So did I. When we moved to Plano in 1964, I was six weeks from becoming a teenager. So I listened to TU sports on KVOO, 50,000 watts in Oklahoma and to OU games on a static filled station in either Durant or Ardmore, depending on the which came in better. It also changed most seasons for OU games. I remember sweating out the win at Lawrence in 1968, which was a great game. 27-23 I believe and Steve Zabel was amazing playing both sides of the ball.
You know, in those days, your college team could be on TV no more than twice a year. In Dallas, it was three times a year, because the OU-Texas game was always broadcast on local tv, somehow. But the RRR we won only once in the 60s, so it was often hard to watch.
We "watched" with the radio broadcast with the descriptions we heard. And when you listened to Lynn Morton in Tulsa, the reliability of the descriptions was not very accurate. But since I was from Tulsa, that's how I listened. And I paid more attention to the Tulsa GH games, Jerry Rhome's senior year, than OU games.
Post game information was so limited too. There was no internet, no message boards, no sports sites, no sports-talk radio stations. When OU played, you had the OU radio post game show. That was it. Starved for information, you had to wait until Sunday morning to read about it in the Sunday Oklahoman. There would be 2 or 3 articles I’d read over and over.
On Sunday night, I’d faithfully watch the OU Playback Show on TV, highlighting the plays and comments from the head coach. That is it. No YouTube, no Twitter, no ESPN. Just a one hour Sunday night local TV show. Didn’t have VCR’s yet, so you had to watch it live or not watch it at all.
In OKC, we had an early morning ‘Monday Morning Quarterback’ radio show on KTOK. That was Al Eschbach’s start in radio, and the start of what became sports talk radio in Oklahoma. That was about 1980.
The only other information was when I got to work, I'd talk with the guys about the game.
Then in 1984, the SCOTUS ruled in favor of OU in “NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma”. That changed college football forever. The CFB world can thank OU and UGA . I know that you know all of this
@Plainosooner. I'll be 66. Your memories go back further than mine.
Now we have a glut of games and news sources available on the internet, TV and radio. One of the best new ones is the
selloutcrowd.com site. This is great for OU info. You can read game analysis just minutes after the final play. The KREF app on my phone is excellent too. Great OU coverage all day long. We are spoiled now. We can read and watch videos to our heart’s desire... "....then go mow the lawn" as John Brooks used to say.
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