He sees mistakes everywhere. He watches the Cowboys every Sunday. But he is amazed at what happens on a professional football field. He cites a play in a recent game where Emmitt Smith fumbled on a pitch. He says he thought about writing Cowboys coach Chan Gailey and telling him so.
Wood is big on writing letters.
Sometimes he just writes to correct mistakes of any nature. He'd write Gailey, he says, but he's not sure it would do any good. He pulls out a sheet of paper and diagrams his trademark play, the power pitch. Any team that wanted to beat his, he says, first had to stop the power pitch. They'd run it 20 times a game and never fumble.