It was a sendoff Dr. Billy Cannon would have loved Wednesday afternoon at Maravich Center.
The memorial service for Cannon, the greatest LSU football player in history who died Sunday at age 80, served as a reunion that melded his three greatest loves - his family, his former LSU teammates and his co-workers at Angola State Prison where he served as hospital director for 21 years.
After a receiving line with Cannon's gracious widow Dot and five children where they shook hands and hugged almost everyone in the estimated crowd of 1,500, seven speakers and the Rev.