Who We Are

Our connection to Oklahoma Football runs deep, and maybe like you, our lives have been measured in football seasons.

For two of us, it started before we were even born.

Our grandfather worked in the oil industry in Venezuela, and our dad still talks about listening to Bud Wilkinson’s teams on the radio as a kid, long before Oklahoma Football became part of our story. It took us a while to figure out why our dad always said, “Jiminy Christmas!” That came from a different era of Oklahoma radio. Shoutout John Brooks. 

Our other grandfather moved to Oklahoma from Ohio to work at the OU Health Sciences Center in the 1960s. It didn’t take long for him to realize that around here, Saturdays in the fall mean a little more.

Many years later, he was the one taking us to games in Norman. For him, it was simply part of passing the tradition forward.

We still remember walking through campus on Saturday mornings, mesmerized by crowds and sounds that felt larger than life. Before kickoff, we’d make our mandatory stop at the Wendy’s in the Student Union, and at halftime, our grandfather always wanted to stay in our seats to watch the marching bands.

Those memories are burned into us just as much as the games themselves.

We’ll politely skip over a certain decade of Oklahoma Football. Instead, let’s just say our core memories were formed during the era of Josh Heupel, Quinton Griffin, Antonio Perkins, Mark Clayton, and so many other icons.

Those years made us fall in love with Oklahoma Football. To this day, we still swear nobody ever really tackled Mark Clayton in the open field.

And of course, it wasn’t just football.

Eduardo Nájera, Hollis Price, Quannas White, Ebi Ere, Kevin Bookout. Certified bucket getters and ball-knowers, all of them.

Those teams, those Saturdays, and those traditions became part of who we are.

Over time, we came to appreciate something: the best part of Oklahoma Football isn’t what happens on the field alone. It’s everything that surrounds a program built on winning.

The early mornings.
The drives to Norman.
The tailgates.
The stories passed down through generations.
The hat you wore every gameday until it was perfectly faded and broken in just right.

That’s what Red & West is built on. We exist to create apparel that celebrates the culture, tradition, and pride that comes with being a Sooner. 

We started in 2019 with one polo, the 1985 OU Coaches Polo. Since then, we’ve been learning, evolving, and building.

But our mission is simple in the era of NIL: create exceptional OU apparel for fans, and help invest in the future of the program we all love. A portion of every purchase goes directly to OU NIL, in addition to the royalties we pay to the university. 

We believe in supporting the program that built this culture, and our goal is to help uphold the winning standard that so many legends have built over the decades.

What began with a love for OU football has grown into something bigger: a love for Oklahoma athletics as a whole. A culture built on winning now extends across every stage, from Sooner softball and gymnastics to Thunder basketball and beyond.

What are your favorite OU memories? You might see us around on gamedays. We'd love to hear them.

Boomer, 

The Red & West Team 

Will Bowersox

Born and raised in Oklahoma City. Graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2010. Currently lives in Fort Worth.

Favorite player: Hays McEachern (Football), Michael Ott (Basketball). Everyone loves a Heisman winner or a Naismith winner ... I’m all about the underdogs. The guys that had to earn it every single day because they weren’t on scholarship and because they wanted to be there. The glue guys are the soul of the program. (Excluding fraternity brothers, my favorite all-time Sooner is Samaje Perine). 

Charles Bowersox

Born and raised in Oklahoma City. Graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2014. Currently lives in Oklahoma City.

Favorite player: Mark Clayton. Jiminy Christmas, he was smoother than warm butter melting on a plate of hot flapjacks.

Brent Janss

Born and raised in Dallas, TX. Graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2016. Currently lives in Houston.

Favorite player: Jason White. He ran the offense like a video game on easy mode while his knees were operating on Windows 95.

Kevin Snell

Born and raised in Fort Worth, TX. Graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2012. Currently lives in Fort Worth.

Favorite player: Baker Mayfield. Even though he wasn’t during my time at OU, he was such an electric player that you knew, if he was out there, we had a chance. A walk-on from Tech, a hater of Austin, TX, and an edge to him that made you want him in your corner. Also, my dog's name is Baker.