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re: >>>>>>>31 Always<<<<<<<<
Posted on 7/25/10 at 1:36 am to Jack Burton
Posted on 7/25/10 at 1:36 am to Jack Burton
quote:Ok, so your standard would be if a player dies while at LSU, he gets his number retired? So I guess you would support the retirement of Naeshall Menard's number? He was the LSU football player who killed himself his junior year in 1998.
Not JUST because he tragically died young, but because he passed while still playing for LSU.
You can't just retire someone's number just because they died young while playing at LSU. You can certainly honor that person in other ways, but number retirement is the ultimate honor saved only for the greatest players in their sport who have very special accomplishments. Wally has not earned that honor.
This post was edited on 7/25/10 at 1:39 am
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Posted on 7/25/10 at 1:43 am to jlsutiger
This isn't the thread for this. Knock it off.
Posted on 7/25/10 at 1:43 am to jlsutiger
You're a dickhead. It's an ultimate honor? I bet if you ask any LSU baseball legend, they'd have no problem with Wally Pontiff's number being retired.
Posted on 7/25/10 at 1:45 am to jlsutiger
skip bertman didnt do anything "on the field" and his number is retired.
Posted on 7/25/10 at 1:53 am to jlsutiger
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You can't just retire someone's number just because they died young while playing at LSU. You can certainly honor that person in other ways, but number retirement is the ultimate honor saved only for the greatest players in their sport who have very special accomplishments. Wally has not earned that honor.
Alex Box is named after a LSU letterman who died in WWII. No, it isn't his jersey number, but I'd say having his name on the building is nice.
Also, I'd say that it's unfortunate that we never got a chance to see if Wally could have, in your words, "earned" the right to have his number retired.
Posted on 7/25/10 at 6:07 am to jlsutiger
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jlsutiger
I wish you would have died instead of Wally
I frickin hate people like you
Posted on 7/25/10 at 8:21 am to jlsutiger
Oh and jlsutiger
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