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So, you think you know about the OU (ch) Sooners?
Here's some things you may not know.

Just what is a Sooner, anyway? And what does "Boomer Sooner" mean?

At precisely twelve noon on September 16, 1893 a cannon's boom unleashed the largest land rush America ever saw. Carried by all kinds of transportation - horses, wagons, trains, bicycles or on foot - an estimated 100,000 raced to claim plots of land in an area of land in northern Oklahoma Territory known as the Cherokee Strip. There had been a number of previous land rushes in the Territory - but this was the big one.

The Great Land Rush Begins
In 1828 Congress designated the land that would become Oklahoma as Indian Territory. White settlers were required to leave, and a number of tribes from the East and South were forcibly moved into the area from their ancestral lands. Chief among these were the Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole - who allied themselves with the South during the Civil War. Following the war, the US government looked upon these tribes as defeated enemies. This animosity combined with increasing pressure to open up the Indian Territory to white settlement prompted the first land rush in 1885, a second followed in 1889.

By the time of the Oklahoma land rush of 1893, America was in the grip of the worst economic depression it had ever experienced. This was one of the factors that swelled the number of expectant land-seekers that day. Many would be disappointed. There were only 42,000 parcels of land available - far too few to satisfy the hopes of all those who raced for land that day. Additionally, many of the "Boomers" - those who had waited for the cannon's boom before rushing into the land claim - found that a number of the choice plots had already been claimed by "Sooners" who had snuck into the land claim area before the race began. The impact of the land rush was immediate, transforming the land almost overnight.

Oh, it doesn't stop there.

What about OU (ch)'s fight song, "Boomer Sooner"?
It was written in 1905 by Arthur M. Alden.
And it's a stolen version of Yale's "Boola Boola", written in 1900 by Yale student Allan M. Hirsh.
I wonder if the University of Oklahoma has to pay royalties to Yale every time it's played?

So basically, OU (ch) is a bunch of cheaters and thieves.

OU cannon at the stadium make anything UCA has ever done at Estes seem like a firecracker......