If you were wondering why

I want to leave Dallas as soon as possible, this item from today's D Magazine FrontBurner goes a long way toward explaining it:

AN EXPENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME

Was the trip to Tyler worth it to watch HP trounce Marshall 59-0? The man to ask, I'm told by an alert FBvian, is oilman Bill Shuford. Shuford chartered the Mavs jet to fly 50 to 60 people to Tyler. There they were met by a fleet of stretch Hummers (driven from Dallas) that took them to the game. Atta boy, Bill.

Tim Rogers · December 12, 2005 01:15 PM

Yes, you read it right: the man chartered a jet to fly 50-60 people the vast 105-mile stretch between Dallas and Tyler, Texas. There these humanitarians were escorted to a stadium in stretch Hummers so they could watch the Texas state high school football championship game. Not that there are people in the world, or even Katrina hurricane victims in our own state, who could have used the money for something other than high school football.

This depresses me.