This was my lunch on Monday at a place called Langford's Groceries, just off downtown Houston, which was profiled on Food Network's "Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives". It's not actually a grocery store, but an eatery housed in what used to be a gas station garage once upon a time. I placed the Diet Coke can there to give this thing some scale--that's 1.5 pounds of freakin' beef! I ate every last ounce of it in one sitting, too, and it was outstanding. This thing makes a Hardee's "Monster Burger" look positively bite-size in comparison. Guy Fieri got this one right...
I was tickled to death to see that this Texas institution still exists, the mighty Spec's Liquors. It was here at their location near downtown Houston that I legally purchased alky-hol for the first time back in 1984. I was only 19 at the time, but this was back before Texas raised the legal drinking age to 21. Even their signage hasn't changed in 28 years...
In the 1962 American Football League Championship Game, Dallas Texans' RB Abner Haynes uttered this rather infamous gaffe during the coin flip before overtime (he should've told the ref that the Texans wanted the ball) at the 50-yard line of this venue, Jeppesen (now Robertson) Stadium at the University of Houston and orginal home of the Houston Oilers. That's not the clock the Texans kicked to, of course, but it is the direction that Haynes chose to kick it. Turned out his FUBAR didn't matter anyway, as the Texans won that day, in their final game before becoming the Kansas City Chiefs.
Apart from Otis Taylor and Jan Stenerud, Elmo Wright was my favorite Chiefs player from back in their glory days, thanks mostly to his silly TD celebration dance he'd do in the end zone (at the 4:45 mark of this video). Elmo is also honored in the end zone of Jeppesen/Robertson Stadium as one of the standout "Coogs" of the U. of Houston. The stadium, which has also served in recent years as the home of Major League Soccer's Houston Dynamo, will be demolished after the 2012 football season and replaced by a brand new stadium.
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