Classic Tailback - Billy Sims Oklahoma Highlights
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- A compilation of some Billy Sims' collegiate highlights at the University of Oklahoma. After a quiet first 3 years in Norman, Sims exploded in his final 2 seasons, becoming an All-American both seasons and a Heisman winner in his last. Possibly the first (and last) tailback to try to take the ground game airborne.
The games I used to take the clips from can be found on Stephen Barnett's youtube channel (and there were a few other channels I used as well that you can find if you look around): / sbbarnett244896
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I will NEVER forget that play when JC Watts is falling to the ground, you think he'd down but he pitches to Sims who goes in for the touchdown! One of my favorite childhood memories!!!
I just love that you had the football savvy way back then. Not all girls get football!
Good thing for you and Oklahoma that there was no replay then, cuz that was clearly a forward lateral, but the refs (and the announcers) somehow missed it.
@@jeremycrandall2899 That's what I was thinking as I watched this. Definitely a forward lateral. But let's not let details get in the way of Sooner Magic ;)
@@ryankeller740Exactly 👊🏾
Mine too
Life was so good when we had just a few bowl games and they were all important and you could watch all of them on new years day!
I've always thought the bowl system was absurd all the way back to my childhood. A month off after the season? Playing against a random team in a southern city based on the backroom handshakes of fat cats? A completely subjective vote at the end to crown a mythical national champion? No thanks! Give me the playoffs so it can be decided on the field. Bowl games are being put in their proper place these days. They're glorified exhibitions.
Billy Sims was one of the greatest Running Backs I've ever seen in Collegiate Football still to this day . Powerful & Speed
Remember when Nebraska was a powerhouse like OU, and the OU/Nebraska games were the biggest games in the country?
Sure miss those days.
Ohhhhh Yessss
I lived in omaha in late 60's and am satisfied the winds have changed...after all nebraska is a racist red state. Those young black athletes going elsewhere was a start..but why LSU, why alabama? They are klan states and I encourage them to reassess their collective craziness and attend less racist states elsewhere
Yes, and on how Nebraska and Oklahoma played each other in the 1979 🍊 Orange Bowl Classic also an anomaly
Original after Thanksgiving weekend football games;; college 🏈 schedule way too long plus college playoff it a total joke;;
@@nkel6111This is you: 🤡
I truly wish this man's pro career was a few years longer. What a joy to watch.
that pitch from watts to sims in the fsu game was epic! i remember it like it was yesterday!
Damn you old! Hahaha and so am I bc I remember it too!
We are not old we are "well seasoned" lol
I remember sports illustrated with Billy simm and Charles white on the cover with the Heisman trophy in their hand, Billy simm was the man of college football, love for the Detroit lions too
Watts to simms with Keith Jackson calling the play. Legendary
Dalton Mann...That play just Blew my mind as a 13 year old kid seeing JC Watts pitch the ball back to sims inches away from hitting the ground.I have been a life long Sooner Fan since.
Sims was a badass!
Milo The Dangerous billy sim and Charlie white with Heisman trophy in their hands
So fluid, great spins, and booms out of the back. Miss Keith Jackson’s voice.
Nobody was a better college football 🏈 pairing than the incomparable Kieth Jackson and Frank Broyles...jes' a couple of good ole Georgia boys...
Just had some Billie Simm's BBQ last night!
It was delicious.
God I miss the days when great teams were built around the ground game! Passing is fine, and I guess that makes for more exciting games for today's fans. But to me there's nothing more fun to watch than hard-hitting, grueling rushing offenses.
Was lucky enough to see him play in person three straight years in three different states. What a player!
Gotta love that wishbone
Jaree Cokley i miss It , how about Murray running it next year, i will settle for zone read
Ross Wood Inconceivable in modern college football
Mick Funny mmm wishbone, yes , but i clearly stated ZONE READ
Go Lions
Nobody could stop our wishbone espechilay wit billy sims
Absolutely amazing and wonderful to watch Billy Sims in his prime. What a beautiful edit and video for all of us who remember one of the best running backs of all time!
2:45 -- Watch the great block by Kenny King.
Billy Sims,the original high stepper on college ball....I remember watching him as a kid, tge sooner were like a train at full speed....you just couldn't open them....When Sims wS drafted by the lions he immediately made an impact....does anyone remember when the lions started winning they played the song another one bites the dust by Queen....they were on their way to winning, then he got hurt....imagine all those years of playing football, then your beginning pro years you get a career ending injury.....he definitely would have been an all time great and HOF.
