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The legendary running back for the Evil Empire isn't doing to well these days:
"With all the computer companies here [in Austin], not one of those companies have said, 'Would you be interested in representing our company?' " Campbell said. He then asked one of the reporters to help him get a car deal with a BMW dealership.
"I need the biggest BMW they got, black and loaded," Campbell said.
I saw Campbell in a restaurant in Austin about 15 years ago. He was in good spirits and cutting it up with everyone. During a lull, I told him how funny I thought his old snuff commercials had been. As he was leaving about a half hour later, he looked back at me over his shoulder and said "Skoal, bruther." (If you ever saw the commercial, you'd appreciate that.)
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I will never forget the thrill of watching Earl Campbell and Dan Pastorini in action ~ Earl was like a truck mowing everything down in his past. He was the one that most inspired me to love football.
"And I need me one of them good lookin white women like OJ had so I can snuff her."
2:36 - He has been happily married to his high school sweetheart for almost 30 years.
4:08, He is driving the same car that he drove in high school.
That's the price one pays for playing professional football. Hope it was all worth it.
All good liberals should raise a hue and cry for government intervention. This decadence is causing these poor (millionaire) athletes to suffer early physical deterioration, and as a compassionate, progressive minded liberal I think it is time for some congressional hearings, investigations, committees, special prosecutors, and ultimately a whole pile of new laws and bureucratts to oversee and enforce them. IT IS NOW UP TO THE GOVERNMENT> NO ONE ELSE CAN SAVE THESE MEN FROM THEMSELVES!
Jack Tatum hitting Earl at the goal line is probably the hardest I've ever seen two people collide. Earl went down, but he still scored. Players today are faster, bigger and stronger. It's amazing more of them are not crippled. And, 4:42 all of them will say it was worth it.
Earl was fantastic! I'm glad that UT continues to employ him and provide him health insurance, which it appears that he desperately needs.
Great story on the Hardline yesterday...At the Golf Tourney in Austin two young boys come up for an autograph...but have nothing to sign...Earl gives them his personal Credit Card told them to have there parents go get as many Footballs as needed and come back...Which they did and he signed them...What a class act..Great guy!!
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