Damn......Its hard to believe how fast time flies

[bullmarket]

I was watching a documentary on college football and an old looking Johnny Rogers was
interviewed about the OU-NU game of the century.

I was at the game with my father.

Its difficult to believe that the game happened almost 50 years ago (1971) with most of the players in that game now are almost 70 years old.

Father time just keeps on going.

 

[iasooner1]

And there's still a clear clipping that wasn't called on that punt return

 

[sooners49]

The clip heard round the world. Lol. That was a good show about all of the stars of college football. Marcus Dupree,Staubach and all the rest. Could of done without Manziel he tried to come across as a choir boy.

 

[Soonermikee5]

I was watching a documentary on college football and an old looking Johnny Rogers was
interviewed about the OU-NU game of the century.

Its difficult to believe that the game happened almost 50 years ago (1971) with most of the players in that game now are almost 70 years old.

Father time just keeps on going.

I can remember that play like it was yesterday. He juked left and he was gone.

 

[bullmarket]

I can remember that play like it was yesterday. He juked left and he was gone.

Its nice seeing you post Soonermikee5. I hope all is going well for you.

 

[Soonermikee5]

Its nice seeing you post Soonermikee5. I hope all is going well for you.

You too Bull. Looking forward to playing some golf in 2020.

 

[runningback43]

My best friend lives in Omaha and he is also a Sooner fan. He played golf one time with Johnny Rogers. He told Johnny that there was a clip on that play, Johnny smiled and said well the game was played at your house. He didn't deny there was a clip and he never owned up that there was a clip. He did say that Johnny was a really good guy and he had fun golfing with him.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

Time cannot exist without the degradation of energy.

 

[Soonermikee5]

My best friend lives in Omaha and he is also a Sooner fan. He played golf one time with Johnny Rogers. He told Johnny that there was a clip on that play, Johnny smiled and said well the game was played at your house. He didn't deny there was a clip and he never owned up that there was a clip. He did say that Johnny was a really good guy and he had fun golfing with him.

That’s a great story.

 

[veritas59]

My best friend lives in Omaha and he is also a Sooner fan. He played golf one time with Johnny Rogers. He told Johnny that there was a clip on that play, Johnny smiled and said well the game was played at your house. He didn't deny there was a clip and he never owned up that there was a clip. He did say that Johnny was a really good guy and he had fun golfing with him.

Joe Wylie and I were friends when I lived in Tyler. Our sons played ball together. When I asked him about it (the first time we met), he laughed and said, "yeah, I got clipped". BTW, Joe is one of the finest people I've ever known.

First meeting was kind of comical. I was at practice was talking to a lady named Karen and our conversation eventually led to where we were from. Come to find out, she was from Oklahoma. I asked her how she ended up in Tyler and she said her husband, who she met at OU was from Henderson. We were walking out and she said there's my husband now and when she started to introduce me, before she even said his name, I went full fan boy and said "number 22". His eyes got big and he asked me how old I was (this was in 1994 and I was 35 at the time) and I said "old enough to remember Joe Wylie". He was surprised that I remembered so much detail about him and the Sooner teams he played on - even the Boomers, since I was so young when he was there. He got a kick out of that, and I had a story to tell. We had quite a few nice times together until I got transferred.

I didn't know Plaino back then, or I would have dropped that name on him, too.

 

[Plainosooner]

Joe was about as quality a guy as I ever met. Straight A's since the 7th grade (some art teacher had given him a B that year) through his four years at OU. Joe and I were in the same class. Half the in depth articles about him in his time at OU, that art teacher was mentioned.

First semester my freshman year, Joe and I were in the same Math class. There were all kinds of stories about OUr "professor," a curmudgeon named Earl LaFon. Earl was the worst teacher I ever had at any level. Calculus I.

I won't bore you with the details, but he gave us four hours of homework each night in a five hour class. He only had one of ten problems graded, at random, then put the first ten steps of a 30 step problem on the blackboard to 135 students, mostly high school math hot shot freshmen.

OUr first test was on a Tuesday morning. Ten people made 70 or better. I made a 68 and thought I was doing pretty good. When Earl gave us the results, he reported our very poor performance, but added that one person made 100 on the test, and he had a freshman football game the night before in Tulsa, so the test couldn't have been that difficult.

