here<\/a>.)<\/p>\nThe game represents a bowl rematch. Texas State, making its third bowl appearance \u2014 and third consecutive \u2014 in school history, defeated Rice 45\u201321 in the 2023 First Responder Bowl in Dallas.<\/p>\n
Kinne, 37, has history in the game as a player. He played quarterback for Tulsa in the Golden Hurricane\u2019s 24\u201321 loss to BYU in the 2011 game. BYU scored a touchdown with 11 seconds left to win. Kinne passed for 214 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s an asterisk, however. That game was played at SMU while the Amon Carter underwent a\u00a0makeover\u00a0Chip and\u00a0Joanna Gaines could only dream of.<\/p>\n
Originally from Mesquite \u2014 we’ll get to that \u2014\u00a0Kinne was a highly rated quarterback recruit out of high school who went on to be a three-year starter at Tulsa. Afterward, he bounced around the NFL and CFL for five years. In high school, Kinne played for Jeff Traylor, the current head coach at UTSA, at Gilmer.<\/p>\n
His father, Gary Joe, was a standout linebacker at Baylor and later coached at Allen High School, Kaufman High School, Mesquite High School, and Canton High School before taking a job on the staff of Guy Morriss at Baylor. After Baylor, Gary Joe went back to the high school level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We were talking about all that and the state of Texas State football when G.J. Kinne interjected: \u201cYou know my grandparents are from Fort Worth?\u201d<\/p>\n
As a matter of fact, I did not know that.<\/p>\n
The first Gary Joe Kinne and Nancy Jean Powell met at Paschal High School as sophomores in 1957 while in drama class. Both were born and raised here.<\/p>\n
According to her 2024 obituary, Nancy \u201cwould happily tell the story about the day her drama teacher asked her to help another student in the class study his lines.\u201d That student was Gary, of course. He couldn\u2019t have possibly recalled them otherwise, she proudly declared for the rest of her life. Sounds like drama. Or maybe comedy.<\/p>\n
Nancy followed Gary Joe Sr. to Tyler Junior College, where he played football. Her father, according to Nancy, tried to bribe her with a car if she would go to Baylor instead. Nothing doing. This was love, and, like all the rest their age of that generation and all the others, they were too dumb to know this was crazy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two wed in 1961 at University Baptist Church, in the original small stucco church today known as the W. Ray Watson Chapel, across the street from TCU. They lived in Fort Worth until pursuing opportunity in Mesquite.<\/p>\n
It sounds as if the dutiful Nancy agreed only because of the deal she cut at the altar.<\/p>\n
Gary Joe Sr.\u2019s parents \u2014 Jack and Florence Kinne \u2014 moved to Fort Worth from West Texas in the early 1940s. They never left. Both are buried at Laurel Land.<\/p>\n
Nancy\u2019s parents \u2014 Laurence and Maxie Powell \u2014 moved to Fort Worth in 1947. He was a postal inspector. They, too, are buried at Laurel Land.<\/p>\n
And on this coming Friday at noon, Gary Joe Kinne III \u2014 G.J. \u2014 is looking to do them all proud.<\/p>\n
Now, Paul Harvey, even you know the rest of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ask Texas State head football coach G.J. Kinne if Fort Worth ever crosses his mind, and you\u2019ll find…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,1428,7371,7372,13814,16382,10077,358,12237,7453,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-480818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-john-henry","13":"tag-rice-university","14":"tag-tcu","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-state-university","17":"tag-top-story","18":"tag-tx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115810448509324548","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}