Sports Views

Paul is a big guy and, on an American Airlines flight back in1986, I sat beside and chatted with a famous Dallas Cowboys football player. Unbeknownst to me, the player was 11-year career Cowboys player and three-time super bowler (1976, 1978 & 1979), Drew Pearson. During the flight, our conversation was interrupted numerous times. Various people came to say hello and wanted to see Drew Pearson’s ring – I thought Drew was a businessman. At the end of the flight, I asked Drew, “What’s all this business about your ring?” and “Are all these people friends traveling with you on a convention or something?” As embarrassed, as I was to learn of Drew’s celebrity, Drew seemed equally grateful that I hadn’t a clue, and no; these guys were not traveling with him on a “convention or something."