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Don’t You Know Who I Am?

9:31 AM EDT on July 24, 2007

My sister chose not to follow me to Oklahoma State University. Instead, she enrolled at the state's other Big XII school in the Fall of 2000. Then, after dealing with her sneering at any mention of the word football all through our youth, she suddenly became one of those Sooner fans who has always irked me when the school won a mythical national championship her freshman year. Anyway, I mention this only to explain why a member of my family would find themselves in the situation that I am about to relate.

As a Sooner fan, my sister tends to hang around other Sooner fans, and one night at a bar she was approached by "some short, old black guy." Using the greatest pick up line of all time, this guy demanded that she name the top-5 quarterbacks in OU history. She listed Josh Heupel, Jason White, and then basically blanked (not being raised in the Sooner lore). This guy asked her why she would not rank Jamelle Hollieway at the top. After explaining that she would not rank him as the University's greatest signal caller primarily because she had never heard that name before, the man became a little belligerent with her and eventually walked off. Soon thereafter, my sister's fiance returned from wherever he had wandered off. He pointed to the man she had recently spoken to (she thought randomly) and informed her, "that's Jamelle Hollieway over there."