WHAT IS A "SOONER"?
(from the official athletic site)

College sports fans are hard-pressed to find a nickname that is as unique and as tied-in to a state's history as a Sooner. The University of Oklahoma is the only school known as Sooners and those who claim that they are Sooners say it with pride.

The Oklahoma territory opened with the Land Run of 1889. Settlers from across the globe, seeking free land, made their way to the prairies of the plains to stake their claim to a new life. One of the few rules to claiming a lot of land was that all participants were to start at the same time, on the boom of a cannon. All settlers who started then were labeled as "Boomers" and the ones who went too soon were called "Sooners."

OU athletic teams were called either Rough Riders or Boomers for 10 years before the current Sooner nickname emerged in 1908. The university actually derived their name from a pep club called

All of us real Sooner fans already know these things!

A Sooner is a dirt burglar, a land thief. A sooner is a common criminal, nothing to be proud of. <img border="0" alt="[NoNo]" title="" src="graemlins/nono.gif" /> But it does kinda a make sense because most of their National Championships were achieved by cheating. They even stole their fight song from Yale!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Shawn:
A Sooner is someone that Gets in a different division of football so they dont have to play Nebraska anymore.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img border="0" alt="[laugh]" title="" src="graemlins/laughing.gif" />