Jack Brittain, Jr.

Jack Brittain, Jr was a four-year letterman in football and a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity at NSU graduating in 1979 with a business administration degree. He graduated from Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU and served as an aide to U.S. Senators J. Bennett Johnston and John Breaux.

After leaving government service, he worked as a financial planner in Shreveport. He ultimately returned to his hometown and joined the Brittain Family Law Firm as an attorney at law. After the family law firm closed, Brittain conducted his own practice until his passing in July 2023.

He spent 18 football seasons as the often unconventional, always passionate sideline reporter for the Demon Sports Network. Brittain became NSU’s foremost advocate on behalf of his Demon football teammate, the late Joe Delaney, representing the university at Delaney’s 2004 Kansas City Chiefs’ Ring of Honor ceremony and for many other occasions. His loyalty and service to NSU sports was recognized by the N-Club, the university’s association of former athletic letterwinners, in 2013 when he was inducted into the N-Club Hall of Fame as a winner of the Distinguished Service Award. He was noted for his support of a wide range of university endeavors in athletics and academics and the city of Natchitoches.

Brittain volunteered to do legal work for the Louisiana Sports Writers Association, vital to the location of the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwest Louisiana History Museum in Natchitoches. He attended annual inductions and assisted in operations. He was awarded a Life Membership in the LSWA and in 2017, became a recipient of the Mac Russo Award, given to an individual who “contributes to the progress and ideals of the LSWA. The award was later renamed in honor of Russo and Brittain.