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How Cook Out hamburgers fueled the new Pony Express
SMU booster Bill Armstrong promised his Mustangs football team hamburgers from Cook Out if the Ponies reached the ACC Championship and he kept his promise
CHARLOTTE – Bill Armstrong threw on his black duster jacket and excused himself from the McCormick & Schmick’s in Uptown Charlotte, walked the half mile to the SMU team hotel at the Westin, loaded into a car with Mustang head coach Rhett Lashlee, his wife Lauren, and Director of Football Ops Josh Nash, and drove the three miles to a Cook Out on Freedom Drive to see their friend Carlesa.
Armstrong left a steak dinner with former Pony Express members Craig James and Lance McIlhenny to pick up and deliver 100 hamburgers and 100 cheeseburgers – and a mint chocolate chip shake for Lauren – to the Mustang football team playing in the ACC Championship game the next day. A promise made. A promise kept.
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