Everyone
who knows anything about me knows that I am a huge Oklahoma football
fan.  I just love OU's  traditions.  When the OU band drum major bends
nearly backward, drags his feet and struts onto the field ahead of "The
Pride of Oklahoma",  just as they strike up "Oklahoma" and double time
onto the turf, I get chills up my spine.

I put it right up there with sex and food for pure enjoyment and pleasure.....well, "food" anyway!!
Like
all great universities, OU has its share of traditions. We have the
Sooner Schooner that takes a turn around the goal posts everytime the
team scores, the "ruf-neks", who drive it and fire their guns at will
when the team crosses the goal line; the crowds taking turns screaming
"Boomer" while the other half of the stadium yells back "Sooner."
Then,
there's OU women's basketball--my other great love--also quickly
buidling its own tradtions.  The scoreboard shows Coach Sherrie Coale's
legs and her signature stilletto heels as she steps from her black
Escalade outside the arena.  As she enters, the announcer screams, "It's
SHOWTIME" and the crowd roars.  There's even a fan group called "The
Stillettos", who arrive at every game in their own spiked heels to cheer
Coach and the team on.

What
a lot of people don't know about me, however, is that I love traditions
of all kinds.  They bind people and families together to make life a
bit more special.  I wrote yesterday about a tradition in the state of
Alaska...the 40th annual running of the marathon Itidarod Dog Sledding
Race. 

So
when I asked on Facebook what popular sporting event had just begun in
our 49th state, I thought it was so easy that all my friends would
know!  WRONG!!  You would not believe some of the hilarious answers I
got.  Granted, people were being silly, but it was fairly obvious many
of them did not have a clue.  One fellow answered "hula dancing," then
changed his answer to "snow ball fighting" once he realized that Hawaii
was NOT our 49th state.

To
her credit, our Bev here on Blogster got it correct.  I would expect no
less from a fellow Okie and Sooner fan.  We Sooners understand
"traditions".

A
couple of other classics I got were "bear dancing" and "dwarf
tossing".   I guess tradition is just not on some people's radar....