Was on the Fort Sill golf course practice range yesterday afternoon and saw a young man wearing a shirt from the 2018 Army-Navy Game. He was absolutely "chiseled" and hitting the ball to the back fence--when he hit it straight LOL.
(While keeping the appropriate distance) I asked him if he had been an Army football player. He said that he was and asked him if he'd been a linebacker, guessing his weight to be in the mid-200s. He laughed and said he'd been an o-lineman. (Army's linemen do generally have to pare off some weight before they can graduate.) We talked for a few minutes about Army football and specifically about the Army-OU game in 2018 and the Army-Michigan game in 2019. Both were games Army lost in overtime.
He told me that even though Michigan's crowd was about 20,000 bigger than OU's, the Sooner fans were consistently louder--especially when the game was on the line. The Army team was very disappointed in losing to OU but they knew they had to play nearly perfectly to win. He said the loss to Michigan was disappointing in a slightly different way as his team made multiple mistakes against the Wolverines.
I told him how proud I was of the way he and his teammates conducted themselves before, during, and after the game--to include leaving their locker room in spotless condition when they left. Bottom line is that he was a very intelligent, articulate, and impressive young man and I count myself fortunate to be numbered among people like him.
Sorry for the long post but I felt I just had to share this with my Sooner brethren.
(While keeping the appropriate distance) I asked him if he had been an Army football player. He said that he was and asked him if he'd been a linebacker, guessing his weight to be in the mid-200s. He laughed and said he'd been an o-lineman. (Army's linemen do generally have to pare off some weight before they can graduate.) We talked for a few minutes about Army football and specifically about the Army-OU game in 2018 and the Army-Michigan game in 2019. Both were games Army lost in overtime.
He told me that even though Michigan's crowd was about 20,000 bigger than OU's, the Sooner fans were consistently louder--especially when the game was on the line. The Army team was very disappointed in losing to OU but they knew they had to play nearly perfectly to win. He said the loss to Michigan was disappointing in a slightly different way as his team made multiple mistakes against the Wolverines.
I told him how proud I was of the way he and his teammates conducted themselves before, during, and after the game--to include leaving their locker room in spotless condition when they left. Bottom line is that he was a very intelligent, articulate, and impressive young man and I count myself fortunate to be numbered among people like him.
Sorry for the long post but I felt I just had to share this with my Sooner brethren.
