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HOLLYWOOD HENDERSON’S RISE FROM THE SUPER BOWL TO THE SOBER Bowl
Several months ago, Thomas Henderson got a phone call at his Costa Mesa home from trucking magnate Robert Briscoe of Sundown, Texas.
Briscoe was a diehard Dallas football fan who remembered vividly Henderson’s exploits as a linebacker for the Cowboys. He also owns one of Henderson’s three Super Bowl rings, all from the Cowboys. “The one the Internal Revenue Service confiscated, the only one they could find,” explains Henderson. “Briscoe paid $13,500 for it at an auction.”
Briscoe told Henderson that he had read his 1987 book, “Out of Control,” and knew that Henderson had kicked cocaine, was living a life of sobriety and was spending much of his time warning young people about substance abuse. Would Henderson be willing to fly to north Texas--all expenses paid--to talk to the children in the elementary school in Briscoe’s home town? Henderson would--and did.
“These were little kids,” recalls Henderson, “second-, third- and fourth-graders. I wasn’t sure at first how to talk to them, but we ended up with 300 piercing voices shouting, ‘We have a choice.’ I’ll never forget that. It’s the kind of high cocaine never gave me.”
When Briscoe took his guest back to the airport, he shook Henderson’s hand and told him he
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Hollywood Henderson Went Through Hell and Lived to Tell About It
When he played in a couple of Super Bowls, he hid in his pocket an inhaler spiked with liquefied cocaine, so he could whiff on the stuff during the game. So much membrane was missing from his nose that he packed solid chunks of coke inside the nostrils to keep it from running.
He did Quaaludes, chain-smoked joints and free-based in dorm rooms with teammates. He drank five gin and tonics for lunch, 20 to 25 doubles during Happy Hour and kept on drinking and drinking and drinking until last call. When he admitted himself into a drug rehab center, he smoked dope on the steps of the clinic before entering, then had more coke smuggled at night into his room, between treatments.
He hit his wife and slapped his mother. He orgied with athletes and entertainers and went through women like Kleenex. He punched out teammate Mike Stensrud, brawled with ex-teammate Randy White, and fingered a knife that he intended to plunge into teammate Robert Brazile’s throat during an argument on an airplane.
On Nov. 2, 1983, he picked up two young girls, took them home, free-based with them, had sex with one of them, pulled a gun on them and ended up in jail when they turned out to be underage. He tried to bribe one of them $10,000 to