2007-01-01 06:48:49 · 10 answers · asked by Bill C 1 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
"The school's sports teams are called the Sooners, a nickname given to early Oklahoma land rush pioneers who sneaked into the offered territory and staked ..."
Good question...and yeah I didn't know this off-hand.
It's from Wikipedia.
2007-01-01 06:55:36 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
During the Oklahoma land grab everyone would line up and then when the start would signal they would all race to the land that they wanted to claim. Well the Sooners would go out the night before and stake out their claim and basically cheat they went too soon so they were called Sooners
2007-01-01 06:55:35 · answer #2 · answered by wyliefootball16 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the old west they had land grabs, people would race to see who could stake a claim to a piece of land first. This was an organized event.
Some people cheated and stuck on to a piece of land coming in a back way. These people were called sooners, because they got there sooner.
2007-01-01 06:50:56 · answer #3 · answered by shadouse 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
America opened up Oklahoma to settlers, however they opened it up as a race, that was supposed to start on one specific day. Sooners are people who cheated and chose their land before the date the US Govt had set aside as the date.
In other words, they got their sooner than they were supposed to.
2007-01-01 06:51:51 · answer #4 · answered by TexasChick 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-12-11 20:32:17 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's probably what they call a drunken Dallas Cowboy Fan trying to buy a used double wide, in down town "Mobilehoma".
2007-01-01 07:03:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
u have your answer and quite frankly its moronic for a state or a school to pride themselves by giving credence to cheaters.--sooners where cheaters
2007-01-01 07:01:45 · answer #7 · answered by george l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the oposite of a later!
2007-01-01 06:50:57 · answer #8 · answered by Homer Baby 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
A gay pirate.
2007-01-01 06:57:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
what every body else says
2007-01-01 06:55:17 · answer #10 · answered by TITANS FAN 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