Athletes torturing animals in West Texas

Iraan has got to be one of my favorite Texas town names - named after a pair of local ranch owners, Ira and Ann. Whole lotta nothing in that part of Tejas.

 

I have got to go see a six-man or 1A game someday in West Texas. Alas, I have my hands full with the 4A variety in the Plex on Fridays.

Love seeing those scores roll in ... Balmorhea ... Gruver ... New Deal ... Floydada ...

Like I said ... the moon. But I'll be glad to move the earth-moon boundary farther west — say around Strawn. Once you climb Ranger Hill, you are officially on the high plains.

 

Well, technically, that's the rolling plains, also known as The Big Country, as there isn't much to describe the region except that it's large (and it sucks, as does the region's capital city of Abilene.) The escarpment that marks the beginning of the high plains is to the northwest.

FB, hope you get to check out a six-man game one day. They're lots of fun. Maybe you can get down to Abbott, original home of Willie Nelson. I hope that bbq turkey place in Abbott is open again. Couldn't believe it was closed when I drove through some years ago. An outrage...the bbq turkey place in Abbott is as much an I-35 landmark as the kolache gas station in West.

 

Hey all, I saw this thread on here and thought I would post the column that I wrote about the situation:

http://www.oavarsity.com/sports/school_879___article.xml/iraan_football.html

 

The kids involved got let out early and will be able to participate in spring sports after all.

http://www.oaoa.com/news/school_14824___article.html/iraan_teens.html

 

Send in the Marines!

 

I can imagine that town took a good bollocking back in the late 1970s.

 

It was an Iraanian deer. They waterboarded it before they beat it, and George Bush approves.

 

solid.