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Pistol Pete died 28 years ago today
Posted on 1/5/16 at 11:19 am
Posted on 1/5/16 at 11:19 am
The stars are aligning for us to pull off the W tonight, brothers. Tigers gonna win one for Pete!!
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Posted on 1/5/16 at 11:23 am to The Truth 34
Remember exactly where I was when I heard. Senior year in high school (frick...) and I was walking between the football stadium and main school building at Hahnville High and my baseball coach who I was close with, Steven Weber (who was the principal at Destrehan for a long while..may still be for all I know) walked up and told me the news.
Strange thing to remember that vividly given I have no real memories of seeing Pistol play live...
Strange thing to remember that vividly given I have no real memories of seeing Pistol play live...
Posted on 1/5/16 at 11:26 am to The Truth 34
Posted on 1/5/16 at 11:27 am to GeauxTigerTM
i'm not old enough to remember him, but my dad used to tell me all kinds of stories from his LSU days, to his time with the Jazz. i always wore 23 and people always thought it was for MJ.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 11:29 am to GeauxTigerTM
quote:
Steven Weber (who was the principal at Destrehan for a long while..may still be for all I know)
He's an actor now.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 12:16 pm to The Truth 34
GOAT
Posted on 1/5/16 at 12:18 pm to GeauxTigerTM
quote:I played some pick up games with him at the Metairie YMCA (now hospital buildings). True story.
I have no real memories of seeing Pistol play live...
Posted on 1/5/16 at 12:20 pm to The Truth 34
I'm trying to wrap my mind around the fact that, if he had lived, Pistol Pete would be pushing 70.
RIP - greatest NCAA backcourt player of all time - period.
RIP - greatest NCAA backcourt player of all time - period.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 12:51 pm to Ace Midnight
+1
Posted on 1/5/16 at 12:55 pm to The Truth 34
Had a rare congenital anomaly that left him with a heart half the size of a regular human.
GOAT
GOAT
Posted on 1/5/16 at 12:56 pm to The Truth 34
The GOAT. RIP.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 1:14 pm to Chris Warner
I don't think that is accurate. He had a congenital absence of one of his L coronary artery, not an abnormally small heart.
This post was edited on 1/5/16 at 1:21 pm
Posted on 1/5/16 at 1:16 pm to The Truth 34
Posted on 1/5/16 at 1:39 pm to kjacksonp
Yes he was completely missing an artery apparently.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 1:57 pm to The Truth 34
anybody ever know why brady was such a prick to his son?
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:03 pm to Chris Warner
I didn't realize how many critics he had. Oscar Robinson and other players of that era claim Pete didn't understand the game.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:04 pm to pistolpete23
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The best there ever was 44pts a game will never be broken
FWIW, Dale Brown estimates that - with the college 3pt line, it would have been closer to 50 to 52 ppg.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:06 pm to Lige
quote:
Oscar Robinson and other players of that era claim Pete didn't understand the game.
Lawrence Taylor didn't understand football - linebacker play particularly.
What he did understand was fricking up QBs.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:08 pm to The Truth 34
I know the guy that was the other starting guard at Pete's high school (Broughton High in Raleigh). He tells a story about their coach's instructions....Billy, when the other team scores, you get the ball and throw it in to Pete.
Posted on 1/5/16 at 2:33 pm to LSUScores
Let's just think about this for s second.....44.2 ppg. Will never be broken. Ever. And to do it for three years is almost unthinkable. Benn Simmons had ONE game where he scored 43 points. He won't do that again this year most likely.
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