Ideas That I Am Totally Down With: Armstrong for Governor ... in 2014

HoustonChronicle.com - Cycling Notebook: From France to Austin?

In an interview in Outside magazine's July issue, Armstrong says he might run for governor of Texas. He's even driven his girlfriend, rocker Sheryl Crow, by the governor's mansion.

But not in 2006, he told the magazine.

"I drove Sheryl by the governor's mansion last night on the way home from dinner. It's a nice mansion. Nice place, nice house - I hate the word mansion - but it's a nice house."

Whether he's serious remains to be seen, but we have come to expect the unexpected from a man who fought back from the brink of death to dominate cycling like no other racer in history.

Besides, Governor Armstrong does have a certain ring to it.

After two terms of Chris Bell, of course.