This is wild: This is a portion of the book I’m reading called, “Fast Copy” by Dan Jenkins (from Fort Worth, TCU alum). Anyway, this takes place while the characters attend the original 12th Man Game. The character’s name is “Ben” and the topic is how my great grandfather got his nickname – “Puny”. The game was the kind the sportswriters would call colossal, gigantic, and otherwise stupendous. The Aggies kept Bo McMillen bottled up, and meanwhile an Aggie named Puny Wilson ran wild, largely on deceitful end-around plays. “Why do they call him Puny?” Betsy asked. “Because he aint,” Ben said. “Puny’s a pretty good-size boy.” Betsy thought this over. “So if he was a little scrawny guy they’d call him Blubber?” “No, if he was a big old fat boy they’d call him Blubber. If he was a little old scrawny boy they’d probably call him Dog-bone.” “But he’s average so they call him Puny?” “I guess he used to be puny, I don’t really know.” Betsy thought about it some more. “Why don’t they call him Average?” “Just root for A&M” said Ben. When the final whistle sounded, the cadets in the stands sailed their campaign hats into the air, charged onto the field, and carried their heroes of on their shoulders. Ben Throckmorton shed a tear of pride. He wasn’t an Aggie, just a Texas. He pointed at the scoreboard sitting on a platform at the open end of Fair Park Stadium. It read: Texas A&M 22, Centre College 14. “Remember this day,” Ben said to his daughter. “What you saw here today was the biggest news story since Armistice.”
Posted on: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:01:20 +0000
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