Several years ago when Sulphur went into the basketball playoffs we had a game in New Orleans. We rode the charter bus with police escorts. We found out why when we got to the school. It was surrounded by walls and concertina wire. When we entered the gym we had to go through a metal detector. Sulphur won the game but we were told to stay in the gym while the hometown fans were escorted two blocks away. We were then marched single file onto the buses and told to hang on until we were out of the 'hood because we weren't stopping for anything. On the way home the bus got pulled over by a state trooper coming off the Atchafalya bridge for speeding, we were doing 75. This was when the big push was on to slow everything down to 60 on the bridge. After a little discussion the bus driver got back on and we left. He was a retired state trooper and showed his retired state trooper badge and was told to go on.
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