OU players that died to early......

[K2C Sooner]

It's strange that I have lived longer than several former OU greats about my same age. I could list many, but I'll let you add to it.

Here's mine; Rick Bryan............


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Bryan

 

[BillyRay]

Austin Box

 

[barkingwater2000]

Brandon Everage

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Jerry Anderson. He'd hit opponents so damn hard he'd knock them out...and himself a couple of times.
(free safety as I recall)

Died at 35 years old trying to save two kids from drowning at his hometown in Tennessee.
He was a good man.

(he'd saved someone from drowning five years earlier in a Tulsa flood)

 

[BillyRay]

I thought you put me on ignore............

Show me where I posted that I put you on ignore. Sorry to disappoint you though.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Sterling Shepards dad Derrick, played in the early/mid 80s, died of a massive heart attack, also 35 years old. He was an awesome player too...like father, like son.

(just FYI, he was an ace split end)

 

[K2C Sooner]

I'm gi

Sterling Shepards dad Derrick, played in the early/mid 80s, died of a massive heart attack, also 35 years old. He was an awesome player too...like father, like son.

BTW, I'm only giving out some likes because of replies, not the deaths..Just saying,

 

[Soonersincefitty]

I'm gi



BTW, I'm only giving out some likes because of replies, not the deaths..Just saying,

But of course.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Steve Davis died at 60 in a plane crash if you recall, but I'm thinking he had another 20, 25 years left if not for that.
Honorable mention for sure.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

I'm done, this is bumming me plum out...see ya!

 

[stuck in del rio]

David Overstreet, 25. I think he was playing for the Dolphins when he died in a car wreck in Texas.

 

[K2C Sooner]

I'm done, this is bumming me plum out...see ya!

I agree, the guy that started this thread should be shot.

Here's another.................


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayman_Tisdale

 

[Soonersincefitty]

I agree, the guy that started this thread should be shot.

Here's another.................


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayman_Tisdale

Well, I wouldn't want to shoot ya but, I would like to see ya dance as I shoot at your feet...

 

[K2C Sooner]

We

Well, I wouldn't want to shoot ya but, I would like to see ya dance as I shoot at your feet...

Well, so far we are missing one that hasn't been mentioned. I bet plaino can name him...............

 

[Soonersincefitty]

I'm back!
You've got to be talking about Bob Kalsu, 25, Vietnam war.

 

[BillyRay]

Bob Kalsu as well. I should have guessed that first since I grew up and went to Del City.

 

[BillyRay]

I guess great minds think alike...me and fitty posted at the same time. lol

 

[K2C Sooner]

I'm back!
You've got to be talking about Bob Kalsu, 25, Vietnam war.

Well done plainofitty.................HA

 

[K2C Sooner]

Well done plainofitty.................HA

Hey fitty, I got another Senior Sooner "like". You have got to be steaming... She loves me..................HA

 

[Plainosooner]

Jack Mildren died younger than Steve Davis, and pancreatic cancer is a horrible way to go.

Larry Roach was a starting corner in the GOTC and a friend who was on my intramural basketball team. I don't think he made 40. Brain tumor.

Both Casteel's died young. Rick and Steve.

Just from the GOTC, nearly a third of our starters didn't make it to retirement age: Lionel Day, Steve Aycock, Roach, Bruce Deloney, Albert Qualls, Daryl Emmert, Mildren, Eddie Foster played a little that year.

And the greatest Sooner of them all, Lee Roy Selmon, was a high school senior that year.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Hey fitty, I got another Senior Sooner "like". You have got to be steaming... She loves me..................HA

Well, comely and sweet as she is, she does have her fickle side...which of course is just adorable...

 

[K2C Sooner]

Jack Mildren died younger than Steve Davis, and pancreatic cancer is a horrible way to go.

Larry Roach was a starting corner in the GOTC and a friend who was on my intramural basketball team. I don't think he made 40. Brain tumor.

Both Casteel's died young. Rick and Steve.

Just from the GOTC, nearly a third of our starters didn't make it to retirement age: Lionel Day, Steve Aycock, Roach, Bruce Deloney, Albert Qualls, Daryl Emmert, Mildren, Eddie Foster played a little that year.

And the greatest Sooner of them all, Lee Roy Selmon, was a high school senior that year.