I could watch footage of the old wishbone all day long. Great times.
jobu88 me too, i love wishbone offense
Yep it just isn't the same with only the Service Academies running🏃it these days'/!!! Loved how the the Old Big 8 teams played the Florida schools in the Orange Bowl on New Years Nite'/!!! It was all about the contrasts of offensive schemes Run vs Pass'/!!! Don Criqui's calls were epic just like Keith Jackson's'/!!!
❤️ wishbone offense late 1970s& oklahoma& billy sims
Billy Sims running back and Billy Sims BBQ both excellent!
Restaurant, got still one in metro detroits
It's a shame that injury cut his career so short...
I think it was in Minnesota Vikings stadium he got hurt
@@lloydkline7245 the accursed, built on an Native burial ground, MetroDome. The place claimed the careers of many a great players, college and pro. Tony Bowles of Michigan was a Heisman contender his senior until he played there. He said the place was like playing in the middle of the street.
My dad has told me this story hundreds of times. He was in the same science class at Oklahoma with Billy when the local news came in and informed him about being on the some finalist list in college football. When they interviewed Billy, he thanked all the people who helped him get to where he was, including his teachers. The teacher heard him, turned to Billy and said "Im just glad you showed up to class today Billy".
Amazing Billy Sims!
That just might be the best thumbnail on TH-cam
I am not from Oklahoma but as a kid I remember Steve Owens and Billy Sims being right up there with OJ as my favorite running backs.
Billy's the reason I've been a Sooner fan for 45years now!
The best video ever!!
Many respects and thanks!
Long live the Greatest ...Billy Sims!
there were only 3 plays in the Oklahoma playbook. Sims up the middle,Sims around the right and Sims around the left.A quote of his spoken truly.
I know this a Billy Sims highlights , but look at the oline! That explosion off the line of scrimmage is deadly
Just a great back! Kudos to the 1978 Heisman Trophy winner.
Man the Big 8 was awesome!
OH , BILLY, BILLY BILLY!!!....watching you explode outta that Oklahoma wishbone T..is my favorite sports moments...and those Sooner backs..will gallop through my memories until I'm no more...
Best back I've ever seen.
When Sims was running with the football, that was the definition of smooth...
Roger Crawford Then you need to watch highlights of ERIC DICKERSON
Dwight Love everyone has a different definition of smooth. SMU was robbed of a championship when the pony express was running wild.
@@rogercrawford8372 Yes point taken Dickerson at 6-3 220 it amazed me at how he made it look effortless playing the position of RB.
That burst of speed and power was amazing
Man, that was some beautiful football.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but Billy Sims win the Heisman Trophy in 1978. Charles White of USC won it in 1979.
Well, I'll be darned! You are correct! Sorry about that mistake.
PockyCandy that is true but the votes were tallied with 3 regular games and a bowl game not played yet. I believe Billy had close to 1000 yards in those 4 games. He ended up destroying the numbers Charles White had.
+randy botts "destroying" Charles White's numbers NEVER EVER happened!!! In '79 Billy Sims had 1500+ yds to Charles White 1800+, thus the Heisman! By the way, White had over 1800yds in '78 and '79! When Billy won the Heisman he was at around 1700yds!
I did some internetting and I stand corrected, in 12 games CW actually had over 2000 yards! The info I was given back in the day was wrong. That was understood to be BS close to 1900 yards to CW close to 1600 including bowl games.
I will say that if I were an NFL scout at the time watching them both play, I would have picked Billy over Charles, but I was a fan of Billy Sims so that may not be a fair statement either.
Sims was incredible during his Oklahoma years.
I was a young child when Sims was terrorizing Big 8 defenses. I've always thought about him as a speedy, elusive back: the cuts, the spins. But watching these highlights I'm impressed by his power. He had it all.
Lions fan here. Still remember Billy's first game in the NFL like it was yesterday.
'70s college football Keith Jackson Frank Broyles I believe, Oklahoma Sooners , Billy Sims and The Wishbone. That's the epitome
I just bought some Billy Simms barbecue sauce...it was awesome!
So much fun to watch. Full speed by his 3rd stride...
I shook Billy's hand at an autograph session in OKC. In 2001, I thought I was shaking hands with a statue. His arms were like iron.
I'm a born and bred HUSKER fan and we've had alot of great great players and running backs, Billy Sims was is my favorite running back.
Sims was great. He created a lot of great memories for me at a time when I was just starting to understand and enjoy OU football. But no one will ever convince me that wishbone QB's aren't the toughest players in football history. Watch what happens on nearly every pitch - the QB gets blasted and they're basically defenseless. Amazing.
Jack Mildren started it all with Greg, Leon. JC, Steve, Jamielle, Thomas Lott. OU for real.
