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Pickens’ Legacy Reverberates Even With Those He Never Really Knew

It might be an exaggeration to say that you would not be reading these words if not for Boone Pickens. But if it is, it’s not much of one.

An independent website primarily focused on Oklahoma State football would not have played well 20 years ago. Or 25 years ago. Or 35 years ago. Or 45 or really at any point other than that brief period of time when they let a goat run around Lewis Field in the late 1980s.

OSU was not good at the sport you need to be good at for an entity like this to exist.