Texas Tech beats Texas

[Pego]

Just curious, is Texas the only person here who has never been to Texas?

In the spring of 1970, my wife and I had a kickass lunch in Hereford, Texas. A long story .

[Marlow]

Just curious, is Texas the only person here who has never been to Texas?

In the spring of 1970, my wife and I had a kickass lunch in Hereford, Texas. A long story .

I got pulled over in central Texas in 1970. After the skin-tight shirt over the big-bellied, wide-brim hat-wearing, mirror sunglassed, big gun-carrying patrolman gave me the citation, he said, verbatim,
"Y'all drive right friendly now, y'heah?"
It was all I could do to not burst into laughter.

[Dietmar239]

Just left Dallas two days ago. Felt a lot better as I approached Norman. Crazy drivers down in the Dallas area. My God, I thought I was going to die and I live in MD!

[donley2]

Just left Dallas two days ago. Felt a lot better as I approached Norman. Crazy drivers down in the Dallas area. My God, I thought I was going to die and I live in MD!

You ever drive in Houston. I swear that place has got to be one of the worst in the country. If it is not I have no interest in driving in any of the places that are worse.

[lonewolf]

Just curious, is Texas the only person here who has never been to Texas?

In the spring of 1970, my wife and I had a kickass lunch in Hereford, Texas. A long story .

I got pulled over in central Texas in 1970. After the skin-tight shirt over the big-bellied, wide-brim hat-wearing, mirror sunglassed, big gun-carrying patrolman gave me the citation, he said, verbatim,
"Y'all drive right friendly now, y'heah?"
It was all I could do to not burst into laughter.

It does pique one's curiosity what an Upper Midwesterner was doing "lunching" in Hereford, Texas, Garden Spot of Deaf Smith County.
Pego, you do know that if you were dining around midday you were actually eating "dinner"? . The evening meal is called "supper." Folks in Hereford do not do lunch. I have a HS classmate and trackmate who inexplicably became a bank President in Hereford before returning to SW Oklahoma shortgrass country.

Marlow, you should cherish your encounter with one of Texas good ole boy law enforcers. I have been interviewed about my driving habits a few times by one of his cohorts. One memorable occasion, back in the CB - Fuzzbuster era , I was traversing a lonely county road in the sand hills between Seminole and Andrews on urgent company business , admittedly at a "high rate of noise", as we said in those days, when I topped a hill simultaneously with an oncoming "Smoky" with an operating radar speed detector. Smoky immediately reversed his direction, signaled me to pull over and politely inquired as to the urgency of my mission. I explained my haste in terms he understood and appreciated in that oil dependent environment. I had a rig circulating, at $1000/hour, awaiting my arrival .
I was driving a new Olds 98 company car to which, thankfully, I had not had time to transfer my "fuzz-buster". Smoky searched my car from stem to stern, under the hood and behind the grill looking for a fuzzbuster. Finally, he shook his head and said,"Waall, Dayam, I reckon a feller flying without a fuzzbuster oughta get a second chance. Y'll have a nice day, y'heah? Just try to keep er under a hunnerd"

[Marlow]

"Waall, Dayam, I reckon a feller flying without a fuzzbuster oughta get a second chance. Y'll have a nice day, y'heah? Just try to keep er under a hunnerd"

Priceless!

[lonewolf]

Just left Dallas two days ago. Felt a lot better as I approached Norman. Crazy drivers down in the Dallas area. My God, I thought I was going to die and I live in MD!

Shucks, Dallas traffic is only bad between the hours of 6:00 am and 2:00 AM.
I vote for Boston as worst city in US in which to drive. Second is New York where I am continually amazed at their ability to fit six lanes of traffic into a four lane street with only occasional, minor physical encounters.

[SQUACKEE]

Just left Dallas two days ago. Felt a lot better as I approached Norman. Crazy drivers down in the Dallas area. My God, I thought I was going to die and I live in MD!

Shucks, Dallas traffic is only bad between the hours of 6:00 am and 2:00 AM.
I vote for Boston as worst city in US in which to drive. Second is New York where I am continually amazed at their ability to fit six lanes of traffic into a four lane street with only occasional, minor physical encounters.

Boston is the worst experience ive had in a car, ancient city not laid our fer cars and yes ive lived in L.A... A 4 hour friday rush hour drive from hell.

New York at x-mas time was one hour to go 4 blocks....i wish i was kiding.

[lonewolf]

Just left Dallas two days ago. Felt a lot better as I approached Norman. Crazy drivers down in the Dallas area. My God, I thought I was going to die and I live in MD!

