Specifically, North Dallas Forty is about the Dallas Cowboys—or ... Spradlin), a pious, humorless stiff who quotes from the Bible and IBM printouts with equal reverence. Still, Gent wasn ...

If the humor sounds like a line from North Dallas Forty, it should. Gent’s wit was knee-jerk. He wrote what he knew and swung from the heels, leaving no icon standing. It would prove both a ...