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Ice dreams Hockey not football a big part of Sooner quarterback's childhood

ARAM BOGHOSIAN / Tulsa World

By GUERIN EMIG, World sports writer
Published: 8/24/2008 2:31 AM
Last Modified: 8/24/2008 4:33 AM

Sam Bradford

He may play like he's been groomed to quarterback the Oklahoma Sooners all his life. But it's simply not true.

Fact is, Sam Bradford didn't even commit to football until his junior year at Putnam City North. He was too immersed in all those other sports to do so. Basketball, golf, swimming, hockey.

That's right, hockey.

"Every day, I used to watch 'The Mighty Ducks' before I'd go to bed," said Bradford, OU's sophomore starting quarterback from Oklahoma City.

"I'd wake up the next morning, look in the paper and see how the (Vancouver) Canucks were doing, see if they were going to make the playoffs."

The pictures in the Bradford home tell the story. Sam's dunking a ball in a swimming pool in one. He's about to smack a football down a fairway, wearing a basketball uniform, in another.

In the garage of his Norman house? A pingpong table.

Bradford's dad may have played football for Barry Switzer in the 1970s. But it was never any master plan for his son to follow suit.

"He was real cool," Sam said. "He always wanted me to be happy and do what I wanted. He never cared if it was football. Just as long as I was having fun, he supported me." By GUERIN EMIG, World sports writer

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