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One Last Shot at Astrodome by Foes

February 11, 2017

The Astrodome and NRG Stadium
“Sometimes Proximity Breeds Contempt”

We can’t prove it, but the last time a 100% pure hearted politician stepped forward to save the taxpayers some money at the last minute was that time back in 1939, when young first term Congressman Jefferson Smith stepped forward to stop a complex a group of other congressmen and their developer friends from stealing land from a national boys’ club that had been doing the kids a lot of good until its existence got in the way of a private enterprise/political boss needed the property for a lucrative commercial project that would make a smaller group of investors and representatives even richer than they already were at the time of the scheme’s conception.

The above plot served as the life force of the 1939 movie, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”

The chicanery didn’t work because (1) the story was fictional, written for a movie crowd; (2) it was written intentionally for the American culture that still feasted in 1939 on the idea that the “good guys” always defeat the “bad guys” near “The End”; and (3) the movie producers had cast Jimmy Stewart as the idealistic “too good for his own good” political champion of the people. He was believable in that title role at the tale end of the Great Depression era. All naivete and honesty and patriotism rolled into one on-his-own warrior voice of the people.

Now you need to read about this last gap attempt by State Senator John Whitmire to get some legislation passed in Austin very soon that could derail the current, sound plan for preserving the Astrodome as the treasured architectural and performance venue for all the right and most feasible economic reasons. Then please come back here for a summary of our thoughts in this matter – and some suggestions for what each of us need to do to fight back:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/State-Sen-Whitmire-to-introduce-bill-aimed-at-10923891.php

Whitmire wants a law passed that would take away Harris County’s right to use the $105 million dollars that already have been approved by Commissioners’ Court for use in the current restoration project until another referendum on whether or not the public wants to approve this money for the Astrodome is held. Such a step is both spurious and unneeded. The County has approved the $105 million dollars from existing funds, in accordance with the law, and they have done so upon a groundswell of preservationist group and popular citizen support – support that includes two new highly respected designations of the Astrodome as an historical landmark building – and with assurance that further need for further money from the County shall be unnecessary.

So, what is it with John Whitmire? And who is with him, or behind him, in this expressed Lone Ranger effort to take one last wildly egregious shot at killing the preservation of the Astrodome before the current successfully supported and legal plan is carried out?

Let’s assume two conclusions about the answers to these questions: (1) Let’s assume that State Senator John Whitmire is not Jimmy Stewart playing U.S. Rep. Jefferson Smith in the 1939 movies, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”; and (2) That we may never know for sure who might have enough personal business interest to propose, support, or back this late move by Whitmire to kill the Astrodome, but that we probably wouldn’t have to look too far to find the names and businesses located nearby that could stand to benefit most by both the Astrodome’s demise and physical disappearance as an actual “neighbor.”

For names and businesses of whom we have in mind, get a pictorial map and a list of owners doing business there and do the pristinely logical remaining identification work yourselves. – Round up the usual suspects. Not as the accused in this matter, but as possibly active partners with Whitmire, for whatever agreed upon variable advantages these alliances bring to all involved , in not simply turning the Astrodome into additional parking space, but as a famous Houston brand victory for tomorrow over yesterday, for expedience over history, and for richer developers over richer preserved enlightenment of “who we’ve been all these years as the City of Houston” through our special architectural sites.

In brief, whether it is intended or not, victory over the survival of the Astrodome in any physical form is a serious matter of increasing the brand-space for whatever else is going on in the same geographic proximity.

Who knows? Houston may soon need that Astrodome space to build a new football venue that is attractive to the NFL as a 2022 Super Bowl site. After all, NRG Stadium will be 22 years old by 2022, and probably will need replacement by then, if Houston is expected to compete with all the newer, fresher venues for the 2022 Super Bowl.

In fact, a recent Houston Chronicle article suggested that any currently needed renovation to NRG would take in excess of $100 million dollars. Wonder if anybody with any itch to scratch in that need for a NRG remodeling job for the sake of future Super Bowl prettiness and modernity had any thoughts at all along the lines of “if we could get our hands on that money that the county plans to spend on the Astrodome, we’d be in a whole lot better shape going forward. – If only that Astrodome money were free for the taking.”

Can’t imagine who might think that way about a County decision that’s already been settled, but you don’t have to be a math major to see that the kind of money that’s been approved for the Astrodome rehabilitation is pretty darn close to what an undeveloped NRG Stadium upgrade might also require for its own face lifts.

What can Astrodome rehabilitation supporters now do?

What can you do to say NO in protest to State Senator John Whitmire and his attempts to pass legislation that would block the current Astrodome (already funded/with no further tax money needed) plan?

Call his office at 713.864.8701 and make your voice known in your own way. – The grand old dame of stadium architecture fame and countless major Houston event moments needs your help! So please don’t put it off. Act quickly. And decisively.

Regards,

Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, and Primary Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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“Only The Ball Was White”

February 10, 2017

This is short notice but, hopefully, some of our readers in the LA area will also find this news attractive enough to make plans for attending this very special event at the Baseball Reliquary tomorrow, Saturday. January 11, 2017.

Regards, Bill McCurdy, Publisher, The Pecan Park Eagle

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A Painting of Jackie Robinson By Kadr Nelso

A Painting of Jackie Robinson
By
Kadir Nelson

For people in the LA/SoCal region, the Baseball Reliquary is sponsoring a showing and panel discussion on “Only The Ball is White” tomorrow. Saturday, February 11, 2017. Here’s a columns and link to all the details you will need to find this priceless admission free production.

We now leave you in the steady hands of “BR” Director Terry Cannon for all the help you need for planning a great Hot Stove League weekend among similar souls and minds.

http://www.arcadiaweekly.com/arts-entertainment/baseball-reliquary-presents-only-the-ball-was-white-film-screening-and-discussion/

Wish we had the free time and extra wherewithal to be there ourselves. Guess we’ll have to surprise you some other date down the line. Just don’t ever count us out.

