John’s son, Johnny, kept the Sooner flame lit for his son, Doyle, who named his son Shae.

“I started following (OU) as a kid and stayed interested all the way through,” he said. “My grandfather’s house was filled with OU stuff and I have been a fan ever since I was old enough to watch college football.”

Farmer has his wife, Kimberly, to thank for his one shining Sooner moment. She’s the one who signed up to receive athletic e-mail notices on OU’s athletics Web site. Through one of those notices, called “Boomerblasts,” she learned of an online auction, the winner to attend the spring game on the sidelines and, for one offensive series, don the headset and call the plays from above.

Farmer had to fork over $2,900 for the opportunity, but needed only one play to find the end zone.

Upon hearing the play, Wilson told Farmer it might not work, the last three times the offense had set in the alignment, the defense had set up to blitz. But when Bradford came to the line, he had a feeling he was about to link up with Gresham.

“The coverage they were in told us,” he said.

Likewise, not long after the snap, Farmer had a pretty good idea his play was going to work.

“We saw it opening up and said, ‘Please, catch it.’” he said, “because we had a touchdown.”

The moment wasn’t lost on Wilson, either.

“I said, ‘Hey, you’re going to take my job here,’” he said.

Such a smashing success, Farmer stuck around in the press box for the second quarter. He not only saw how Wilson and the offensive coaches interact through game-type conditions, but had Wilson explaining it directly to him as they went along.

“I fuss at them sometimes on the couch, you know,” Farmer said. “But it’s a whole different experience up there.”

But how hard can it be?

Guy shows up all the way from Georgia, calls his play and the Sooners go the distance.

Clay Horning