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This article first appeared in D Magazine Clay Jones’ gravestone is in the shape of a football. It sits near the middle of a cemetery in Forney, about a half-mile from the yellow house on Center Street he grew up in—the baby of the family, who became an athletic and sports-crazed 16-year-old. If you leave the cemetery and head east down ...

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