re: Is Kevin Faulk your all time favorite player at LSU?

Shaq and Laron Landry

My first game in Tiger Stadium was also his first game in TS. I have only missed 2 home games since. K. Faulk is absolutely my favorite Tiger. I agree you cannot measure what Kevin did for this program. He made it cool for guys like Rondell Mealey, Cecil Collins, LaBrandon Toefield, Joe Addai, Alley Broussard, etc to come to LSU as a Running Back because he showed them all that you could be an All American at LSU.

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lol: I gotcha, I just jumped in there...

Others from Natchez....I'm drawing blank, I give up.

But who else, i'm curious.

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It was an inside deal.. you couldn't have guessed that.

The main two I think of are Stevan Ridley... soon to be of LSU fame, and Hugh Green, who finished second in the Heisman as a defensive end at U Pitt, and had some pro bowl years at Tampa and Miami.

Bert Jones, Billy Cannon, Tommy Casanova, Glen Dorsey, LaRon Landry, Pete Maravich, Shaq, Rudy Macklin, Chris Jackson, Mike Miley, Todd Walker, Russ Johnson

Faulk was one of the reason LSU started keeping players in state. He was suppose to be next great RB to leave state. Instead he stayed to represent LSU, him and Herb Tyler will always be in my top 10 favorite football players.

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Curious, how did you get to know/meet Rudy?

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He was actually my "personal trainer" for one of the Kinesiology courses where you must train one of the students in another class through a circuit training program. He was a year ahead of me. We got to talk football during that time and everything too. He was very smart and got accepted to med school, but opted to start for the KC Chiefs.

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OK, to each his own. I thought maybe you were just a Slidell homer living in the days of the wonderful Torris Bright-Chris Duhon rivalry between Slidell and Salmen High. I always found him over-rated and a turnover machine. He would get the ball, run into the lane and jump in the air with nobody to pass it off to and eventually turn it over. Lather, rinse, repeat

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Nah man, not from there... and had no clue of the rivalry. I was only 13 years old when he got thre... so maybe I just didnt know any better but for some reason he was my favorite player and still is my favorite basketball player... but Taz is getting up there.

If the likes of Swift and Thomas would have stayed around I would go with them.

The entire 2007 football team. All heart all season. Hester is true LSU

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Is Kevin Faulk your all time favorite player at LSU?

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No, but glad he's having a great NFL career

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too many off the field issues for me

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A few of you have used the "off the field issues" as a reason for not being a big fan of his. First of all you don't know what your heros might have been into in college. Second, and most important, is why I say Kevin is a better person than you think he is.

One evening back in '97 or '98 while leaving a job site, I ran out of gas in my shitty company vehicle. I was driving down Burbank when it happened. Burbank has high curbs and I could not get the truck over the curb and completely off the roadway by myself. I kept trying because I was still on the road and it was getting dark, with rush hour traffic racing by me. Car after car after car whizzed by me, some cursing me, most barely trying to avoid me.

I tried a few more times to get the truck off the road when an jalopy pulls up behind me. A black man with one windsuit leg pulled up to the knee walks toward me and asks if I needed help. The guy single handedly pushed it over the curb with the quickness and he turns back around to me to see if I needed anything else, and then I realised who he was. KEVIN "ALLEYEZON3" FAULK stopped to help me. None of you jackasses who talk about "character" and off the field issues" would stop to help me. I estimate that about 500 people who believe they have "high Character" passed and cursed me before the "thug" stopped to help asking nothing in exchange. THAT"S KEVIN FAULK you hypocrits!