Roger Emrich:  

You can take the boy out of Louisiana, but you can't take the Louisiana out of the boy. I moved to Texas after graduating from Loyola New Orleans in 1985 and getting married to my wife Cris, but I'll always have the West Bank of New Orleans in my veins. My dad worked in the oil field and I was born in Electra, Texas in 1956, but we moved to Marrero, then Gretna in 1957. I attended Gretna Park Elementary and Helen Cox Middle School before going to West Jeff, graduating in 1974. My best memories have always revolved around sports. I played football, basketball and baseball in Gretna (GRID) from 1965 to '73, playing on several championship teams and making lifelong friends along the way. My best friend and across the street neighbor Marty Gouid helped fuel my love for sports, because his dad Martin, Sr. and my dad Frank took us to Tulane, Saints and Sugar Bowl games. I even went to Super Bowl IX matching the Steelers and Vikings at Tulane Stadium a few months before I joined the Air Force in 1975. West Jeff basketball coach Merrill Vitter made me his p-a announcer and statistician my junior and senior years at WJ and the Times-Picayune's John Joly gave me my first job in the media, as a stringer covering high school sports. My first story with my name on it was an account of the West Jeff=South Lafourche football game in 1974. The two teams played again in the quarterfinals of the playoffs and I wrote that story, too. In the USAF, I was a newspaper editor at both Plattsburgh AFB, NY and Iraklion,Crete, Greece, but when I returned home to Gretna, I fulfilled my dream of becoming a broadcaster by attending WRNO's Broadcasting Institute of America, which led to my first job in radio at WCKW in Laplace, Louisiana. While work...Expand for more