Oklahoma Announces Unveiling Date For Baker Mayfield Statue, Football Fans Have Jokes

Oklahoma Soon To Unveil Baker Mayfield Statue Football Fans React

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  • The Oklahoma Sooners will be unveiling a new Baker Mayfield statue on April 23.
  • It will take place at the team’s spring game at Gaylord Family–Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.
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The University of Oklahoma announced this week that the Sooners’ 2022 Spring Game will be held on Saturday, April 23. The athletics department also reminded fans that it will also be the day that the school unveils their new Baker Mayfield statue at Gaylord Family–Oklahoma Memorial Stadium.

Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield statue was originally supposed to be completed by the spring of 2020, but was delayed by the pandemic.

“I’m a Sooner for life and incredibly grateful for all of the success my teammates and I had at OU,” Mayfield said about the honor. “It’s humbling and surreal to think about having a statue in iconic Heisman Park. I can’t wait to be back in Norman and reunite with the most passionate fans in college football.”

Mayfield follows coach Bob Stoops, who was the last Sooner great to get a statue at the 2018 spring game.

Future statues planned will be for Kyler Murray and the Selmon brothers Lee Roy, Lucious and Dewey. Murray’s statue was originally supposed to be completed by spring 2021 and the Selmon brothers’ by fall 2021.

Baker Mayfield joins other Oklahoma Sooners who won the Heisman in getting a statue

Mayfield, the sixth of seven Sooners to win a Heisman Trophy, will be the sixth player to receive a statue at the stadium. Previous honorees were Billy Vessels, Steve Owens, Billy Sims, Jason White and Sam Bradford.

“We were quickly reminded about how incredibly passionate our fan base is, and we truly appreciate that unbridled enthusiasm – it’s one of the many things that makes OU Football so special,” new head coach Brent Venables said about his time in Norman. “I can’t wait to see that passion on display on April 23rd.”

Not everyone was quite as excited, especially with the prospect of Baker Mayfield getting his own statue.

For the record, Mayfield’s statue will go in a location named Heisman Park, so they kind of had to give him one.