Charitable donors beware: a door-to-door fundraising effort claiming to benefit the university’s marching band is not affiliated with OU, the band director said.

[…] A south Oklahoma City woman has filed a police report after giving a donation to a solicitor who told her the “Sooner Marching Band” was headed to the Olympics to play on behalf of OU, according to a press release.

The woman said she was asked to write her check to the Rick Allen Fulfilment Agency.

If you see or hear of such contemptible behavior, please do as this woman did and alert the police. Believe me, if The Pride were going to London to play, you’d have heard about it here many, many months ago!

In there, you’ll find an invitation for all dues-paying members to participate in the Red and White Game on Saturday, April 14.  How would you like to play your horn at an OU Football game from the Pride’s seats in the stands again?  Both current Pride members and OUBAA members will sit together in Section 29 to cheer on both squads for this annual scrimmage, which shall not be televised.  We have lunch if you want it, we have guest tickets for just $5, so make it a family outing!

To pay all your fees for this online (dues are per calendar year, so paying your 2012 dues now means they’re not due again for Homecoming 2012, which we currently expect to be sometime in the fall of 2012, conference alignment permitting), just click over to our online payment page.  (Or download the newsletter, write a check, and mail it in for a small discount—the choice, as always, is yours—but we think the online payment system via PayPal is pretty nifty so far.)

We’ll unlock the rah-rah music for registered attendees in a week or two if you need a copy. But food, football, section 29, inexpensive—what’s not to like? Register today!

Anyway, you can now pay your 2012 dues online. Members who are paid up in their 2012 dues can, this year, for the first time, participate in the annual Oklahoma Football Spring Game, better known to all of us as The Red and White Game. Dues-paying members will have an opportunity to bring their instruments back to Owen Field and play with current Pride of Oklahoma members to cheer on the student athletes, meet up with former players, and have lots of fun!

Details when they’re available, but the payment page is now open again for 2012 dues (that’s the only item on there, as that’s all we’re accepting right now), so take a few moments to get the opportunity to cheer on spring football! The game will not be televised, so if you want to see it, you’ll want to be in the stands—and if you’re in the stands, shouldn’t you be playing Boomer? Of course you should!