Lit them up in the trenches, but that was all fun and games. Mostly, it was about his teammates. His raw temper, later tamed, helped. Poor Ole Miss, got crunched into the cold, snowy 1961 Cotton Bowl mud. Mauled by the 'Horns. Knocked out.
Then the knock up, unexpected, time for business. Fuller brushes didn't sell themselves, Austin city work wasn't bad, but hot and too smelly. North to cool Denton, a management wiz, graduated with honors. Mean and green before Mean Joe Greene. First round draft pick of Texas Instruments.
Two decades of TI'ing in Dallas, Sherman, Lubbock, and Midland, narrowly avoiding the Phillipines. Then 3 decades cranking out telecommunications switches at DSC, being a hired consulting gun for The Thomas Group, and wrapping his 50 professional years as the top sales person for Texahoma Oil & Gas. The man knew W-2 Forms. Money was easy, he said. Earn it easy, spend it easy.