So the Sooners have been in 55 bowl games since their first in 1938. We only have a .557 winning percentage so there's a bunch of duds in the mix. I was at one of the most disappointing...my junior year at OU....the 1985 Orange Bowl vs Washington. Beat the Huskies and we've got a solid shot at a natty. So the flight from frozen OKC was in the Ch9 plane with the sports guys. Super cool! NYE was a Roberta Flack concert at the Fountainbleu where a fraternity brother tried to pick up some guy's date who was actually an "escort". That was hilarious. I have better luck...meet a high school senior from OKC named Bambi (no kidding) and we do a sort of drive-in-movie make-out session on the beach outside the hotel. Great times! Not so much the next night when we come out flat and stay that way, including the Schooner inadvertently rolling onto the field costing us a short 3-point effort that was backed up 15 yds and then missed. Instead of staying 2 more days the host of our ensemble, the great John Griffin (rip) of Ch9 and Griffin Foods fame decides to bounce. So we're checking out and he says who ordered $200 worth of margaritas and charged it to my room? Everybody looked at me (naturally) and the old man says "i'll give you this one kid". So we flew back to the frozen tundra that was oklahoma, leaving behind 85 degrees, sunshine, a natty and Bambi.
