4:45 LRN Sportscast April 6

Tonight at 7 PM, ESPN will re-air the iconic 2006 Monday night football game between the Saints and Falcons. It was the Black and Gold’s first game in the Dome after Hurricane Katrina.

Starting tonight Cox Sports Television will re-air games from LSU’s 2003 and 2007 national championship seasons. Tonight the regional sports network will re-broadcast the 2003 season opener against ULM.

The Saints will not be able to set up at Dixie Brewing Company during the draft. That’s because NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has told all teams club personnel can not gather at one place and must work out of their own homes.

Caretakers of LSU’s live mascot are avoiding direct contact with Mike the Seventh and have done so for the last three weeks. A tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York has tested postive for COVID-19.

Former Saints kicker Tom Dempsey, who once held the NFL record for the longest made field goal, has died at the age of 73 from complications of the coronavirus. Demspey spent eleven seasons in the NFL and kicked 159 field goals, even though he was born without toes on his right foot. His former teammate and ex-Saints quarterback Billy Kilmer…
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In 1970 at old Tulane Stadium, Dempsey booted a 63-yard field goal as the Saints beat the Detroit Lions on the record breaking kick. NFL analyst Mike Detillier says Dempsey told him he never saw the ball go through the up rights…
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