1. Alan Peppard brings us a cool story today about Dallas and the Super Bowl. He writes: “Forty-four years ago, the seed of the big game was planted in secret in a parking lot at Love Field and incubated in a series of spy vs. spy meetings in Highland Park and North Dallas. As the sons of Texas’ two most famous oilmen tried to settle their differences, the modern NFL emerged and a national celebration was born.” Recommended reading. I wish they’d make that guy write more than just his column. He’s good at it.
2. Then there’s Charlie Perez, a thief who likes to break into cars. Cops call him a “one-man crime wave.” Yes, he’s a heroin addict. But he’s a lovable heroin addict. Like, one time, right after he got out of jail, Perez stopped by the police station to taunt the cops who had arrested him. Zac finally finished the cover story for our February issue yesterday. With that off his plate, I’m pretty sure he has time today to work on the pilot episode of the TV show based on Perez’s life. It’s called Smash and Grab.
3. Catfight! American Airlines and Orbitz are all kinds of pissed at each. Now American has pulled its tickets off the online booking service. Snap!
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I have no idea what AA and Orbitz actually are fighting about, but I would guess that Orbitz wants to provide customer service and AA wants to let the customers eat cake (but only after the arrival of the cake is delayed by two hours without explanation, the cake is served by surly employees, and each customer has to pay an extra $2 if you want icing — oh, and a fork is an extra $5).
So right about this article, Tim. Great reading! Alan has seen and experienced so much Dallas history and has a great perspective on things. Really interesting how Murchison’s kin don’t even have Cowboy tickets because of the outrageous licensing fee. Makes me dislike the Arkansas Mafia led by Jerry Jones all the more.
One story I remember reading a long time ago is that Lamar Hunt had to be talked out of keeping the name “Texans” when he moved the team to KC….finally he agreed that the Kansas City Texans sounded a little strange. Can anyone verify this story. And no, I do not mean to anything derogatory about Mr Hunt, but I do remember the story.
1. Peppard rocks.
2. So we can stick a needle in a guys arm and kill him outright, but severing the fingers of a career thief is inhumane? (What if we just snip the median nerve at the wrists?)
3. AA thinks that since they brought their website up to 2002 standards, customers would stop using Orbitz. Silly rabbits…
FWGuy: That’s mentioned here, but of course, just because you see it on the Internet doesn’t make it so …
http://web.archive.org/web/20080609053609/http://www.kcchiefs.com/history/60s/
Carefully read this back to yourself, Tim: “Alan Peppard brings us a cool story today about how Dallas and the Super Bowl. He write:”
Good thing Peppard writes better than you do!
@Alan: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. Fixed. Thank you. Hate you.
The Texans became the Chiefs in honor of former Kansas City Mayor H. Roe Bartle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Roe_Bartle#Mayor
@Tom, wouldn’t that mean that they would be called the KC Bartles?
@JS: Mayor Bartle was known as “The Chief”