I was happy to do a one-and-done column related to Tulane football, but then, less than an hour before I started writing this, Jay Nordlinger at National Review Online wrote a little reminiscence about growing up with famous quarterback and head coach Jim Harbaugh. It’s a fun little blog post, and it gives me leave to write something I couldn’t fit in my Tulane piece earlier this week.
In passing, my column mentioned my uncle, Victor Law, who grew up in Port Sulphur, La., rooting for the then-powerful Green Wave. What I didn’t say then was that Vic went on to attend Tulane as an undergraduate, then as a grad student, then took a job on its faculty and served as chairman of its Chemical Engineering Department. In all, he spent 60 straight years (aside from a working sabbatical) at Tulane, and cheered for its sports teams for nearly a decade before that. Even more than most of us from multi-generational Tulane families (I didn’t go there, but my parents and grandparents did), Vic Law absolutely bleeds olive-green and blue.
