Berry Tramel

Tulsa World Sports Columnist

Maybe you think of military academy football players as stoic. Button-up personalities. Not interested in a good time.

You’d think differently if you’d been in the Navy locker room last December 27. The Midshipmen had just beaten Oklahoma 21-20 in the Armed Forces Bowl, and the bowels of Amon Carter Stadium looked like V-J Day.

Dancing. Celebrating. Rejoicing. A long season had been capped with an historic victory for a proud program.

“A good time,” Navy cornerback Phillip Hamilton called it. “Just the whole aftermath of when the clock hit zero. Storming the field to … getting out of the locker room, everything in between, was awesome. It was like being on Cloud 9. It was crazy.”

Navy football comes to Tulsa this weekend. The Midshipmen play

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