Hereford

And at the time they were in Lubbock.

They eventually, while I was with them, we moved to Hereford, moved the branch to Hereford.

But about six months later, I got a call from the Merck guy that I'd interviewed with and said they had a position available and would I be interested in interviewing for it? So I did.

And I flew to Kansas City.

know about that.

Roots from Hereford, Texas, coached and knows more people, I think, more people, well, I don't know.

You and John Contrusi know a lot of people.

We are very honored to have Coach Alan Ward is with us today.

that guy was going to go to Alabama, but he never did make it.

I know you have a thousand stories like that.

Before we get back to the famous campers, let's talk about your roots because Before I got into the coaching profession, Hereford, Texas was a place you drove through, held your nose, because the smell of money, y'all would say.

Oh, yeah.

some of the great wrestlers in the world coming in and you would sneak down and listen to your dad tell stories and they would be cutting up and who

were some of the guys you listened to? One, two o'clock in the morning they'd come back from, well back then it would be Abilene and Odessa and all of those southern towns or Hereford whenever they'd get closer and my mom would go ahead and she'd cook up those wonderful steaks and wonderful meals and everything at 12.30, 1.30 at night and everything, you know, and I'd come into there and it was just wonderful.

It was, what a way to grow up, to listen to their stories.

And especially, you know, whenever you're hearing stories about World War II and all of these different things that happened to them and everything, you know, it's just wonderful.

Many others, too.

Rapid Ricky Romero.

Why did I love Rapid Ricky Romero? Because we'd go to all of those little towns where they pick cotton, you know, like Littlefield and Hereford, Texas, you know, and I'd go over there.

I loved to be on the card with Ricky because there'd just be oodles and oodles of the Spanish population would come out to see him.