LSU has won (well, there’s 1:50 left and they’re leading 38-17) the National Championship, the SEC sending the Buckeyes home in defeat for the second straight year. Congrats to the Bayou Bengals, which has always been one of my favorite SEC teams after Georgia and Auburn.

My dad was a fan of Paul Dietzel and the Chinese Bandits at LSU back in the ’50s and later at Army (my dad was career Army). We almost had a father-son estrangement when I became a huge Navy fan during the Joe Bellino and Roger Staubach years.

We patched that up later, but it happened again in the ’70s when I was a Minnesota fan (Fran Tarkenton) and he was a Dallas fan (Staubach). He got the best of that one.