Regards,

Bill McCurdy

The Pecan Park Eagle
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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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UH COUGAR FOOTBALL PANEL IS A BLAST

February 9, 2017

Former UH Football Coach Bill Yeoman
1962-1986
and Bill McCurdy

Wednesday Night, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at the Heritage Society Tea Room downtown, the UH Cougars football panel more than filled the time with bonded reminiscence about their blended-in-blood, shared experience as actors on the stage of Houston growing in glory, and through disappointment, as one of the top NCAA football (and basketball) programs in America since their first humble season of 1946.

The night also featured a wonderful exhibition of artifacts to peruse as the memory raced back of great Cougar moments. Items like helmets, jerseys, trophys, pictures, newspaper stories, and ancient Cougar game programs abounded.

As usual, however, the play was the thing. The reminiscences of the panelists were the revealed the same eyes and hearts understanding that made many of the great moments in Cougar history even possible against all odds. The fact is, the panelists spoke like an ongoing chain of shared values about what UH Cougar football is really all about as a very special kind of destination school. It is a team and continuity commitment that they all seem to have understood over time – playing in different eras – and it is a value system that flies in the face of recent kiss and run, short-time beguilement that never was UH anyway.

The UH panel program was the second of five such chapters in the “Bayou City Blitz” panel discussions on football in Houston that have been so artfully planned by Mike Vance, Program Director for the Heritage Society. The panel series began on January 25th with a focus upon the Houston Oilers. It will now continue on Wednesday, March 8h, with a panel on Rive University football; it will move on to a Wednesday, March 29th panel on local high school football; and it will conclude on Wednesday, April 12th, with a panel discussion on the Houston Texans.

Longtime Houston sports media broadcaster Craig Roberts, who also worked several years directly with iconic UH Coach Bill Yeoman on the football seasons Sunday morning “Bill Yeoman Show” was the capable, entertaining panel moderator for a group of deep red UH football former players, coaches, and vital history contributors.

Night of the UH Cougars Panel February 9, 2017 Ouside the Heritage Scoiety Downtown Houston

Night of the UH Cougars Panel
February 9, 2017
Outside the Heritage Society Grounds
Downtown Houston

These invited guest respondents included: former players Chuck Brown, Ted Pardee, Jerry Drones, David Klingler, and Alois Blackwell. In 2015, historian and author Robert “Bob” Jacobus, completed “Houston Cougars in the 1960s” at Texas A&M Press. It’s a book about how the UH inclusion of black football and basketball players in the 1960s also made a quietly powerful contribution to how the City of Houston positively and non-violently pulled away from the broadest, most obvious areas of desegregation in the community. It also didn’t hurt that the newly integrated UH major sport teams were doing a pretty good job of teaching the SEC schools they played, and sometimes defeated, that integration just might be important to their own of sporting competition in the near term future.

Coach Yeoman also attended the evening program, and rightly so. He needed to be there to hear the effusive praise and expressive love he received from the panelists – and all the rest of us longtime Cougars who were present to let him know how we much cared about him and all he did to elevate UH from the primordial mud of it’s early lackluster life into both a trailblazer in civil rights advancement at the collegiate campus level in Houston, a step that also evolved as a tribute, as well, to how Yeoman’s great impact upon fairness, civility, and talent as essentials in football , indeed, also were the great spirits controlling who plays all sports at UH.

As a football coach, I’m prejudiced,” Coach Bill Yeoman once remarked to a report during the mid-1960s. “I’m prejudiced against the use of bad football players. Nothing else matters. Good players come in all colors of the rainbow. And I don’t care what color they are, if they can play the game better than anyone else. If they are the best at what they do, they are going to start for the UH Cougars.”

Coach Yeoman brought in outstanding running back “Wondrous Warren” McVea as his first black player in 1964. McVea’s footprint on UH football history was that 37-7 whipping that the Cougars laid upon Michigan State at Ann Arbor in 1967. On the basketball side, UH late basketball coach, and another icon, Guy Lewis was also given due credit for bringing in Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney as the pioneer blacks who would change the face on Cougar basketball fortunes equivalently, and perhaps, even more so in the hoopster sport. The Cougars’ 71-69 win over #1 UCLA at the Astrodome in the “Game of the Century” on January 20, 1968 also proved to be the contest that elevated all of college basketball to prime time tv interest in sort order. That game too was referenced by author Bob Jacobus. It was the only fair and balanced thing to do.

Ted Pardee, son of former UH Coach Jack Pardee and later, a long time member of the UH football broadcast crew, made some strong points about the UH way. It had been the Jack Pardee way as much as it earlier had been the Bill Yeoman way – and, of course, it has been considerably influenced by the way the now Power Five power structure types work to keep UH away from a full serving of the television money and conference prestige benefits at the NCAA cash bar set up.

Former UH Cougar Defensive Lineman Jerry Drones and Bill McCurdy

Former UH Cougar Defensive Lineman
Jerry Drones
and 1960 UH Alumnus Bill McCurdy

“The Cougars don’t focus on the full-of-themselves top recruits who think that football is only played at places like Texas, Alabama, and USC. Nobody wins a national championship on signing day by collecting star (eyes for only themselves) guys,” said Ted Pardee. “You become a champion player as a great team school by signing the diamonod-in-the-rough guys who will bond together as a team-devoted effort.”

“A player won’t really help you if he’s just counting the rep numbers at practice til things are done – or if he only is working hard for himself,” Alois Blackwell added. “Coach Yeoman taught us the right way too. It’s got to be something you’re doing for the team. All for the team – and not just something you’re doing for the sake of helping yourself.

Chuck Brown, Jerry Drones, and David Klingler simply amplified the same esprit de corps. “If you played your position better than anyone else, you were going get to play at UH; if not, someone else would get the job who would then do the things you either would not – or could not – d0,” said former great Cougar QB David Klingler. “We weren’t one of those places in which people start based upon the paper clippings of their high school pedigree accomplishments. You start at UH by giving the game and the books your best – and by giving your best to the team in red and white energy roar that never, ever stops clawing.”

We are ~ The University of Houston Cougars.

Try to catch one of the last three programs in this series. You will be glad you did. Mike Vance and the Heritage Society have done an excellent job for the City of Houston Football History on this one – and they deserve our support.

