bull Durham and couldn't pull it off.

    I'd catch it at the discount theater or wait for the DVD.

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Yep, has both the Boola Boola part and the Tarheel Born/Tarheel Bred part.

    Or in other words, Boomer

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Thanks for the post! Sooner!

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    Re: "Boomer Sooner" used in "Leatherheads movie

    Here's some Yale folks singin Boola Boola

    Boola, Boola; Boola, Boola; Boola, Boola;
    When we "roughhouse" poor old Harvard,
    They will holler Boola Boo.
    Oh! Yale, Eli Yale! (4X)
    Apparently we just stole the lyrics from the Tarheels.

    UNC Fight Song

    I guess we made up the "tune" to that last part ourselves.

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