There are worse things than having the owner of the Dallas Cowboys date your Mother.
Hollywood Henderson dated my mother several years ago. Decade and some change, I believe.
In Austin. I was blown away! She didn't even know who he was...
lol, of course.
God, I love her!
It was pretty cool. I never got to meet him in person as I was living in Los Angeles at the time and couldn't find a break in my schedule to go down there, but I talked to him on the phone twice.
He was always nice to me. They dated for a couple of months.
I know she would tell me that he would take her to this place... umm... Spiro's.
And she would tell me the place would straight up roll out the red carpet for them.
Her voice betrayed how much fun she had when they would go out.
I never pictured my mother dating a black man (she never raised me to be racist, and I am absolutely not, but I never saw her have any interest, or attraction to black men, before), but she was happy and that made me happy.
I knew, once I left Austin, she was very lonely and it was kind of mind-blowing that the first guy she dated after I moved was a legendary Dallas Cowboy!
I didn't even know he lived in Austin.
It was alright for awhile, I guess. She never complained about him for anything heinous, but I guess it was the same old story: It didn't work out.
They broke up one day before he won the lottery.
Her and I both laughed heartily at the irony of it all.
God, I miss her!