If you are worried about parking, do not. The Heritage Society has a lot of free, well-lighted parking next door to the the immediate south entrance of their presentation center. And if you are still worried that attending something downtown takes you way out of your routine, please resist the norm and don’t miss something that could be really worth your time and willingness to make it happen. Call the Heritage Society and get more explicit direction on how to reach the parking area. Their telephone number is 713 655 1912.

Good Luck!

And Eat ‘Em Up, Cougars!

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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The Not-So-Grim-Reapers of Comeback Glory

February 8, 2017

The Persistence of Memory By Salvador Dalii The Most Persistent Memories are Those That EIther Feel the Best or Hurt the Worst.

The Persistence of Memory
By Salvador Dali
The Most Persistent Memories are Those Which Either Feel the Best or Hurt the Worst. ~ The Pecan Park Eagle

We made the observation in yesterday’s Eagle column on the amazing Super Bowl 51 game in Houston that its incredible come-from-way-back outcome win rally may also have the same effect upon Tom Brady’s NFL career as the 1979 Cotton Bowl had upon Joe Montana’s reputation in the college ranks going forth into a very similar NFL career. They also were named “Player of the Game” in contests which became the signatures on their greatness at the expense of opponents who suffered the meltdown cost of losing at the Great Expectations level of bitter disappointment.

And what was that effect? Easy answer. The reapers were not so grim once they closed the clock on the success side of each iconic final result.

It is now far easier for millions of us to say, without any further qualification of the obvious fact. – Tom Brady has now proven that, indeed, he truly is – the greatest quarterback in NFL history. And look – guys my age grew up with the images of Otto Graham, Johnny Unitas, Y.A. Tittle, Bart Starr, and Bobby Layne as the impeccable symbols of NFL QB greatness. The prose on their football bubble gum cards virtually said everything that already wasn’t implied by those virile statue of liberty poses on the face-picture hemisphere of each cardboard marketing bullet. The subjective pitch on each card screamed about their greatness. But none of those guys won five out of eight appearances in the championship games of their era seasons – and none had to come back from a 25-point deficit with a little over a quarter to go to win that record 5th championship ring.

We made the effort to give you a couple of time flow tables on how the Super Bowl 51 game slipped away from the Atlanta Falcons – and how the 1979 Cotton Bowl crumbled from the grasp of the Houston Cougars.

Atlanta Falcon Meltdown in Super Bowl 51 of 2017

QTR	GAME TIME LEFT	PLAY	SCORE
3^RD	17:15		28-3 ATL
3^rd	17:06	NE TD	28-9 ATL
4^TH	9:44	NE FG	28-12 ATL
4^TH	5:56	NE TD	28-18 ATL
4^TH	5:56	NE 2-XP	28-20 ATL
4^TH	0:57	NE TD	28-26 ATL
4^TH	0:57	NE 2-XP	28-28 TIE
OT	3:58 into OT	NE TD	34-28 NE WINS

Houston Cougar Meltdown in the Cotton Bowl of 1979

QTR	GAME TIME LEFT	PLAY	SCORE
4^TH	7:35	HOU on own 33	34-12 HOU
4^TH	7:25	ND 33 YD Blk Punt	34-18 HOU
4^th	7:25	ND 2-PT CONV.	34-20 HOU
4^TH	4:15	ND 2 YD RUN	34-26 HOU
4^TH	4:15	ND 2-PT CONV.	34-28 HOU
4^TH	0:00	ND 8 YD PASS	34-34 TIE
4^TH	0.00	EXTRA PT KICK	35-34 ND WINS

As someone who watched yesterday’s game at home on TV – and the 1979 ND-UH Cotton Bowl in person, there is one factor about the latter that doesn’t show up on its time chart:

The 1979 Cotton Bowl is remembered today by those of who were there as “The Ice Bowl”. We literally had to bang about two inches of ice off our seats before we could sit down. We also learned quickly that our hot coffee turned to frozen sludge if you didn’t drink it pretty fast. The temperatures dipped down into the teens, as I recall, but later newspaper reports we saw in that pre-digital era that the wind chill even dropped to 18 degrees below zero at one point. The wind from the north end zone bordered on storm level. Naturally, the Irish had the wind at their backs for their amazing Joe Montana-led 4th quarter rally.

On offense in the 4th quarter, the UH Cougars could do nothing. The wind blew passes and kicks back to UH, making running the predictable and stoppable play. Running plays were also made easier to stop by the patches of turf ice that caused all players on both sides of the ball to slip down with ease.

It wasn’t the time and place for it literally, I don’t think, but January 1, 1979 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas would have been a great stimulus to Simon and Garfunkel. That definitely was the figurative best time and space for the birth of “Slip Sliding Away.” That song says it all about so many things that slip through our fingers in life – and here was UH going through it on one of what was then one of the biggest stages of College football.

The end of the game left all Cougar coaches, players, and fans with enough banana peels on Memory Lane to last a life time. You see, “What might been” attached heavily to all tearing of the soul for Cougar Nation – and the very mention of the words “ice bowl” by someone else remains sure to invite a cringe of pain to us Cougars, if not more.

Now the Atlanta Falcons family is similarly infected with the same big game meltdown blues. They will have to get used to it. And make their peace with it. It may heal for all of them eventually on the life wisdom level, over the passage of much time, but the pain never quite goes away. And we offer that fact from 38 years experience.

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If I were an abstract artist, I could paint it:

The Visual

Flashes of red and white, blue and gold, in pom-pom and human form – are moving violently against each other on an almost pure, but swirling white background day. A never aging coed smile flashes from a foreground figure as she flashes the Cougar Claw hand sign from the field level to us fans in first level. She will never grow old. Nor will her smiling moment of joy ever be swept away by what is yet to be. QB Danny Davis, running north to south, right to left, is running out of bounds for a first down. It is all fluid. Heart-filled. Dynamic. And indelible. And it brings some to tears quicker, if viewed in the company of bonded Cougar supporters as a major canvas piece, in the dark of evening, while listening to the song “Kiss Today Goodbye” from the musical, Chorus Line, 1979.

The Soundtrack

Kiss today goodbye,

The sweetness and the sorrow.

Wish me luck, the same to you.

