Emotion fills Sooners' Senior Day
OU crowd of 80,000-plus gives rousing sendoff to 11 in their final home game

 
By Blake Jackson
Published: November 12, 2006

Senior defensive ends Larry Birdine and C.J. Ah You shrugged off questions this week about the emotional impact of Senior Day in Norman.

"It's emotional, but I'm not going to cry or anything," Birdine said on Tuesday.

That's OK. Football players are bred that way.

But the same stoicism cannot be expected from their families, which joined Oklahoma 's 11 graduating seniors on the field before th...


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