Matilda
Published 9:14 pm Wednesday, May 27, 2020
The Louisiana Sports Writers Association’s adopted kangaroo, Matilda, takes a break at a Disney World hotel resort.Scooter Hobbs poses with Matilda at Disney World’s Main Street USA. Moments later a line of Disney visitors formed to get a picture with the kangaroo.Jim Kleinpeter, then of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and Scott Farrell of the Shreveport Times, chat up Matilda in the press box before an LSU game.Matilda poses with the bust of Bear Bryant while visiting the Bear Bryant Museum in Tuscaloosa.The kangaroo, along with Scooter Hobbs and his daughter Jennifer, are about to go inside Dreamland in Tuscaloosa for what Scooter says are the best ribs in the SEC.The pitmaster at Dreamland couldn’t resist to come see what the excitement was all about for Matilda’s arrival at the BBQ joint.Scooter Hobbs and Matilda pose in front of “Touchdown Jesus” before the LSU Notre Dame football game in South Bend during the 1998 season.The Notre Dame campus police arrived just about the time Jim Kleinpeter, then of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, was posing with Matilda. No arrests were made.Scooter Hobbs wasn’t really interviewing a cut-out kangaroo.Matilda waits to learn where she will be living for the next year at an Louisiana Sports Writers’ Association banquet.