Winter Texans (1975)

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:33 AM -0500 1/29/07, Charles Doyle wrote:
>In Georgia we have the "halfbacks" (a term almost never used in
>connection with football anymore, with the ubiquity of the I, the
>Shotgun, and the "empty backfield" formations; perhaps the phrase
>was left looking for a referent).  HALFBACKS are Yankees (often
>retirees) who descended to live in Florida, didn't like it there
>(who WOULD?!), so moved "half(-way)back" northward to the hill
>country of Georgia. There, they regularly vote against public school
>financing; hey, they don't have kids in school!
>
>--Charlie

aren't those just the right halfbacks?  I'd expect every now and then
you'd get a left halfback or two.

LH

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>>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:54:18 EST
>>From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
>>Subject: Winter Texans (1975); OT: Billy the Kid
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>>WINTER TEXANS
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>>Any HDAS or other help on "Winter Texans" (called "snowbirds" in  Florida):
>>...
>>(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/winter_texan/)
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