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Tommy McDonald: the man without a facemask

Tommy McDonald. (Oklahoman archive photo)

Tommy McDonald, perhaps Bud Wilkinson’s greatest Sooner football player, died Monday. I interviewed McDonald before his 1998 Pro Football Hall of Fame induction, which I attended in Canton, Ohio. I wrote about McDonald on Monday, which you can read here.

Tuesday, I got an email from Sam Muzny of Prague. Muzny was a Sooner football player in the 1970s who later became a KOCO-TV videographer and occasionally writes me about his OU days. This time, Muzny wrote me about his Channel 5 days and his experience with McDonald. I thought you would enjoy it:

“In 1988, shooting the KOCO series, ‘The Run Of '89!