Thank you plaino, that's why your the best poster on this site.............

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Thank you plaino, that's why your the best poster on this site.............

Hey...

 

[K2C Sooner]

Hey...

Hey, I got you in second along with yankee....Not a bad position.............

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Dag nab it!

This thread, although quite worthy, has 126 views...who the hell are all these people?

I do miss the visible gallery up top like in the old format.
The only thing I miss incidentally. The rest of the new format is superb.

 

[K2C Sooner]

Dag nab it!

This thread, although quite worthy, has 126 views...who the hell are all these people?

I do miss the visible gallery up top like in the old format.
The only thing I miss incidentally. The rest of the new format is superb.

I can see them. The rest of them have you on ignore....................

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Touche!

 

[Soonersincefitty]

BTW, your OP, featuring Ricky Bryan, was from my current stomping grounds...the beautiful, vibrant and intoxicating metropolis of Coweta!

 

[K2C Sooner]

BTW, your OP, featuring Ricky Bryan, was from my current stomping grounds...the beautiful, vibrant and intoxicating metropolis of Coweta!

Yeah, I knew a lot of the Bryan family tree. Replogle road between Catoosa and Coweta. They were all kin.

One of Rick's great uncles was my little league baseball coaches. A great guy.

One of Ricks cousins plays for the women's football league.

And I'll never forget a blonde named Anita Bryan that was one of the hottest blonde ever from Coweta.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

What?
Anita Bryant, with the T on the end of her last name? The orange juice woman that lived in South Florida?

Well, that's significant, and uh, I can't elaborate on her trials and tribulations...I'd get perma banned.

 

[K2C Sooner]

What?
Anita Bryant, with the T on the end of her last name? The orange juice woman that lived in South Florida?

Well, that's significant, and uh, I can't elaborate on her trials and tribulations...I'd get perma banned.

No "T" on the end fitty. How long have you lived in Coweta? Do you know are heard of the Messick Boot Shop?

How about Harlan Wheeler?

 

[Soonersincefitty]

4 years, no on Messick boot shop, and I thought Anita Bryant, with the T was from around here, so, disregard that.

Haven't heard of Wheeler either.

Eyelids getting heavy, see y'all tomorrow.

 

[Oklabama]

Mike Babb died at the age of 23 of a cardiac arrest during surgery resulting from a knee injury he got playing in the 1982 Varsity-Alumni game. When you think back of all the different causes of death to these great Sooners, you have to wonder. Shocking sometimes.

 

[Sooners83]

Mike Babb died at the age of 23 of a cardiac arrest during surgery resulting from a knee injury he got playing in the 1982 Varsity-Alumni game. When you think back of all the different causes of death to these great Sooners, you have to wonder. Shocking sometimes.

Oddly I have run into his brother a couple of times at a local office supply store here. You can tell that it still haunts the family.

 

[Oklabama]

Oddly I have run into his brother a couple of times at a local office supply store here. You can tell that it still haunts the family.

83, I lost my oldest son (32) of a sudden cardiac arrest. Believe me, it does something to you.

 

[owenfieldreams]

My friend and classmate from H.S., Jon Benien, was killed in Vietnam. My Godfather, Roland "Waddie"Young, disappeared over the Pacific piloting his B-29, "Waddie's Wagon", during WWII.

 

[Plainosooner]

I'm not sure who Anita Bryan was. But Anita Bryant, though born in Barnsdall, grew up with her mother in Tulsa and graduated from Will Rogers High School. She was Miss Oklahoma and second runner up in the Miss America Pageant in 1959.

And she was a brunette.

According to Wiki, she now lives in Edmond.

 

[Lost Chickasaw]

The Box family has a foundation set up in his name to raise awareness of prescription drug abuse. And yes, that's a shameless plug!

I always wanted to be Ricky Bryan when I was a kid. I wore #80 through HS because of him. Always heard those Bryan's were super nice! I had Boz sign a pic of him and Steven and told him I'd like to get Steven's auto some day on it. He told me to go by his farm and tell him Boz sent me. haha!

I'll add Wayman Tisdale to the list, even though he wasn't a footballer.

 

[Sooner Cal]

Joe Don Looney

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Joe Don Looney

Yep, forgot about JDL

45 from a motorcycle crash.