Word: houston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston was the home town of the Urban Cowboy, a ghost town in that sense now. The country-and-western boom has gone the way of the Oilers, who in the words of Fullback Earl Campbell (originally of Songwriter Merle Haggard) have gone the way of "a snowball rolling downhill headed for hell." Halfway through the season last week, the Oilers had lost them...
...sturdy team just three years ago, Houston recalls the spark of its demolition as the 1980 firing of Country Coach Bum Phillips, whose fame, in the opinion of Owner Bud Adams, had become excessive. When the prairie was in fashion, Phillips was both Will Rogers and the Marlboro man come to life. On every other billboard in Houston, he recommended pointy-toed boots made out of everything from ostriches to anteaters to dead dogs in the road...
...that the wave has passed, Phillips is having a fine time in New Orleans, employing rickety old Oiler Quarterback Ken Stabler joyfully in the process, while Houston contemplates 15 losses straight. The second Oiler coach since Phillips, Chuck Studley, says bafflingly, "We're certainly still in a position to go either way." Since Studley has been in charge scarcely three weeks and is yet too new to boo, the Houston Astrodome patrons have been brutalizing Quarterback Gifford Nielsen. They prefer Oliver Luck, Nielsen's wonderfully named understudy. Few players on any football team are as highly regarded...
...single game, we're going to get rid of this drug problem." By N.F.L. standards, their problem was moderate. No indictments, but the names of five prominent players came up via a federal wiretap at the trial of a Brazilian cocaine smuggler. At the same time, the Houston Oilers have had two incidences of possession. So in Texas drugs have been added to the holy coordinates of football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi-Tough, barbecue sauce, insurance, computers, oil and (on third down) shotguns. Before the game last week at suburban and palatial...
...aggressive Pennsylvania golden girl with the pale blue eyes seemed unstoppable. One of her Ithaca College journalism professors told her, "There's no place for broads in broadcasting." So she worked her way up from radio disc jockey and newsreader to TV reporter and local anchor in Houston and Philadelphia; she put in 16-hour days to eliminate any chance that newsroom chauvinists could tag her as an electronic bunny...