I empathize, TexDoc. On Saturday, September 25, 1993, "a date that will live in infamy," my crew was selected to work the non-district 12 Noon kickoff between Port Neches-Groves and Livingston played at Bowers Stadium in Huntsville. (We had worked a game in Houston the night before). We had to play at that time because Sam Houston State University was scheduled to play a night game there following the completion of ours. It was clear, sunny, not a cloud in the sky and in the mid-90's at kickoff. The Sam Houston State SID told us that the onfield turf thermometer had read 125F at kickoff and rose past the 150F mark before the gauge actually broke on them. There was absolutely no wind, no breeze, no nothing. The heat was so hot on that Astroturf that you could feel it richly emanating from the turf right up into your shoes. My BJ richly joked that it was so hot, that during a timeout, he swore that he saw Satan himself over on the sideline trying to cop some of that cold water from one of the coolers!
The only saving grace was that the score ended 3-0, PNG. It is the only game that I ever saw my crew members actually so worn-out from having worked a game, that they had to pull folding chairs into the shower room, because everyone was just too physically exhausted to stand. That game will long stand out in this boy's memory!
