I was an 8th grader living in Fulton, Missouri in 1975 and my dad took me and my brother to that OU/Missouri game in Columbia. We were wearing our OU shirts and jackets, and my dad smuggled in a whiskey flask under his shirt. He was still in the Army and would always wear his dark prescription Polaroid sunglasses wherever he went. I remember he took a cane with him to the game, and he would walk through the crowd of Missouri fans, whacking them on the ankles with his cane, yelling, “Make way for a blind man!” He told us not to say anything or he’d whup our ass. LOL My dad passed away last year, but I always remember the ride home after that great win. He laughed and laughed all the way home, laughing (as he would say) “at all those pissed off people” that he cracked on the ankles that day. He told that story many times over the years, and I always cracked up. We made sure we wore our OU shirts and jackets to school that following Monday. The next year, we moved to Alliance, Nebraska... enemy territory. Behind enemy lines. We had a huge red Pontiac Bonneville with OU bumper stickers all over it. The day of that game, in which OU defeated Nebraska 20-17, the police stopped my brother 3 TIMES that day. Never got a ticket, but got some friendly encouragement that it might be a good idea to “go on home before something happens...”. LOL We’re Sooner born and Sooner bred, and when we die, we’ll be Sooner dead. BOOMER SOONER BABY!!!
My grandad was the half back for the 1949 team #38 Lindell Pearson . He was second on the team in yards and scoring . That national championship year . I still remember meeting Bud Wilkinson . When I was a kid . BOOMER SOONER BABY ..
Rob, I knew your grandad, Lindell. His little brother, Tommy, was my best friend before he died in a plane crash. I lived 3 houses from the Pearsons in OKC. I am a 84 year old senior who lives in Houston and saw your grandad play many time for the Sooners and then the Detroit Lions, as I recall. Lindell was a GREAT halfback. Charlie Poor charlespoor@comcast.net
I had the honor of playing for Derick Shepard when I was in high school at US Grant here in Oklahoma. He always told us about Sooner magic! We believed in it and went to our first playoff in 40yrs. Thank you coach for giving us something to believe in and teaching us how to believe in ourselves
Yeah, “Q” is an unsung hero. Q was a quiet-leader. He did his talking on the field. I recall Q saying, during an interview, that he didn’t like being tackled by only one opponent. If you noticed, during red River rivalries, even Tx defenses respected Q. If Q was tackled, a Tx player would help him (Q) up. That’s respect.
Amazing documentary. Can't thank you enough. Been an OU fan since I was eleven years old in eastern Oklahoma, listening to the radio in 1949 when they beat Boston College in the first game of the season. George Thomas ran a kick back for the first touchdown and I was hooked. I have been lucky enough to have been alive through coaches Bud Wilkinson, Barry Switzer, Bob Stoops, and now Brent Venables. This brought back sooooo many memories for me. Oddly enough, I have never stepped foot on the OU campus, but truly bleed Crimson and Cream. Boomer!
As a 54 year-old lifelong Nebraskan and Huskers fan, this was bittersweet to watch. LOL. My first Huskers game was November 9th, 1978, Osborne’s first win over OU, one of only two times in my lifetime the fans in Lincoln tore down the goal posts. (The other was a 24-7 win over Colorado. Why? I don’t know. We owned them as much as you guys did.) Growing up in the 70s and 80s, my friends and I always used to joke that Buster Rhymes played for you guys for eight years, haha.
Member of the Pride of Oklahoma in 1983. Versus Oklahoma State, the band director and assistant band director were thrown out of the stadium at halftime. So we played Boomer Sooner non-stop until the end of the game. Coach Switzer gave the band a game ball after the game. Don't know if that ever happened before or after that game. Sooners over Cowboys 21-20. We never gave up. Boomer Sooner!
I was there as well and sittng in north stands surrounded by osu fans listening to the Pride playing Boomer Sooner throughout the second half. When Tim Lasher kicked that field goal to win the game, those fans were so stunned and looked like zombies. You guys in the Pride were very deserving of that game ball. Great job. Boomer Sooner!
Sooners best college team in football history. Has the longest winning streak in all of college football history. We've had a few down years but for the most part, Oklahoma has always had a great team even if we don't win championships. No other team can boast being consistently good for as long as Oklahoma can.
this was incredible. so many great memories. In the OU Nebraska game Keith Jackson made an amazing move; he jogged and then sped up which lost the Nebraska defender and gave him room to make his one handed catch. so many miracles.
I became a sooner fan The day little Joe went there because things he Did on the field playing for Port Arthur, Lincoln high school in the late 60 was absolutely breathtaking every Friday he truly put on a show!! And I truly thank God for allowing me to see Little Joe Run in his Silver dancing shoe Breathtaking mind Blowing ⚡️🐝🦾🙏🏾.’
I remember talking to CLAUDE ARNOLD on the phone about a year before he passed and i ended up going to his home to visit him and he signed 2 footballs for me.
Thanks for posting this. My wife tried to buy this for me as a Christmas present, I don't know how many years ago. She had to have her money refunded when it never showed up.
I see what you're saying but we were ahead in the Texas game we didn't need Magic to win. It was just a great play. Some of the other games we also didn't have a chance to win circumstances weren't on our side.
i will never forget the 86 ou neb game and the camera showed bosworth on the sideline and he holds up the orange and says orange bowl baby we aint losing this game and they were down 17 - 14.
