Larry "Hollywood" Birdine
Published: 9/6/2006 7:45 PM
Last Modified: 9/6/2006 7:45 PM
Boisterous, talkative and insightful Sooner defensive end Larry Birdine and I sat down one on one for a five-minute question and answer session Tuesday after practice.
You can read most of the conversation in Thursday's Tulsa World on the Sooner Extra page. It's a Q&A that gets you, the reader, a little closer to the players for whom you're cheering.
Birdine's most introspective response – to the question, "what's your favorite movie?" – can only be found right here:
Tulsa World: What's your favorite sports movie and why?
Larry Birdine: "The Program." Just the whole scenes of them going through two-a-days and the different lives that everybody had. They had one guy trying to make the team and he was on steroids. They had a football player that wasn't so smart, but he could play football – and it got serious when he got hurt and his career ended. And then you had the quarterback dealing with the Heisman hype. Those things really, to this day, incorporate the college athlete. I'm sure there's guys somewhere that try to cheat with steroids, and I'm sure there are guys that struggle a lot in their studies. And there's always somebody that can't deal with Heisman hype.
– John E. Hoover
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