“You’re the best Banner-Herald sports editor since 1961.”
Former Athens Banner-Herald sports editors Fletcher Page and Loran Smith talk during a radio segment before Georgia's 26-24 win over Nicholls State Saturday September, 11, 2016. Caitlyn Stroh/Contributor
Georgia legends Loran Smith and Claude Felton say that to me all the time.
That’s a joke. I think.
Loran was the sports editor in ’61, and I imagine that was an old trick by Dan McGill, you know, to keep good relations with the person in control of what went in the paper and what got tossed in the trash.