The rivalry between Dallas and Houston goes back to Tom Landry’s Dallas Cowboys, Bum Phillips’ Houston Oilers and early baseball bitterness.
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None of Texas’ state favorites is at risk in this rivalry. H-E-B is from the San Antonio area. Whataburger is from Corpus Christi. Dr Pepper is from Waco, and Blue Bell is from Brenham.teed it up against the old Houston Oilers and Stetson-wearing coach Bum Phillips, sports fans in both cities are remembering why they don’t like each other and recalling put-downs from years ago,
Phillips, a Southeast Texas truck driver’s son and a World War II combat veteran, crowed after Cowboys hero Roger Staubach threw three incomplete passes on Dallas’ last drive.and a nationwide craze for all things Texan, Phillips drawled into the microphones that the Cowboys “may be America’s Team, but we’re Texas’ Team.”
Here in North Texas, we knew Rangers great Nolan Ryan came from some distant land around Houston. We forgave him.
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