For those old enough....

I had a threesome

It was in black and white.

Back then, it was not a "National Championship Game."

they were proclaimed national champions before the game was even played

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I remember Billy Cannon had a roll of hundreds and was buying everyone drinks at the Bengal on Highland.

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In those days it took a day or two to get information around on who won what and when. We did not have the best sports programs around back then to keep up with the information. We all depended on the six o'clock news for all our infromation sports or otherwise.

Back then also everyone was more concerned with equal rights than anything else and all the fan fair was not as previlant back then as it is now.

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I remember Billy Cannon had a roll of fake hundreds and was buying everyone drinks at the Bengal on Highland.

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I was 9 when this happened. The world was really a different place back then. The things I do remember are that Baton Rouge felt like it was in a slow boil. Excitement, but not really outward and overt. (No Parades or Public Celebrations that I can recall) Remember, College Football back then was not the overwhelming favorite sport that it is today. MLB was the most predominant sport at that time, and Pro and College Football were down the line a ways.

I remember seeing a lot of LSU NATIONAL CHAMPIONS '58 Plates on cars. Not a huge amount of bumper stickers back then, but the plates (license type) were on a lot of cars. Probably only 1 or so families had the plate out of 30 families up and down the street, LSU was popular, but not nearly so as it is today...(unlike nowadays...where even if you don't have a sticker or plate, many are true LSU fans.)

There was a inner pride and lots of Barber Shop talk about the team, but not the rah rah atmosphere that exists today. A lot of men didn't give a rats axx about football in the late 50's......it was emerging in popularity, but not any where near like today.

I really feel that over the years....lean years....that Baton Rouge and Louisiana came to really embrace, appreciate and enjoy that Championship more and more.

All in all......great memories!

I was 14 and went to the Sugar Bowl game against Clemson. The game was touted as the NC against some nobody team (I had never heard of Clemson). LSU was about a 4-TD favorite and it was automatically assumed all LSU had to do was show up and the game would be over. BUT, Clemson played right with us until the beginning of the 4th quarter and when the teams changed ends of the field, it put the game right in front of me. The crowd went wild when Cannon took a handoff and ran to near the right sideline, pulled up and threw a TD pass of about 7-10 yards for the only score of the game. All I remember about it otherwise was that all the LSU fans I knew took a DEEP breath after the game was over. BTW, a whiskey bottle at least half full sailed over my head after the score.