Should never lose your life over a football game.
It is never that serious, but it happens too often.
Family members of a devout Alabama football fan say he was fatally beaten while out celebrating Saturday night’s game in a Tangipahoa Parish bar.
According to police, officers were called to the Ponchatoula Pub early Sunday morning in response to a bar fight with injuries. Police said 46-year-old Robert Bowers suffered serious injuries after being knocked unconscious by two other men at the bar.
A family member tells WBRZ that Bowers, a Louisiana resident, was an adamant fan of the Crimson Tide and had gone out to watch the Bama-LSU game earlier that night. They believe the attack was motivated by Bowers’ fandom.
The Advocate reports Police Chief Bry Layrisson believes the fight began as an argument over the LSU game.
Bowers said she was told two men approached her father. One tapped him on the shoulder and said, “Your old lady . . .” and then punched him, she said.
Bowers fell out of his chair and hit his head on the floor, she said. “They kept hitting him while he was on the ground.”
LSU fans 27-year-old Azia Crockett and 24-year-old Ryan Anthony have been booked on manslaughter charges.