A Toast To You Mr. Leonard Fournette! (Warning Very Long)

Thanks for choosing to represent your home state. Many have selective memory and won’t admit now how devastating it would have been had you, the number 1 recruit in America, chosen Alabama over LSU. Most LSU fans celebrated you stating that you wanted to represent your home state, The Boot. Also that you wanted to bring a national championship to your home state, not some other state.

You have represented us well with class and hard work. I noticed during games you never seemed to tire and rarely drank water. A sign of being in terrific shape, based on extremely hard work and dedication put in by you. You became the face of LSU football. Everyone nationally marveled at the great Leonard Fournette. Many now pretend it was no big deal you chose LSU. Had you chosen Alabama, you would have had a national championship or two and possibly a Heisman Trophy or two. Yet some fans now blame you for LSU not having the success of Bama. Some choose to minimize your abilities. They now blame you for the ineffective LSU offense against Bama where you were surrounded by Bama players behind the line of scrimmage on almost every carry against them. But you never complained or showed selfishness by blaming others.

After choosing to play this year while injured, many have turned against you because you chose not to play in the bowl game and claim you quit on your team. What I remember is you playing this year basically on one leg to help your team. I remember you running for 254 yards on just 16 carries on one leg. Yet some inbeciles claim you are not a great back. And that you will not be successful in the NFL. With “fans” like those, who needs enemies?

I have no doubt you know the type fans that turned against you now that you are no longer useful to them at LSU. They denigrate you and devalue you. That element looks at you as an animal, like a race horse. If you come up lame, they have no further use or empathy for you. They don’t realize there are many young football players in Louisiana and nationally who look up to you and notice how LSU fans ended up treating one of their all-time greats. Maybe Cam Akers was one of them. Cook was injured throughout his career, however FSU fans did not turn against him. Maybe Moses and Allen as well. They have witnessed those type fans up close. We all know you were Moses idol.

Continue representing the Boot with the class you have always shown. Overlook the classless fans infecting LSU fandom. They do not represent the majority. I know they do not represent me. I truly hope you do not regret choosing to play for your home team. You have thousands who are thankful you did and will always be in your corner. Good luck in your future NFL career and life in general. May God bless you and your family. Thanks so much! I loved every minute of your career at LSU.