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[Senior Sooner]

How Appropo...#6 For #6...

I'm going to play my 'Seriously Senior Sooner' Card...Has anyone ELSE seen all 6 of these Very Special Sooners Play?

 

[Sooners83]

all but the first one

 

[JConXtsy]

How Appropo...#6 For #6...

I'm going to play my 'Seriously Senior Sooner' Card...Has anyone ELSE seen all 5 of these Very Special Sooners Play?

Wasn't even born for the first two. Still drinking breast milk for the third. I guess I should add the caveat "for nutrition" to that statement, or it might be valid for another.

 

[stuck in del rio]

Alive for 4 of the 5. Wish I could have seen Billy Vessels play.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

Alive for 4 of the 5. Wish I could have seen Billy Vessels play.

Nope, I didn't know who Billy Vessels was until after the fact.
I thought it was someone named William that had a boat...

 

[BillyRay]

I wasn't alive for the first two. I was so young during Billy Sims run that I don't remember it.

 

[SoonersR4Real]

I also only missed the first one!
I must be getting old!

 

[stuck in del rio]

I wasn't alive for the first two. I was so young during Billy Sims run that I don't remember it.

This is a true story....

When Billy Sims won the Heisman in 1978, they didn't have a television special and air it live or anything like that. The winner (or his coach) received a phone call from the Downtown Athletic club, telling them they'd won...

In 1978, when the news broke in the early afternoon that he'd won, my grade school was let out of school early - it was a holiday!

Billy was very popular, especially among the non-football fans.

Interestingly enough, from 1972 until 1983, Heisman trophy winners were all running backs. A QB (Pat Sullivan, Auburn) won in 1971, and another QB (Doug Flutie, Boston College) won in 1984, sandwiching all those great running backs (Charles White, Earl Campbell, George Rogers, Archie Griffin, Johnny Rodgers, Tony Dorsett, Marcus Allen, Herschel Walker, Billy Sims).

 

[humblesooner]

I'm in the "old, but not old enough to see Vessels play" crew.

 

[Senior Sooner]

I'm in the "old, but not old enough to see Vessels play" crew.

Jeeeez! You really have a nice way to make a gal feel good, humble!

It's lonely, here at the top...I sure do miss seniorsooner...Anyone know where that rascal is?

 

[veritas59]

No, Vessels pre-dated me, but I saw the others. I was in my 2nd year of college when Billy Sims won, and as SIDR said, there wasn't all the hoopla with the Heisman shows back then. I was out on a delivery, one of my two jobs back then, when I heard the announcement on the radio. I just remember honking my horn and acting a fool....... I really haven't changed much after all these years.

 

[Soonersincefitty]

No, Vessels pre-dated me, but I saw the others. I was in my 2nd year of college when Billy Sims won, and as SIDR said, there wasn't all the hoopla with the Heisman shows back then. I was out on a delivery, one of my two jobs back then, when I heard the announcement on the radio. I just remember honking my horn and acting a fool....... I really haven't changed much after all these years.

Well, I like timelines too.

When I was 19 Steve won it...I remember getting a little annoying bragging about OU.

Then, when I was 28, Sims won it and by then I'd polished my act up to full on obnoxious, bragging about the Sooners.
Been pretty much, with few exceptions hanging with that.