Dancing Broyles

ESPN senior writer Ryan McGee, speaking at the Northwest Arkansas Touchdown Club, said his father Jerry, a long-time college football official, told him many great stories from over the years, including one that featured legendary Arkansas football coach and athletic director Frank Broyles.

Jerry McGee was assigned to work the 2008 Cotton Bowl, at which Arkansas under interim Coach Reggie Herring faced highly regarded Missouri.

According to Ryan McGee, his father went out the night before the game with a large party that included Broyles and long-time Baylor Coach Grant Teaff to an event in Dallas that included square dancing. McGee read a text to the audience sent by his father on Tuesday, the night before he spoke to the club.

“Frank Broyles was a dancing machine,” the text read. “I got tired and sat down and so did Grant Teaff. Coach Broyles was happy to dance with everyone’s wives.”

McGee said he asked his father if he was sure about that because Broyles would have been 80 years old at the time.

“Yeah, but on the dance floor he was 22,” McGee said his father wrote.