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Over the years (thru 1997 my last Mardi Gras before moving from N.O.) the LSU Band has marched in Bacchus several times usually in front of or behind the King's float. And I do remember the Tiger Band in Rex at least once.

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And Bama fans are trying to say that Jones touched the ball while he was out of bounds, thereby making PP out of bounds? Jones' hand is inches away from the ball when PP snags it. It's not even close.

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They are basing this on a rule that says if a ball touches anything out-of-bounds (OoB) it is OoB also. But that rule is about a ball not in possession of a player. The rule for a Pass is that it is a live ball until whistled dead by an official.

The Sugar Bowl would most probably take the higher ranked SEC team. But there is a section in the BCS Selection procedure that allows two BCS bowls to trade if a team will go to the same bowl for a second year in a row. And if Florida plays Texas in the BCSCG then the Sugar will select 1st followed by the Fiesta Bowl. They can choose any BCS Auto Qualifier or At-Large team (not tied to another bowl). This will not help LSU because unless the Sugar chooses LSU or another BCS bowl does BEFORE another BCS bowl selects Alabama, we're shut out because of the one conference/two-team rule.

The Sugar Bowl is a New Orleans institution founded in 1934 but the idea had been promoted since 1927, before the SEC was founded. And in the 1970's when the SEC Champion kept getting shut out of three of the four major New Year's Day bowls (Rose, Orange, Sugar and Cotton) because those bowls wanted a lighter weight opponent for their champions (usually not an SEC team) the Sugar Bowl was the bowl that the SEC decided to tie up with. It was Bear Bryant who helped sell the idea because he said it was the best thing to do for the conference even if it wasn't the best for his team (to be tied down). But it has worked out fine for the SEC and the Sugar Bowl even though the SEC champs have played in more BCSCG's than any other conference and kept the Sugar Bowl from having the SEC champ in most of those years.

And the Superdome has literally been rebuilt from the top down to the floor. It was basically brand new in the fall of 2006 so it's, what, three years old now. The Superdome is still the largest free standing domed structure in the world and the best stadium built in the 1970's and the most versatile. It has hosted Super Bowls, Sugar Bowls, Final Fours, an NFL team , a NBA team, an NCAA team, baseball, the Republican Convention, the Rolling Stones, Pope John Paul II, the biggest annual Mardi Gras post-parade party, motocross, monster trucks, etc.

The Superdome under construction in 1974.

I was a kid when Billy Cannon was a Tiger but I remember a quote that described him as "either the strongest sprinter or the fastest shot putter" they had ever seen.

I would name mid-1930's LSU football player and track star Jack Torrance who held the shot put world record for almost fourteen years as LSU's original FREAK athlete. He set the world record (16.80 meters) in 1934, only three days after the previous record had been set. He raised it twice more that year.

Torrance was one of the five athletes that made up LSU's 1933 NCAA Championship Track & Field team, coached by Bernie Moore He also won the shot put again in 1934 with that first world record. Torrance was on the 1936 U.S. Olympic Team that went to Berlin but he never equaled his personal best and didn't medal but his world record wasn't broken until 1948.




Shot Put World Record Progression ( at Wikipedia.com)

16.48 m John Lyman (USA) 21 April 1934 Palo Alto, U.S.[1]

16.80 m Jack Torrance (USA) 24 April 1934 Des Moines, U.S.[1]

16.89 m Jack Torrance (USA) 30 June 1934 Milwaukee, U.S.[1]

17.40 m Jack Torrance (USA) 5 August 1934 Oslo, Norway[1]

17.68 m Charlie Fonville (USA) 17 April 1948 Lawrence, U.S.[1]

So Cal has 1 BCS Championship, 1 BCS LOSS and 1 Consolation Prize NC.

Oklahoma has 1 BCS Championship and 2 BCSCG losses

Texas has 1 BCS Championship and no other attempts

LSU and Florida each have 2 BCS Championships in 2 tries.

With our disappointing season last year (Thanks, Ryan!) I would rank this decade (through 2008) as

1. Florida
2. LSU
3. USC
4. Oklahoma
5. Texas
6. Ohio State
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