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The winter blast that is beginning to pummel North Texas — and the rest of the region — reminds me of a story I like telling about the late O.A. “Bum” Phillips, the legendary football coach of the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints.<\/p>\n

My old haunts in the Panhandle already are shivering.<\/p>\n

I cannot prove Bum said this. Even if he didn’t, it sounds like something Bum would have said.<\/p>\n

He took the Oilers to Buffalo to play the Bills in a late-season game. The weather was hideous. Wind, rain, snow, ice, bone-chilling temps. The Oilers won the game.<\/p>\n

Afterward, Bum delivered — I believe — a classic answer to the question from the reporter: “How did you like coaching in the cold weather.”<\/p>\n

Bum said: “Cold? This ain’t cold! I used to coach in Amarillo, Texas.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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The winter blast that is beginning to pummel North Texas — and the rest of the region — reminds me of a story I like telling about the late O.A. “Bum” Phillips, the legendary football coach of the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints. My old haunts in the Panhandle already are shivering. I cannot … Continue reading It is so cold …<\/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],"tags":[6761,10095],"class_list":["post-53844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bum-phillips","tag-winter-blast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844","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=53844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53846,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53844\/revisions\/53846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}