I gotta say something: I think the decision to mutually end the LSU-Tulane football series, dubbed “The Battle For the Rag,” is horribly short-sighted and downright unfair for the city of New Orleans.

I’m not calling the schools on the carpet yet, but I’ll get there.  For nearly every year since 1893, and every single year between 1919 and 1994, LSU and Tulane have faced each other on the gridiron.  The “Battle for the Rag,” may be passé and old school, but at 41 years of age, I can remember as a child when this rivalry, lop-sided though it is, mattered.

I listened to LSU’s last defeat to Tulane on the radio, not believing my ears.  That was, I believe,