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A SEASON IN THE STANDS: BOOMER SOONER, AT TWO LEVELS

By Alex Shumate

Friday, October 17, 2008

In keeping with the theme this week of A Season in the Stands, our man at Oklahoma—Alex Shumate—interviewed one frosh and one senior about the differences in their experience as Sooner fans. In some respects, i.e. getting goose bumps when the "BOOMER! SOONER!" chant rings out, they're very similar. In others, they're quite different. Click the video for a portrait of Soonerdom at two levels (and as a bonus, watch this to remember when Bob Stoops and Mark Mangino were BFF).

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