Extra Points: The Johnson Tree

Posted Dec 20, 2009
The tradition began back in the 1970s at a venerable eating and drinking establishment in Stillwater, Okla., known as The Ancestor. There Jimmy Johnson, head coach of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, took his coaching staff on Thursday nights during the football season to kick back after a full week of practice. Johnson was in his mid-thirties and the coaches around him--Butch Davis, Dave Wannstedt, Pat Jones and Tony Wise, among them--were mostly in their late-twenties. (Tar Heel Blue)

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