Grant Stinchfield

And when you came out and you fought.

fired back at everybody.

I thought to myself, that is my kind of guy right there.

And you always were, but boy, oh boy, just a salute to you, my friend, for the way you handled all of that.

Let me tell you something.

There is a spirit about this state that I don't see in any other state.

I mean, Florida, you can make an argument, but Florida isn't the same.

There's a lot of transplants in Florida.

When you talk about Texas and born and bred Texans here, and then I think something comes over people like me that come and live here

for a decade or more, two decades in my case, that this can-do spirit, the come and take it mentality, that was a saying that goes a long way back to the Mexican-American War.

The Mexicans had given a little town in Texas a cannon.

Mexicans wanted it back.

And that little town said, come and take it.

And you'll see it on those flags.

And that kind of spirit still exists.

And we saw that in that event, Steve, that you fired up that crowd like you wouldn't believe.

And I know you fire up crowds all over the place, but that's especially it's going to happen in Texas because we are fighters in this state.

And I wish other states

would look at Texas, take the Texas model, and mimic it.

Because if the entire country was and had the attitude the Texans have, we would be a far greater country than we already are.