Winter Texans (1975)

Charles Doyle cdoyle at UGA.EDU
Mon Jan 29 17:24:36 UTC 2007


The left halfbacks have left, so there are none left.

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:34:50 -0500
>From: Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Winter Texans (1975)

>
>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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