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(NewsOK) Sad Legendary voice for the Oklahoma Sooners, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Bob Barry Senior has died   (newsok.com) divider line 22
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ArkAngel [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 02:18:24 PM
That death was juuuuuuuuust a bit outside
 
basemetal [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 02:40:12 PM
Shiat, that makes me sad. I mean, he wasn't the best broadcaster the last couple of years, age has that affect, but he was a legend.

/John Brooks was better IMOHO
//Toby is doing okay this year
///RIP Bob Sr
 
rmoose
2011-10-30 02:51:18 PM
He was a very nice guy. His demeanor off the air was the same as when he was behind a camera or microphone.
 
TheOther
2011-10-30 03:03:59 PM

OU losing to TT was bad enough.

TT then getting curb-stomped by Iowa St this week killed him.

hairtransplant-info.com

R.I.P Barry
 
7th Son of a 7th Son
2011-10-30 05:01:50 PM
This really sucks. As a lifelong Oklahoman, I used to listen to him back in the 80s when I was a kid. I'd turn down the sound on the TV & listen to Bob. Sure, he wasn't as sharp recently as back in the day, but in the 80s there wasn't a play-by-play announcer who IMO was better at it. R.I.P. Announcer man.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 05:06:28 PM
There better be a Nebraska-Oklahoma BCS match up in his honor.

/Nebraska fan
//And if there's a god, it will a Nat'l Championship game.
 
preciousmetal
2011-10-30 05:08:03 PM
video man: There better be a Nebraska-Oklahoma BCS match up in his honor.

/Nebraska fan
//And if there's a god, it will a Nat'l Championship game.

I think we both screwed that goose this year.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 05:29:48 PM
preciousmetal: video man: There better be a Nebraska-Oklahoma BCS match up in his honor.

/Nebraska fan
//And if there's a god, it will a Nat'l Championship game.

I think we both screwed that goose this year.

Watch as Boise State, Alabama, LSU, Stanford, Arkansas, OK State, and Oregon lose 3 games.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?
 
jimmyjackfunk
2011-10-30 05:42:54 PM
I submitted the headline, "Voice of Sooners dead at 80. Now if only the same thing will happen to the team's season"

Apparently someone had a problem with this.

/seriously though RIP big bob
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 05:48:28 PM
jimmyjackfunk: I submitted the headline, "Voice of Sooners dead at 80. Now if only the same thing will happen to the team's season"

Apparently someone had a problem with this.

/seriously though RIP big bob

Their season died just before he did. This IS the BCS, after all.
 
jimmyjackfunk
2011-10-30 05:54:39 PM
video man: jimmyjackfunk: I submitted the headline, "Voice of Sooners dead at 80. Now if only the same thing will happen to the team's season"

Apparently someone had a problem with this.

/seriously though RIP big bob

Their season died just before he did. This IS the BCS, after all.

Sad thing is he worked for KFOR and the other stations picked it up and put it on their facebook pages, etc., etc. before channel 4 did.
he was a good broadcaster, but in the later years, it was almost as bad as reading a tramel or carlson column in the Oklahoman, listening to him call play by play.
 
Hill_Lord
2011-10-30 06:32:26 PM
And it's 1st and 10 at the 50's Sooner yard line!
 
Pope Hemlock the Chaste
2011-10-30 06:39:43 PM
BAH GAWD KING!!!

Seriously, RIP. I was never much of a Sooners fan but losing a long-time voice for a team is a hard thing to go through.
 
The DBS
2011-10-30 07:27:58 PM
basemetal: Shiat, that makes me sad. I mean, he wasn't the best broadcaster the last couple of years, age has that affect, but he was a legend.

/John Brooks was better IMOHO
//Toby is doing okay this year
///RIP Bob Sr

The last couple of years? I moved here in 1995. He was hard to listen to even then. He might have been a great sportscaster at some point, but it was at some point before 1995.
 
preciousmetal
2011-10-30 07:37:13 PM
video man: preciousmetal: video man: There better be a Nebraska-Oklahoma BCS match up in his honor.

/Nebraska fan
//And if there's a god, it will a Nat'l Championship game.

I think we both screwed that goose this year.

Watch as Boise State, Alabama, LSU, Stanford, Arkansas, OK State, and Oregon lose 3 games.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?

Yes, but if God doesn't lift a finger to help a Tebow, I think we're out of luck.
 
video man [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 07:38:20 PM
preciousmetal: video man: preciousmetal: video man: There better be a Nebraska-Oklahoma BCS match up in his honor.

/Nebraska fan
//And if there's a god, it will a Nat'l Championship game.

I think we both screwed that goose this year.

Watch as Boise State, Alabama, LSU, Stanford, Arkansas, OK State, and Oregon lose 3 games.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES?

Yes, but if God doesn't lift a finger to help a Tebow, I think we're out of luck.

God frowns on the State of Florida.
 
preciousmetal
2011-10-30 07:39:02 PM
jimmyjackfunk: video man: jimmyjackfunk: I submitted the headline, "Voice of Sooners dead at 80. Now if only the same thing will happen to the team's season"

Apparently someone had a problem with this.

/seriously though RIP big bob

Their season died just before he did. This IS the BCS, after all.

Sad thing is he worked for KFOR and the other stations picked it up and put it on their facebook pages, etc., etc. before channel 4 did.
he was a good broadcaster, but in the later years, it was almost as bad as reading a tramel or carlson column in the Oklahoman, listening to him call play by play.

He wasn't that bad.....
 
Otto's_Jacket [TotalFark]
2011-10-30 07:40:15 PM
Wow. Like some of you I grew up watching KFOR and listening to him do play-by-play...a serious legend in broadcasting.


/broadcaster
//OU grad
///RIP Bob
 
Joker1773
2011-10-31 01:09:38 AM
Rest in Peace Broadcaster

Bring on Good ol JR Jim Ross!!
 
Rebort
2011-10-31 10:47:20 AM
I'm glad he got a great sendoff last year after his retirement. His voice will always be synonymous with Sooner football for me.

I'll miss ya, Big Bob
 
Duke Slater
2011-10-31 04:32:07 PM
Link (new window)


Here's a better article that talks about what kind of man he was, and the amazing history he was a part of.
 
bluorangefyre [TotalFark]
2011-10-31 05:05:37 PM
I know the guy just died, but there is one man who has said he'd step in if needed:

media.giantbomb.com

Make it so.
 
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