But I can’t regret

What I did for love, what I did for love.

Look my eyes are dry.
The gift was ours to borrow.
It’s as if we always knew,
And I won’t forget what I did for love,
What I did for love.

Gone,
Love is never gone.
As we travel on,
Love’s what we’ll remember.
Kiss today goodbye,
And point me toward tomorrow.
We did what we had to do.
Won’t forget, can’t regret
What I did for Love.

(partial of all lyrics) ~ Kiss Today Goodbye, Chorus Line.

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Back to actual 1979 Cotton Bowl

Near the end of the game, with time running out, UH owned the ball on about their own 28 with 4th down coming up, but still leading, 34-28.

Punting into that hurricane from the north was no option. ND already had blocked one punt for a TD. Another option might have been to risk Danny Davis running back to the end zone for a safety. If it worked, the Cougars could then hope to survive with a 34-30 lead as their kicker tried to a get a free kick far enough down the field to run out the clock or maybe even get lucky enough to recovery a fumble in the horrible field conditions.

UH did neither. They tried to run the ball for a short distance first down, which would have been a game-winning play, but they were stopped short – allowing ND to have the ball again from 29 yards away – and about 0:28 seconds left in the game.

Four quick players later, with time now showing 0:00 after Montana took the snap from the UH 9 yard line and rolled right. Joe found wide receiver Chris Haines for a falling out-of-bounds catch with one foot in the end zone for a touchdown.

With the game clock done, ND and UH were tied 34-34. It didn’t stay that way long. ND then kicked the extra point and the games was decided. The Irish and Joe Montana had come back to defeat the UH Cougars in the 1979 Cotton Bowl, 35-34.

Footnote: During the Summer of 1979, we invited UH QB Danny Davis to our house for dinner. When asked about the “take a safety” option on the Cougar’s last play, Danny smiled, even throwing a little appreciation my way: “Hey, Bill,” Danny said, “now you’re thinking like me. That’s what I wanted to do too, but Coach Yeoman was afraid that I might slip down on the icy field on my way to the end zone. Then they (ND) would have been almost sure to score that close to our goal line.”

“That makes sense. How do you feel about it now?” I asked Davis so many years ago.

“Coach made the right call,” Davis quickly confirmed. “We came awfully close to making the first down that would have made all other talk unnecessary.”

“It just wasn’t our day.”

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Special Reminder: By the earliest CST time you read this column, it will be Wednesday morning, February 8, 2017. – Don’t forget! – Tonight from 7-8:30 PM is time for the Houston Cougar Football Panel and Exhibition at the Heritage Society downtown. Please join us, if possible. Here’s a link to the column we wrote last week for program details:

UH Cougar Football Panel is Feb. 8th

UH Cougar Football Panel is Feb. 8th

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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Some Post-Super Bowl Observations

February 7, 2017

What a game! ~ What a game! ~ What a game!

SABR friends and colleagues Bill Gilbert and Mark Wernick both were kind enough to e-mail some of their own brief observations last night and this morning about Super Bowl 51 at NRG Stadium in Houston. on Sunday, February 5, 2017.

Bill Gilbert
Rogers Hornsby Chapter
SABR
Pecan Park Eagle Contributor

(1) Bill Gilbert wrote Sunday Evening:

“It appeared that Houston did itself proud with Super Bowl 51. Everything I heard announcers say about Houston was positive. The game was possibly the best Super Bowl ever.

“It’s interesting that all three major professional sports featured big come from behind wins this season. I suspect that this won’t happen again for quite a while.”

My Personal and Pecan Park Eagle Response to Bill Gilbert:

Bill –

I couldn’t agree more. It was the greatest comeback deficit rally in Super Bowl history – and also the first overtime game in any Super Bowl.

Houston did a great job, people had a great time, and even the weather cooperated. The city deserves all the praise it earned from this effort.

SB51 will also be remembered – in pain and sorrow – as the event that gave even more people the courage and right to claim that Tom Brady, indeed, is the greatest QB in NFL history. With this incredible game under his belt at age 39 – and as the new holder of the most SB wins for a QB at 5, who else really compares? Count me in among Brady’s believers.

Another thought that floated through my head after tonight. Wonder how many baseball/football fans will now begin to couple the Cubs’ 7-game World Series win and tonight’s New England win as the two greatest versions of each event in the eyes of some beholders. They certainly are for me. In fact, it’s impossible tonight for me to see how the next offerings of each could be more dramatically important than these two have been to each of their sports.

Here are some other observations that made me smile:

1) About 20 minutes prior to the game, one of the referees jogged all the way across the field to pat Tom Brady on the back.

2) After the game on Channel 2, Chronicle writer John McClain said that “once Tom Brady got over playing like Brock Osweiler, the Patriots were back in the hunt.

3) At the trophy presentation, Pats Owner Robert Kraft, Coach Bill Belichick, and QB Tom Brady all gave the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell the same blank stare as they accepted his handshakes of congratulations. Wonder if their hands felt as cold as their stares? Kraft even made a point of grabbing the mike to thank the fans, saying something like “as all of you know, we’ve been through a whole lot this past year. I don’t have to mention what it was, but it hasn’t been easy, but thanks to all of you, it’s been a whole easier.” Kraft knew that the NFL chief was standing behind him as he talked, of course.

4) Football will never replace baseball for 1st place in my heart, but it is an interesting contrast by virtue of the way football has to be spatially played because the wear and tear of violence from a single game. In football, every championship game is a “there’s no tomorrow” contest. For baseball’s World Series to have that special moment, as we did this past year, two teams have to play even in the W/L column before our Game 7 can appear to give us that same weight in a single game.

Mark Wernick
Larry Dierker Chapter
SABR
Pecan Park Eagle Contributor

(2) Mark Wernick wrote Monday Morning:

“The two most fearless people in the stadium tonight were Tom Brady and Lady Gaga.

“The comeback from a 28-3 deficit late in the 3rd quarter would have been a rejected Hollywood script. What was that graphic they showed? Teams with a lead of 19+ points in the 4th quarter were a combined 93-0 in post-season play? Make that 93-1.

“Edelman’s stupendous catch in the 4th quarter … that did it. I re-watched it in slo-mo 12 times.