I suspect it wasn't the only curve that Joe mangled at Henderson or OU. My senior year at Plano, we faced Henderson in the state quarterfinal our first season in AAA. He hurt us more with his punting and quick kicking than as a runner that night, but they shut us out 21-0. At Henderson, he also played safety. He was the elite recruit in Texas his senior year, the way Jack MIldren had been the year before, though not as nationally known as Jack.

He also won at least one sophomore of the year award in the Big 8, the same year Johnny Rodgers was a soph at Nebraska. He was really considered OUr best running back, until he got hurt against USC in game three his junior year, and simultaneously Greg Pruitt just exploded in the 1971 version of Red October against USC, Texas and Colorado (who that year ended up number 3 in the country behind the Huskers and the Sooners) We beat all three by at least three touchdowns.

A long strider who when he got going upfield was really fast. He was a state ranked intermediate hurdler and discus thrower in high school. A unique combination.

Not quite as athletic, but a guy like Roger Staubach, who nobody really ever had anything negative to say about his character. His class and Mildren's class created the greatness of a decade of greatness at OU in the 70's. Neither won a national title, but they set the stage for what happened immediately after they graduated. We were number two in the country in Joe's junior and senior seasons.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

I was stationed at Clinton-Sherman AFB with a Cornhusker OL who played in the late '50's. He told me when the Sooners were next up, he and team mates wondered just how bad they would get beat.

The Husker got it from a Cong sniper while filling his F-6 fuel truck with JP-4 jet fuel.

 

[veritas59]

Joe was about as quality a guy as I ever met. Straight A's since the 7th grade (some art teacher had given him a B that year) through his four years at OU. Joe and I were in the same class. Half the in depth articles about him in his time at OU, that art teacher was mentioned.

First semester my freshman year, Joe and I were in the same Math class. There were all kinds of stories about OUr "professor," a curmudgeon named Earl LaFon. Earl was the worst teacher I ever had at any level. Calculus I.

I won't bore you with the details, but he gave us four hours of homework each night in a five hour class. He only had one of ten problems graded, at random, then put the first ten steps of a 30 step problem on the blackboard to 135 students, mostly high school math hot shot freshmen.

OUr first test was on a Tuesday morning. Ten people made 70 or better. I made a 68 and thought I was doing pretty good. When Earl gave us the results, he reported our very poor performance, but added that one person made 100 on the test, and he had a freshman football game the night before in Tulsa, so the test couldn't have been that difficult.

I suspect it wasn't the only curve that Joe mangled at Henderson or OU. My senior year at Plano, we faced Henderson in the state quarterfinal our first season in AAA. He hurt us more with his punting and quick kicking than as a runner that night, but they shut us out 21-0. At Henderson, he also played safety. He was the elite recruit in Texas his senior year, the way Jack MIldren had been the year before, though not as nationally known as Jack.

He also won at least one sophomore of the year award in the Big 8, the same year Johnny Rodgers was a soph at Nebraska. He was really considered OUr best running back, until he got hurt against USC in game three his junior year, and simultaneously Greg Pruitt just exploded in the 1971 version of Red October against USC, Texas and Colorado (who that year ended up number 3 in the country behind the Huskers and the Sooners) We beat all three by at least three touchdowns.

A long strider who when he got going upfield was really fast. He was a state ranked intermediate hurdler and discus thrower in high school. A unique combination.

Not quite as athletic, but a guy like Roger Staubach, who nobody really ever had anything negative to say about his character. His class and Mildren's class created the greatness of a decade of greatness at OU in the 70's. Neither won a national title, but they set the stage for what happened immediately after they graduated. We were number two in the country in Joe's junior and senior seasons.

Good stuff, Plaino. If he wasn't enough that he was a great student and a great athlete, he was also a great pianist. He told me his mom told him make a choice in high school; protect your fingers, or play football.

 

[iasooner1]

I was stationed at Clinton-Sherman AFB with a Cornhusker OL who played in the late '50's. He told me when the Sooners were next up, he and team mates wondered just how bad they would get beat.
The Husker got it from a Cong sniper while filling his F-6 fuel truck with JP-4 jet fuel.

Thanks again for your service and a generation or two of others your age SI.