If the Cal game had been played in Archer City...

[Eagle71]

Sam The Lion/Mean Green Fans: 

“A few teams have had some luck with tackling.              

Keeps the other team from scoring so often.

                  

Sonny/NT Defense:

 “Sounds too rough for me.”

  

Sam The Lion/Mean Green Fans:

“Where's your school spirit?”

 

 Sonny/NT Defense: 

“Don't know.”

 

The Last Picture Show

[Eagle71]

Sam the Lion/Mean Green Fans:

You see? This is what I get for bettin' on my own hometown ballteam.  I ought'a have better sense.

 

Abilene/Cal Fans:

Wouldn't hurt to have a better hometown.

 

The Last Picture Show (1971)

[Eagle71]

NT Class of '58

Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, prominent book collector, bookseller and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins).

 

His 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries that earned 18 Emmy Award nominations (seven wins). The subsequent three novels in his Lonesome Dove series were adapted as three more miniseries, earning eight more Emmy nominations.

 

McMurtry's birth certificate states that he was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, the son of Hazel Ruth (née McIver) and William Jefferson McMurtry. He grew up on his parents' ranch outside Archer City. The city was the model for the town of Thalia which is a setting for much of his fiction.

 

He earned a BA from the University of North Texas in 1958  - Wikipedia.

[Udomann]

Uhhhh... What?