NORMAN — The Oklahoma City Thunder was set to make its pick in the NBA draft Thursday night when Lincoln Riley dropped his own version of a “Woj Bomb.” On an evening reserved for basketball, Riley seized a captive Twitter audience with a message Sooner football fans, even the ones obsessed with Thunder basketball, couldn’t ignore.
The eyes.
No words accompanied the emoji, but none are needed. Upright with a pair of black pupils peering to one side, the cartoonish eyes have become a tertiary logo behind the interlocking OU and the Sooner Schooner. It’s a symbol, even as a standalone tweet, that Sooner football fans don’t need interpreted.