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OU continues fine tradition of honoring athletes with statues that look nothing like them…

11:00 AM EDT on April 25, 2022

We'd like to give a well-deserved attaboy to the greatest player to lead an OU football team this millennium!

This past weekend, Baker Mayfield had his legacy officially cemented on campus after the University of Oklahoma dedicated his bronze Heisman Park statue that looks nothing like him.

Here are the first pics from social media:

Naturally, the statue – which was apparently inspired by a 1950s comic brook interpretation of Warren Beatty playing Johnny Bravo – was panned by social media critics who were unaware that OU has a long and storied tradition of honoring its athletes with statues that look nothing like them.

For example, Sam Bradford's statue looks more like the famed bog body Tollund Man than the guy who flipped his way to the Heisman trophy – NFL #1 draft pick Sam Bradford: