Red McCombs celebrates his 90th birthday Thursday and will be honored this weekend by UT.
By Bill Little
"They still listen to high school football on the radio in west Texas," sings our friend Jack Ingram. "Lights still shine bright every Friday night. And you can drive ninety miles an hour on the highway straight through Cisco. The cops are at the ball game. And it's getting tight."
It has been darned near ninety years since Billy Joe "Red" McCombs was born in the west Texas town of Spur, which sits on the cusp of the Llano Estacado as it begins to rise toward Lubbock, seventy miles to the west.