Regarding the Rangers, I am reminded of Joe Namath’s tale of his first meeting with Bear Bryant. As a high-school recruit, Joe Willie has related many times, he was invited to ascend the tower from which the fabled Alabama coach oversaw practice.
The quarterback admitted he could barely understand Bryant through the coach’s pronounced southern drawl. Except for one word.
“Stud.”
As in, “Mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble STUD … mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble, STUD …”
STUDS to the left, STUDS to the right, and a STUD right there in the tower standing beside the Bear in Tuscaloosa, Ala.