“Actor Mark Wahlberg, a big Patriots fan, left the game with the Patriots down 28-3. He missed the comeback.

“I can’t be too critical. I retreated to my study at half-time to work on bills and finances and didn’t come back to the game until 18 seconds were left in the 4th quarter. I was sure New England was en route to getting blown out. However, my wife, who is from Russia and who never saw an American football game until 2010, faithfully watched the entire spectacle and was glued to the television screen when I returned. I made up for it by watching the whole thing on DVR. Hence the time-stamp.

The weather here has been pleasant all week.

Houston had a good time.

Pitchers and catchers report in two weeks.

My Personal and Pecan Park Eagle Response to Mark Wernick:

Great observations, Mark!

1) Brady and Gaga the most fearless? Absolutely!

2) SB51 rejected as a Hollywood script? Absolutely 2!

3) Also, remember all those 1940s movie scripts where some bad guy weakens the lines of the beautiful trapeze artist before her act. I thought of that one when Lady Gaga made her descent into NRG. Glad there were no bad guys working NRG yesterday.

4) Edelman’s catch was another one for the ages by the little man with the tall talent for remarkable catches. The name is amusingly distracting to me. 85-years old and quite tiny herself, Miriam Edelman is a fifty year friend and still practicing therapist in Houston. I can neither shake nor try to release the imagery that – under that gear and helmet – that it is my friend Miriam making all those catches in the Edelman name. Guess I’d better call and congratulate her for the great grab of yesterday when I’m finished here.

5) Poor Mark Wahlberg, but let’s do cut him a break. Did any of us really see this coming? No way. I thought it was close to done late in the first half when Brady threw the pick-6 to make it Falcons, 21-0. I might have done the same thing you did last night, but my personal TV sits side-by-side with my computer and Internet service. Everything I do with written work or writing, I do from here, and I am also guilty of occasional multi-tasking of a report column and bill-paying at the same time. I think I hold a degree in OCD propensities. But, unless it bites me, I see no need to call animal control for assistance. 🙂

6) My wife didn’t grow up in this culture either, but, as a native Filipino and naturalized American citizen, Norma is now an avid Texans, NFL, and Super Bowl fan. She watched the whole game on our big TV, pulling for the underdog Falcons. When it was over, however, her appraisal was simply that “the best team had won.” She will attend an occasional baseball game with me, but she really doesn’t understand the sport. She is wont to make statements like “they don’t really do anything in baseball and they spend way too much time standing around.”

7) This game was great for Houston – and Houston deserves all the credit it is now receiving from visitors.

8) Because of the way this game played out so awesomely – many of us are now free to say without equivocation ~ Tom Brady has now proven that he is the greatest QB in NFL history. Ironically, Joe Montana earned his bones at the college level the same way on January 1, 1979. That was the frozen Cotton Bowl game in which Montana rallied ND from a 34-7 deficit with 7:30 to go to a 35-34 win over UH on the last play of the game. – Believe me, many of us Cougar football fans know exactly how the Atlanta owner, coaches, players, and fans feel today. Atlanta people will get over the “stunning” phase that they are in today, but they will never forget the loss or the remnant pain that rests with yesterday’s cave-in loss.

9) I thought the contiguous editions of the 2016 World Series and the 2017 Super Bowl were the best examples of each that I’ve ever seen.

10) Because of the pain that comes from each football game played, football cannot handle a best 4 of 7 World Series format – nor does a once-a-week potential 7-game series over 7 weeks sound exciting or practical. – So – football can make their annual Super Bowl the three hours plus sudden bang for all the marbles that it already is. Baseball, on the other hand, has to settle for two teams breaking even in six closely scheduled games to even experience a year in which a seventh game, winner-takes-all contest, is even possible.

Late Post-Game Note

Some sleazeball managed to get into Tom Brady’s clothing bag inside the Patriots NRG clubhouse after the game and steal his game-worn jersey – supposedly for some kind of greed-grab and quick sale of it as an historic NFL Super Bowl artifact. Hope they catch the idiot and recover the jersey. Tom had planned to give it to his mother, who is still recovering from a longstanding health problem. One thing we hate more than cockroaches are the human variety that keep falling into life’s most delicious moments and causing everyone to lose their appetites for an adulterated beautiful moment in time.

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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Maltese Falcons Come Close, But No Cigar

February 6, 2017

Life's greatest lesson has now been reenforced by our loss to the New England Patriots - and ithat is to - 'always avoid presumption in all human matters.'."- Kasper Gutman

Life’s greatest lesson has now been reenforced by our Maltese Falcons’ loss to the New England Patriots – and that lesson, most simply, is to – ‘always avoid presumption in all matters of human trust and performance’.” – Kasper Gutman

Editorial Note: For this column to make any sense, please make sure you’ve first read what launched it into publication today at yesterday’s column. Thank you for both your patience and general kindness. – The Pecan Park Eagle.

Yesterday’s Column Link:

What If the Maltese Falcons Took on the Pats?

Super Bird Bowl I

New England Patriots 34 – Maltese Falcons 28

NRG Stadium, Houston TX, January 5, 2017

Score By Quarters of Play:

Super Bird Bowl I	1	2	3	4	0T	Final
New England Patriots	0	3	6	19	6 –	34
Maltese Falcons	0	21	7	0	0 –	28

It was “close, but no cigar” for Playing Coach and Quarterback Sam Spade of the Maltese Falcons yesterday. When all seemed well in hand for a blowout victory by the upstart Maltese version of the fighting Falcons yesterday, the legendary New England Patriots came roaring back from a 28-3, 25-point deficit in the 3rd quarter to tie the game with less than a minute to go that sent the game into overtime. The Patriots then won the toss, took the ball, marched efficiently and athletically down the field and winning the game on a two-yard gallop right by Pats running back James White. The nose of the ball broke the plane to complete the 31-point total.

It will take a long time, if ever, before we see another Super Bowl – or Super Bird Bowl – or championship football game by any name – that even comes close to rivaling this one for the sheer volume of incredible joy and agony that was spawned in Houston today. This game will vibrate down the ages, and those who saw it who really care about the outcomes of it shall have no choice but to carry the wings of hope – or the anchors of despair – that accompanies this one for the rest of their human lives.

