Rentzel remained on the bench for the rest of the season, but the team, led by that "magnificent madman" Joe Don Looney and another "Wild Turk" John Flynn, went all the way to the Cotton Bowl where they lost 17-0 to Bear Bryant's Alabama squad. Much to Rentzel's surprise, Wilkinson sent him into the game at the end of the first half, and in his first two varsity plays he caught two passes for 85 yards, and one touchdown.
He spent most of Friday night partying, and ate two hot dogs and some cotton candy at the state fair Saturday morning. Rentzel had hitched down to Dallas on the day before the game since there was no room for the fifth team on the plane. RENTZEL SAW LITTLE ACTION that year despite a spectacular debut in the O.U.-Texas game. At the end of practice, says Rentzel, the field "was covered with bodies that could not rise." According to Rentzel, two players lost all the salt in their bodies and coiled up in agony, while another player went wild and attacked Wilkinson with his fists. Rentzel describes one practice during his sophomore season in August 1962, when Wilkinson ordered a full-pad scrimmage in 100 degree heat. ("Bud") Wilkinson, now serving as Chris Schenkel's sidekick on ABC Television. Perhaps the most telling part of the book is Rentzel's description of his three-year stint at Oklahoma University under the famed coach Charles B.
#KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS GIRL PROFESSIONAL#
His description of the route from his high school days in Oklahoma to his first season with the Los Angeles Rams provide some tragic and many amusing insights into both college and professional football. Fortunately, much of All the Laughter dwells not on Rentzel's propensity for exposing himself to young girls, or on his relationship with Joey Heatherton, but rather on his football career. One wonders why anyone, let alone a football star preoccupied with his masculinity, would write a book describing his sexual problems.
Rentzel's autobiography would appear, at first glance, to be a risky adventure. Soon afterward, Joey Heatherton asked for a separation, comedians composed the Lance Rentzel Hit Parade, which included such song titles as "Easy to be Hard" or "Baby Love," and an unknown genius distributed a bumper sticker reading Keep It In Your Pants, Lance.
ON NOVEMBER 23, 1970, Lance Rentzel was arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl.
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