re: Pete Maravich double bird to Bama fans

He actually had a congintal defect of the arteries supplying blood to his heart. I'm pretty sure the medical consensus was that he should have been dead at least a decade4 earlier but the tremendous condition he was in prolonged his life.

A little info from Wikipedia about the Pistol.

Pistol Pete Wiki article

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Maravich's longstanding collegiate scoring record is particularly impressive when two other factors are taken into account:
First, NCAA rules at the time of Maravich's collegiate career prohibited freshmen from taking part in varsity competition, preventing Maravich from adding to his career record for a full quarter of his time at LSU. During this first year, Maravich scored 741 points in freshman competition.

Second, Maravich played before the advent of the three-point line. His long-distance shooting skill thus produced far fewer points than would have been the case in a later era. Years later, former LSU head basketball coach Dale Brown charted every college game Maravich played, taking into consideration all shots he took. Brown calculated that at the NCAA rule of a three-point line at 19 feet 9 inches (6.02 m) from the rim, Maravich would have averaged thirteen 3-point scores per game, lifting the player's career average to 57 points per game.[9]

More than 35 years later, many of his NCAA and LSU records still stand. Maravich was a three-time All-American. Though he never appeared in the NCAA tournament, Maravich played a key role in turning around a lackluster program that had posted a 3–20 record in the season prior to his arrival.

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