The Maltese Falcons got off to a good start early in the second quarter after the two clubs battled each other even defensively through a 0-0 first stanza. Then, Falcons linebacker Kasper Gutman stripped a ball away from a Pats runner and the momentum changed. With only 1:53 gone in the second quarter, Joel Cairo then took a pitch out for the Falcons from QB Sam Spade at the Pats 5 yard line and ran left before leaping into the end zone for the first score of the game. After kicker Brigid O’Shaughnessy drilled the extra point, the Falcons led, 7-0.

Cairo didn’t stop there. He went super crazy good only minutes later, catching a 40 Bleed Right pass from Spade from 19 yards out that raised the Falcons lead to 14-0. But crazy was only getting started. Before anyone could say “half time – time for Lady GaGa”, the amazing Kasper Gutman picked off a Tom Brady pass and took it 82 amazing yards to the house. In spit of is great girth, none of the stunned Patriot offensive players could catch him. Stunned himself by his surprising newfound skill, Gutman offered a rather professorial explanation.

“We’ll never be sure really, but I think it may be related to my decades old search for the real black bird that is now the namesake of our new Falcons team. Like the digging out of that Pats fumble earlier, getting actual possession of the ball suddenly became my obsession as strongly as my lifelong pursuit of the true Maltese Falcon. Once I got my hands on it from that errant Brady pass, I wasn’t about to let any of New England gents take it back from me. So (loud guffaw laughter “HA-HAA!!” followed) I suppose I must have some real muscle behind all the fat in these speedy loins!” (another “Ha-Haa!” followed).

Miss O’Shaughnessy got the Falcons on the board with a field goal with 2:19 left in the half, but a 21-3 deficit didn’t look good for the Maltese Falcons going into the second half.

When Sam Spade then hit his old detective agency partner, Miles Archer, for a 6-yard TD pass with 4:14 gone in the 3rd quarter, the Falcons’ new lead of 28-3 looked even more like a coffin nail in the Patriots’ chances for a win. To win now, the Pats would almost surely have to stop all further scoring by the Falcons and also score, at least 4 times, and probably have to pick up a couple of two point conversions to boot.

But guess what? That’s almost exactly what happened! As reflected the rest of the way by the scoring, it was all by the Patriots – all 31 points of it!

For sake of now questionable brevity here, the remaining scoring flow, from the time the Pats were down 28-3 in the 3rd Quarter:

Third Quarter

Score was 21-3, Falcons, starting the 3^rd quarter.

Falcons TD with PAT made it Falcons, 28-3

Patriots TD with missed PAT made it Falcons, 28-9

Patriots TD (missed PAT) NE down, 9-28

Fourth Quarter

Score was 28-9, Falcons, starting 4^th quarter.

Patriots FG made it 28-12, Falcons

Patriots TD with 2-pt. conversion made it 28-20, Falcons

Patriots TD with 2-pt. conversion made it a 28-28 tie

Over Time

Patriots TD won Super Bird Bowl I Bowl for New England, 34-28.

WOW! The greatest comeback in any kind of Super Bowl History!

The 5^th Super Bowl of any kind as another win for Belichik and Brady!

And finally – the decisive proof that Tom Brady is absolutely the greatest NFL quarterback of all time!

“The Stuff that Dreams are Made of”

When asked what he thought of Tom Brady’s accomplishment, Maltese Falcon QB Sam Spade smiled through the cigarette that dangled from his clenched lips to utter his thoughts from a stool near his locker at NRG.

“It’s been said before, but Tom Brady deserves it big time tonight,” Sam Spade ventured. – “What he did tonight – was a reality version of ‘the stuff that dreams are made of ‘- now – and forever.”

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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What If the Maltese Falcons Took on the Pats?

February 5, 2017

Official Helmet Logo
Of
The Maltese Falcons
Featuring Sam Spade
Falcons Coach & QB

Let’s presume to stretch reality a bit this morning – and why not? It’s Super Bowl Sunday, the annual NFL Day that always attempts to stretch the bejabbers out the ordinary, while once-in-awhile succeeding, but too often showing up with a Super Bowl game that is as ordinary and ugly-boring that it is more prone to causer second advertisers to wince and think twice about television advertising next year.

Our expedited offering suggests a minor number of three large ban reality changes that will guarantee “extraordinary” results on an annual basis: (1) Change the name of the game to the Super Bird Bowl Game. Why? Because most birds fly; they do not flounder; (2) Limit the NFL team participation in this new bowl structure to one team only; and (3) allow Hollywood to construct an opposing team each year, based upon some kind of classic movie – with the movie characters themselves filling all rolls as players and coaches of the Tinseltown entry.

Since it’s a little late to have the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots play today’s regular Super Bowl to determine the new Super Bird Bowl game and then play this new game this same day, we are going to start with a big stretch and ask Atlanta to step aside and allow New England to take on the team role for the NFL as the opposition to the club that the Hollywood Game Committee has selected as their appropriate replacement foe, in deference to the Atlanta sacrifice – and in exchange for pledging the ghost of all these movie characters to the future success of the Atlanta Falcons in all ways possible to movie characters..

At 5:30 PM today, the Maltese Falcons will show up to play the New England Patriots in Super Bird Bowl I. Look for the results story in tomorrow’s Pecan Park Eagle.

Meanwhile, here’s a brief pictorial on how the Maltese Falcons got themselves organized for the challenge in their rooms at the Lancaster Hotel in downtown Houston over the past 24 hours.

