Hey guys, just wanted ya'll know it was great to see all of you. Even after 25 years, still learned newstuff that went on in our great year of 1982. Hope we have more of the team next time.
I wanted to tell ya'll about conversation I had with a veteran football official that I feel is a huge complement to our playoff game.I was working a spring football game at Texas State a few years ago and meet a guy named Mike Rhoades. Mike has worked in the Western Athletic Conference, as an umpire, for 20+ years. As I was talking to him on the sidelines getting some pointers he asked if I had played college football. I told him I had at a small school in West Texas called SRSU. He began telling me how many years of major college football he had worked and rattled off countless bowl games he had been in. He paused for a second and said out of all those games the best game I ever worked wasa playoff game at Sul Ross.
I thought it was pretty amazing that out of all the games he has officiated, he holds that one at the top.He also told me two of the other officials in thatgame went on to the NFL and eventually worked SuperBowls.
November 20, 1982 was a great day to be a LOBO!
BELLS
