had never seen a football game . . . I mean an official high school, college, or professional football game played in a stadium. My world was incredibly small because my knowledge of life outside our little home in East Houston was so limited. We did not own a television set as I grew up, which also restricted my awareness. One weekend, while visiting friends in Austin, the father of that family asked all of us kids if we would like to go to a University of Texas football game. I wasn’t sure what he