"The front office suits have asked us to represent our town in the ist Super Bird Bowl this weekend against the Pats and - by damn - we are going to do it. I kid you not!" - Sam Spade

“The front office suits have asked us to represent our town in the 1st Super Bird Bowl this weekend against the Pats and – by damn – we are going to do it. I kid you not!” – Sam Spade

"Now listen up, Birds. This is the trophy we get to keep, if we win today. I you don't recognize it, you haven't been paying much attention to all that's been happening since made "The Maltese Falcon" back in 1941." Sam Spade

“Now listen up, Birds. This is the trophy we get to keep, if we win today. If you don’t recognize it, you haven’t been paying much attention to all that’s been happening since we made ‘The Maltese Falcon’ back in 1941.” – Sam Spade

“Surely, you don’t think that I, of all people, are that misinformed, do you, Mr. Spade?” – Kasper Gutman

“I suspect everyone, Gutman! …. And by the way, don’t call me Shirley!” – Sam Spade

"I'd like to use you as our kicker, sweetheart, but you gotta cut me a break here. Whn we mad this movie back in 1941, guys like me didn't have room in their brains for kicking shoes that came with high heels." - Sam Spade

“I’d like to use you as our kicker, sweetheart, but you gotta cut me a break here. When we made this movie back in 1941, guys like me didn’t have room in their brains for kicking shoes that came with high heels. – Can’t you just stay sexy, maybe lead a few cheers. Something like that?” – Sam Spade

"It says here in his report: "pat have great QB and coach.' - You mean the Pats shots you for reporting thiss news to me? Hell, we lost you for goog, but the Pats wasted a perfectly good bullet!" - Sam Spade, remarking on his dying spy Pats scout.

“It says here in his report: ‘Pats have great QB and coach.’ – You mean the Pats shot you for reporting this n0-news to me? Hell, we lost you for good here, but the Pats wasted a perfectly good bullet!” – Sam Spade, remarking on his dying spy Pats scout.

"Wilmer, what are you soing sitting here in the lobby of the Lancaster reading the sports pages? I told you to get over to NRG and let the air out of Brady's balls as a payback. Now it's too late. Better watch out for a telegram thys afternoon!" - Sam Spade

“Wilmer, what are you doing here in the lobby of the Lancaster, just reading the sports pages? I told you to get over to NRG and let the air out of Brady’s balls as a general payback. Now it’s too late. Better watch out for a telegram this afternoon. I don’t like disappointments.” – Sam Spade

“Your services have been traded to the Cleveland Browns for $500 and a bucket of deflated footballs.” – Telegram to Wilmer Cook from Coach Spade

“Gutman, I need you on the o-line to give me 5-7 seconds time to throw into the Pats’ defense. You’re so big that I also plan to use you on defense somewhere. Can you handle the double duty?” – Sam Spade

“Mr. Spade, take all the time you need to get us a win over the Pats today. They won’t get by me. – Kasper Gutman, offensive right guard for the Maltese Falcons.

"The Pats won't get past our defense either. Watch out, Mr. Brrady, here we come.Brady, here we come!" - Kasper Gutman, Middle Linebacker for the Maltese Falcons.

“The Pats won’t get past our defense either. Watch out, Mr. Brady, here we come!” – Kasper Gutman, Middle Linebacker for the Maltese Falcons.

"Look at my phone, Cairo. That's the 40-Bleed Right pass zi threw you this morning in practice. You went left and we missed n uncovered TD. Cant do that in the game today. got it?" - Sam Spade to WR Joel Cairo. at lunch Sunday.

“Look at my phone, Cairo. That’s the 40-Bleed Right pass I threw you this morning in practice. You went left and we missed an uncovered TD! – And don’t ever wear that bow tie with your Falcons uniform. again. It makes you look like a sissy!” – Sam Spade to WR Joel Cairo. at lunch Sunday.

"You don't want to hear the truth, Mr. Spade. Bow ties are for sissie. They are cool! If you don't want to be taken for a sissy, why don't you stop bogarting those chorus girl cigarette and get you some Cuban cigars. SOgies are the coice of real men like Al Capone. - Did you even know that? - Joel Cairo, defending himself against the words of Sam Spade.

“You don’t want to hear the truth, Mr. Spade. Bow ties are not for sissies. They are cool! If you don’t want to be taken for a sissy, why don’t you stop bogarting those chorus girl cigarettes and get you some Cuban cigars. Stogies are the choice of real men – men like Al Capone. – Did you even know that? – Joel Cairo, defending himself against the words of Sam Spade as he also uses his on lighted showgirler as a pointer.

"Stuff it Cairo, and just get you mind ready to have the first heroic day of your weasel life. In the meanwhile, keep your trap shut. You don't want me to attach this "stuff that drems are mde of" trophy to a part of your body that will make it hard for you to go long for anything!." - Sam Spade in a calm and delivered response to Cairo's comments.

“Stuff it, Cairo, and just get your mind ready to have the first heroic day of your weasel life. In the meanwhile, keep your trap shut. You don’t want me to attach this “stuff that dreams are made of” trophy to a part of your body that will make it hard for you to go fast and long for anything!.” – Sam Spade in a calm and delivered response to Cairo’s rejoinder to Sam’s first personal comment.

"I borrowed the Super Bird Trophy last night so we Falcons could also squeeze a few extra bucks from cheap knock-off copies bucks could have a few knock-0ff could make a few extra bucks from the sale of overnight knock-off copies we hoped to have made by a slimy friend. Sad to say, he misplaced it and I went over help him find it after lunch. We finally located it two hours later, but it was then too lates to make the copies." _ Sam Spade

“I borrowed the Super Bird Trophy last night so we Falcons could also squeeze a few extra bucks from cheap knock-off copies we planned to have made by a slimy carnival friend. Sad to say, he misplaced it and I went over to help him find it after lunch. We finally located it two hours later, but it was then too late to make the copies.” – Sam Spade

It’s late Sunday afternoon, Feb. t, 2016. Almost time for the first annual Super Bird Bowl I at NRG Stadium in Houston. Hope you have time to tune in tomorrow for the results of the big game. And don’t be confused by the stories you also read about on the Internet and in the newspapers. These sources are contractually required to report the results of Super Bowl Li – even though no actual game between the Atlanta Falcons and the New England Patriots will be played today.

The Maltese Falcons and the New England Patriots are another reality matter altogether – and the Pecan Park Eagle will be your exclusive source for information on that Sunday game sometime on Monday.

Stayed tuned.

