The field, not the press box, is the constant in the Dan Jenkins-TCU story.
The end zone bleachers where he used to sit as a kid and watch the canvas-trousered Horned Frogs play have been leveled and reconstructed. The old Amon G. Carter Stadium press box with its stratospheric vantage point and hand-operated elevator was humanely imploded in 2010.
But the stadium’s playing field remains, linking the two glory eras of TCU football and bridging the remarkable writing career of a man who, by any standard, reigns as the poet laureate of Fort Worth.
“I feel like I’m married to this stadium in many ways, certainly to the field,” Jenkins said Tuesday at TCU.