Former LSU star Joe Burrow's father, Jimmy, is a career football man himself.
The elder Burrow played collegiately for Nebraska, then had stints in the NFL and CFL before embarking on a long coaching career.
The Cornhusker State is where Jim matured as a football mind, but he was raised in Mississippi -- at a time when Ole Miss was LSU's bitter rival.
Appearing on "Sports Talk" with Bobby Hebert and Kristian Garic on Wednesday, Jim was jokingly asked to explain how LSU's only two Heisman winners -- Joe Burrow and the late Billy Cannon -- have Mississippi roots.
"I grew up, as you said, in Mississippi, and I was a State fan, but then I ended up going to Ole Miss for a year," Jimmy said. "But I used to get on the radio on Saturday night, and listen to LSU football. That's why I referenced the Chinese Bandits -- I think it was the Gold team and the White team."
The Bandits, famously immortalized on the cover of Life in October 1959, still hold a special place in LSU lore, a lore that Jimmy still seems to cherish despite his life in football leading him to play and coach elsewhere.
"That's part of what I did as a kid, because I loved football down south," Burrow added. "The first game I ever played at Ole Miss -- that's back when you had freshman teams -- and we played LSU in Oxford. And Brad Davis was the running back, and I got a chance to meet Brad during all that.
"He was from Hammond, and I actually knew the boys from Hammond because of the basketball camp at Mississippi State. Brad was there ... the Amory boys and the Hammond boys had a little altercation, and so that was my first experience with Brad Davis being a tough guy."
Elsewhere, Jimmy talks about his and Joe's relationship with the Manning family; Joe's knack for timely scrambles; and an interesting anecdote about former Kent State quarterback turned Patriots star wide receiver Julian Edelman, whom he coached against when he was defensive coordinator at Ohio University.
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