Switzer Rescues Dog....

[LonghornCatholic]

Then has sex with the dogs owner while he sends the husband to the vet.

 

[Horn69]

You funny guy.

Hook'em!!!

 

[BurntOrangeOnly]

Damn him! He's making it tough to hate him as much as I want. That's a cool thing to do though, so I

to him.

 

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The following is a true story.

I was living in Austin when the Cowboys had training camp there in the mid-90s. I had a '69 Cadillac with a horn you buy from J.C. Whitney that plays "The Eyes of Texas" (it was not orange).

I was going north on Mopac one day, and saw this GMC SUV with blue and silver and white... obviously a Dallas Cowboys "official vehicle" (I learned later that the coaches were given courtesy vehicles to drive around town by one of the local dealerships). Anyway...

I pull up next to it and it's Barry Switzer driving. I honk the horn once (it's loud), but he doesn't react. I start going through the honk sequence again, but this time, he looked right at me while mouthing "Yeah, baby!" and giving me a very vigorous Hook 'em Horns hand-signal.

Needless to say, I was quite taken aback and from that day forward lost a lot of animosity I had for him from his Oklahoma days. He is just a good ol' boy, and knows how to have fun.

(Did I mention he had a blonde babe in the vehicle with him?)

 

[SunBurntOrange]

Why did they have to refer to him as the ex Cowboys coach when he was much better known for his days on the crap side of the Red River. Only thing he did in Dallas was to claim one of Jimmy's rings and fill his spot for a couple of years while JJ dismantled the dynasty.

Cool puppy story though.

 

[yelladawgdem]

My late brother played at Arkansas when Barry was on the staff there. As much as he hated OU, he never, never had an unkind thing to say about Barry, in fact had nothing but great things to say about him as a person. When the Cowboy's were practicing at St. Edward's, my brother and niece went to see them several times. One day as they were leaving, they heard "Wayne! Wayne Austin!". They turned around and it was Barry. They had not seen each other more than a dozen times since the mid 1960's, but Coach recoginized and remembered him. After my brother passed away at his Round Rock home in 2001, my Mother received a hand written note from Coach that meant the world to her. And to me.

Barry is quoted as saying, "I did not create the monster (at OU), I was just hired to feed it". Indeed he left the program just exactly as he found it, wildly sucessful and on a massive probation.

The man and the coach are two very different people. "Bootlegger's Boy" is a great football read.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

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[Texanne]

A dear friend of mine has told me on repeated occasions that Barry Switzer is a great guy to go have a beer with.

I might agree if Barry is paying.

 

[georgecostanza]

Did he send the dog to Stoops' house?

 

[EDT]

I wonder what DKR would post here?

 

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[huisache]

I bad mouthed Switzer while playing golf with David McWilliams once and David said Switzer was a really charming guy and he enjoyed his company.

Years later I read Bootlegger's Boy and understood what he meant,. Get a copy of that book, read it, and you will wonder how he turned out as well as he did. As Joe Paterno said, "I don't think Barry realizes how revealing this book really is."

As for his stint with the cowboys, he would be the first to admit he did not win a super bowl; he just had better players to work with than anybody else and knew how to use them.

 

[Statalyzer]

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[cmtsip]

Once a sorry bastard. always a sorry bastard!

SORRY BASTARD SORRY BASTARD

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

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[huisache]

You can have better talent, be a better coach and still lose. Ask DKR how many times he could have won national championships and didn't. Ask Paterno or any other great coach.

And my point was that Switzer always said it was the quality of the players you had that determined your chances. He rebuffed assertions that he was a football genius by saying that geniuses don't become football coaches.

 

[IvanDiabloHorn]

Barry Switzer is a cheating sorry bastard. He's kind of like Jane Fonda, neither will ever be thought of kindly no matter they do later in life. My last impression of his sorry *** was when he got to announce the BIg 12 south representative in 2008 with a grin on national tv.

 

[Texas Rugby]

Bootlegger's Boy was written by Switzer, it's a sanitized version of his life. Even the stuff about his parents are sanitized. What's in the book isn't near as interesting as what he left out.