Coal suppliers, customers bank on closer cooperation if not demand

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Friday night football games, back in the Dark Age, have begun to fade from my memory, though apparently I will never be able to forget snapping the ball five yards above the punter’s head and watching helplessly as it rolled through the end zone in an 8-6 loss to the 12-year-olds from another elementary school. Some things leave scars. Anyhow, Texas high school football includes a lot of pageantry – bands playing out of tune but enthusiastically, drill teams spinning batons, someone in a mascot costume, leather-lunged old-timers pulling on a smuggled pint, screaming at the referee, and cheerleaders. I had complicated relationships with more than one of the latter, but that is a story best left for another day.