This is my favorite party fact. "Boomer" refers to people who boomed into the Unassigned Lands during the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889. "Sooner" was the sneaky person who went in sooner than the legal time.
So, the school’s fight song is basically celebrating people who were a little bit rebellious. It’s like if your office cheered for the guy who microwaved popcorn two minutes before lunch. Except it’s a whole stadium of 86,000 people doing it, and it gives you chills.
The Quirky Tradition of the "Horns Down" Hand Signal
You will see students walking around with their hands making a “hook ’em horns” sign… then flipping it down. That’s for their biggest rival, the Texas Longhorns. It’s so popular that the conference actually fined the team for doing it too much.
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It’s the most polite, organized shade-throwing you will ever see. A simple hand gesture that says, “I respect you, but also, please lose.” Pure, wholesome pettiness.
