Well, the Brownwood Lions continue this strange playoff that we’re involved in. If we possibly can win Friday night we’ll finish 8-5 or something like that and that’s about as much ammo as we’ve got. I don’t think there’s anyway that we get out of the playoffs because we’ll be playing Canyon West Plains —- and they killed us last year. They will be favored to kill us again this year and if we somehow accidentally won that ballgame, we’ll end up playing Stephenville and our chances in that game are next to nothing. So, eight wins which we would have with a victory Friday night, would be absolutely amazing. We’ve got to get past Canyon High School first. They are 7-4 and we are 7-4. Obviously they’ve got a good ball club. That’s a tough District to come out of.
This has been an unbelievable year. Unbelievable because of the events that took place. You couldn’t possibly come up with a stranger outcome than this one. Brownwood will either finish 7-5 or 8-5 so we will see.
This is the anniversary of me making a faithful trip out here. By the way, this is not the first game we’ve played in Odessa. We played Odessa Permian I think in a four-game series back when and believe it or not, we only lost three of those four games. I can remember some weird things about that game. It was about a five o’clock start on Saturday evening. We set up the equipment upstairs and about that time somebody came through the press box and said there was a bad storm right behind us. So, we’re trying to work on the game and my wife and I looked outside and there was the most horrendous cloud you could possibly ever imagine. I mean horrendous! Sure enough, we eyed the storm, went back to our radio booth and tried to get everything organized. By then rain was coming down hard. It was coming down very, very hard. I have never seen a rain come down as hard as that one did. The wind was blowing terrible. They came back to say there was a tornado reported so they were clearing the press box and we needed to leave and go downstairs. Should we go or should we stay? I decided, “Let’s go”, but we’re on the second floor and then I said, “I think if we start down now by the time we get underground we may be gone”. My wife and I sat through it and it was one of the dangdest rain with high wind storms I’ve ever seen. Music from the bands preparing for their pregame and half time was strewn all over that stadium. The players who were walking around on the field, the band students, and everybody got out alive. I mean it came a storm and a half and I felt very lucky that my wife and I were the only ones who sat out the storm.
The game finally started and Permian won. Who knows, maybe it was because of the storm but they won legit. The fact is, by the time the game ended, they had won the game and it was like we had gone through about three or four lifetimes trying to get the game started and finished. I’ll settle for a game like that Friday night as long as we win.
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 lindalh2@verizon.net.