By the time the sixth inning rolled around at 9 p.m. at Oakland Coliseum, the TCU-SMU football game should have been over.
But lightning delayed the start of the Battle for the Iron Skillet two hours, and as the second half of the Texas Rangers at Oakland Athletics was starting, so was the second half of TCU-SMU.
It was closer than the Rangers-A’s, and that meant it was time to listen to the TCU radio team of Brian Estridge and John Denton.
Full disclosure: They’re both my buddies. During the first of my two seasons covering TCU, they once saw me order a steak salad and a steak for dinner.