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00:00 Of course Barry didn't want the MVP trophy. He's never really cared about accolades
00:05 He did the same thing at Oklahoma State after having the most magnificent season I have ever seen in my life
00:29 His dad, his heart was a Sooner, but he jumped he jumped on the wagon pretty quick once he saw Barry run at Oklahoma State
00:37 He's doing here, I wish you he just came out of nowhere
00:51 As
00:53 Far as the school rushing record free broke the record that Thurman set against Iowa State last year with 293
01:08 I was 300 and something
01:10 I thought
01:13 Barry Sanders the storybook here 24 NCAA records
01:20 We
01:22 Went into that season and all the hoopla and fanfare and Heisman talks involved Troy Aikman and me
01:30 Then you start to hear named Barry Sanders
01:33 He hated that notoriety. I mean he did not want to win the Heisman. I
01:38 Mean I heard him say that
01:41 He was hoping Rodney Peake got it
01:43 The Heisman trophy is the highest honor in college football
01:50 It's the biggest award you can get hands down I
01:54 Happen to be in Japan
01:57 During Heisman Trophy ceremonies as far as the team is concerned
02:00 I was there to play a game and it just so happened that the game was on the same day as the ceremonies
02:07 Oklahoma State scheduled that game not thinking they'd have a Heisman Trophy candidate
02:12 For some of Barry's sisters. It seemed like forever before the announcement was made
02:17 I
02:19 Can't take it
02:23 We didn't understand the magnitude of the Heisman Trophy. We just understood it was just another war. I
02:30 Didn't know a lot about what Heisman was. No, it was really a nice affair
02:35 I'm on the other side of the world and because of the 13-hour time difference means I had to get up it
02:42 I don't know three in the morning or whatever was I was halfway asleep
02:46 I
02:48 It is my special privilege to announce
02:51 with great joy
02:55 the 1988 winner of
02:57 the Heisman Award the John W Heisman Memorial Trophy
03:02 And the winner and I know him now as
03:05 His back
03:13 It was typical Barry when they announced his name as the winner
03:29 It was almost as if he was embarrassed to get that kind of attention
03:34 Congratulations to you
03:41 You know, I'd like to thank William and Shirley Sanders for being so inspirational in my life and bringing me up the way they know
03:48 I should be brought up. Thanks a lot
03:50 Very I love you never great game tonight
03:56 Pops was lighting it up smiling ear to ear holding court. We might just start living room for just look at every day
04:03 For him to be able to come in and do the things he did without having any other widespread media attention that I did receive in
04:14 Los Angeles
04:16 Finally a guy won the award
04:23 And I'd come from nowhere to win the Heisman Trophy and I was now someone that people recognize, you know
04:29 That's something we can all take with us, you know for a lifetime
04:31 That was one of those markers were a lot changed after that
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