My favorite Sooner Football player, a hero

[l00p]

I read the below article in Sports Illustrated back in July of 2001. Bob Kalsu is a hero to me. There is a time when the team a person plays for or where they live is of no importance whatsoever. This is one of them, in my opinion.

Here is a paragraph from the article and below is the link. As a former Army Infantryman I would follow this man to battle any day of the week and ten times on Sunday.

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While in Vietnam, Kalsu rarely talked about his gridiron adventures. Word had gotten around the firebase that he had played for the Bills, but he would shrug off any mention of it. "Yeah, I play football," he would say. What he talked about—incessantly—was his young family back home. Jan knew her husband was somewhere "on a mountaintop" in Vietnam, but she had no idea what he had been through.

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The Link

 

[Brak]

That was a great story, thanks for sharing it.

 

[WorsterMan]

Wow, that story of Kalsu blew me away. I had tears in my eyes reading it - especially what Switzer saw at the funeral. Thanks for sharing the article. Kalsu is also my favorite Sooner.

 

[Macanudo]

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[Sooner-Tuf]

I remember him as a player and I knew he was killed in Vietnam. I didn't know all these details. Truly one of the most tragic stories I have ever read.

Thanks for posting this 100p.

 

[Austintxusa]

Damn. I haven't read that in years and it made me cry again.

RIP

 

[Texanne]

Only one Sooner could beat out Bob Kalsu as my favorite.

Darrell K. Royal.

What an amazing story about an amazing young man.