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...many people loathe lawns; others ostentatiously show their wealth by the look of their grassy places (still others, sensitive to criticism, sneakily install root-system watering devices, eliminating the telltale arc of an aboveground sprinkler). In any event, there were three feet of water standing in some streets of Midland and Odessa the day before the game...
...This deal was sold out before the season started," Gil Bartosh, athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear...
...assistant principal at Midland came in and shook himself off. "I got a three-quarter-ton pickup truck, and I flooded out," he said. "It's just the condensation in that distributor. I ought to go out there and dry it out, but I'd drown doing...
...distractions in West Texas, like mountains or lakes or anything, and most communities are centered around their schools." When the tickets for this game went on sale, the school's booster club gobbled them up before any could be offered to the general public, which got cross. The Midland Memorial Stadium seats 10,750. Odessa has a new stadium that seats 19,500, but district rules say the game has to alternate sites each year. "When we go out of town [to play] in West Texas, we'll carry 3,000 to 7,000 with us on the road," said...
...only game in town," explained Scotty Alcorn, a geological engineer for a Midland oil company. "You take pride in your football team. We call this district the Little Southwest Conference. It stretches from Odessa to Abilene, 165 miles. Why, back East in some places you'd be out of the state...