2009.
I think a lot of people will look back on this past year, and have plenty of memories, but not ones we willingly hold on to.
Start with a Mortgage Crisis and a global economic collapse, and there wasn’t a ton of optimism for the final year of the decade. But there was plenty of sunshine coming off the election of Barack Obama as our nations 44th president, but with a lot of things that came into fruition this year, time will tell.
We became friends with words like Swine Flu, Octomom, and Pirates, but 2009 might be remembered for things we lost more than what we gained.
Locally Wayman Tisdale, Oral Roberts, and Walter Cronkrite touched the hearts of many Oklahomans. Entertainment lost faces of the 1980’s in Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Patrick Swayze, and John Hughes. The world lost greats like Edward Kennedy, Les Paul, Arturo Gatti, Harry Kalas, Paul Harvey, and various celebrities like Billy Mays, Ed McMahon, David Carradine, Chuck Daly, and Danny Gans.
The 2009 Sports landscape… yeeesh… From Bradford’s shoulder and Gresham’s knee to Free Dez and the Thunder’s rough first season, it was a tough year. But a lot of positive sparks were produced, including an OSU Cotton Bowl, the emergence of Oklahoma’s defense, Russell Westbrook, Thabo Sefalosha, James Harden, and Serge Ibaka becoming household names.
I don’t know what I will remember most from ‘09. But there are plenty to chose from, Carrie Prejean Controversy, Jerome Ersland and the Drug Store Shooting, Jessica Alba’s love of Sharks, U2 playing Norman, Obama’s Inaguration, MJ’s Death,…
2009 is over, and it was much better than 2008. 2010 could me something amazing… so lets see, and hope for the future!
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