re: For those old enough....

It has been a while, but I seem to remember spitting up my Gerber strained carrots and later pooping in my diaper.

My dad was at LSU during this time, and I've never heard him say much about the actual national championship celebration. I do remember him telling me that the campus was like an absolute morgue the next year when LSU finally lost again (to Tennessee). That game was in Knoxville, and everyone around Baton Rouge was listening to it on the radio. Apparently Tennesee intercepted a pass and ran it back for a touchdown. The radio announcer kept saying (during the runback) "and Cannon is on the ground".

I was there & it was one of the greatest times for Lsu ever in any sport.

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It became a problem in the late 60’s with a minor shoot out with the Black Panthers in the 1100 block of Government Street. But no race riots, etc.

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Did you read about this in the history books?
This took place in front of the old Lincoln Theater on North Blvd. and it was the Black Muslims, not Black Panthers.

The cops killed 3 of them, a deputy sheriff was also killed and a newsman (Bud Johnson) was beaten to a vegetative state.

I don't think any real clear reason for the whole thing ever came out.

As far as the NC, the NC was already declared before the Sugar Bowl and I don't remember much hoopla surrounding the whole thing. As someone else said, there were lots of NC license plates but not much else. No NC parade, no big network tv hoopla. Basically just another day at the office.

I was 10 at the time and I can kick my arse for all the valuable baseball cards I ruined by sticking them in the spokes of my bicycle!

Football, college and pro, didn't begin to grow until "The Greatest Game Ever Played"-the sudden death NFL Championship between the Baltimore Colts and NY Giants took place in 1958.
Until that happened, football was nothing more than a filler between baseball seasons. It really didn't have much more appeal or following than hockey has today. The NBA and NHL, outside of the cities where the teams were located, were barely known to exist.

Until ESPN came along, sports coverage was limited to some weekend recaps and the local news programs. Believe it or not, the news programs used to be about 15 minutes (generally news and weather, no sports) until Chet Huntley and David Brinkley expanded the national newscasts on NBC to 30 minutes in the late '50's-early '60's. Then the other networks and local news followed suit by expanding to 30 minutes.

No cable, no satellite, just 2-3 local stations. In BR, the first was WAFB and CBS, then WBRZ and NBC/ABC together and then in the late '60's WRBT 33 came on air and went with ABC. When Monday Night Football became popular, WBRZ decided to switch to ABC and WRBT had to go to NBC. That was it until cable came in the mid '70's and then what we have today began to evolve.

Joe Dean celebrated by driving his car into the lake.
Lee Corso said "not so fast my friend" - Notre Dame is the split champion