Watching Billy makes want to nick name him, "high flying Billy Sims". At times he seems to jump into the air to get past defenders instead of digging in low. At other times he shows lightning quick feat when contacted by defenders. It is an attribute other then his running speed, it is unique. All great backs seem have shared attributes, speed/strength/spin move/balance/stop on a dime-full speed again, plus a few unique to them. Billy fits that mold. Sorry to read about failed business ventures many years ago leading to bankruptcy, very glad to read he is doing well now with a chain of restaurants. If I had one in my area I would go. These players put their bodies on the line to offer us sport to watch and at the cost of moving on with other potentially lucrative careers in other area's. I hope you are doing well Billy, you gave it all to us on the field.
Barry Switzer called him the man who thinks he can fly
I’ve said it before and will say it again, Sooners vs Huskers, best respectable, hard-hitting, talented (both sides), and rivalries that’ll ever be; 1970s thru 1990s.
The MOST UNDERRATED RB. EVER!!! As a 7 year old kid watching him was a bundle of joy and very enjoyable to watch his runs ( especially vs Oilers, lol) He represented that #20 as the main guy of that # and Barry Sanders and Natrone Means DID LOOK UP TO HIM when in HS of sporting his # (( Detroit insisted Sanders wear #20 and respected it......
2:24 OMG look how fast those runners were off the snap of the ball.
electrifying
Billy Sims had so many good runs, far better than most of those shown here.
These are the only ones I could find on youtube.
What I liked about the video is that almost all clips were against goods teams, and still he had a of of big plays.
I'm glad you liked the video still. It actually annoyed me that there isn't more footage of him available, because I would love to have all 11 games of his Heisman season to make a video from.
Best option play ever @ 6:06 of this video. JC WATTS TO THE MAN...BILLY SIMS
Todd Pierson close to a forward lateral
i read the comments first but already knew exactly which run you were talking about !!! SO SWEET !!!
Sims won the Heisman in 1978, his junior season. He and Charles White were considered the favorites the following season, and White wound up winning it.
Billy should have won it again
As an 11yr. old watching Sims turned me into Sooners fan for 45 years!
Billy was a great tailback
Lit up the NFL for a few years too, for a poor team and paid the price
Very exciting runner
Detroit Lions, where heisman winners got to die: Owens, Sims, and Sanders (no title).
THE BEST OKLAHOMA RUNNING BACK
EVER I MEAN EVER
Not a Oklahoma fan. But love Billy Sims. He’s my all time favorite football player. I was fortunate to watch the 1980 classic on tv at my aunts house as I was in route from Tampa to San Juan. And that Orange 🍊 bowl classic was special! At Halftime KC and the Sunshine Band rock the house by playing “Boogie Shoes” and ‘Give it Up” Billy Sims was magnificent! He ran all over the Seminoles. FSU didn’t stand a chance against the powerful running game the Sooners had. Billy Sims was a one man wrecking crew!
Husker here. Billy Sims was the scariest player Nebraska ever faced. Forcing fumbles was the only way to stop him
Big HOMER.
The pride of Hooks Texas.
6:08 This is how the outside veer was made to look like, pure beauty!
Wishbone.
The great one
I remember the good 'ole days of the Wishbone. NOBODY ran it like the Sooners did and Sims was as good a runner as I've ever seen.
Thomas Lott was good at it…
The info up top is wrong. He won the Heisman as a Junior and stayed at OU for his Senior year. That year he placed second in the Heisman voting.
Pretty sure it was Frank Broyles who said of Sims: ‘The strength of Earl Campbell, and the speed of Tony Dorset’!
I could watch the old wishbone all day long. Great time to be a Sooner fan.
I once had a notion to make an hour-long video showing highlights of the Oklahoma wishbone. Maybe I'll still make that video in the future.
6:05 Clearly a forward lateral, by about a yard, but no replay at that time of course.
He is the reason I am a diehard OU fan from east Texas
Texas also ran the bone. They had a 5 10 230lb back who was ok. Not the quick 3 steps like sims but i remember him taking a pitch turn the corner a hurdle a guy 10 yrds later. I think his name was Campbell. Bone also had cribbs from auburn,, andrews,brooks,james. Ucla veer owens,, wendell tyler a tough little shit. Theotis brown.
Awesome
Its great to hear Keith Jackson, Sims had greatest career at OU at RB
wishbone thing of beauty. wish some how it could return
I agree. You definitely have to be in the right system in order to flourish especially in today's league.
The years of astro turf took its toll on his knees....I still consider him the best OU Sooner RB Ever!!!! He has some good BBQ too!!!!! #boomersooner
Tee Bizz There were other running backs at OU? RUN, BILLY, RUN!!
