Since his appearance on the ABC TV show "The Bachelor" two years ago, the ladies of the world haven't forgotten former Demon linebacker Lanny Lawrence. If you don't know, or don't remember, check out the Demon Dust archives for the Feb. 13, 2004 story about Lanny's fan club.
What was a tsunami of inquiries pleading for us to get the girls in contact with their "ideal man," is now, at least on campus, a mere trickle of e-mails that pop in from time to time. It's not quite that calm in Lanny's world -- the internet doesn't allow us to fade away, and some fans are quite persistent.
Our most recent request came from Brazil over the weekend. Dani is going to college and doing a class project about reality shows. "Lanny is the favorite here, at my college," she writes. Could we give her Lanny's e-mail address? Please?
If I had a dollar for every one of those we got two years ago ... we could dome Turpin Stadium. OK, that's over the top, but we did get hundreds of requests to reach Lanny. We got pictures. We got poems ... and we forwarded them all his way -- when his e-mail box wasn't full.
There was no chance he could answer them all. We didn't see the half of it, he says. But occasionally, for one good reason or another, none of it having to do with romance, Lanny would reply.
As he said in an e-mail replying to our latest inquiry, "my goodness, will it never end?"
No, he knows, and so do we. But sometimes, he does write back. This time, because it was for a class project, he did.
He also tells us that his close friend and all-time Demon baseball pitching appearances king David "Bulldog" Balcer, our own version of Orel Hershisher on the hill, has moved to Minnesota. Balcer, recently the ticket guru at the American Airlines Arena in Dallas, is now director of ticketing for the Target Center in Minneapolis.
Lanny is trying to join a lot of former Demon teammates like Brian Whaley, Will Broussard, Roy Locks and Germond Williams at next weekend's NSU-Baylor football game in Waco. Lanny is helping coach his brother's high school team, which has a game next Saturday, but he's trying to make both events.
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