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Perhaps we should call it semi-retirement

Posted October 7, 2009 at 10:37 pm
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BATON ROUGE — LSU will ceremoniously retire the No. 37 jersey of Tommy Casanova, the only three-time All-America football player in the school’s history, Saturday in Tiger Stadium.

Casanova’s jersey was retired in May, as you will see if you click on this link, but away from any crowds and fanfare. With No. 1-ranked Florida playing No. 4-ranked LSU, the atmosphere will be electric when LSU goes the formal route.

This paragraph jumped out at me from the above-linked story at LSUSports.net:

The retirement of the jerseys of Casanova, McDonald and Macklin comes under a new provision of the LSU jersey retirement bylaws that says the retirement of an athlete’s jersey in a particular sport does not preclude a current student-athlete in that sport from wearing the jersey number in that or any other sport, subject to the discretion of the head coach. This provision applies only to jerseys retired after January 1, 2007, so the numbers worn by Maravich, Pettit, O’Neal, Cannon and Bertman may never again be worn by future student-athletes in their respective sports.

So, LSU sophomore defensive back Karnell Hatcher can continue to wear No. 37, apparently. So, it’s the jersey, not the number. So, it’s the laundry?

Let’s hope they long ago retired Casanova’s jock, socks and shoes.