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...more than lived up to his Heisman Trophy notices, passing the Pats to upset victories over the Colts and Miami this fall; New Orleans Saints' Archie Manning, 22, 6 ft. 3 in., 212 lbs., the sensational roll-out passer and scrambler from Ole Miss, was so spectacular as a rookie that he had defenses gunning for him all season long; Pittsburgh Steelers' Terry Bradshaw, 23, 6 ft. 3 in., 214 lbs., finding his groove in his sophomore season, sparked the Steelers to their best winning season in five years; Buffalo Bills' Dennis Shaw...
...Murchison brothers and Neiman-Marcus, and multimillion-dollar transactions conducted in private jets that whisper swiftly through the silvery prairie night. Then there is the hardscrabble Texas, dusty and dun, which fans out westward from Fort Worth to towns like Dilley and Draw and Del Rio, where the good ole boys gather round gas-station coolers to drink RC Colas and tell lazy lies. It is a sullen land, worked by silent, leathery men and their resilient women...
...This Southwestern tribal ritual more closely resembles a vigorous bloodletting in the Circus Maximus than a friendly athletic contest. Instead of musky wine from handwrought goblets, though, the spectators knock down rye whisky from leather-bound flasks while the hot-blooded young gladiators, as they say down home, whup ole Billy outa one another. Turns out, for the first time in five years, it is Oklahoma that does the whupping. By day's end Texas has lost its first-and second-string quarterbacks, a linebacker, a tight end, the game (by a score of 48-27) and considerable face...
...prime breeding cattle. They are treated like visiting royalty, right down to a barbecue for 1,500 on Lamar Hunt's Circle T Ranch. While the wealthy Latin Americans take the 5,000-acre spread in stride, their home-grown counterparts are visibly awed. Drawls one weathered wrangler: "Ole Lamar got so much money, he coulda greased Pontius Pilate's palm and got Jesus Christ off with three weeks on the county correction farm...
...tall, dark tales of the Alligator Lady who crawls on her belly like a reptile. Ah, yes, the State Fair of Texas still has the power to charm, because the more it changes, the more it stays the same. Or, like they say down home, plus ça change, ole buddy...