The Pride of Oklahoma played “Boomer Sooner” a whopping 924 times this OU football season. Environmental engineering senior Jennifer Salvo kept count all semester long and tweeted about it Dec. 3 after OU's 38-20 Bedlam victory.
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She said it’s a tradition for her mellophonium section.
“Last year, my band director put it on his Facebook page and it got, like, Reddit famous. So this year, I put it on my Twitter and it blew up,” Salvo said.
Salvo’s tweet has gotten at least 61 retweets and 133 likes. The Dallas Morning News also reported on Salvo's count.
She said she expects the band to play the song 1,000 times by the time the Sugar Bowl against Auburn is over. Last season, the band played it a total of 948 times.
“We’ll probably play it about 10 to 15 times for practice, and then I would expect at least 60 times during the game. That will run us up to 1,000. Even if we’re close, I’m pretty sure our drum major would purposely play it more to get to 1,000,” she said laughing.
The band hasn’t played "Boomer Sooner" 1,000 times since she's been in it, she said.
“I think it’s at a high number this year, honestly. Because last year, it got such a high number,” Salvo said. The band has been trying to play the song more times than usual, she said.
“It doesn’t feel like that many times," she said. "I could definitely do more."
