The High School Football Huddle
Just got back from a meeting in St. Louis where I met Billy Bob Thornton, the star of Friday Night Lights, who is currently working on producing a movie on Cardinals manager Tony La Russa's book 3 Nights in August. FNL's author Buzz Bissinger is also the author of La Russa's book.
Billy Bob was very cool...just like you'd expect him to be!!
I enjoyed a five minute conversation with him on baseball. For those of you that don't know, the Academy Award winning actor had aspirations of being a major league baseball player for the Redbirds, but the closest he got, was his current close friendship with La Russa.
Before the end of the chat, I asked Billy Bob for his thoughts on Gary Gaines returning to the sidelines at Odessa Permian this fall.
"It should be interesting," replied Thorton, who played the tough nose Gaines in 2004 movie.
Click here to read an earlier Huddle story on Gaines returning to the Permian sidelines.
