BCS National Championship: OU quarterback Sam Bradford inspiration to American Indians

NORMAN — In a packed gym at Carnegie High School near the Kiowa tribal headquarters in the middle of Oklahoma, school officials were forced to delay the tipoff of the boys’ basketball game for 10 minutes.

OU quarterback Sam Bradford is 1/16th Cherokee but is officially a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. AP PHOTO

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Howls and hugs spread through the gym before the home team even put up a shot. News that Oklahoma quarterback Sam Bradford had just won the Heisman Trophy jolted the place.

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