I am beat . . .

I am beat, kinda slept in this AM, tired after a day at Humperdinks solicting money for LSU Scholarships. Gary Taylor, our Treasurer, had the idea for the Cotton Bowl to have a box with a small poster asking for $5 per person to get into Humperdinks. Of course it is free to get into Humperdinks but the generous LSU fans contributed hardly at the Cotton Bowl last January. My diea was to get in their faces and asking for the donations. That worked. But it was tiring and others did not seem to have the knack for asking for the money. Not me. We had to split the take with the Dallas Alumni Club at the Cotton Bowl but not this time. So all that I collected went into the pot for the scholarship fund. Gary sold cozys and towels, T shirts and beads. I just begged. But we rolled up a nice return for our efforts. Opportunities like these do not come by a little remote chapter like us, so we had to make the most of it, Gary and his lovely wife, Linda, went off the game and I stayed at Humperdinks and count up the take. We collected and sold $5,268. We also collect from several motels that we ballyhooed on the web page and from independent vendors. So I expect we racked another thousand or so dollars. Nice take, right. I arrived at 8:00 AM and began collecting while Gary set up his sales table. Humperdinks (aka Humps) did not open until 9:00 AM but we had people there already. By 10:00 AM the place was rocking, by 11:30 we had already maxed out the building capacity. We who stayed at Humps to watch the game on TV had a more sedate time of it but still well populated with folks. We even had some that left the game at half time, the complained of having "High altitude seats." Any how, beer is a lot cheaper at Humps than at the Jerry Dome. We had a great time. I got home at about midnight, hoarse, tired and pleased at what we had done. But old guys like me can not take to many of these events. Counting out over $5,000 was quite a task. And it was great win by LSU. Oregon learned that SEC defensive football is quite different than west run and gun or speedy shoot outs. They found LSU defense equal to their highpowered offense and got kinda shut down. The LSU offense came alive in the second half and Oregon got beat pretty badly. Geaux Tigers . . . .