re: What makes LSU Tiger Stadium Special and the Icon it is?

My first experience in TS was a bust. I think it was '95 and the Tigers were playing Bama. It poured and I was miserable. Remember choking on cigarette smoke under the stadium in the student section. Left early, and Tigers got blown out by Bama.

But the next year was the first year of Dinardo and we made the Auburn game. I think everyone dubbed it "Bring Back the Magic" game and I don't think I'll ever forget that feeling, sitting in the student section. It's like a weird force takes possession of your body and you become one with all the people around you. There's this kinship, this desire to let go and become part of what is on the field. I remember thinking this was what it was like in Rome in the Coliseum.

And it put its hooks in me, and every contest the Tigers play in that stadium, when that feeling sweeps through, is like some kind of drug. Brings you back year after year.

Best way i can explain it. It's sheer awesomeness and I've raised my kids on the crack that is Tiger Stadium. They don't remember their first game, but every year they beg to go back.