H style goalposts and marking off the field every 5 yards

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Good article on the goalpost: LINK

Good article for yardage markings: LINK .


These answer your questions.....geaux Tigers.

The governors buddy owned a paint store.

The education budget in Louisiana is so low that teachers can only cover so many things.

They had to decide between learning to count to 50 by 5’s or 10’s and the powers that be went with 5’s.

What’s the deal? No big deal. Get a life.

It is also good on Saturday nights to smell the aroma of the coffee roasting plants along the Mississippi River. It’s why Alabama fans always say we smell like corn dogs. ??

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I (think!) I remember students rushing the field after beating FSU in 1982 and some students went for the goalpost but there was no chance it was going anywhere because it had two attachments to the ground, not just one.

After the H style goalposts had been replaced by the Y style posts, the filmmakers for Everybody’s All American filmed game footage during halftime at a game in Tiger Stadium. They used some sort of camouflage fabric to hide the single post and added 2 fake legs to make the goalposts look like the old H style.

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It’s why Alabama fans always say we smell like corn dogs. ??

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Wrong

It's a throwback to a time during the 1930s when Gov Huey Long was a huge supporter of LSU football. He got the stadium financed because they put dorms in it. A surplus of dollars went to the athletic department one year and not wanting lose the money the next year because they didn't spend it, the department spent the excess on a 100 year supply of field paint and steel. So, to put it to use, they numbered every 5 yards and added a second post to the uprights.