Ex-Tiger Trouble, LaFell drops the Hammer

• Kevin Faulk gets busted totin’ a li’l weed to a Li’l Wayne concert at the Cajundome. Not arrested, though, he was just cited for misdemeanor possession.
• Eddie Kennison, former LSU wide receiver, was cut after 7 seasons with the Kansas City Cheifs.
• Ali Highsmith turned in a very slow 4.96 40 time at the combine.

So, rough week for our former heroes. Though I think Faulk will be fine. Highsmith, on the other hand, well, I hope he’s on track to get his degree. As for Kennison, that dude has always been a bit of a head case, but I think he will be ok. Just seeing his name there takes me back to that 100 yard punt return he had against Mississippi State one year – I don’t even know the year. But I (and I looked all over for video of it, if anyone has it, please let me know) remember that return.

Do you?

Here is the basic run-down. The punt goes over Kennison’s head and bounces to the goalline. Kennison, inexplicably, chases it down and fields it on the goalline and is immediately met by 2 Bulldog cover guys. He shrugs them off by backpedaling into the endzone, then takes a turn to his left and starts running. He gets out of the endzone, and by the 10 or 15 yard line, he is moving at top speed. Jim Hawthorne begins to realize that something big maybe about to happen, so he starts screaming unintelligibly. Kennison picks up a block around the 50, I think, and is never touched again all the way to the endzone. It is one of the stupidest, craziest, most exhilarating plays I have every seen.

Anyway, I am going to start reviewing my favorite individual plays from each game last year. Each game will get one play that is my favorite and I will do my best to put the youtube of them up on here.

This week, we start with the Mississippi State game. Not one of the 6 interceptions – or was it 7? Regardless, it is not one of those. It is this little beauty:

This brutal, beautiful stick established a physical, nasty persona for this team that I think it carried throughout the year. Think about it – this hit came not from Craig Steltz the head hunting safety, or Ali Highsmith the heat-seeking missile linebacker, or Glen Dorsey the all-Creation defensive tackly. No, it came from Brandon LaFell, a wide receiver. When you have your ’skill’ players willing to mix it up like that, your team has the kind of nastiness to it that can only be good. The hit was entirely clean, entirely appropriate and entirely effective. Just no other way to put it. So congrats LaFell. Tomorrow, a favorite play from the Virginia Tech Game….