I absolutely am 1 million percent an obsessed OU fan before I even knew I was a fan. I grew up in the 80s with the King. I was a student at OU from 1995-1998. I came into OU part of the Pride of Oklahoma and unfortunately it was part of the darkest era of Sooner football history. We went 5-5-1, 3-9, and 4-8! My major highlight was in 1996. In 95 we ended the Red River shootout in a 24-24 tie. It was like kissing your sister, as the saying goes. In 96 we came into that game 0-4, we had lost to Tulsa for the first time in 30 years, the years before we had lost to Chokie State for the first time in my life, and they shut us out for the first time since before WWII! Late in the game of 96 Jarrail Jackson returned a punt for a TD and then held them to a punt and drove and a FG sent us into OT with oddly enough a 24-24 tie. Then James Allen completed the Miracle in Dallas with a TD and we rushed the field. In the bands the losing teams band has to stand on the sideline and watch the winning teams band play their postgame show. Also, the Ruf/Neks had a bet with their version called the Silver Spurs and while we blasted Boomer Sooner as the Ruf/Nek president shaved the head of the president of the Spurs. That’s my best memory of my time during OU football.
I've loved them since I started watching football at about six or seven year of age in the mid 80s. I still continued to watch them during this time and would have still went to games if I had the currency and opportunity to do so during the time you were in school. Finally saw my first game against Osu in 1998 when visiting a friend in Stillwater and then 2000 when visiting my cousin in college station. I thought to myself my first game was as loss and I'm about to see another one. I started recording games in the middle of 2000 and in just over as few years I ended up running into people that had recorded games assume well all the way back to the eighties but did not know how to transfer them to dvd. I ended up getting the most and transferring them and now have about 450 games.
@@seandobson6221 best part was my dad was the one who brought it up to the SS president before the game and he refused initially but at halftime when they were winning he came over to agree to it so for us to win it in the end made it even better
@@jacketters2566 as soon as James Allen scored the winning TD the entire band stormed the field and found the closest shorthorn we could and talked S$&T to their faces. Then we gathered around to watch the spectacle that was OU coming in at 0-4 and beat at the time the number 11 team in the country
I grew up in Norman, Noble,me n my brother sold hotdogs at the stadium,met alot of player's,we hung out on sidelines 79 ,80,81, Rick Bryan, Sonny Brown, Mark Huston , George cumby, Kenny King, Rick Bryan was a impressive human,I seen Sonny Brown, n the boz fight at a frat party sonny was a nice guy
Less than 2 weeks away from OU's debut in the SEC in 2024. Here is to another season of Sooner Magic. Many of the talking heads are already counting OU out of everything. Let's remind the nation what Sooner Magic is and that it is here to stay, no matter what conference they are in. Boomer!!!!!!!
The thing with the grass at A&M is a military thing. Go to ANY military post and you’ll get wrecked if you step on the grass. Any battalion Command Sgt MAJ will have his little spot in the AO and for punishments he’ll have the punished out in that little square with nose hair trimmers making sure EVERY blade of grass is the exact same height and thickness. It’s just another regimented thing.
Barry underachieved as well. Look at the Orange Bowls against Arkansas and Washington. Arkansas was short handed and not only won but blew OU out in that game. People think Stoops choked but Switzer took it to an epic level in that one. If Stoops had the old system for winning NC's he would have had 3 as well. Look at Barry's NC's. One they didn't even play a bowl while another they only had to beat 5. Michigan. Imagine if in 2003 and 2004 OU plays in the Orange Bowl against Miami for the NC as they would have in the old system, they would have won 2 more.
SEC OWN COLLEGE FOOTBALL: 1992 National Title ALABAMA (1) 1996 National Title FLORIDA *1 1998 National Title TENNESSEE @1 2003 National Title LSU #1 2006 National Title FLORIDA *2 2007 National Title LSU #2 2008 National Title FLORIDA *3 2009 National Title ALABAMA (2) 2010 National Title AUBURN ^1 2011 National Title ALABAMA (3) 2012 National Title ALABAMA (4) 2015 National Title ALABAMA (5) 2017 National Title ALABAMA (6) Last 25 YEARS the SEC has OWNED College Football. 13 National Titles is more than half. While the rest of College Football will never achieve anything close the SEC will continue to dominate the College Football world with or without the left sports news media.
You should check the SEC's losing record to Oklahoma then check this. collegefootballnews.com/2018/01/ap-college-football-rankings-greatest-programs-of-all-time
ArrowJ Smith: Wow, that's really random. First, what does this have to do with Sooner Magic? Second, who's your actual team? So what if the SEC is the best conference, who cares? Teams don't play conferences, they play teams. I only care how OU does against whoever they play whether they're from the Popcorn Conference or the SEC. I mean, seriously, what is it with the SEC fanaticism with you people? I'd like someone to explain it to me because it's really bizarre. If you're an Alabama fan you might as well just focus on their championships, but if you're an Arkansas fan for instance, then you can't talk any trash just because your conference is good. I mean, you can't be a fan of an entire conference. That's just cheating.
Sooner magic = the only team in history to have ncaa recruiting violations within one year of every national championship. 😂 sad that these old dudes come here to brag about the most cheating team in history that they were on.
@@user-yg4kc2pf9v go look up ncaa recruiting violations and OU championships not rocket science. Multiple books have been wrote that talk about OU paying guys to come there🤣🤣🤣🤣” the courtship of Dupree” and the mighty BOS got banned from gayfag stadium after he admitted to getting payed to go there in his book…. Funny when retards comment about brightness!
