Want to know how much time I spend/waste on YouTube? Too much. Too much time. I'll type in "Oklahoma football" and watch videos for hours. Highlights of every season since 1999. Great plays. Top moments. Then maybe I'll search "Kevin Durant" and watch 18 highlight mixtapes made by people. Then whenever it finally wraps up, I typically end with watching this. I don't even want to think how many times I've watched that.
Over however long I've wasted looking at videos, I've relived some great moments. And lived a lot of them for the first time. My dad always told me about how cool Patrick Collins bow was against Nebraska, but I had never seen for myself. YouTube gave me that chance. I'd heard how unreal Scott Hill's hit on Tony Dorsett was, but I'd never seen it. Now I have.
There are moments and clips in Oklahoma sports history that need to be documented, that need to be brought to one place. So I decided to do exactly that. Waste an ungodly amount of time hunting YouTube for the best, the most interesting, the most classic or just the coolest Oklahoma sports vidoes out there. Now I'll confess, I'm an OU alum and fan. Of course I'm partial to my university. But don't misunderstand, I can be bipartisan when it comes to great moments. Nobody loves Barry Sanders more than me, except for maybe my OSU friend Cooks who I think has a Barry blow up doll.
Yeah it's long. Yeah there are a bunch of links. Nobody says you have to read it all right now. Take a little bite of it now and come back for more later. It's not going anywhere. I'm sure I missed one or two or 15 really good ones. Such is life with a list. Regardless of my failings, here are what I consider to be the top 35 Oklahoma sports YouTube clips (in no order). Some funny, some crazy, some goosebump-inducing. All awesome.
1. The Bedlam Brawl
Two things: 1) How about that svelte Robert Allen? 2) How about the way Darren Cox gets worked by Bobby Purna? He looked like Vitor Belfort driving his man back to the cage and laying haymaker after haymaker on him.