A while back we made use of this thing called the internet to report back to family and friends about our trip to an Oklahoma football bowl game. Posting our fun on the internet was easier than sending a bunch of emails.

That evolved into an annual thing, and then, during football season, a weekly thing. And as things are want to do, they become things that get out of hand. And before long we put a name to it and called it Soonerguys.com.

As the Sooners begin their new adventure into the SEC, this year also marks the 26th year of our website. (And yes, in the beginning it was on AOL. And no, I do not still have a flip phone.)

Today we also have a Facebook page, soonerguys.com, and we are on Twitter, @soonerguys (where the rants can really flow during OU football broadcasts — which reminds me I need to delete some of the improvident posts).

My dear old law partner (and devout Sooner) Gary Chubbuck would introduce me to his friends and other lawyers not as his business associate but rather the guy who runs Soonerguys. After all, anyone can try a lawsuit, but it takes something extra to share your fanaticism on the internet to be archived for posterity on some NSA server.

(Gary once wrote a column for the site providing an analysis of play calling from an engineering perspective. I’m not sure I understood it, but it got a lot of clicks).

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