Craig Wolfley at the Independence Bowl

[bevosu]

A few SU sports figures videos on this site...Dave "no receipt" Jacobs among others.

Craig Wolfley at the Independence Bowl

 

[hungrychuck]

I was on the Shreveport trip as a young lad. This came after we got smoked by BC in the season finale at Cornell, losing out on a trip to...I think it was the Tangerine Bowl in Florida.

Being pretty naive and little traveled, I remember thinking Shreveport can't be that different from New Orleans. It's Louisiana, right??

Man, did I get that wrong.

But we won the damn game. Nice finish for a really fun team to watch.

 

[bigmike]

Boy, Wolfley seems to have a great personality. No wonder he landed in the TV business.

 

[All4SU]

A few SU sports figures videos on this site...Dave "no receipt" Jacobs among others.

Craig Wolfley at the Independence Bowl

Proof positive that sometimes you just have to fake it!

 

[HtownOrange]

I was on the Shreveport trip as a young lad. This came after we got smoked by BC in the season finale at Cornell, losing out on a trip to...I think it was the Tangerine Bowl in Florida.

Being pretty naive and little traveled, I remember thinking Shreveport can't be that different from New Orleans. It's Louisiana, right??

Man, did I get that wrong.

But we won the damn game. Nice finish for a really fun team to watch.

Having been stationed in Shreveport (Barksdale, AFB) and visited NOLA, I can personally verify there is no comparison beyond they are both in Louisiana.

 

[TexanMark]

Having been stationed in Shreveport (Barksdale, AFB) and visited NOLA, I can personally verify there is no comparison beyond they are both in Louisiana.

Ark-La-Tex
Hot AF in the summer

The casinos were pretty raunchy back in the day...smoke pits and filled with folks driving beater cars into the parking lots.

 

[HtownOrange]

Ark-La-Tex
Hot AF in the summer

The casinos were pretty raunchy back in the day...smoke pits and filled with folks driving beater cars into the parking lots.

I was stationed there when they announced the casinos would be allowed. Not that it was much better before the casinos.

They sold the casinos as being river boats going up and down the Red River (yes, that same Red River which is the subject of the UT-OU Red River Rivalry), but that was a pie-in-the-sky sales pitch. In Shreveport, an adult can walk through the river without going under, very wide, very shallow. They would have had to dredge a channel for the river boats to travel up and down, it was never going to happen.

Anyway, I had friends in the ares until about 10 years ago and it was worse than when I was there. Your assessment was what I saw. Still, one of my daughters was born there, so they have that going for them.