Welcome to the Boneyard with Steve Roberts.

And as always, I am your good friend and host, Steve Roberts.

And here on the Maroon Friday edition of the yard, coming to you pretty early, but should have this up mid-morning.

But if you don't have Maroon on yet, you need to put it on.

It's time to believe.

It's time to get fired up.

LSU's coming to town this week.

As a matter of fact, they'll get here today, have their little walkthrough.

And we got early morning football.

It was announced earlier this week, I guess yesterday, somebody told me, less than 500 tickets remain.

You and I both know LSU is going to travel.

And they do. And they're a very passionate fan base, as you guys know. You know, there's always a certain element, too. You know, there's people to make them look bad. But I tell you what's interesting, just yesterday I was on the radio with Matt Mascona out of Baton Rouge and done a lot of LSU media this week. And, you know, I've been doing this a long time. Obviously, I've got a lot of friends in the media. But, you know, Matt's a guy that I don't always agree with Matt. But I think Matt is a great job. And it's so incredibly, I guess, fortuitous, we'd say. So I'm on the phone yesterday with Matt. It's kind of preview in the game, just kind of talking about how we see it.

And I get a text from a old, old friend from, I say, oh, he's my age, but my buddy Barry Bordalong out of Villeplan.

And works in the furniture industry.

He and I worked together with Halle-Mey Myers for many years. One of the, one of the most passionate LSU families that I know. I absolutely love the Bordlawn family. And surely thereafter, it's like, I get a text, he's like, hey, are you on the phone? Are you on radio of Matt Matt Mascona right now? Like, yeah, yeah, I am.

And so the next thing I know, Charlie Bordalong, Barry's Dad, who was my boss for a while in

Apalus, Louisiana, I don't know that I know many people better than Charlie Bordlong. I mean,

this is the kind of guy, man man that, you know, I must get

emotional thinking about what a great man he was for me. I mean, when I worked for him, you know,

when I got to Apollosius, Louisiana, it's a mouthful. Charlie's, you know, doing a great job

on the sales for. The credit department was kind of in

bad shape. And so I took over and we went from worse to first in the very first month. And,

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