Guess who I met at O'hare

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baoklhorn

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Went to Chicago three weeks ago for a little RR. Got to eat at Harry Carey's [THAT STEAK WAS OFF THE CHARTS GOOD] and the memorabilia on the walls was incredible. Pictures of DiMaggio and Monroe, his incredibly LARGE eyeglasses and so much you could have spent an entire afternoon studying all of it. It was blowing snow on the walk to the restaurant and we were on foot but it still was a great experience.

We got to O'Hare around 1:00 Sunday afternoon at about the time of the start of the Texas/Miami basketball game and I noticed a lot of folks there in Horn gear. Texas was up big on Miami at the half and I thought they would cruise past them easily. Little did I know till I got back, how much the big lead had evaporated.

So we get to the food court to get a quick bite and the wife goes up to the counter to get the grub, some folks across from us leave. Then comes this guy and his wife and they sit at that same spot. I quickly spied the Longhorn on his coat and ask him " So you're a Texas fan huh?". He responds with " I played on the '69 and '70 National Championship teams".

Whoa-HOLD THE PHONE, I thought, so I ask him his name and he says "Billy Dale". "So you are the one that scored the go-ahead TD to beat Theissman and Notre Dame in the '70 Cotton Bowl and were there in that tiny lockeroom in Fayetteville with DKR, Nixon receiving the NC trophy".
He said "yes" and I knew I was having a


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Chris Farley/Paul McCartney type moment.

I got home and checked a copy of "Here Comes the Texas Longhorns" and saw his picture in the back of the book. He looked really good in person and had not changed much at all from his picture in the book taken close to 38 years ago.

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Didn't Billy suffer recently from a serious illness? There was something about it on the Inside Texas message boards last year, I think. Whatever it was, sounds like he recovered.

I was there in person as a UT frosh when he scored that TD. The only time in my life I had 50 yard line seats there.
 
"member when member when you like scored those points..." "yea" 'that was AWESOME"

good stuff and just about everybody has had one of those moments
 
Are you sure it wasn't Harry Caray's Steakhouse and not Hari Kari's? I mean, was the steak so good you forgot the place was named for a Chicago Cubs famous play-by-play guy and not a Japanese form of suicide? How could you know so much about Texas football lore and so little about the name of the restaurant you ate in? Or was it actually "Hari Kari's?"
 
Good for you for knowing who he was. I've had very few encounters with former 'horns, and none as famous as that (but one who offered his letterman tix to my now-ex-wife who declined "because we already have season tix").
 
Sorry about misspelling the restaurant name guys but as I said before, it was blowing snow sideways and I really did not get a great look at the rather small neon sign.

And no I did not get drunk from that 23 oz. Porter smothered in peppercorn sauce, but when I got done with it my wife looked at my plate and the napkin and said "you SLAUGHTERED that thing".
 
hornrush,

The steak was 38.95 and the peppercorn sauce was 2.00 extra. I am not rich by any means, but I know when its time to splurge. No regrets, It was worth every cent.
 
I'm sure it was. I used to take my crew there whenever we traveled to Chicago. Wound up costing a fortune, but fortunately the company paid. And you're right, the steaks are great!
 
However, sauce on a steak?

Any fool can throw a steak on a fire. For that kind of money there better be more to it than just that. Besides, if you haven't tried it, you don't know what you're missing.
 
Stat,

I work with optical, so when I saw the eyeglass in the lighted case, I was able to tell what size and brand it was. If I am not mistaken it was a Rodenstock Rocco 62+ eyesize, black plastic [zyl] with round 22 bi-focals for those of you that know optical.
 
Have had the pleasure to become friends with Billy since he started attending our tailgate (thanks to TornJock). He is absolutely a fine person and very much fun to be around. I have to stop and remind myself that I'm sharing a beer with the guy who carried the ball into the end zone on one of the most important plays in Longhorn history (some guy wearing #10 did it 36 years later).
 
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