10 Things You Didn’t Know About Jim Ross

10. He’s Not Oklahoman…

Okay, so first things first:, I lied: He’s not even technically from Oklahoma.

Everything I thought I knew about Good Ol' JR was recently torn asunder, when I was informed that he’s actually a native of California. James William Ross was born in Fort Bragg, CA, a small coastal city in the northern part of the state, with a population of a little over 7,000.

However, he did of course end up moving to his adopted state at a very young age, where he would grow up as an “only child on a 160-acre cattle ranch in Westville, Oklahoma,” a town that sits smack-bang on the state’s easternmost border with a population of just 1,500.

There, he and his father would soon become immersed in the local football scene, whether it be the Westville High side or the Oklahoma Sooners themselves. And it wouldn’t be long before Ross was won over, soon being moulded into the Sooner-supporting, cowboy-hat-wearing JR that we know and love today.

So while he may have been California-born, he was very much Oklahoma-bred.