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Bobby Hebert Booted From LSU Press Box For Excessive Cheering

Posted: November 4, 2012
Bobby Hebert Booted From LSU Press Box For Excessive Cheering

Bobby Hebert Booted From LSU Press Box For Cheering

Bobby Hebert was booted from the LSU Tigers press box at the team’s game against Alabama on Saturday for breaking the cardinal rule among journalists — no cheering allowed.

The former Saints and Falcons quarterback Bobby Hebert, who is now a talk show host for WWL-AM radio in Louisiana, was rooting for the Tigers a little too hard in the game, NESN reported. Hebert broadcasts outside Tiger Stadium when the team plays at home and, after his show is over, takes in the game from the press box.

That was where the trouble started. Hebert was booted for cheering throughout the game, disrupting the nonpartisan atmosphere demanded of journalists in the press box. As NESN notes, Hebert can be forgiven for being somewhat of a homer. His son played as an offensive lineman for LSU between 2008 and 2011, and he has been an outspoken fan in the past.

According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, there were 900 journalists with credentials to LSU’s matchup against No. 1 Alabama. Hebert was booted for causing too much of a distraction for them, and police were even called to escort him out of the press box.

“He was disturbing other media members who were trying to do their jobs, and he was warned twice,” LSU associate sports information director Bill Martin said, according to the Times-Picayune. “We had complaints from several people in the press box.”

Bobby Hebert being booted from the press box was not the first time he got into trouble at an LSU game. Last year he used a postgame press conference to call out the playcalling of coach Les Miles.



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9 Archived Responses to “ Bobby Hebert Booted From LSU Press Box For Excessive Cheering ”

  1. Dennis Whitlock
    Nov 5, 2012

    If they kicked Bobby out, then they should kick Jon Gruden off of Monday Night Football… he picks a team EVERY week.

  2. Miles W. Rich
    Nov 5, 2012

    He should have gone to UGA. They never kicked Larry Munson out of the press box in Athens.

  3. Anonymous
    Nov 5, 2012

    Hebert is a joke of a broadcaster , when you can understand what he is saying. Although I think he is dead on with Les Miles coaching, that guy has a knack for deflating his own team with bizarre decisions at the worst times.

  4. Dave King
    Nov 5, 2012

    Can we kick all the TV news anchors in America off the air for cheering for Obama?

  5. Rod Larson
    Nov 5, 2012

    "…and police were even called to escort him out of the press box." Where are we, Russia?

  6. Becky Blair DeMeyer
    Nov 5, 2012

    what about Harry Cary for his excessive drinking and carryin on…lol

  7. Miles W. Rich
    Nov 5, 2012

    i never heard him call a college football game, but he did call the University of Missouri Tiger football games once upon a time.

  8. Constance Peschang Stannard
    Nov 5, 2012

    Wait a minute, what is "excessive" cheating? There's a line somewhere?

  9. James Michael Greene Sr.
    Nov 9, 2012

    you wouldnt have said that if Mitt Romney had won would you NOT