Remembering The Fallen Cowboys
by ccmachine on Jan 27, 2010 10:27 AM CST
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Nine year's ago today the Oklahoma State family was struck with disaster as 11 members of their basketball family were tragically killed in a plane crash while returning from Boulder, Colorado. The names of those killed are Kendall Durfey, Bjorn Fahlstrom, Nate Fleming, Will Hancock, Daniel Lawson, Brian Luinstra, Denver Mills, Pat Noyes, Bill Teegins and Jared Weiberg.
There are times when it is more than appropriate to set aside university bias, rivalry hatred and support an opposing fan base. This is one of those times. I'm a Cowboy for tonight and will be cheering for OSU as they host Texas A&M in Gallagher-Iba Arena. Ironically it was A&M's play-by-play announcer Dave South who was the lone play-by-play guy in the conference who refused to take Bill Teegins seat for a broadcast in honor of the late, great Cowboy broadcaster who perished in the crash. Announcers from the remaining ten conference schools, with Oklahoma's Bob Barry Sr. taking the first game after the crash, filled in to honor Teegins and broadcast OSU basketball for the remainder of the season. Just another reason to pull for the Cowboys tonight.
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Thanks so much
well written and well thought out.
CC I hope you don’t mind, but I copied this and pasted most of it on the OU Club of CO’s facebook page. If you want me to take it down let me know.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Denver-CO/OU-Club-of-Colorado/148402570852?ref=mf
"You have been banned from the Purple Row, for Inappropriate conduct, profanity, (&) telling site authors their articles are crap."
I don't often root for the school in Stillwater
But I’ll make an exception tonight. ccmachine, what was the reason Dave South gave for refusing to do the broadcast?
I Don't Remember The Reason (That was 9 years ago)
But I do remember that it wasn’t a good one and several of the broadcasters across the conference (as well as media) were a little irked at it.
Awesome post...
I too will be a Cowboy’s fan tonight and hope the pokes beat the hell outta A&M
Jared Weiberg.
I still vividly remember calling my elderly mother and telling her that the wonderful young man that she adored, who cut her grass, had died in this crash. He is missed by all who knew him. He IS the pride of Tonkawa, OK.
Tonight I too am a COWBOY, for Jared.
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