College GameDay (Oklahoma Edition)

[BobD]

Who's going to represent us? Anyone going to be there?

 

[OUMallen]

We're told the setup will be on the South Oval. It is the long north-south patch of grass bordering Lindsey Street west a block of the stadium.


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[clashmore_jon]

i want to go so badly. Anyone want to donate tickets and lodging?

 

[domerdude]

I will drive up from Texas if ANYONE has a spare ticket for less than an arm or leg...

 

[woolybug25]

So wait.... OU's plays in Gaylord Stadium???

 

[OUMallen]

So wait.... OU's plays in Gaylord Stadium???

....yes.


We're like, SUPER progressive and liberal and stuff.

 

[woolybug25]

....yes.


We're like, SUPER progressive and liberal and stuff.

haha...

 

[OUMallen]

It's technically Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.

The Gaylords are an oooooold OKC family. They owned the state's biggest newspaper and Lord knows what else. They're pretty substantial benefactors around here. So there's plenty of Gaylord stuff all over town. Kinda funny.

 

[PraetorianND]

It's technically Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.

The Gaylords are an oooooold OKC family. They owned the state's biggest newspaper and gayLord knows what else. They're pretty substantial benefactors around here. So there's plenty of Gaylord stuff all over town. Kinda funny.

Fixed. Haha.

 

[BeauBenken]

....yes.


We're like, SUPER progressive and liberal and stuff.

I like you. haha

 

[BobD]

We need people and signage. Hopefully someone is planning on attending.

Jimmymac?

 

[IrishInFl]

It's technically Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.

The Gaylords are an oooooold OKC family. They owned the state's biggest newspaper and Lord knows what else. They're pretty substantial benefactors around here. So there's plenty of Gaylord stuff all over town. Kinda funny.

I giggled at this. Sounds like San Francisco.

 

[Kaneyoufeelit]

....yes.


We're like, SUPER progressive and liberal and stuff.

Solid post. Welcome aboard

 

[Martibhoy]

It's technically Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium.

The Gaylords are an oooooold OKC family. They owned the state's biggest newspaper and Lord knows what else. They're pretty substantial benefactors around here. So there's plenty of Gaylord stuff all over town. Kinda funny.

Hello pal. Was just wondering what a Sooner is? Is it the Jimmy Stewart, cowboy wagons? I'm a Highlander frae Scotland, so fill me in.

 

[OUMallen]

That's a pretty common question. Y'all know what a land run is? Like in the movie Far and Away?

 

[Kaneyoufeelit]

That's a pretty common question. Y'all know what a land run is? Like in the movie Far and Away?

You say Sooners; I say thieving cheaters. just kidding

 

[Martibhoy]

That's a pretty common question. Y'all know what a land run is? Like in the movie Far and Away?

Havnae a clue, bud???

 

[OUMallen]

OK so the State of Oklahoma was "Indian Territory" and not an official part of the United States into the late 1800s, even though it was more or less controlled/administered by the federal gov't. At some point, probably part of the idea of Manifest Destiny, they decided that white people should live in the Unassigned Lands, as they were called.

Out of a sense of fairness and in order to promote the settling of the area, the gov't had "land runs" wherein a large area of land was settled in one day. A settler could sign up with the office, and then everyone would line up and at high noon a canon would be fired and everyone would get to race to "stake a claim". You'd go in a covered wagon (a "conestoga", which is what the Sooner Schooner is), or on horseback or on foot. When you got to a plot of land (I think they were 160 acres), you would take a flag out of the ground and plant your flag in the ground and the land was yours for free. (Well, there was probably some fee involved, but you didn't have to actually purchase the land.)

There were a series of landruns, opening up different areas. E.g.- if memory serves, Oklahoma City went from a population of 0 to a population of 10,000 in one day.


A "Boomer" is someone who followed the rules and left the starting line at the designated time (also, a Boomer is a political distinction for those in favor of opening up the lands). A "Sooner" is someone that more or less cheated and sneaked in early to get the most choice plot of land.

Eventually, the term "Sooner" came to be known as someone with a progressive, pioneering spirit. A trailblazer. And it is the official nickname of the State of Oklahoma.

#history


Conestoga:

 

[woolybug25]

That's a pretty common question. Y'all know what a land run is? Like in the movie Far and Away?

You liked that movie, didja? hehe

 

[OUMallen]

Here's a decent representation of the Land Run of '89.

land run - oklahoma - tom - YouTube

For perspective, Oklahoma didn't become a state until 1907. OU's football team played its first game in 1895. An OU president, George Lynn Cross, was once quoted as saying to the OK state legislature when asking for more money: "I would like to build a University of which the football team could be proud."

This stuff is in our blood. College football is a part of our cultural lifeblood and our history, our story. The history of the State of Oklahoma entwines with Oklahoma football. OU football is as Okie as red dirt and chicken fry. We love this stuff, fellas.

 

[OUMallen]

You liked that movie, didja? hehe

When you're an Okie, you get a little geeked out in regard to a movie that focuses on a landrun. B)

 

[woolybug25]

When you're an Okie, you get a little geeked out in regard to a movie that focuses on a landrun. B)

I'll give you a pass... those were the days of when Tom Cruise was still dreamy.

wait... wut?

 

[OUMallen]

I'll give you a pass... those were the days of when Tom Cruise was still dreamy.

wait... wut?

Tom Cruise > Sean Astin

 

[woolybug25]

Tom Cruise > Sean Astin

Bite your **cking tongue!!

 

[Kaneyoufeelit]

Tom Cruise > Sean Astin

The Sandlot Clip "you play ball like a girl".mov - YouTube

 

[Martibhoy]

Aw right. I get it noo. So like the Brits, you nicked somebody elses land, kicked them aff it and now its all good.

I was always an Apache, when we played Cowboys and Indians at school.

 

[OUMallen]

Aw right. I get it noo. So like the Brits, you nicked somebody elses land, kicked them aff it and now its all good.

I was always an Apache, when we played Cowboys and Indians at school.

Yeah, pretty much devastated a population and set them back 100 years in relation to the new white people that moved in...Christopher Columbus style, with only a small portion of the genocide.

Around these parts, plenty of the people you meet are one or more tribes. My mother is 3/8 Cheyenne.

 

[Martibhoy]

Yeah, pretty much devastated a population and set them back 100 years in relation to the new white people that moved in...Christopher Columbus style, with only a small portion of the genocide.

Around these parts, plenty of the people you meet are one or more tribes. My mother is 3/8 Cheyenne.

Its mad tae think it was just over 110 years since you became part of the states!!!

Thanks for answering my questions, as well.

Its very polite on here, tae opposition fans, bar Michigan, obviously.

 

[OU_Sooners75]

What is a Sooner?


Well Mallan was mostly correct. But left out the fact that government officials, military, goods traders, railroader, and law enforcement officials were also in the territory before the official opening of the unassigned lands.

These folks were also called Sooners. So it wasn't just the cheaters, or "land thieves" that were Sooners.

A Sooner is bascially anyone that was occupying any part of the unassigned lands before the cannon fired to signal the beginning of the land run.

 

[OUMallen]

I've never heard that. I stand corrected.