Going down to Dallas tomorrow to run in my 35th Tyler Cup, a two mile run (or walk) for executive ex/would be over age forty jocks interested in promoting physical fitness. It is an annual invitational, back-scratching event held on the grounds of Dr Kenneth Cooper's Clinic in north Dallas, which has 1/4, 1/2 and one mile loops meandering around the duck ponds. Ostensibly non-competitive, it does have a Championship flight for the serious,just-turned-forty young Turks.
Frank Shorter, who has run an exibition race every year since 1973, the year after he won marathon at Munich, holds the course record 9:17, set the year he turned forty and was eligible to participate in the regular run.
Frank has slowed down some but still remarkably light on his feet and until about three years ago was still a threat to break 10 minutes.
In addition to his competitive two mile, he will run a relay against ten runners who run one quarter mile each. This relay is truly a social event giving ten people an opportunity to jog a quarter mile with Frank.
The Tyler Cup is usually held the Saturday before the NY marathon. In his prime, Frank would run it as his pre-race day workout, running against ten men who ran 1/2 mile each at 2:10 to 2:30 pace. After five miles in around 27:00, when the final relay runner dropped out, Frank would pick up the pace, run a 4:20 solo mile, give a short speech at the post-race luncheon, get on a plane and fly to NY for Sunday's marathon.

For those who may have been following my knee repacement re-hab,this will be my return to (very low key) action. I will walk the two mile race and run a leg on the Shorter relay. A quarter mile jog is about all my knee will take. Thirty years ago I ran a leg on the serious five mile relay. I will enjoy this one more.

[tandfman]

Boston is the worst experience ive had in a car, ancient city not laid our fer cars and yes ive lived in L.A... A 4 hour friday rush hour drive from hell.

New York at x-mas time was one hour to go 4 blocks....i wish i was kiding.

I've driven in many American cities, and I have to agree with you. In my experience, Boston is the worst to drive in for a number of reasons--it's not just because of the heavy traffic. New York can get gummed up--you just have to have patience. LA doesn't bother me, but maybe I've been lucky. I've never lived there, but I've been there quite a few times and of course when you're there, you drive.

[paulthefan]

if Tech can go 4 quarters without a turnover they have a better than 75% chance of winning.

[Marlow]

if Tech can go 4 quarters without a turnover they have a better than 75% chance of winning.

Missouri has a great passing attack and you saw what happened there. The Texas D puts way more pressure on the QB than anyone else TT has seen. That tends to make the reads a little more difficult (!) and the TT spread offense is all about the reads.

[Pego]

It does pique one's curiosity what an Upper Midwesterner was doing "lunching" in Hereford, Texas, Garden Spot of Deaf Smith County.
Pego, you do know that if you were dining around midday you were actually eating "dinner"? . The evening meal is called "supper." Folks in Hereford do not do lunch. I have a HS classmate and trackmate who inexplicably became a bank President in Hereford before returning to SW Oklahoma shortgrass country.

We were on the way from Columbus to Tucson, where I was about to start my residency in neurology. On Sunday morning, about 100 miles beyond Oklahoma City, we lost the interstate and continued west through the cattle country of the panhandle. Everything was closed, until we arrived to Hereford that proudly announced that it was a "city without toothache". Across the street from the railroad cattle loading station was a restaurant. It was midday and they were open.
The special of the day was "tenderloin for two for $2.99. I expected two small portions. Instead, we both got a cup of chicken noodle soup and the WHOLE, smaller, young tenderloin with a mountain of french fries that could easily feed 4-6 people.
Now that I think of it, almost 40 years have passed.

[lonewolf]

Pego, I can't imagine how you "lost" the interstate but aren't you glad you did?

Back in those days there was an eight mile gap in I-40 thru the town of McLean, TX, 200 miles west of OKC. Hereford is 60 miles SW of Amarillo. You got in a lot of two lane, which is much more fun than the interstate.

[Pego]

Pego, I can't imagine how you "lost" the interstate but aren't you glad you did?

Back in those days there was an eight mile gap in I-40 thru the town of McAllen, TX, 200 miles west of OKC. Hereford is 60 miles SW of Amarillo. You got in a lot of two lane, which is much more fun than the interstate.

We left the I-40, IIRC, somewhere between Wheatherford OK and Amarillo and continued on a two way roads through Clovis, the Llano Estacado desert, Roswell and the White Sands down to Las Cruces, where we rejoined the interstate, I-10 all the way to Tucson.
Yes, I never regretted that we left the interstate. The thing is, I still think that there was none for quite some length. Oh well, it's been 38 years .