I want to share a funny story with y'all.
This past week, I was in Washington, DC, on business. While there, I got to attend the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park, where the Washington Nationals play.
While I was waiting to leave for the game in the lobby of my hotel, I started talking with an older gentleman wearing a shirt indicating he had been on the coaching staff at Groesbeck at some point before he retired. He asked me what part of Texas I'm from and when I told him I grew up in Port Neches, I found I was no longer talking to an old Groesbeck coach.
Suddenly, I was talking to a former assistant coach at A&M Consolidated recounting how dumbfounded he was when he and his team came out of the locker room for the pre-game warm-up to see approximately 32,000 purple-clad Indian fans streaming into the stands on the other side of the field an hour before kickoff at the Astrodome in November of 1989.
Apparently, the PN-GISD superintendent at that time had told the A&M Consolidated head coach before the game that PN-G needed a playoff venue with at least 15,000 seats on our side of the field. And apparently, the A&M coach didn't believe our superintendent was actually serious at least in part because, per the guy I was talking to, A&M Consolidated didn't expect to bring even 1,500 fans of their own.
But after that game? A&M never questioned our fan following again.
There was a little extra pep in my step the whole way to the ballpark after that.
This past week, I was in Washington, DC, on business. While there, I got to attend the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park, where the Washington Nationals play.
While I was waiting to leave for the game in the lobby of my hotel, I started talking with an older gentleman wearing a shirt indicating he had been on the coaching staff at Groesbeck at some point before he retired. He asked me what part of Texas I'm from and when I told him I grew up in Port Neches, I found I was no longer talking to an old Groesbeck coach.
Suddenly, I was talking to a former assistant coach at A&M Consolidated recounting how dumbfounded he was when he and his team came out of the locker room for the pre-game warm-up to see approximately 32,000 purple-clad Indian fans streaming into the stands on the other side of the field an hour before kickoff at the Astrodome in November of 1989.
Apparently, the PN-GISD superintendent at that time had told the A&M Consolidated head coach before the game that PN-G needed a playoff venue with at least 15,000 seats on our side of the field. And apparently, the A&M coach didn't believe our superintendent was actually serious at least in part because, per the guy I was talking to, A&M Consolidated didn't expect to bring even 1,500 fans of their own.
But after that game? A&M never questioned our fan following again.
There was a little extra pep in my step the whole way to the ballpark after that.
