#DAKARA THE ULTIMATE GAME OF CHANCE FULL#

I’m not sure which of us came up with the idea, but we gave one another ridiculous nicknames (I was the Intimidator), and we printed out official identification cards that we kept in our wallets (I laminated mine).

#DAKARA THE ULTIMATE GAME OF CHANCE FULL#

It was full contact played on a full field, and more often than not twenty or more people would show up. It would be charitable to say that my buddies and I were not jocks in high school, but every Saturday morning at ten o’clock we met to play what we called “PFL”: Plano Football League. Sad to say, I was zero for three in my plans. I didn’t grow up in a football family-Dad, a Missouri farm boy, preferred baseball-but football was what I heard my friends talk about, it was what I saw on television, it was what the older boys were doing. When I was a kid growing up in Plano in the seventies, I had three goals: play high school football for the Plano Wildcats, play college football for the SMU Mustangs, and play professional football for the Dallas Cowboys.

Texas, of course, has seen phenoms before-Ken Hall, Eric Dickerson, Vince Young, the list goes on-but that’s why the sport continues to thrive: the next star is only a season away. The electrifying quarterback just finished up his career at Allen High School, winning back-to-back-to-back state titles, producing 14,500 yards of total offense and 186 touchdowns, and going 43-0 as a starter. You may not recognize Kyler Murray’s name, but don’t worry, you’ll be cheering for him in no time.

Dakara the ultimate game of chance