I’ve been kidnapped a few times in my life – all of them turned out pretty good!

I was mowing my grass at my house on a Saturday morning and all of a sudden a car comes by and says, “Hey Dallas, Let’s go…” I forget exactly what it was but it was something like “Let’s go get a Coke” or “Let’s go get a burger for lunch” or something like that. It was probably when we passed Granbury maybe that I realized something was wrong. I said, “Hey, where are we going anyway?” They said, “I thought we’d go to a Cowboy game.” I’m sitting there in a t-shirt because it was very, very hot and I said, “You guys are dressed and I look like I’ve been doing yard work!” They said, “Aw, that’s all right.”

The many times I went to a Cowboy game I went because a friend took me, or I went because I had some money to blow, or I went because – whatever. I mean we had NO tickets and we went. It was a sell out and we got some of maybe the last few hundred tickets remaining. Anyway, I tell you that to tell you that we sat in the upper confines of Texas Stadium. This was in August and you talk about hot. That stadium was some kind of hot and we were at the top. The only thing that really saved us was if you got up where the wind was “vented” I guess you would say, it was bearable but it was like sitting in a hurricane. It would almost blow your skin off. Anyway, it was miserable!

It was a pretty good ballgame. It was a real good ballgame. It was an exhibition game. The Cowboys were coached the last couple of years by Tom Landry and he was about to go out. So it was Landry and the Oiler coach was Bum Phillips. I guess this was one of few times that they coached against each other. Bum had a good ball club and the Cowboys were pretty good and I think when all was settled, it ended up, I think it was an Oiler win, 29-27 or something like that.

We had a whale of a time in the second half. I don’t remember doing anything in the first half but in the second half it was so hot we kind of “drizzled” down. It was unbearable! I can’t even put into words how hot it was. The second half we started moving down. People started getting up and leaving and by the end of the ballgame we had worked our way all the way down to the bottom of the stadium. You met a different class of people down there. It was hot and we got down to the bottom then we started trying to go back up a little bit to try to get just a little bit of air. I just couldn’t believe – I mean I just couldn’t believe that people paid money – I mean BIG money – BIG money – to sit out in that. It had to have been a hundred outside and if it was, it was a hundred twenty or so inside. It was the most unbearable sporting event that I’ve ever been to. We stayed until the end of the ballgame and left!

I don’t remember if we had a flat. I don’t remember if we had whatever…I just don’t remember anything about it except the heat. It was so very, very hot!

Until next time, so long everybody.

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‘Out of the Box’ with Dallas Huston is published each Monday morning at BrownwoodNews.com. Dallas was the radio voice of the Brownwood Lions and Howard Payne Yellow Jackets for more than 55 years. He currently is Pastor of Center City Baptist Church and hosts a Men’s Bible Study in Brownwood on Monday evenings. Your comments are welcome at [email protected].