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Mike Gaddis Carried The Ball For The Sooners 20 Years Ago

Mike Gaddis made the All-Big 8 Conference team in 1991. courtesy
 
By GUERIN EMIG, World Sports Writer
Published: 7/17/2009  2:26 AM
Last Modified: 7/18/2009  9:56 AM
Correction: A Friday Tulsa World Sports story incorrectly reported the winner of the 1988 football game between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Oklahoma won the game 31-28. This story has been corrected.


Then: The last great running back of Oklahoma's Switzer Era, Mike Gaddis gave fans a glimpse of his potential in the 1988 Bedlam game. The freshman from Midwest City Carl Albert nearly upstaged Barry Sanders at Lewis Field that day, galloping for 213 yards and staking the Sooners to a 14-0 lead before Sanders ran for 215. OU held on for a 31-28 victory.

The following season, Gaddis raced for 274 yards against OSU, and another 130 against Texas as a sophomore. He also tore his ACL against the Longhorns, and though he rebounded enough to rush for 1,240 yards while making the All-Big 8 Conference team in 1991, he was never quite the same player again.

Now: "I just turned 40, which means I've been out of OU for 20 years. Crazy," said Gaddis, who has directed a Farmers Insurance office in Oklahoma City for the past 12 years. "But I'm enjoying 40. I'm enjoying post-athletics thanks to my kids."

Gaddis has two sons, 6-year-old Lunden and 2-year-old Roman. "My oldest is playing little league T-ball," he said. "I never played it, so I don't know much about it, but he really enjoys it. I signed him up in a basketball league at the Y, but I haven't put him in football yet. He may be a little athlete. He loves sports. I'm taking him down to the OU-BYU game this year. It will be his first one."

In the meantime, Gaddis celebrates a couple other milestones — his 15-year wedding anniversary with his high school sweetheart, and the 4-year anniversary of the kidney transplant he underwent thanks to his brother. "I'm very blessed," he said.

Then & now

Some of these names you'll know. Some you may not. This week, the Tulsa World will look at people who have made history in Oklahoma sports in their own way. The series will conclude with a special presentation on Sunday.

Today: Mike Gaddis
By GUERIN EMIG, World Sports Writer

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OUKW, TULSA (7/17/2009 7:34:30 AM)
beg your pardon: oklahoma won that game 31/28. sanders never beat ou. sorry.
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lovethemsooners, Fayetteville (7/17/2009 8:29:42 AM)
Ouch!! How could he get that one wrong?!
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Proverbs 16:18, (7/17/2009 9:32:59 AM)
We all make mistakes...but Geez, how do you screw that one up? OSU has only won 16 times in the entire series since 1904, so statistically speaking he missed the entire target on that shot.
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52favoriteteacher, Washburn--used to be Broken Arrow (7/17/2009 9:39:03 AM)
OSU this year tho..

GET READY

Boomer Sooners...
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Arbythree, Tulsa (7/17/2009 9:50:35 AM)
Unbelieveable!

I hope the other articles are researched better.
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Jayman7, Tulsa (7/17/2009 11:10:11 AM)
Give the guy a chance everybody makes mistakes.
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Few Clothes, Austin, TX (7/17/2009 10:05:58 PM)
Who gives a rat's ask?
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Arbythree, Tulsa (7/18/2009 9:48:26 AM)
Missed the clairification in today's paper on TW's error on the outcome of the 1988 Bedlam game.
 

 
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