Leonard Dies at 78

Leonard Postosties, Founder of Leonard's Losers, Dies At Age 78

Leonard's Losers, Inc. is saddened by the passing of its founder, Leonard Postosties. Postosties died July 19, 2001 at the age of 78.

Postosties is known throughout the football world as the world's greatest picker of pigskin losers. For the past 43 years, on his weekly radio show Leonard's Losers, fans across the southeast have listened to Leonard Postosties pick college football losers.

In April of 2000, a new company, Leonard's Losers, Inc., assumed management and production responsibilities for Leonard's Losers. Postosties remained active as a principle in Leonard's Losers, Inc., and on August 28, 2000, Postosties handed off the day-to-day care and feeding of his Smart Pill Machine and his weekly radio show to his nephew and namesake Little Leonard Postosties. The original Leonard Postosties still made occasional visits to the radio show to guide his nephew and oil the Smart Pill Machine. Little Leonard Postosties took over the helm for the 2000 season and matched his namesake by maintaining a 74% accuracy rate in picking college football losers.

The idea to pick college football losers came to Postosties in 1958 while in a taxi cab in Lexington, Kentucky. During a discussion about the outcome of a football game, a friend said to Postosties, "You're so bad at picking football games, you should just go ahead and pick the losers."

Out of that conversation, Leonard's Losers was born, and during every college football season since, Leonard Postosties and his trusty sidekick, Percy Peabody, have spent Friday nights and Saturday mornings "whipping up a batch of Smart Pills" and spinning folksy yarns about Arkansas Oinkers (Arkansas), Giant Swamp Lizards (Florida Gators), Bucktoothed Broadtails (Oregon State Beavers), Tuscaloosa Pachyderms (Alabama Crimson Tide), and Red Clay Hounds (Georgia Bulldogs) just to name a few. Leonard's Losers entertainment value was only surpassed by his remarkable accuracy, which regularly neared 80% for a season.

Leonard's Losers grew into a phenomenon and in 2001 will be broadcast on over 200 affiliates throughout the Unites States. Since the 1960's, Armed Forces Radio has been playing Leonard's Losers as a way to cheer up homesick troops. Leonard's Losers is the longest continuously-running sports commentary program in the world.

In 1978, Leonard's Losers began publishing its Pigskin Picking Publication and continues to distribute it throughout the southeastern United States.

Leonard's Losers continues to be a college football tradition beloved by millions of families, and, thanks to the strong spirit of its founder, will continue on for many years to come. The Leonard's Losers team is saddened by our founder's passing, but we are proud to carry on his legacy.