A judge and his fraternity brothers wondered if they had fallen for a prank. Instead, they'd seen into the future.
Dave Wilson, a college football reporter, tells the story of The Honorable Bruce Mc Farling, a judge in the 362nd District Court of Texas who has spent more than 25 years on the bench reviewing evidence. As he sat in a bar at Boulder's Omni Interlocken Hotel before Texas Tech played Colorado, he was skeptical of what he was seeing.
Mc Farling, a Red Raider and a big Mike Leach fan, had gathered with about 20 of his 1980s fraternity brothers for their annual get-together during a Red Raiders road game. One of them produced a stapled packet of paper marked "University of Colorado" that he had found lying on a table in the hotel lobby. The Colorado team was staying at the hotel that Friday night. The packet had no name on it, which gave the group pause. "I don't think it was any type of intention," Mc Farling said. "The guy who found it said it was just lying on the table out there."
The friends, who all graduated between 1985 and 1990, quickly fell back into their college personalities. One of them wanted to get the playbook to the Texas Tech team. Mc Farling argued against it, worried it could be a Mike Leach prank. Still, a post under the name "Viva Terlingua" appeared on the "Inside the Double T" message board claiming the packet was the actual Colorado playbook, and a screenshot soon spread on social media. Reporters began searching for the anonymous poster.
Mc Farling said that to his knowledge, no coaches were contacted. He declined to reveal the poster's identity, saying, "We'll keep his identity a secret, because he's stirring the pot."
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