‘The Amazing Race’ eliminates last DFW team

Kurt Gibson and Brodie Smith, who make up the last remaining Dallas-Fort Worth team on the 28th season of CBS-TV’s The Amazing Race, were eliminated Friday night in Indonesia.

When the season started, the competitive Frisbee players were one of the strongest teams and they made it to the final five. Certainly, they were one of the more athletic of the contestants this season. But the odds were stacked against them in the last couple of weeks.

They came in second to last in the previous episode and came close to being eliminated. While Kurt and Brodie survived, they suffered a time penalty by starting Friday’s race after all the other teams.

That late start was compounded by the presence of a U-Turn in the race -- meaning a team can force any other team to perform both tasks at a Road Block instead of just one. Race leaders Tyler Oakley and Korey Kuhl, seeing Kurt and Brodie as their biggest rivals athletically, got to the U-Turn spot first and promptly U-Turned the boys from Dallas.

But it was a double U-Turn meaning that there was another spot available for some unlucky team. If Kurt and Brodie could have gotten there in time, they could have U-turned another team and made them do the second Road Block, too. That might have levelled the playing field. But it was not to be.

Instead, Burnie Burns and Ashley Jenkins got to the U-Turn after Tyler and Korey and, in a true baller move, used the U-Turn on -- Tyler and Korey. That sounds crazy since they knew T&K were ahead of them so their action would not the hurt the race leaders at all.

But that was the point -- what they really wanted to do was keep Kurt and Brodie from U-turning any other team that might be behind them. Everybody wanted the Texas boys gone.

In the end, Kurt and Brodie -- who seemed at the start of the season as if they could be champs -- couldn’t make up the time. They joined the previous DFW team from this season, Southwest Airlines flight attendant Marty Cobb and her daughter Hagan Parkman who got eliminated on Feb. 19, in the land of The Amazing Race cast-offs.

Four teams remain to compete for the $1 million prize.

Now, after seeing half the globe, it’s back to the world of flying discs for Brodie and Kurt. Brodie’s YouTube videos of Frisbee tricks have between 1 and 3 million views.

The two’s arc on the show mirrored that of last season’s athletic Texas pair Tanner Kloven of Fort Worth and Josh Ahern of Dallas who were also referred to as Team Texas or the Boys from Dallas. They made it well into season before getting eliminated in Agra, India.

This story was originally published April 29, 2016 at 9:10 PM with the headline "‘The Amazing Race’ eliminates last DFW team."