re: Need a reminder re: bar fights and who is the most feared player and why

Art Cantrell was the running back around the time I started going to the games as a kid. He wins the title of most legendary bar fighter.

I remember the night of the Rusty Domingue incident. He won the game for us by blocking an extra point or a field goal then he celebrated by stabbing someone in a bar. He later became a minister.

You may have George mixed up with Joe. George was huge and intimidating but Joe was the real deal.

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it’s funny how after smartphones, we have way less instances of people slinging 900 pound machines around as if it were a traffic cone.

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Speaking of 900 pound pinball machines, according to my smart phone google search, the vintage machines weighed between 200-350 pounds depending on their quality.

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Thank you for your research.

I will admit that that 900-pound weight was an estimate -- a very inaccurate one, evidently -- from what I remember from the time.

Back then, those old machines were called “biffers” -- you had to bang on them, to try (mostly unsuccessfully) to control the ball, and get it to go into the desired hole.

Today, the collector community (there actually is one) refers to them exclusively as “bingo” machines, to differentiate them from modern flipper machines.

They were heavier, then, because they were entirely electro-mechanical. There were no lightweight modern electronics inside -- just motors, and rotors, and relays, and solenoids, and incandescent lights, and lotsa real wiring.

So I stand corrected: now I won’t be wrong about that, anymore.

I know a guy here in Asheville that says he knocked James Carville out in front of the TKE house at lsu.


Won’t say his name though.

Ole Art was so bad he'd make a train take a back road. Plus, he could make an onion cry!

Watched Jesse Daniels clear OUT an entire frat one night in the Tigerland parking lot. Bodies everywhere


DRIVEMAN OUT

Buy that man a beer

Not an LSU player but in his hay day, Gayle Hatch was one of the baddest dudes in BR. Heard him tell countless stories and have heard many others confirm.