My what-if series continued in the Thursday Oklahoman with the what-if on Troy Aikman. What if Aikman hadn’t suffered a broken ankle against Miami 35 years ago this October?
I have enjoyed writing this series – what if Darrell Royal had become the OU coach, what if Mickey Mantle had become a Dodger, etc. – and by the correspondence I’ve received, I believe the readers have enjoyed it, too.
Of course, these what-ifs are a rabbit hole. The what-if on Royal, for example, explains that there’s no Barry Switzer at OU. But I didn’t expound.