re: Knee jerk reaction to Burrow Heisman

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Witnesses told her that while her dad and cousin were at the bar, a man took issue with some of the interactions the cousin was having with one of the women, Bowers said. “All she wanted to do is be friendly and buy people’s drinks. Somebody’s boyfriend didn’t like that. It escalated from there.” Bowers said she was told two men approached her father. One tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Your old lady . . .” and then punched him, she said. Bowers fell out of his chair and hit his head on the floor, she said. “They kept hitting him while he was on the ground.”

The fight, police said, was not over the game.

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Ponchatoula's Police Chief told me today , the fight that led to Robert Bowers' death at the Ponchatoula Pub was not over LSU-Alabama game. The Chief said the fight began over an incident involving Bowers' niece, who was intoxicated. Heartbreaking still, but not over football.

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