A victory lap for our voice of the Sooners
Mike’s Blog
Somewhere in my closet is a box of cassette tapes which contain OU football radio broadcast recordings of those amazing early years of Oklahoma’s wishbone offense. It was very important for me — at age 12 and 13 — to make sure I hit the red record button at precisely the right moment when the Oklahoma Football Radio Network hit the air each Saturday.
The voice on those recordings and the voice that brought Sooner football to most of Oklahoma — long before anyone envisioned an ESPN or Fox Sports or other television that assured the Sooners would be on the tube every weekend — was Bob Barry, then sports anchor of WKY-TV and the man Bud Wilkinson hand-selected in 1961 to do the Sooner radio play-by-play.