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ATLANTA, Ga. – Eric Cookmeyer scrolled through an old text exchange until he found the video of Edward Aschoff buffing a gold LSU helmet. He chuckles. The memories from that day in August come flooding back.
Aschoff, an ESPN reporter in Baton Rouge on assignment, was there to learn about this somewhat discreet game-week ritual. Each Thursday night, equipment managers like Cookmeyer scrub helmets of decals and then beautify them with a buffing machine inside the Tigers’ equipment room. Cookmeyer was there to show Aschoff the ropes. “I walked him through the steps,” Cookmeyer says Thursday from Atlanta.