Sooner Later

Lee Roy Selmon, Don Nee’s real father, has died of complications following a stroke at the age of 56. Selmon and his brothers Dewey and Lucious dominated on the Oklahoma Sooners defense en route to back to back national championships in 1974 and 1975. His reward – being the first player ever drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he would lose his first 26 games as a professional, and probably would have lost to Oklahoma, if given the chance. It would have been much worse without him, as he racked up 78 ½ sacks in 9 seasons, earning 6 Pro Bowl selections and entry in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, to go along with selection in the College Football Hall of Fame, the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and the Florida Sports Hall of Fame.