I wouldn't steer you wrong

Back in 2013, Jeral Pope Sr, down in Goodwater, Alabama, asked a local veterinarian to help him find a pet longhorn.  He had been out West and seen longhorns, and, well, he just had to have one to call his own.

Mr Pope found one, all right, a six-month old longhorn, and the steer, named Poncho Via (an apparent play on the name of the Mexican bandito Pancho Villa) has grown and grown and grown to the point where you wouldn't want to find him a scarf.  Poncho has set the Guinness World Record for possessing the longest set of horns on any other Texas longhorn ever.

Last month the steer's horns were measured from tip to tip at 10 feet, 7.4 inches. For the sake of comparison, a basketball rim is 10 feet off the ground, so...

Jeral's son Dennis acquired a longhorn named Moo shortly before Poncho showed up, and at first, Moo's horns were longer, but "Poncho's kept going out straight and it kept growing and growing," Dennis said to NPR.

Once Poncho left Moo in the dust, so to speak, his horns just inched on.  Previous world record holders didn't even reach maximum hornage (!) until the age of 12  - 15 years, and Ponch has a way to go to reach that point.

So the biggest horns on any Texas Longhorn belong to a steer in Alabama, Virginia Baked Ham comes from Wisconsin, and Manhattan Clam Chowder is from New Jersey.  Nothing makes sense, unless you want it to.