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"If you're not with us, you're against us."
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WINS
league records
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Best record: 14-1 (2010)
Most wins: 124 Most 10-win seasons: Five Most winning seasons: 10 |
Most playoff appearances: Eight
Highest OIL Bowl score: 216.50 (2012) Largest OIL Bowl margin of victory: 74.25 (2012) Most OIL Bowl app.: Five (2009; '10; '12; '13; '17) |
Rivalries
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Bruesch's SoonerJack
Cobb's Dogs of War |
Duffy's Hangovers
Trovillo's Dirty Hippies |
Logos
Colors: Red (Hex #B80F0A), White, Blue (Hex #003087)
Logo: Capital 'A' wearing an Uncle Sam hat in front of a red-and-white striped background within a circle outlined by blue, team name and stars within the blue outline.
Font: Tungsten-Semibold
Number Font: NFL Varsity Block D
Stadium: Harrington Field at Bricktown Stadium a.k.a "The Brick"
Logo: Capital 'A' wearing an Uncle Sam hat in front of a red-and-white striped background within a circle outlined by blue, team name and stars within the blue outline.
Font: Tungsten-Semibold
Number Font: NFL Varsity Block D
Stadium: Harrington Field at Bricktown Stadium a.k.a "The Brick"
uniforms
Red, White, & Blue: Alternate, Away, and Home (2016 - Present)
'mericans in action
Championship helmets & Jerseys
Team Cooler
Bio
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Cliburn is a lifelong football fan, having played organized football from fourth grade through his senior year of high school. He was a huge fan of football video games as well, from the early days of Tecmo Bowl until the NCAA Football series on Sony PlayStation2.
He was incredibly dedicated to the "fantasy" of NCAA Football and loved playing the dynasty mode. |
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But he spent 15 months away from the game during the SECFOR mission in 2006. That was one reason he chose to be one of the original 10 members of the OIL in its inaugural season. Then he lost his passion for the NCAA Football game after he returned from Iraq and started to focus on the OIL. He has been its commissioner since the beginning. His passion for the league rose every season, even as playoff heartbreak kept ending his season prematurely. He is now out of the 158, but he misses the camaraderie he enjoyed in the unit, something he continues to experience through the OIL. His team name began as a joke but hasn't changed since that first season.
Cliburn had winning seasons in each of his first two seasons but did not make the playoffs until 2008, when his luck began to change. The Arrogant Americans entered the playoffs as the number one seed and fully expected to win their first championship. But a devastating loss in the semifinals kept them from even reaching the OIL Bowl. The following season, he took another step towards a championship and reached his first OIL Bowl, but he lost to Hastings's ThroatPunchers (no longer in the OIL) in a Week 17 championship game (he would have won the championship had it been held in Week 16). But in 2010, he and Hastings joined Morgan as the only managers to reach two consecutive OIL Bowls, where Cliburn won his first championship (Brake, Buehre, Jessen, Venable, and Zerger have all since tied that record and Brake broke it in 2017 with three consecutive championship game appearances).
Cliburn had winning seasons in each of his first two seasons but did not make the playoffs until 2008, when his luck began to change. The Arrogant Americans entered the playoffs as the number one seed and fully expected to win their first championship. But a devastating loss in the semifinals kept them from even reaching the OIL Bowl. The following season, he took another step towards a championship and reached his first OIL Bowl, but he lost to Hastings's ThroatPunchers (no longer in the OIL) in a Week 17 championship game (he would have won the championship had it been held in Week 16). But in 2010, he and Hastings joined Morgan as the only managers to reach two consecutive OIL Bowls, where Cliburn won his first championship (Brake, Buehre, Jessen, Venable, and Zerger have all since tied that record and Brake broke it in 2017 with three consecutive championship game appearances).
Cliburn: Pre-deployment, Fort Lewis, WA; Fall 2005.
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 VA-issued Stress Ball
After capturing his first Lawson Trophy in 2010, Cliburn followed it up with the worst season of his fantasy football career, finishing in 10th place in 2011. That season was doomed from the start and got worse with a rash of injuries, close losses, and bad trades.
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Post-marriage: 40 pounds and two championships later.
But Cliburn stormed back in 2012 to win his second OIL Bowl in three years. After finishing the 2013 season with the most points in the league, Cliburn made his fourth OIL Bowl in five years and was on the cusp of becoming the first manager to win back-to-back OIL Bowls. But he faced Cobb's Dogs of War (led by Peyton Manning) and lost by 12 points.
It took four years, but Cliburn returned to the OIL Bowl in 2017, winning the championship to cap off a 13-2 season. It was a record third championship for the 'Mericans (tying SoonerJack's record) and the second-best single-season record in OIL history (behind Cliburn's 14-1 team in 2010).
He and Duffy chronicled their rivalry in Anatomy of a Rivalry: Hangovers and Arrogant Americans.
Outside of the OIL, his favorite NFL team is the New Orleans Saints. Cliburn is from Lawton-Fort Sill but lives with his wife in Oklahoma City. In 2014, one of his experiences during the 2006 mission in Iraq was turned into an animated short by StoryCorps.
His nickname, Brick, was coined by Matthew Leal, who said Cliburn's forehead ridge looked as if someone smashed him with a brick. Such heartless nicknames are common in the military, and they last for years.
It took four years, but Cliburn returned to the OIL Bowl in 2017, winning the championship to cap off a 13-2 season. It was a record third championship for the 'Mericans (tying SoonerJack's record) and the second-best single-season record in OIL history (behind Cliburn's 14-1 team in 2010).
He and Duffy chronicled their rivalry in Anatomy of a Rivalry: Hangovers and Arrogant Americans.
Outside of the OIL, his favorite NFL team is the New Orleans Saints. Cliburn is from Lawton-Fort Sill but lives with his wife in Oklahoma City. In 2014, one of his experiences during the 2006 mission in Iraq was turned into an animated short by StoryCorps.
His nickname, Brick, was coined by Matthew Leal, who said Cliburn's forehead ridge looked as if someone smashed him with a brick. Such heartless nicknames are common in the military, and they last for years.
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Ring of Stars
The all-time great Arrogant Americans players. Years on team in parentheses (* indicates championship; ** indicates second-place finish). Retired players in italics.
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