Bradie James has never been one to toot his own horn.
He's always preferred the trumpet.
Before he ever played a down of football, James – perhaps the greatest linebacker in LSU football history and the latest Tiger inducted into the LSU Athletics Hall of Fame – played in the school band.
It was the intervention of a stranger that transformed his destiny, steering him toward the Bayou Bengals rather than the Golden Band from Tigerland.
"When I was in junior high school, I was going to band practice, and this guy called me out," he recalls.