The passing of a long-time Sooner friend
Bob Barry, Sr. had his roller travel bag and was waiting for the charter bus to come carry him and the team from the Westin hotel to Paul Brown Stadium.
It was a few hours before the Sooners were to play the Cincinnati Bearcats. Hunter and I had just been visiting Sooner great Greg Pruitt at the alumni club’s pre-game rally inside the hotel when we walked out to find the university entourage standing curbside.
There was Barry, the voice that had first introduced me to Pruitt some 40 years before, when the Oklahoma wishbone was tearing up Owen Field with enormous rushing and scoring.
“Pitch to Pruitt…down the sideline, at the 40, 30, 20….10, 5, touchdown Oklahoma!” was often the call from Barry on those Saturday afternoons.
