My last post on the subject described a bar full of Sooner fans, but this time it is all about one man: my coworker Mike Fox.
Mike is a managing editor at National Journal who works with the environment and energy team.
Most days he is huddled at his cubicle in the corner running ideas with the likes of Coral Davenport or Amy Harder.
The latest Mike Fox moment was when our deputy editor Patsy Wilson realized that he had been operating without a Blackberry. She was shocked that he could do his job without one.
My how the times changed.
My opinion of Mike also changed when I discovered he was a Sooner fan.
And I mean big time Sooner fan. As I write this column, he is currently on a plane back from Norman, Ok., where he flew out for the weekend to catch Senior Night 2010.
I now feel like I cannot go a day without checking in with him about the latest Sooner scoop or figuring out how long he is really going to be in mourning after an OU football loss.
You can tell if we lost that weekend because he just looks sour. I am not even kidding, he looks like the kid who had his candy stolen from him.
Sooner fans are everywhere, and this one was right under my nose.
It took me about two months to figure out we were both such big fans and we worked not 50 feet away from one another. But that is the thing about Sooner fans, once you find each other, they make for the best comrades.
He will stand by my desk for 15 minutes just telling me stories about when he was in school at OU and the kind of shenanigans that went down.
Most interns are not so lucky. It makes the experience of being low on the totem pole pretty rewarding when a managing editor wants to sit and chat.
So while my internship had been once of the most exciting times in my life, I must say it got that much better when I met a fellow OU Sooner.
They say sports are too divisive and too competitive, but on the other hand maybe they are just what we need to bring people together?
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