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re: Most annoying chant?
Posted on 7/18/12 at 12:19 am to SemperAuburn
Posted on 7/18/12 at 12:19 am to SemperAuburn
quote:It has something to do with when America was young and they were staking claims on land. The people who cheated and left early to place flags were called sooners. I can't remember where the term boomer comes from.
WTF does this even mean? I mean I know what a sooner is. But where did the "boomer" come from? Some drunk just realized it rhymed one night?
My mom's an OU fan so I had to know this crap.
This post was edited on 7/18/12 at 12:19 am
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Posted on 7/18/12 at 1:09 am to Drewbie
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It has something to do with when America was young and they were staking claims on land. The people who cheated and left early to place flags were called sooners. I can't remember where the term boomer comes from.
My mom's an OU fan so I had to know this crap.
I got bored so I looked it up. [link=(Link)]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer_Sooner[/link]
"The lyrics in the first verse refer to the Land Run of 1889, in which the land around the modern university was settled.[2] Boomers were people who campaigned for the lands to be opened. Sooners were land thiefs who settled before the lands were opened, giving them an unfair advantage on finding, fencing, and claiming farm land. If the charge of early entry was proven, they would lose their claimed land."
And now the song seems even dumber now that I know the reasoning behind it.
This post was edited on 7/18/12 at 1:11 am
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