It’s unfortunately become a familiar routine. I just emptied everything out of my refrigerator and freezer and put it all in the dumpster.
If you don’t perform this ritual prior to evacuation, your olfactory senses will remind you of what a dope you are as soon as you come back home.
I want to apologize in advance if the tone of this piece is somewhat abrasive, but as many of you have probably surmised, my long-awaited LSU season-opener is practically ruined. Governor Bobby Jindal leaned on the new LSU athletic director, Joe Allleva, to move the kickoff of tomorrow’s game up to 10 a.m. CDT.
That basically means an extremely truncated tailgating schedule, a sleepy crowd, and a historical trend of underwhelming performance that seems to plague the Tigers whenever they kickoff before noon.
By the way, there is a potential Category Three hurricane named Gustav that is threatening to make landfall on the Louisiana coast in about three days.
I can assure you that I’m not alone in my anger, though. When the announcement came out this morning about the adjusted kickoff time, my cell phone melted. People were talking about issuing a recall petition for Jindal.
"This is tantamount to canceling Christmas!" they said.
I guess we sound quite demented. A potentially deadly hurricane is heading our way, and nothing less than life and property are at stake, but all we can do is complain about being inconvenienced for the football game.
Don’t get me wrong, Jindal has been a great governor so far (being considered a “great” governor of Louisiana pretty much means he has never seen the inside of a federal prison cell), but he didn’t go to LSU, so we don’t expect him to understand.
Here is a great example of how sacred LSU football is to the folks here in Louisiana. In 1998, Hurricane Georges was about 24 hours away from making landfall in New Orleans, and a sellout crowd was watching LSU play Idaho in Baton Rouge, about 70 miles away. That wasn’t a typo, I said Idaho.
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Lisa Horne 10 months ago
Brian-
This is so weird. I know the tailgating is part of LSU thang. This move ahead might benefit the Mountaineers as the LSU fans won't be as fired-up as they usually are around 5pm local time. For sure, the fans were already ticked at the before 5pm scheduled game, but ESPN laid down the heavy-hand and said, sorry, no night game. It's hot and sticky in the afternoon, so it will be uncomfortable.
My main concern is over you and the family. (As one of your buds, I am concerned deeply over your safety) Glad to see you are high-tailing it out of Dodge, but certainly understand your priorities. Dang it, it's opening day of football season. Enjoy the day, but the second it's over, flee north my friend.
There are folks in California praying for the Gulf-coast region and their extended family of football friends, and hope everyone comes out of this well, and ready to enjoy the football season. Be safe. God bless.
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Joshua Joffrion 10 months ago
Looks like LSU is doing fine to me, 31-0 2 quarterer. Charles Scott- 12 attempts for 144 yds. rushing
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L.J. Burgess 10 months ago
Hey man...keep safe and scoot bobalewy.
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Kristofer Green 10 months ago
Be Safe! Keeping you and all our friends in Louisiana in my thoughts!
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Saraswathi Siriginia 10 months ago
Be safe!
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Gray Ghost 10 months ago
Brian, man! You even wax eloquent when you report on the weather! I hope you enjoy the game, and that you and yours are safe and sound. Drive careful my friend. You all are in my prayers!
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