{"id":11808,"date":"2015-11-28T13:33:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11808"},"modified":"2015-11-28T13:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T13:36:07","slug":"man-its-still-cold-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11808","title":{"rendered":"Man &#8230; it&#8217;s still cold out there!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/phillips-2-master675.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/phillips-2-master675-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"phillips-2-master675\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/phillips-2-master675-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/phillips-2-master675.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I posted this blog item once &#8212; on Dec. 8, 2009 &#8212;\u00a0but I feel compelled to share it again today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an anecdotal story about a legendary football coach and his experiences in the Texas Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>Here it is:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s weather reminds me of a story I\u2019ve been telling for years. It involves the legendary football coach O.A. \u201cBum\u201d Phillips and it\u2019s gotten great laughs from those who have heard it.<\/p>\n<div>I have not verified its complete accuracy. But it sounds sufficiently true. Thus, I believe it to be so \u2014 and so do others who have heard it. The story goes like this:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many years ago, when Bum was coaching the Houston Oilers, he took his team to Buffalo to play the Bills. It was late in the season. Winters in Buffalo can be, well, bracing. The Oilers and Bills played that day in one of those classic winter weather events on the shore of Lake Erie: heavy snow, wind, sleet, rain, temperature well below zero.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Oilers won the nationally televised game. As the teams were leaving the field, a TV sideline reporter and cameraman approached Bum and asked him, \u201cWell, Coach, how did you like coaching in this cold weather?\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bum responded: \u201cCold? This ain\u2019t cold! Why, shoot, I used to coach in Amarillo, Texas!\u201d<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this blog item once &#8212; on Dec. 8, 2009 &#8212;\u00a0but I feel compelled to share it again today. It&#8217;s an anecdotal story about a legendary football coach and his experiences in the Texas Panhandle. Here it is: *** Today\u2019s weather reminds me of a story I\u2019ve been telling for years. It involves the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Man &#8230; it&#8217;s still cold out there!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17],"tags":[778,5681,3302,4672],"class_list":["post-11808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-houston-oilers","tag-nfl","tag-texas-panhandle-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11811,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11808\/revisions\/11811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}