During the course of conversation tonight about sports....1 of the kids asked me where the OU Sooners got their name and what it meant....and I answered the question honestly....it means cheater. Now some of you would say I'm just being a devout Longhorn and slamming the Crimson and Cream but the truth is just that...the truth. Here's your little piece of useless sports trivia for the day. The story is this...back in 1889 President Benjamin Harrison was going to sign the Indian Appropriation Act of 1889 which would give people the right to settle land in the territory that now makes up the state of Oklahoma. In the dead of the night, people were illegally sneaking over the line and staking out large plots of land..."sooner" than they were supposed to. The name was derived from the "sooner clause" of the appropriations act which stated that no one should be allowed to enter and occupy the land prior to the opening time and that such people would be denied rights to illegally-claimed land. See just goes to show ya that they come from a long line of people who couldn't follow the rules. Makes them hiring such people like Barry Switzer make a lot more sense now don't it! Again....Hook 'Em Horns...now pass the football!
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