Sooner Bred and Sooner Born, my earliest Sooner football memories

I’m a Sooner Born and a Sooner Bred…

I wasn’t even there for my earliest Sooner memories.

Mom was always fond of saying that I was born in the middle of July and had to be weaned by the second weekend of October because they had tickets to the OU Texas game.

My parents held season tickets for some years before and after was born. I have memories my favorite babysitter, Mrs. Owens, coming to stay with me while Mom and Dad went to Norman for games. A few times, I remember, she stayed over night when my parents went to Dallas for the OU v Texas game. Because my mother absolutely hated to travel by car, she is the only person I know who could turn the drive from Oklahoma City to Dallas a two day trip by spending the night in Ardmore on the way down and back.  So, when they went to the Texas game, they were gone for three nights.

Like most small children I hated to be left at home with a babysitter for three (or four.. sometimes Mom liked to stay and shop in Dallas) nights. On the other hand, I remember Mrs. Owens liked to make the most wonderful chocolate meringue pie. She would do that if I got too fussy about my folks being gone.  I made sure I was fussy. To this day, eating chocolate meringue pie makes me think of OU football.

Mom and Dad always brought me back something when they went to games. I remember pennants, little stuffed footballs and one of my favorites, which was a soft stuffed football player in OU uniform dangling by a string from a stick. Why that was my favorite I don’t know, but I played with it for a long, long time.

With an early childhood like that, it was inevitable that I would grow up to be a Sooner fan!

What are your earliest memories of OU football? How did you become a fan?

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