Dad was from Minnesota and went to Univ. of Minnesota before moving to California. Mom grew up in El Paso and went to what is now UTEP for three years before her family moved to Los Angeles. She graduated from UCLA. Folks met and married before war, and I was first of four kids born after WWII, while Dad served as pilot for USN.
For me, kindergarten and first grade in California, second through fourth grade (two houses, two schools) in Phoenix, fifth through start of eighth (two houses, three schools) in Lubbock, and rest of eighth through high school in Richardson (one school building, one house). While a lot of my HS classmates headed west to Tech, I had already spent more than three years in Lubbock. As a kid, I saw my first live football game at Tech - I think against Oregon State.
Dad had a business connection with Tom Harpool, and we were invited to a NT game at Fouts in 1959 or 1960 when I was still in junior high. Between a budget covering four kids and having moved enough already, going to college at a state school close to home was an easy decision. With a change in majors halfway through, I graduated from NTSU in five years. I attended every home plus three road football games and nearly all home basketball games from 1964 - 1969.
Between no sports communication from the alumni association and the fall to a lower division, I lost track of and interest in UNT sports for most of the next 35 years while living in Dallas and Richardson. My employer moved headquarters to Lewisville in early 2006, and we moved from Richardson to Flower Mound a month earlier. Having been a Cowboy season ticket holder for 19 years before JJ bought the club and a Mavericks season ticket holder for ten, our interest in pro sports developed an inverse relationship with player salaries and ticket prices. I thought to myself, why not reconnect with UNT now that we are so close.
So we are now in our sixth year of football ticket season holders and this year went from frequent ticket buyer to season tickets for basketball.