[txrangerette]

I’m not making this up.

Sammy lived in a garage apartment a stone’s throw from my house now.

For about 6 yrs, while he taught Phys Ed classes at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene TX.

Later on the place burned inside but the outside still stands. As I said, I can stand in my back yard and hit it with a stone. But I wasn’t living here when he lived here. Neighbors who lived here even before Sammy have told me about those days.

It is afterward that he lived exclusively on his Rotan ranch.

Both my parents sang the praises of Slingin’ Sammy to me and my brother as we grew up in Fort Worth. TCU was a big deal college then...even played in the Rose Bowl...and this man was legend.

So to find out that I live so close to where he did was an amazing thing to me.

You were a hero with feet of clay, Sammy, but your football exploits were as real and super-herioc as it gets.

[blackie]

Thanks, txrangerette!

Many of us have/had feet of clay. >:-}