Booger McFarland hilariously implies he spent LSU bowl per diem at Atlanta strip club
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Booger McFarland pulled a fast move on ESPN, like he used to do as a standout defensive tackle at LSU all those years ago.
Now an ESPN college football analyst, Farland was asked a very innocent question on Saturday afternoon by studio host Kevin Negandhi during the minutes before the start of the 2nd half of the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando. Georgia Tech had a 21-10 lead going into the final 30 minutes, and it was time for some idle chatter, courtesy of McFarland, who was asked by Negandhi what his top bowl game experience was during those days at LSU.
This is right when things went a little sideways for the folks at ESPN.
“My first experience playing in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. It was my first time getting a per diem — $987,” McFarland said. “I went to one nice establishment, and I gave it all away. They have some good wings though. Lemon pepper wings. Lou Williams and I have something in common.”
Here is the video of McFarland’s unexpected answer, for all to hear around the holiday season during a bowl game Saturday:
According to Awful Announcing, that “nice establishment” that McFarland was referring to was likely Magic City, a strip club in Atlanta that’s become known for its lemon pepper wings. And the reference to Williams, a former NBA player who played for the Atlanta Hawks from 2012-14 and again in 2021-22, was a shoutout of sorts to the longtime guard who became known as “Lemon Pepper Lou” because he would leave the NBA bubble during the COVID lockdown in 2020 to pay visits to Magic City.
The strip club even developed a signature wing flavor named after Williams, and it got some unexpected advertising on Saturday, courtesy of McFarland during ESPN’s bowl game coverage.
McFarland’s experience in Atlanta during the 1996 Peach Bowl when he was a freshman at LSU apparently left a really strong impression, the wings and all. The Tigers won that game against Clemson and, well, McFarland apparently had a really good time, on and off the field.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
