Back when the first downtown chili cookoff began 16 years ago, four guys thought a lunch of "Texas Red" would be a great way to show a little appreciation to their valued oil field customers. Eight companies signed up and cooked eight pots of chili down on a vacant lot off Commerce Street at Knowles.

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