Billy Cannon died

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Just saw it on ESPN

 

[RocketCityDawg]

Was Billy Cannon one of your relatives? I listened to that game on the radio, my senior year at Collins MS HS when Billy did his 89 yd run to defeat Khayat's FG. I met that Pascagoula kicker guy a few years later.... But OM and LSU met at the end of that same season, Sugar Bowl, Tulane stadium. I recall that match was 21-0 Rebs. I stand corrected, if needed...that was 58 years ago, and my head-bone don't remember everything...

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

No, much as I would've loved to, wasn't related to him......

...growing up, I was asked that alot.

Did an Ancestry.com search a couple of years ago. If we were related, it was probably from the Olde Country.

 

[RocketCityDawg]

In those days, the LSU coach was "Pepsodent" Paul Deet-zul, misspelling intentional. He had a 3rd team of mixed defense and offense, called the "Chinese Bandits." Politically incorrect by today's standard, but they had a song that was sometimes played on WNOE in New O in those days... Chinese Bandits, they can knock, gonna stop a TD, chop chop! A bit of history for some of you 17 or under 17 then....

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...868ECCE14FA37E6B48FC868ECCE14FA37E6&FORM=VIRE

 

[RocketCityDawg]

I just wondered, with your shared surname...

 

[HumpDawgy]

Great, this year's Magnolia Bowl (insert joke here) will now be even more unbearable to watch. They will mention and play that clip over.....and over......and over.......you get it.

 

[512taylor]

Was Billy Brewer on that team that played in the 1959 game?

 

[Maroon Eagle]

The Chinese Bandits were named after characters in the classic comic strip Terry and the Pirates.

Cue IMPP to post images of Miss Lace and the Dragon Lady.

 

[HumpDawgy]

I thought the Chinese bandits were the people who breaded the hot dog.***

 

[Maroon Eagle]

Don't you mean the tater tots? **

 

[thekimmer]

So, by today's standards, should the whole chinese bandits thing be considered 'racially insensitive'?

 

[tatedog]

So, by today's standards, should the whole chinese bandits thing be considered 'racially insensitive'?

Asian-American financially and ethically challenged individuals

 

[HumpDawgy]

How about "The Educationally Superior".

 

[tatedog]

The Chinese Bandits were good students too? Good for them!

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

Well...

they had the Go Team,.... and then the White Team ....then the Chinese Bandits...

It was one platoon football.