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Fact or Fiction?

Posted on 3/15/10 at 10:48 pm
Posted by AlwysATgr
Member since Apr 2008
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 10:48 pm
Supposedly, Bert Jones could stand on the playing field and throw a football OUT of TS, i.e., over the top.

Does anyone know if this is fact or fiction?
Posted by artvandelay1987
MANNYWOOD
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 10:52 pm to
uncle rico?
Posted by Ryne Sandberg
Team Am Mart
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 10:52 pm to
I'm betting fiction, but he was a legend
Posted by LSUTigerfaninHtown
President of the OT as of 5/26/11
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 10:55 pm to
quote:

uncle rico


used to able to throw a football a quarter mile.... I'm dead serious.
Posted by welcomtodaspacejam
Member since Feb 2010
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 10:56 pm to
It doesn’t sound too unbelievable…. I’ve done that a few times. He could probably do it easily.
Posted by LSUsmartass
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 11:12 pm to
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This post was edited on 3/15/10 at 11:26 pm
Posted by BigDropper
Member since Jul 2009
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 11:15 pm to
I heard the same thing except that after he threw the ball he would run through the tunnel and catch it on the other side... just what i was told.
Posted by nugget
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Posted on 3/15/10 at 11:24 pm to
He could throw it over them mountains right there.
Posted by south bama tiger
Member since May 2008
6646 posts
Posted on 3/16/10 at 12:24 am to
Bert Jones was good at dropping back 5 yards and falling down.

JK...that was just some joke a fomer LSU dlineman who player same years as Bert told me. Said he never would have thought that he would go pro. Course our offense was run-run-pass out of i-formation.
Posted by thanksjhester
Sonic
Member since Jun 2009
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 2:00 am to
this is fact but they have added on to TS since then
Posted by ezride25
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 3:43 am to
quote:

uncle rico


Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 3:53 am to
Sports Illustrated article that came out while Jones was in Baltimore claimed he was "the best danged rock thrower in Lincoln County."
Posted by Vol Fan in the Bayou
Member since Nov 2009
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 10:12 am to
That's nothing. Chuck Norris can jump over Tiger Stadium!
Posted by SportzIQ3235
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2005
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 10:15 am to
quote:

uncle rico


the Rich Gannon side-arm throw was priceless
Posted by OhFace55
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 10:24 am to
Posted by bayoubengal55
La.
Member since Sep 2009
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 10:32 am to
I heard him say on a radio interview, that back in his day he could throw from one end zone to the other.
Posted by Jaydeaux
Covington
Member since May 2005
19228 posts
Posted on 3/16/10 at 10:33 am to
i just puked a little in my mouth lol

man if coach would have just put me in......
Posted by Malaysian Tiger
Manila
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Posted on 3/16/10 at 10:54 am to
I heard that Wick could stand on the 20 and throw it through the goalpost at the other end of the field.
Posted by N.O. via West-Cal
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2004
7559 posts
Posted on 3/16/10 at 11:02 am to
Jones was from Lincoln Parish, not a county.
Posted by cheapseat
Louisiana
Member since Mar 2004
6288 posts
Posted on 3/16/10 at 12:42 pm to
quote:

uncle rico?

Uncle Rico filmed his workouts
This post was edited on 3/16/10 at 12:43 pm
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