Sentimentality on the DVR

[Sooner04]

With the wife busy and the weather reminiscent of Fairbanks in February, I fired up the old DVR last night. I thought I might share with you some of the highlights I came across during my OU BBall tour of yesteryear.


As you can see, success often begins and end with the potency of your backcourt:

 

[Sooner04]

Billy was convinced Bo Kimble was over the back. His argument, while convincing, featured one of the magic words. The ref won this battle:

 

[Sooner04]

The pace really picked up toward the end of the first half. I told my co-worker the halftime score the next day. He nearly swallowed his tongue.

 

[Sooner04]

We finally got another foul on Kimble. He'd been in trouble early, but had avoided getting isolated on the ball for much of the second half. As he walks away from the call in disgust, he is hassled by a shadowy figure with large ears. You youngsters may not know who it is, but it's a fellow who was loved across the land. His name was Top Daug.

 

[Sooner04]

The pace has gone berserk. People in the cheap seats are tearing their seats away from their riggings and tossing them downward to the unruly mass below. Me? By this point I'm doing my breathing into a bag.

 

[Sooner04]

Skeeter Henry scores 31 of his 41 in the second half and we pull away at the end when Loyola Marymount starts heaving up more bricks than a pick-up game between the Khardashians and the Jonas Brothers.

 

[Sooner04]

And I'll leave you with this little beauty. It's Wayman sending us to our first Elite 8 in 38 years. That guy on the left? It's Karl Malone. But even the Mailman himself is powerless to stop the smooth as buttermilk jumper fashioned by the late, great Wonderful Wayman Tisdale.

 

[Tony]

That is awesome.

 

[NMSooner'80]

Skeeter Henry scores 31 of his 41 in the second half and we pull away at the end when Loyola Marymount starts heaving up more bricks than a pick-up game between the Khardashians and the Jonas Brothers.

My brother was in residency in LA and got to see the game in person. I'm surprised he survived it.

 

[Escape Goat]

This thread is great! Thanks for putting it together 04! Makes me want OU to return to greatness even more.

 

[AdaSooner]

Thanks for sharing some great memories with us, Sooner04. Hopefully your photos will help the youngstes here gain more of an appreciation for the excitement and tradition that defined OU basketball back then. What I wouldn't give for a return to the good old days!

 

[red recluse]

thanks for reminding me about all the games i lost when my dvr went down.

 

[skyvue]

But hoo-boy, did that shot spend a lot of time bouncing on the rim before it finally fell through.

And I'll leave you with this little beauty. It's Wayman sending us to our first Elite 8 in 38 years. That guy on the left? It's Karl Malone. But even the Mailman himself is powerless to stop the smooth as buttermilk jumper fashioned by the late, great Wonderful Wayman Tisdale.

 

[Big Old Booger]

And I'll leave you with this little beauty. It's Wayman sending us to our first Elite 8 in 38 years. That guy on the left? It's Karl Malone. But even the Mailman himself is powerless to stop the smooth as buttermilk jumper fashioned by the late, great Wonderful Wayman Tisdale.

I have this game on a beta videotape along with some of the games from 1988 and 1989 (mizzou, Arizona, unlv, etc). I don't think the VCR survived the 99 tornado and by now those tapes are probably trash. This is one reason why I'm excited about an OU channel.