NORMAN — Bennie Wylie was surprised earlier this month when he heard the accent coming from Oklahoma kicker Calum Sutherland’s mouth.
“From now on, you can only talk to me in a Scottish accent,” the Sooners’ strength coach told Sutherland. “That’s it.”
Sutherland was born and spent the first seven years of his life in Scotland before moving to Texas after his father got a job about 12 years ago.
Now, Sutherland can bounce between his natural Scottish dialect and a more American accent.
That goes back to his early years in the U.S., when the two most striking things about the move where the amount of fast food restaurants around and the number of people who asked to hear him speak.