BATON ROUGE — The LSU football team will be the focus on FSN’s Southern Sports Report at 10 p.m. CT Friday as the live 30-minute show takes an in-depth look at the role the Tigers played during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Tonight’s special on the Tigers will be shown on FSN South, which is carried across most of the southern United States.
FSN reporter reporter Paul Crane hosts “Tiger Tracks: The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” which comprises the majority of Friday’s SSR.
Included are glimpses inside how the Tiger football team and athletic department personnel dealt with the hurricane’s powerful impact upon their state. “Tiger Tracks” addresses LSU’s decision to postpone its season-opening football game with North Texas and move its ensuing game with Arizona State from Baton Rouge to Tempe, while the LSU campus was engaged as a staging area for hurricane relief efforts.
As well, “Tiger Tracks” looks at the team’s trip to the Arizona desert and its amazing, come-from-behind win over the Sun Devils; the emotional buildup to the home opener and the scramble to move the Tennessee game from Saturday to Monday night; and, the emotions of a gut-wrenching overtime loss.
Throughout “Tiger Tracks,” a number of LSU players plus athletic director Skip Bertman share their thoughts on how this tremendous natural disaster has knitted the team, the campus and the state of Louisiana into a powerful force in rebuilding lives across the Gulf Coast region.