Drawn just before the 1985 football season and published in The Battalion Newspaper, This cartoon featured me--Dale Smith wearing my "I believe in Jackie T-shirt (very popular at the time) and Janet Hager who later became my wife. It was a present day scene of a vision of my future. Or so I thought.
The Texas A&M football team was preparing to play Alabama in the opening game of the 1985 season. The game was to be nationally televised. It pitted A&M, coached by Jackie Sherrill a former Alabama linebacker, against The University of Alabama.
The widely anticipated contest was planned a few years before when legendary Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Alabama signed a contract with A&M and Sherrill to play a home and home contest.
The large screen television displayed the event. The calender on the wall had the days crossed off leading up to the game. The tropical plant in the background traveled with me for more than ten years through high school and college. The ottoman was made for me by my late grandmother and given to me when I was very young. I'm sitting in my favorite chair with a cold beverage. A bowl of cotton representing the often dreamed of Cotton Bowl where our Aggies hadn't participated in more than eighteen years. My future wife (who never really got football as Legendary NFL Coach John Madden never really got golf...in his own words) was talking with her mother by telephone. Frustrated, she had hit me three times with an iron skillet and all I could say was Football! Football! Football! That is almost entirely true. Never hit me that many times, but yes, I was hard headed and loved Aggie football to the point she couldn't change the train of thought. She finally gave up. Twenty-four years later Jackie signed it for me! Created by DaleSmithArt; All rights reserved.
The Texas A&M football team was preparing to play Alabama in the opening game of the 1985 season. The game was to be nationally televised. It pitted A&M, coached by Jackie Sherrill a former Alabama linebacker, against The University of Alabama.
The widely anticipated contest was planned a few years before when legendary Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and Alabama signed a contract with A&M and Sherrill to play a home and home contest.The large screen television displayed the event. The calender on the wall had the days crossed off leading up to the game. The tropical plant in the background traveled with me for more than ten years through high school and college. The ottoman was made for me by my late grandmother and given to me when I was very young. I'm sitting in my favorite chair with a cold beverage. A bowl of cotton representing the often dreamed of Cotton Bowl where our Aggies hadn't participated in more than eighteen years. My future wife (who never really got football as Legendary NFL Coach John Madden never really got golf...in his own words) was talking with her mother by telephone. Frustrated, she had hit me three times with an iron skillet and all I could say was Football! Football! Football! That is almost entirely true. Never hit me that many times, but yes, I was hard headed and loved Aggie football to the point she couldn't change the train of thought. She finally gave up. Twenty-four years later Jackie signed it for me! Created by DaleSmithArt; All rights reserved.
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