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Carl Mauck, the Oilers' center from Southern Illinois, said Campbell once called him on a Saturday during the offseason wanting to go to a rodeo in a little town outside Houston.

"We're out there watching, and then Earl said, 'I wanna ride a horse!'" Mauck said. "I said, 'I don't know ...' Then they put Earl on one of those quarter horses and I said, 'Oh s---.' But he didn't try to do anything cowboy-wise. He just rode the horse, took it around the arena, and I tell you what, those people went crazy."

Willie Nelson would show up at practice, and many of Bum's other musician friends would head off to training camp with the Oilers. Adams saved money by having training camps at small Texas colleges. At Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin and Angelo State, the country singers stayed in the dorms with the players. Just As I Am Shirt

"All those pickers that Bum knew, he made sure the invitation was out," Mauck said. Wade Phillips said songwriters like Sonny Throckmorton, who's had more than 1,000 songs recorded by other singers, would try out material on the players at night.

"Then you'd hear it on the radio as a No. 1 hit in another month," he said.

A Houston music store, Don's Record Shop, sold thousands of Oilers-themed records, such as wide receiver Ken Burrough'sdisco number called "Super Bowl Itch"and another by Mauck called "Oiler Cannonball" that came about after a sportswriter heard he had written a song to the tune of "Wabash Cannonball" and Mauck showed him the lyrics.

"He put it in the paper, and not long after I got a call from Mickey Gilley," Mauck said of the owner of Gilley's and a country star who had 10 No. 1 hits between 1974 and 1980. "He said, 'I like the words to your song and we'd like you to record it.' I said, 'You're s---tin' me!'"

Gilley had his own studio with a roster of pro musicians on standby. "It was easy for him to play the music and me to sing," Mauck said. "I went down to Mickey's one day after practice and cut it."

The initial pressing sold out at Don's, despite Pastorini's friendly assertion that it was the worst song ever recorded.

Mauck took particular delight in the lyrics he wrote about the Cowboys ("the most hated team in football," he still says), especially after the Oilers rallied from a 21-10 deficit to beat Dallas 30-24 in 1979 at Texas Stadium and claim the state's bragging rights.

"We beat their ass on Thanksgiving Day in Dallas," Mauck said. "On the plane ride home, Bum said, 'You oughta sing that verse about the Cowboys.' So I did! I went up to the pilot's cockpit and got on the damn radio and sang that last verse to the team. S---, everybody went crazy."

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