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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Your Cheatin’ Heart – Left a Smell on You

February 4, 2017

“Our sleep will not come
Til we know you’re through
Your cheatin’ heart – left a smell on you…”

“Your Cheatin’ Heart”

A Parody dedicated to the Memory of Information Cheaters Everywhere

By Bill McCurdy

Your cheatin’ heart
Has made us weep
We cry and cry
But what the bleep
Our sleep will not come
Til we know you’re through
Your cheatin’ heart – left a smell on you…

Player files roll down
Like fallin’ rain
We toss them ’round
And curse your name
You’ll walk the floor
Tryin’ to lose that pew
But your cheatin’ heart – left a smell on you…

Your cheatin’ heart
Gets your mind some day
You’ll crave the love
That you threw away
The time’s gonna come
When your face turns blue
But that real bad smell’s – gonna still be you…

When the facts come down
From that digital brain
Folks will toss around
Your worthless name
They’ll show you the door
As the Astros do
On your cheatin’ heart – and the smell that’s you…

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Now follow this link to the real story:

The Cardinals’ Hacking Scandal Stands Alone In The History Of Cheating In Baseball

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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SB51: Haven’t Been There; Don’t Need to Go

February 3, 2017

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SB51: Haven’t Been There; Don’t Need To Go

Ah, The Super Bowl! Like many of you with enough age behind you – and enough sports fan compulsivity about you – it’s easy to declare that we’ve seen all fifty that have been played, so far, and that we will likely see SB51 – the third to be played in Houston – if we don’t keel over in the brief meanwhile.

We’ll see this one to – the same way we saw all others – and that is, of course, on television. The difference now is that even we average fans could see the game better live at the stadium. Those smaller, grainy picture screens that we used for TV during most of this half century period gave us a pretty good perspective on where the ball was being moved by the offenses, but we had to watch the plays in that fuzzy era of lined picture screens that ribboned the mind with one fairly consistent universal experience and conclusion: That is, to say, “we would never pay to watch a big screen movie at the theater, if this were the best picture quality they could bring us.

Then, in recent years, came high definition, digital pixel quality television and many of us devotees of the home screen suddenly realized, at last, that we now owned the better hand on picture quality. The home screen quality was now bigger, richer, clearer, and brilliant in its capacity to expose the human eye and soul to direct light colors that strike our emotions and imaginations much more deeply than the faded movie film colors of the same action on the formerly called “big screen”. – Big screen? – With the health safety that also comes from these new gigantic HD digital TV screens, we may sit as close as we choose to the new big eye on the world at home and enjoy the biggest wraparound viewing experience on the new vivid picture home windows of the simultaneously quite inviting and most foreboding world of the early 21st century.

Our family went to see the NFL Texans play once in 2013 and had to settle for expensive tickets in the south rafters of that end zone for the experience of watching the locals lose to the Oakland Raiders. Most of the game, we watched the action on NRG’s so-called “big screen” simply so we could actually see how each play effected field position. We could have watched the same game on the big screen at home much more comfortably – in underwear and easy chairs, if we so desired. And we do so desire. At least this ancient Papa Bear does. – And, as the bonus – I never have to worry at home about someone standing up in front of me just in time to cover up the biggest plays of the game.

Some of the movie theaters are also getting hip to the message about the growing demand for comfort at the viewing venue. The Cinemark multiple screen theater now offers seating in wide recliners, and they’ve added buffer walls that block viewers from the distraction of OCD people seated in front of you who feel compelled to keep checking their social media site connections throughout the movie. The only problem is – they still will not let theater-goers watch movies in their underwear as they surely might choose to do so at home. For the sake of salvaging some modicum of civility and respect for privacy, that’s probably a good idea.

The final nutshell.

Take it to the bank. If I’m still vertical and breathing the intoxicating sweet air of this beautiful energizing world on Sunday, I will be watching my 51st consecutive Super Bowl. And like the fifty special NFL championship games that have passed before it, I shall, like so many of you, be watching it on a nice sized home screen HD digital pixels television receiver.

My personal record of never having seen a Super Bowl in person with the much over-rated naked eye shall remain intact. – Haven’t been there. Don’t need to go.

Have fun at the big game, everybody – in whatever way that pleases you, if you’re interested at all. If not, there is still a pretty rich reward out there called reading for those whose HD clarity finds its greatest resolution of imagination in the wonderful theater of the mind.

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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UH Cougar Football Panel is Feb. 8th

February 2, 2017

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The Heritage Society is planning to honor the history of UH Cougar Football next Wed., Feb. 8th, with a program at their place downtown. Read the email from Mike Vance that follows. This wonderfully planned event should be more than enough to attract all deep red-blooded Cougars to the 7:00 pm – 8:30 PM panel presentation and exhibit.

Here’s the way Heritage Society Program Director Mike Vance depicted the event in his e-mail to our attention:

Hi, everyone!I wanted to let you know about the UH football history panel discussion on Wednesday, February 8 at the Heritage Society, 1100 Bagby downtown, from 7 to 8:30 PM. It’s part of the events being done in conjunction with our Bayou City Blitz: The History of Houston Football that is up in our Museum. It is a terrific exhibit and runs through April 29.

Most importantly, we want to be sure there are lots of Cougars faithful who come see the event on February 8. So far the lineup is: Craig Roberts, moderator; Ted Pardee; Chuck Brown; Jerry Drones and author Bob Jacobus who has written at least two books on Cougar athletics history. We are looking to add one more former player, so there might be more. The talk will all be about UH football, including questions from the audience.

For that night, we will leave the Museum open late, so people can come explore the exhibit before they cross our Connally Plaza and go into the panel discussion which will be held in our Tea Room. That is the wooden building that fronts on Bagby.

We held the first panel last week with six former Oilers players, and it was just terrific. We want this to do the same for those who love UH football. Please spread the word

Thanks much,

Mike Vance

www.heritagesociety.org

713.655.1912 x113

1100 Bagby

Houston, TX 77002
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This note arrive later from Mike Vance. – Great Cougar running back Alois Blackwell has been added to the panel of of UH football people who will be there next Wednesday night.

See you next week – and …. “Eat ‘Em Up”, Cougars!

“In Time …. UH …. In Time!”

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Bill McCurdy

Publisher, Editor, Writer

The Pecan Park Eagle

Houston, Texas

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