Notes on a golf scorecard while dreading LSU’s first alternate uniforms of the season Saturday against SLU …

… As soon as LSU coach Brian Kelly revealed Monday that Tigers’ quarterback Garrett Nussmeier has been hampered by a “torso injury” since preseason camp, the debate ignited as to whether the Nuss bus should be idled for Saturday’s game in Tiger Stadium against Southeastern Louisiana (6:45 p.m., SEC Network).

Asked about it on Wednesday’s SEC coaches’ teleconference, Kelly didn’t equivocate.

“I think he needs to play,” the coach said. “Garrett wants to play. He’s capable of playing.”

Football is a dangerous game. Any time a player steps onto the field there is a risk. Always has been, as evidenced by this gruesome but humorous poem from the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1893:

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