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Travis Ford’s visited Moore, OK, and cooked people burgers

Travis Ford

Oklahoma State coach Travis Ford walks on the sideline during the second half of a second-round game in the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament against Oregon in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, March 21, 2013. Oregon won 68-55. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

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Like every other red-blooded American, Oklahoma State head coach Travis Ford used part of his long, Memorial Day weekend to fire up a grill and cook up some hot dogs and burgers.

But Ford wasn’t at a backyard cookout.

He was posted up in the Home Depot parking lot in Moore, OK, for two days, spending all day cooking up hot meals for anyone that needed it.

Tornado victims. Relief workers. Firefighters and EMTs. Friends and family. Everyone.

Berry Tramel of The Oklahoman has the details here:

Ford said he made a monetary donation to the relief cause but Wednesday got the itch to do more. One of his old pals back in Kentucky had gone on relief missions to Hurricane Katrina and Joplin, so Ford placed a call. The friend told Ford just load up and go cook, if he didn’t know what else to do.

So Ford asked OSU police Lt. Leon Jones to find them a place where they could set up. Meanwhile, Ford borrowed the trailer cooker from his church, Sunnybrook Christian, and bought out all the burgers and hot dogs from a Perkins meat packing company. Wal-Mart donated ketchup and mustard.

And by 10 a.m. Thursday, Ford, Jones and staff members Tommy Wade and Joey Biggs were cooking away and passing out OSU T-shirts.


I’ll spare you any moralizing here because, really, what else needs to be said?

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