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Fans celebrate late country music icon Toby Keith during Sooners opening game

University of Oklahoma fans celebrated the memory of legendary country music star and Sooner superfan Toby Keith during Friday’s season-opening football game.

Fans celebrate late country music icon Toby Keith during Sooners opening game

University of Oklahoma fans celebrated the memory of legendary country music star and Sooner superfan Toby Keith during Friday’s season-opening football game.

Here we run this land country to the open water, the schoolyards and the oil fields. This is our land where the dirt and the river run red. This is sooner country around here. We live for this. This is our home we were made for live around. There is only one daughter, Shelley and Crystal and grandchildren of Oklahoma's own. Tommy K the, the Crimson and Cream and the University of Oklahoma was his red, white and blue. Y'all think I was playing you. Oh Yeah. Yeah, he comes and for me. Yeah. Green black. See, tell me this may come back. Sorry, I got you messed with. That's Belfast. Here. Is this not? And it is going to be start in red 10. I.
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Fans celebrate late country music icon Toby Keith during Sooners opening game

University of Oklahoma fans celebrated the memory of legendary country music star and Sooner superfan Toby Keith during Friday’s season-opening football game.

University of Oklahoma fans celebrated the memory of legendary country music star and Sooner superfan Toby Keith during Friday’s season-opening football game.Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.Announced by university officials on Monday, a tribute to the late country superstar will happen during the breaks between the third and fourth quarters, “giving 85,000 fans the opportunity to sing along.” Keith's family took to the field during the celebration, saying the only thing he loved more than crimson and cream and the University of Oklahoma was his "red, white and blue.">> Download the KOCO 5 AppFriday night, thousands of fans at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium sang along to Keith's "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue" as the music video played on the stadium's giant screen, complete with a fireworks display.Watch the tribute to Keith in the video above. Top HeadlinesEndangered ‘ghost’ owls spotted in IowaHockey star Johnny Gaudreau and brother struck dead while riding bikes night before sister’s weddingRyan Walters issues guidelines for ‘patriotic displays’ at Oklahoma schoolsDallas police officer killed, 2 officers wounded and shooting suspect killed after chase, police sayOklahoma City metro business close to closing due to problem students

University of Oklahoma fans celebrated the memory of legendary country music star and Sooner superfan Toby Keith during Friday’s season-opening football game.

Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.

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Announced by university officials on Monday, a tribute to the late country superstar will happen during the breaks between the third and fourth quarters, “giving 85,000 fans the opportunity to sing along.”

Keith's family took to the field during the celebration, saying the only thing he loved more than crimson and cream and the University of Oklahoma was his "red, white and blue."

>> Download the KOCO 5 App

Friday night, thousands of fans at the Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium sang along to Keith's "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue" as the music video played on the stadium's giant screen, complete with a fireworks display.

Watch the tribute to Keith in the video above.


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