(NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive)
Ed Orgeron didn't hesitate, even with the ample backlog of 54 previous Christmas memories.
Orgeron, preparing for his first game as the honest-to-goodness, permanent full-time LSU football coach in one week, nailed his fondest Christmas memory in a split second on Thursday: receiving a full uniform of the then-fledgling New Orleans Saints when he was "six or seven" years old.
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It helped to launch a career spanning more than three decades, and including a one-year stint (2008) on the Saints' staff.