Crazy Runner!
Simms was the coolest running back his style
Billy sims was a good back..He could've rushed for twice as many yards in a i formation 💯
I think that if you have a great tailback, you should either put him in the I-formation, or you should put him in Gus Malzahn's 'spread' offense.
He was an all time great running back.
Good? This cat was all-time!
Billy took FULL hits...unlike Marcus Allen who seemingly never took a square on shot...FULL hits shorten carrers see Earl Campbel
Funny watching Oklahoma running the Wishbone all over Texas, who's coach Darrell Royal invented it.
billy sims had the rare combo of power, speed and agility. similar to bo jackson.
Classic! Simms! Damn!
The sounds of Saturday afternoon.
Just think, Billy Sims at that time in Sooner Lord was one of many great running backs at OU. Most of the highlights were from Nebraska and Texas games because TV limit the viewing of teams back in the day. JC Watts later on became a Republican Congressman for Oklahoma.
Billy Sims!
College coaches, except at AFA and Navy, can't recruit to a wishbone offense; too bad, when it's run to perfection like this was, it's a thing of beauty and difficult to stop.
Back when the run was the king
No better play than the Lead up the middle from the wishbone….
The Great One, Go Sooners!!!🏈🏈🏈
THIS IS WHY IM A OU FAN,JC WATTS,BILLY SIMS,AND THE WISHBONE
Sims should have had two trophies in 19 78....... the Heisman Trophy and the national championship trophy.
Unfortunately, the only thing a lot of people remember about Sims was the fumble vs. Nebraska in '78 when he was going in for the go-ahead, and possibly, winning TD. My grandfather (Mom's dad) had a decopage of Charlie Brown after a loss (baseball game) and Snoopy and Lucy are standing on the ground, staring up @ him, giving him dirty looks. The thought cloud above Charlie Brown's head says, When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no on forgets!! Human nature. I've been through Sims hometown (Hooks) in East Texas, going to my aunt (dad's sister) in Louisiana. Never met him, but I've heard good things. Another OU running back a lot of people feel should have won the Heisman, at least once, is Joe Washington. Because of the '74 television ban, no one got to see him play. My nephew Robert has met him, I think my brother has, too. Very nice man, I've heard. Peterson should've won it, too. If it hadn't been for Leinart & Bush @ USC. I didn't think Jason White would win it, after that Big 12 Championship loss to K-State. They need to make another DVD about the OU Heisman winners, w/Bradford, Mayfield, & Murray included. I've always believed that the Heisman should be handed out AFTER the bowl games, including the National Championship, are over. Most of the time, the Heisman is the kiss of death. If someone asked me, "Who is the best OU player that won the Heisman? Tough one. 3 RBs, 4 QBs. Different eras. THANK YOU
i am proud to be a Sooner! what memories
I'll give Sims his credit, but that offensive line is pretty amazing itself. They.re three yards downfield before Sims ever gets the ball.
Me too 😊❤️
I miss Keith Jackson’s voice on Saturdays in the fall
that pitch at the last second is what makes an option qb a real option qb...........
I've been making these videos for 3 years now, and that play is still one of the coolest I've seen in a game.
Charles White USC won Heisman in 79 Sims in 78 even though I thought Sims would pull a Archie Griffin and go back to back
Everybody thought that. White couldn't touch Sims.
God damn he was fast
Runs hard no fear
Ou is my favorite team and Billy simes is great
This guy could never make it today. He doesn’t thump his chest or dance in the end zone or talk trash to his opponents….oh and he doesn’t pop up and signal first down either.
Pocky Candy can you find footage of I.M.Hipp from Nebraska please???
I'll look around and see what I can find.
+PockyCandy .. and Jarvis Redwine from Nebraska, he came after I.M. Hipp!
Damn! Going way back. I used to pretend I was him in the street at halftime. Coolest name ever!
@@PockyCandy Can you find footage of Doug Williams in his college days at Grambling.
@@dwightlove3704 I've tried to, but there's very little available. Noe even enough for a minute-long video.
Billy's 7.0 yards per carry (mostly as a Junior or Senior) was better than even OU's Adrian Peterson, and Auburn's Bo Jackson. Wow!
Pop quiz: Switzer sent Billy, by private jet, to recruit a high school player, and that player, as an OU FRESHMAN. averaged an incredible 8.5 yards per carry, putting Billy's numbers to shame. Can you name him?
Him being drafted by the sorry at that time Detroit Lions hurt his chances greatly from being a great NFL running back where as a very good team would've made him a bonifide star in the NFL !