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Mom had a million of ’em … sayings, quips, one-liners that is.<\/p>\n

If she said something that I didn’t quite get or understand, she’d say, “Don’t look at me as if I just grew another head.”<\/p>\n

Ba-da-boom!<\/em><\/p>\n

Today while at work a very nice woman asked me something and my response prompted that look from her that might have made me ask about the appearance of a second head.<\/p>\n

“So,” she asked, “did you watch the Cowboys game last night?”<\/p>\n

“Um, no. Not all of it. I was in and out of the game,” I said.<\/p>\n

“It was a great game,” she said. “Sure it was,” I replied, “if you’re a Cowboys fan.”<\/p>\n

“What? You aren’t a Cowboys fan?” she asked.<\/p>\n

“No. Not really,” I said.<\/p>\n

“How can you live in Texas and not be a Cowboys fan?” she asked, sounding borderline incredulous.<\/p>\n

I proceeded to tell her that I am not much of a pro football fan. I mentioned that one of my sons lives in a Dallas suburb and he and his wife are huge Cowboys fans. He watched the game, I told her, and I assured her he likely\u00a0is deliriously happy today that the Cowboys won.<\/p>\n

I told her I’ve lived in Texas for nearly 33 years. I told her I went to a Houston Oilers (remember them?) game years ago in the Astrodome. My favorite pro football team growing up was the Oakland Raiders; I alluded to my upbringing on the Pacific Coast, so I guess it was a regional thing with me. I suppose it’s the same way here.<\/p>\n

Then something occurred consciously to me that I’ve more or less felt<\/em> for many of the past three decades-plus my family and I have lived in Texas: Mere\u00a0residency in this state does not necessarily make one a Texan.<\/em><\/p>\n

I suppose if I were a true-blue Texan, I’d be a serious Cowboys fan. Since my aforementioned Cowboys fan son came of age in Texas, he probably qualifies as a Texan<\/em> — along with his brother — way more than their mother and I do.<\/p>\n

I did mention to the nice lady that I used to cheer for the Cowboys back in the 1960s when they tried to beat the Green Bay Packers for the National Football League championship. Roger Staubach, Mel Renfro — a fellow Oregonian — and “Bullet Bob” Hayes were my go-to guys back then.<\/p>\n

Am I wrong to dismiss the Cowboys? I wish them well as the playoffs commence. But if you’ll excuse me for identifying the\u00a0team for which I plan to root, I’m going to stick with the Raiders.<\/p>\n

They’re having a stellar season, too.<\/p>\n\n

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Mom had a million of ’em … sayings, quips, one-liners that is. If she said something that I didn’t quite get or understand, she’d say, “Don’t look at me as if I just grew another head.” Ba-da-boom! Today while at work a very nice woman asked me something and my response prompted that look from … Continue reading Not every Texas resident roots for Cowboys<\/span> →<\/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":[9,17,18],"tags":[1241,2001,3302,3368],"class_list":["post-18865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-sports-news","category-state-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-nfl","tag-oakland-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865","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=18865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18867,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions\/18867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}