ProRodeo Sports News - November 17, 1999

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On the edge of common sense Fruitcake imports

Whatever happened to . . . Phil Lyne

--treir Commonwealth siblings and southern neighbors! Their own producers gripe and whine because their fruitcake prices go down. So they lobby -Jreir politicians, who allowed the sibling impc'rts in the first place, to restrict and charge duty on these same imPorts and demand country of origin label- itrg.t' "W'lry the labelf" asked the Prince, who was drifting off. "Because," she said, tWithout a label people can't tell fruitcake apart. But their governnent sa'y's' 'Whar's the point of importing if it doesn't lower the price of fruitcake to the consumerf ' Their Poor Pro- ducers answer, 'Well, duh, You will be protecting us, Your c,wn fruit- cake makers here in the Colonies. You will ensure that our fruitcake industry will be a strong business and that no foreign wan, entangle- ments or embargoes will leave America fr uitcakeless. " "So their Government wants to have their fruitcake and eat it, too. Sounds farriliar." "Rightor" said the Queen, "TheY were slow learners trut we taught them well." Batcter B:wcb is one tf the noti.ots best- hnown cowbcY Poets.

t By BAXTER BLAoK SPECIALTOTHE PSN 6sTl;ffi""T,::#."il:Jh. 'r Queen to the Prince ove: a crumpet at breaKast. 'Yes, dear, they are quite uPsetr" replied his royalosity. "They are still trying to get permission to shiP fruitcake to Britain and aur European friends. But, as you know, the-l use gum drops in their fruit- cake, which makes it flammable . They insist that it's not, but we cer- tainl;'can't be importing a per- ceivod fire hazard." "Quite r:ght, Philly, only it's such a nuisance that the World Court came down on their side'" 'Oh, never mind them, Liza. those Dutch drive on the wrong side cf the road, too." 'Yes," replied her Highness, "But those silly Americans are mak- ing such a fuss, claiming it's not fair, like a penrlant child. TheY make so much fruitcake they can never eat it all themselves. So there they sit with a surplus. And what do their wise merr in Washington...r" she paused and looked wistftrlly at a painting of Cornwallis... "What do theY dof The'7 import more fruitcake ftom

including bull riding and calf roping in1972 to help him cap- ture his second He also won the steer roping average crown at the NFSRin 1983 and 1986. straight all- around tide.

Phil Lyne of Cotulla, Texas, hasn't been bored since he last qualified for the National Finals Rodeo in 1990 (he won the steer roping world chamPi- onship that year). Lyne holds five world tides: two all- around championships in l97l-72, nvo calfroping tides and a steer roping crown. Now, the one tide Lyne might hold is professional hunter. -While most of his time is devoted to ranching, when the weather gets cooler Lyne goes hunting. Lyne leaves his home of 25 Years in Cotulla at the end of August to set up a three-week archery elk hunt in New Mexico that starts Sept. I. That hunt, complete with guides, then gives way to a muzzle-load elk hunt in earlY October. Lyne also holds hunts on a ranch near his Texas home in january February and March. Those are archery hog hunts and whitetail deer hunts. -While Lyne is a hunter now, manY of his competitors might have felt like prey when he competed. Lyne dominated the steer roPing eveni, qualifying for the NFSR I0 times between 1979 and 1990. He went to the NFRrwice as a bull rider and twice as a calfroper. Lyne is-the only cowboy to win the NFR average tide in tluee events,

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L-yne earned rookie of the year hon- ors in 1969 and snagged the Linderman Award four times. But despite all his accolades, includ- ing 14 NFR-NFSR qualifications and five world titles, Lyne said what he miss- es most about competing is the people. "I met a lot of good guys and have a lot of good friends and went to a lot of places and met a lot of people at thosg places who are friends of mine now," he said. Lyne noted he missed the comPeti- tion it first, but he has seen many of his old friends recendy. "At fust you miss the comPetition and then I think in all you miss the guys you hung out with. But I get to see a lot of them." Lyne still does some team roPing now and again, which gives him the chance to see some of the friends he comPeted against every week.

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