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Dedicated Fan Has Car, Will Travel
Ken Rodriguez
If Hector Noyola isn’t the most devoted Spurs fan in South Texas, he sure drives like it. On game day, he covers 320 round trip miles to watch Tim Duncan and Co. at the AT&T Center. Noyola doesn’t make the trek from his Laredo home once or twice a year. He attends every preseason, regular season and post-season contest in San Antonio.
In 2009-10, that worked out to 50 games and 16,000 miles. At age 66, he does not plan to cut back or slow down. The long-distance trip with fellow fans invigorates him. "The Spurs," Noyola says, "are our passion."
That passion spans decades. Noyola began commuting from Laredo before Tim Duncan gave up swimming for basketball, before David Robinson made his first NBA dunk, before DeJuan Blair emerged from the womb. Noyola became a season-ticket holder the year Larry Brown began coaching the Spurs – 1988.
Talk about road wear. Noyola has logged enough miles to complete a dozen trips around the world. If he said, "I’d go to the moon for the Spurs," that might be an understatement. The lunar surface is roughly 240,000 miles from Earth. Noyola has covered more than 300,000.
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That is some serious fan dedication.
Laredo seems like more of a Spurs city than San Antonio itself!
Wow, what a spurs' fan! Thanks for sharing, duncan 228.
Spurs giving more RGV love lately. I still remember AJ and Charles Smith down in Webb back when.Laredo seems like more of a Spurs city than San Antonio itself!
Hector should blog for this site! Love his prediction #5 is coming.
Great article. Now that's a fan! Hats off to all Laredo Spurs fans.
Side note - I thought it interesting the author's bio does not mention the Express News.
well holy !
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