TigerTreyjpg hit a nerve. When I was a small boy we did not have a radio or TV but Dad would sometimes let us sit in his car and listen to either KWKH in Shreveport or WWL New Orleans I think it was and hear the Tigers.

I well remember the Halloween night of Billy Cannon's return vs. Ole Miss. We were traveling to my grandmother's in NW LA and we stopped at a cafe/truck stop in Armistead, LA, Red River Parish, just over on the west side of Red River from Coushatta. Daddy always stopped there and got coffee to go.

We had just pulled up for him to go in when Ole Miss punted. We all sat there glued to the radio and 'heard' the return. Crowd noise was pretty loud but we knew something good was happening.

I will never forget one of John Ferguson's famous sayings from time to time, "LSU jumped over a snake on that one".

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Posted by damnedoldtigah

Middle of Louisiana

Member since Jan 2014

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Posted on 4/17/15 at 6:01 pm to FreeState

Remember many a Saturday night in junior high and high school sitting in the den with my dad and listening to LSU football on the radio with John Ferguson and Walter Hill. Even listened to a few radio games in the car driving round with friends later on in college. There was just something so neat about those radio broadcasts. Then when you actually got to go to Tiger Stadium, you felt like you are standing on the holy ground of college football. Had season tickets for a number of years and then let them go. Still take in an occasional game in at TS, but opt for a large screen TV these days, or even the radio if on the road. Still love it, although it seems to have lost something over time. Don't know what it is, but something is not there anymore in terms of the magic and I truly miss it. Then again, it could be that times are changing; I am just getting older and your perspectives change as you age.

This post was edited on 4/17/15 at 6:12 pm

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