Take the long way from Dallas to Houston and a series of small highways will guide you through towns with names like Italy, Friday and Lovelady. You’ll pass general stores and sun-baked fields dotted with broken wind pumps and tractors that look plucked straight out of an old Western film.
Swing the door open at the aptly named Bullet Bar in Gun Barrel City and plop yourself down on a barstool. Order a Shiner Bock or a Lone Star, the popular beers around here, and you’ll notice something peculiar: the television in the corner of the place is broadcasting soccer highlights from the European Championship and Copa America.
The latter of those two tournaments is being played right now just north of here in Dallas and a hundred or so miles south in Houston. We’ve come to Texas to do something a little ridiculous: attend four Copa America matches in four days. In that span, we’ll get a look at half of the entire field of teams as we ferry back and forth between Texas’ two largest cities. It’s a nearly-1,000-mile drive, more or less.
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Following the Copa America around Texas: four days, four games and a 1,000-mile road trip
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Publish date : 2024-06-29 11:30:12
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