Fast Eddie Gives His Take on Tulane-Charlotte
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Our "friend," Fast Eddie has made his way though the maze of people shopping at Marshall's before the Thanksgiving holidays. My family likes to look for bargains there before the Black Friday madness. I guess Eddie is doing the same, as he wheels his half-empty cart through the food and syrup aisle, most of those tall bottles of coffee syrups with half-off stickers.
"I love buying these for family," Fast Eddie says to me as he passes our cart without a salutation. "My fam don't know these are 50% off. What they don't know won't hurt 'em," he says with a wink.
The bottle labels show a name I've never heard before, but that doesn't affect Eddie. "Name brands are no better," he tells me. "I've never tasted them before, but I can guarantee they're made at the same factory that makes those," pointing to the Toranis on the shelf. "That Italian stuff is too expensive."
I start to point out there is a reason you see the Torani syrups at nicer coffee shops, but he beats me to the punch to talk about Tulane football.
"I did not see last weekend coming," he says, referring to Tulane not just covering the spread at Temple last week, but torching the Owls. "I was off on that one. I said Tulane hasn't proven they can win these games after falling apart last year at the end." He is putting another non-branded bottle of some non-descript syrup in his basket. "I told you they had to prove themselves, and they did."
Placing one more bottle in his basket, Eddie leans over and says, "Sumrall probably won't be around next year," hinting he knew something I didn't about the Tulane head coach opportunities away from Uptown, "but he has this squad focused, unlike North Texas." He's referring to the Mean Green head coach, Eric Morris, who announced this week he was leaving Denton to coach at Oklahoma State, even though there is still some season remaining on their schedule. "Greenie fans may not like Sumrall leaving, but he has handled it with class: not talking about anything until this season is done."
"As long as Sumrall and his team stay that way, they can make the playoffs," Eddie continues as he starts to wheel his cart away. "I'll tell you, 30-points is a lot to give up to a team," he says referring to the point spread against Charlotte this weekend, "but this time, I'm gonna take the Greenies and give up the points." And off he goes off in search of more 50% off knock offs.
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Doug has covered a gamut of sporting events in his fifty-plus years in the field. He started doing sideline reporting for Louisiana Tech football games for the student radio station. Doug was Sports Director for KNOE-AM/FM in Monroe in the mid-80s, winning numerous awards from the Louisiana Sports Writers Association for Best Sportscast and Best Play-by-Play. High school play-by-play for teams in Monroe, Natchitoches, New Orleans, and Thibodaux, LA dot his resume. He did college play-by-play for Northwestern State University in Natchitoches for nine years. Then, moving to the Crescent City, Doug did television PBP of Tulane games and even filled in for legendary Tulane broadcaster, Ken Berthelot in the only game Kenny ever missed while doing the Green Wave games. His father was an alumnus of Tulane in the 1940s, so Doug has attended Tulane football games in old Tulane Stadium, the Superdome, and Yulman. He was one of the 86,000 plus on December 1, 1973, sitting in the North End Zone to seeTulane shutout the LSU Tigers, 14-0. He was there when the Posse ruled Fogelman and in Turchin when the Wave made it to the World Series. He currently is the public address voice of the Tulane baseball team.