However, it will interest the gentleman from Arizona that the javelina is listed, though not in any detail. You know how nicknames are the rage these days. This would not seem to be a pig, and I forgot to check and see if it was the nickname of an Arkansas lineman. In fact, the only razorback I found in the encyclopedia was the razorback whale.

I guess the Arkansas Razorback has more to do with pigskins than pigs. Remarkably, there was nothing about either an Arkansas pig or an Arkansas razorback. Under pig, I found Beltville, Palouse, Yorkshire Large White, Berkshire, Spotted Poland China, Chester White, Hampshire, Duroc, Maryland, Minnesota and Montana, among others. Flip to another volume and I would understand about these razorbacks-and maybe javelinas. However, under hog with one G and a lower case h, it said: “See pig.” I found James Hogg, Quintin Hogg and Thomas Jefferson Hogg. I hastened to the office and looked up hog. I thought the encyclopedia might be helpful. It is even fashionable to debate which university has the best football team, though that question will be resolved Sunday evening. These pre-game affairs usually develop into no-win debates over which state is the best or the most beautiful. I don’t think anyone from Arkansas can even spell that name, let alone say it. This fellow Brent Brown, the executive vice president of Arizona State University, was standing at the microphone. This was not to end when the Arkansas folks settled back in their seats, because Arizona State was not about to let the Razorbacks hog the spotlight.

John Paul Jones, the first Ranger’s first captain, surely would not have understood, but he probably would have been equally confused by football itself. you guessed it.Īll of this was transpiring on one of America’s finest fighting ships. Some of them-again, adults, mind you-even wear silly red plastic hats molded in the shape of a. I was to later learn these people rise in groups of 50,000 to call for these pigs back home in hog heaven.

Razorbacks? Pigs? Hogs? What was this they were ordering? Pig-soooooey? Or was it pig-suey? Is it eaten with rice? Or perhaps grits?įrankly, I was content to pig out on the roast beef.

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