In 1973, I was TDY at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, Texas. That was back when the Houston Oilers had their training camp at Angelo State. The locals lived and breathed football.
I laughed when a music promoter scheduled a concert by the group "Blood, Sweat, and Tears" on the same night as a high school football game. The football stadium was packed, and I read later that the concert didn't attract too many people.
If my memory is correct, the high school football coach had his own 30-minute TV show. And a big topic for discussion in town was whether or not you should automatically root for the Oilers, and if you were a traitor if you rooted for the Cowboys.
It's no accident that so many good football players come from Texas.
Yeah, the Midland HIGH SCHOOL stadium holds 18,000 and is routinely sold out.
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