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Likewise, an El Paso boot company, Sanders Boots, said its sales quadrupled in Houston after Bum endorsed them. The cowboy coach’s style became a national curiosity, such as when the Cincinnati Enquirer sent a reporter to check out his boot closet. Inside, the newspaper found 25 pairs made from alligator, anteater, beaver, caribou, lizard, kangaroo, ostrich and ostrich leg. There were also the standard cowhide, plus rough leather and patent leather. Bum’s team followed his lead. Black, white, Texan, transplant. Didn’t matter. The Oilers became a collection of western-wear converts. “I had to be taught how to ride a horse, how to wear cowboy boots, how to wear a cowboy hat,” said Brazile, a native of Mobile, Alabama, who played college football at Jackson State in Mississippi. “But I wore it well, now. I was an urban cowboy.” Tight end Mike Barber, from White Oak in East Texas, made hat bands from bird feathers. As the team began winning, those too became a hot item, with fans staking out deliveries. “Boom, it went crazy,” Barber said, saying Gary’s had “a line half a mile out the door for people wanting to buy cowboy hats and them stupid feathers.” Former cheerleader Nita Schnitzer said Oilers-colored Columbia blue felt cowboy hats were the perfect accessory. “They were being steamed to fit at rodeos for everybody to get with their Mike Barber headbands,” she said. Barber had to rapidly expand, renting space and hiring workers just to keep up with demand. “Do you know that, at one time, I had 700 stores nationwide selling them?” he said. “I was spending $100,000 a month out of New York for feathers.
Can you believe that?” Campbell and Willie Nelson were both spokesmen for Harold’s in the Heights, a Houston men’s store, and made appearances together. Campbell popularized a shirt with the store’s logo on it, and the store became a go-to spot for western wear alongside its tailored suits. “We sold blue ostrich boots like crazy,” said Michael Wiesenthal, Harold’s son. “I didn’t even know how to crease a [cowboy] hat; I had to learn how. We had a warehouse full of blue felt. We had jeans that had oil derricks embroidered on the side. I mean, people were going crazy here.” In 1980, the movie “Urban Cowboy” was released, depicting life in Houston’s honky-tonk scene, notably at Gilley’s, the nightclub in nearby Pasadena that could hold up to 6,000. The movie was credited with making western chic trendy nationally. But even Travolta’s black Stetson had a little Luv Ya Blue influence. “The people in ‘Urban Cowboy’ that wore cowboy hats? They were wearing my hat bands,” Barber said. Oilers players were already living the life portrayed in the movie, including Stabler, who arrived earlier that year and basically set up shop at the home of the famous mechanical bull. “There’s a feel here that you’re probably not going to find in any other NFL city,” Stabler told the Fort Worth-Star Telegram in 1980. “There aren’t very many pretentious people in Houston. They are satisfied just having a good time. I can identify with that.” Brazile said the Oilers were country before country was cool. “We had that look and we took it all over the world, not just in Houston,” he said. “Everybody wore it. We did it by winning.” They weren’t just dressing up as cowboys either. Pastorini said players would hang out at Bum’s ranch in Missouri City outside of town and ride horses and rope cattle in a cutting horse pen. Campbell kept his horse at Bum’s ranch.
