Scooter Hobbs Column: Home Will Always Be Where Ganno Is
Scooter Hobbs Column: Home Will Always Be Where Ganno Is
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Melanie Hebert will probably have to double-check her address book.
It’s a tough, seemingly never-ending job keeping track of the whereabouts of her ever-moving family.
Where are they all this year?
But coordinating their regular get-togethers may have gotten easier when the New Orleans Saints hired Kellen Moore as their head coach and brought her son-in-law, Doug Nussmeier, with him from the newly crowned Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles as the Saints’ new offensive coordinator.
At least it’s in the state.
It will be the 15th different address for Nussmeier since he married Melanie’s daughter. Doug met Christi while she was on the Saintsations dance line and he was the Saints’ backup quarterback for four seasons in the 1990s.
It was the beginning of a long and wandering journey led by the Oregon native who played college ball at Idaho — here, there, almost everywhere. There was year playing in Indianapolis before two coaching gigs in copyright, then (take a deep breath) Michigan State, St. Louis (NFL), Fresno State, Washington, Alabama, Michigan, Florida, then back to the pros at Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and now, finally, back in New Orleans.
Of course, it doesn’t really matter how far-flung the family is scattered. Never has, never will.
For her close-knit brood, Melanie’s home in Lake Charles will always be the central meeting point.
Her friends call her “Doodle,” but the grandchildren call her “Ganno.” It’s the name her children used for their grandmother and Christi wanted her children to call Melanie the same.
And no matter where they come in from, her homeplace will always be home to them.
It’s why her grandson, Doug and Christi’s son Garrett, LSU’s starting quarterback, with a dozen addresses to choose from, lists Lake Charles as his “hometown.” Never mind that, before his wandering began, he actually “lived” in the city for only a few months after he was born here in 2002.