Do you remember Leonard’s Losers, a syndicated radio show during the 70s? It featured a character named Leonard Postoasties. The self proclaimed world’s greatest football prognosticator would predict all of the losers for the weekend’s college football games in a down home style. His predictions came from his smart little pill machine.
I can remember anxiously waiting for his show to come on every Saturday. (That was back when college football games were only on Saturday.) If he forecast the weather also, it might say something like this.
Coach Nick Saban takes his pack of pachyderms into Ole Miss where a bunch of rebels will lie in ambush. The Johnny Rebs won’t fire ‘til they see the whites of their eyes, but in the end the Mississippians will get stomped. Leonard’s Loser? Ole Miss. The weather will be fine with sunshine and a kickoff temperature around 72, rising to 78 by the end of the game.
Fall will be in full force Saturday night with temperatures falling through the 60s under a clear sky in the Ozarks when Tommy Tuberville’s Tigers of Auburn come calling. The Ar-Kansans will be primed for a bird barbecue, but it will be the Razorbacks who end up on the spit. Leonard’s Loser? Arkansas.
Finally, Tulane’s Green Wave will try to swamp a fire breathing lizard in Birmingham’s Legion Field Saturday evening. The weather will be cool and calm, and the high water advisory will be cancelled early. Leonard’s Loser? Tulane.
Leonard Postero passed away sadly in July of 2001. The world is a sadder place on Saturdays without him.
Do you have any memories of Leonard?
Get me out of here Percy.
