DALLAS — Marcus Dupree checked in on me last week, just to see what I was up to these days. I go back and forth with Everson Walls on the texting device, more likely to converse about Richardson basketball (Walls went to Berkner, but his wife was an Eagle and his nephew goes there) than the Cowboys.
When Will Clark signed with Texas after his best days were behind him in San Francisco, and then another former Giant, Royce Clayton, joined the club here, Clark pointed to me in the Texas clubhouse and said to Clayton, “Remember this [expletive] from San Francisco?”
My point here: Had I never spent time in the OU locker room talking to Dupree or the Cowboys’ locker room talking to Walls, had I only shouted questions to someone seated at a podium, those relationships never would have developed. Had I only directed questions to Clark while seated 15 feet away from him outside the Giants’ clubhouse, he never would have realized what a [expletive] I could be.
