BATON ROUGE, La. (KBTX) - Mark Roman still remembers the day his son, wearing a worn-out replica of his San Francisco 49ers jersey, jumped off the family couch and ran a football into another room without breaking a stride.

It was about that time — when Ashton Bethel-Roman was approximately 5 years old — that the young athlete told his dad he wanted to follow in his footsteps and one day become a professional football player. He asked Roman if he’d watch his games.

“Son, if you play on the moon, I’d follow you to the moon and watch you there,” Roman told his son.

Saturday, Roman and his wife, Ashley Bethel-Roman, will continue to live up to that promise by attending No. 3 Texas A&M’s Southeastern Conference bout with No. 20 LSU. While Baton Rouge isn’t quite the moon, it’s a place that’

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