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Iam4LSUnTN 
LSU Fan
Brentwood, TN
Member since Dec 2011
251 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 7:18 am to TrueTiger)
1972...LSU 28 - Notre Dame 8. First experience as a kid in Tiger Stadium. Fell for them hook. Line and sinker ever since.
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blueridgeTiger
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Member since Jun 2004
9013 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 7:21 am to Iam4LSUnTN)
Attended my first game in Tiger Stadium in 1949 - been a fan ever since.
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LSU43
LSU Fan
Member since Oct 2003
34 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:18 am to blueridgeTiger)
1969 Charlie Mac sent an autographed football to my hospital room following major brain surgery. Have not missed a game since. Radio,TV or at the game since fall of 1970.
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Cincinnati Bowtie
Oral Roberts Fan
Kenner, LA
Member since May 2008
3464 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:24 am to Iam4LSUnTN)
LSU 28 ND 8 was 1971.
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Cincinnati Bowtie
Oral Roberts Fan
Kenner, LA
Member since May 2008
3464 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:28 am to TrueTiger)
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Sun Bowl
We played Stanford, coached by Bill Walsh. Billed as a battle between Guy Benjamin vs Charles Alexander. We lost.
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alajones
LSU Fan
Barksdale AFB
Member since Oct 2005
19181 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:29 am to Les)
1988. I don't imagine a lot of young kids REALLY follow sports. We went to LSU games, but I wasn't watching games on TV or following them before that.
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JEAUXBLEAUX
LSU Fan
Bayonne, NJ
Member since May 2006
38492 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:36 am to alajones)
1973 freshman year
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LSURulzSEC
LSU Fan
Lafayette via Oakdale
Member since Aug 2004
49797 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:40 am to Les)
1975...was 5 yrs old and it was my first game that year also...while I was limited back then to just newspaper articles and what my dad would tell me...I was hooked...
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Pecanisle
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2005
38 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:48 am to Les)
1972. My uncle was a head football coach at another Louisiana school and had retired. He played at LSU in the 1930's. after his retirement he went to all of the LSU home games. He would come into town and on Saturday mornings go to Tiger Stadium to talk with Coach Mac and the other coaches he was friends with. On occasions he would bring me.
I was 5 years old in 72 and he brought me and when we got there I got to meet all of the coaches and walk through the Tiger locker room with Mac. I can vividly remember walking by Bert Jones' locker and see his jersey hanging in his locker. Mac took me of the field and threw passes to me in the end zone. It was a thrill then and I've got goose bumps thinking about it now. Been hooked ever since.
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hobotiger
LSU Fan
Hoboken, NJ
Member since Nov 2007
2369 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:56 am to Pecanisle)
1970 or so, listening to all the games on the radio with my dad and grandfather
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Tiger Ugly
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
3494 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 8:58 am to Les)
My first real memory of being engaged in watching a game was the 1972 Astro/Bluebonnet Bowl vs. Tennessee. Bert Jones vs. Condridge Holloway. We lost 24-17 and Holloway outplayed Jones.
First game attended was Rice in 1973 and I was hooked from that day on. Made my Dad stay to the last play and he hated traffic so it was quite a sacrafice for him.
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droman225 
Syracuse Fan
Houston
Member since Aug 2011
9543 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 9:00 am to Tiger Ugly)
My first game was in 2001. So then I guess. I was like 9 or 10
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UnluckyTiger 
Illinois Fan
Member since Sep 2003
19556 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 9:01 am to Iam4LSUnTN)
Loss to Bama 10-3 in 95 is my first memory.
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heatom2
LSU Fan
The G Spot
Member since Nov 2010
8463 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 9:02 am to Les)
1995. First year I was really old enough to pay attention. I was 8.
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RealityTiger
LSU Fan
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jan 2010
8620 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 9:10 am to alajones)
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I don't imagine a lot of young kids REALLY follow sports. We went to LSU games, but I wasn't watching games on TV or following them before that.
Exactly. That point for me was at about age 12, the 1986 season. Like you said, yeah I would go to games with my dad from age 4 on up, but didn't really enjoy it and get fired up about it like I do now, until about 12 years old.
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weptiger
LSU Fan
Hunt Valley, Maryland
Member since Feb 2007
328 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 9:27 am to RealityTiger)
1979 against USC in Tiger Stadium. This was my first LSU game and I was fortunate to attend with my dad. A great memory.
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alajones
LSU Fan
Barksdale AFB
Member since Oct 2005
19181 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 9:28 am to RealityTiger)
That's funny, I was 12 in 88.
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SECTiger1
LSU Fan
Edinburgh, IN
Member since Jun 2011
148 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 1:47 pm to aroussel3Tigers)
1969. Arthur Cantrelle, Tommy Casanova, Butch Duhe, Eddie Ray, Andy Hamilton, Ken Kavanaugh, Mark Lumpkin...went to the Tulane game as my first game. I was 8 years old...listened to the games on the radio with my father and brothers. I will never forget the next year when we played Archie Manning led Ole Miss on national television and won 61-17. Then the Orange Bowl v Nebraska and Cantrelle goes out for the game in the first quarter. I still watch all games on TV and have a conference call with my 82 year old father and one of my brothers with headphones on all game. Make it to one game in TS every year and to most bowl games.
This post was edited on 11/22 at 1:49 pm
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Rebel 
Memphis Fan
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
76318 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 2:28 pm to lsufanz)
In 83 when Stovall called and started the recruiting process.
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Ghostfacedistiller
LSU Fan
BR
Member since Jun 2008
11525 posts
| re: What year did you REALLY start following LSU? - stole from SECr (Posted on 11/22/12 at 3:25 pm to Les)
2002 don't feel like giving the background
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