[2] In the 1964 game against LSU's arch-rival Ole Miss, Screen was injured, and played with a heavily taped knee.
LSU prevailed 10-9 as the result of an unexpected two-point conversion[3] In 1965, Screen was drafted in the tenth round by the Cleveland Browns.
In 1971, Screen served on the committee to elect his fellow Democrat Jamar Adcock, a banker from Monroe, as lieutenant governor.
They wanted to position him to succeed C. C. "Taddy" Aycock of Franlin in St. Mary Parish, but the latter did not win the governorship.
In 1987, Screen and Mary Olive Pierson, his aide during his first term, were indicted on one count each of malfeasance in the misapplication of road project funds prior to his successful re-election campaign in 1984.
His son Tommy Screen was chosen in 2008 as the third director of the Loyola University Institute of Politics in New Orleans.
[12] He has been a protégé of Democrats John Breaux, a former US Senator from Louisiana and political activist James Carville.