For a few LSU football players, the famous Lynyrd Skynyrd lyrics “Sweet home Alabama, where the skies are so blue,” brings them back to their childhood under the Alabama sun.
LSU currently has six players from the Yellowhammer State who will return home this weekend when the Tigers travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala., to take on the Crimson Tide.
“Louisiana fans will support [LSU] until they die and so will Alabama fans,” said sophomore offensive guard Josh Williford. “I think they’re the same, except people have different then.”
 
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