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re: I think its safe to say that the once great LSU gameday atmosphere is now dead
Posted on 9/22/14 at 8:58 am to Fat Bastard
Posted on 9/22/14 at 8:58 am to Fat Bastard
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I see what you have in your avatar. Did los angeles tiger die? Or is that a sick joke? Haven't seen him since 2012.
he did.
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Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:00 am to Ford Frenzy
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I went to the Miss St game and the Saints game yesterday morning, it's night and day how much more fun the Saints home games are...it's like a big party in the dome during the game, every single person is standing up celebrating, screaming, hollering, just having a good time
I feel this exact same way. One of my best friends is a huge LSU fan but that big of a Saints fan. I try to explain the difference in the gameday experience and it's exactly like you described. The energy inside the dome is electric, and I just don't get that vibe from Tiger Stadium anymore.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:05 am to GeauxTigerTM
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Because it doesn't? Because it never did?
Jeezuz man. You really hate tailgating that much? Not only are you saying more drinking and partying outside the Stadium doesn't make the stadium louder and more raucous. You're actually trying to argue the opposite. That tepid family settings outside translate to louder inside?
I have no idea how young you were in 1982 when you started coming but that's the time I started LSU, and your parents must have kept you sheltered. There were massive parties all around the stadium, huge organized crews, and big corporate spreads that pretty much no longer exist due to the Athletic department cracking down more and more every year. The RV lot in C looked like Spring Break every week. Now a days Parking Lot A looks like a Tea and Crumpets party with all their quiet as a funeral home, shite don;t stink fans eating on their Raising Canes and Nacho Doritos spreads.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:14 am to T
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i think winning is the only thing that is keeping these once die hard fans around right now. if the team starts losing 4 or 5 games a year there is no telling how empty campus will be. it really is a shame.
Geezus Christ!!!
Were you born in 2001?
Do you know how many arse kickings I tailgated for and watched, with $80,000+ of my friends, in the 80's and 90's?
A 50 point beatdown in a monsoon against #1? Still went.
Spurrier using us as his personal scout team? Still went.
Never sniffing a national title for almost 2 decades? Still went.
Buncha fuggin puss's up in here!
LSU football is what Lousisana does. And other than cooking, it's one of the few things we're good at...even when the team sucks.
You have no clue what you'r talking about.
This post was edited on 9/22/14 at 9:16 am
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:17 am to MSMHater
times have changed
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:18 am to MSMHater
I watched on TV. The crowd was louder then I ever heard it when State took the field after the fumble TD. I mean it was rocking, especially on third an 8. Then we gave up a 12 yard pass. Then it was absoultely rocking on the next 3rd and 4, then we gave up a 56 yard td run without touching him. So yeh.......
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:18 am to TigerGman
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Jeezuz man. You really hate tailgating that much? Not only are you saying more drinking and partying outside the Stadium doesn't make the stadium louder and more raucous. You're actually trying to argue the opposite. That tepid family settings outside translate to louder inside?
It's not even debatable. Up until fairly recently in terms of the history of the program, tailgating as it is now discussed WAS NOT A THING for the vast majority of fans. It just wasn't. Juxtapose that FACT with the belief (rightly in most cases I might add) that Tiger Stadium was louder for longer and fuller for longer then than it is now, and it becomes pretty fricking apparent that huge party outside does not automatically translate into a party inside. It was not required for the LSU-USC game back in the 1970's...how they pull that off? What about LSU-FSU in 1982? Tailgating was nothing like it is today. I could go on...
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I have no idea how young you were in 1982 when you started coming but that's the time I started LSU, and your parents must have kept you sheltered.
I was 12. There may have been some crews, but to suggest that every fan had some huge set up like what seems to be the case today existed then is horseshite. You could, without the need for a goddamn parking pass show up in the early afternoon for a 7pm game and park across the street from the stadium. We did it MANY TIMES. Now? I have to park in the damn hayfield at noon for a 7pm game (at 9am or earlier for a big game like BAMA) or risk not finding a place to park. Why/ Because you just gotta' tailgate! Whoo hoo!
But hey...I do need to thank you and guys like you. I'm going to be VERY VERY productive this week! Normally I'd waste far too much time on this site, but thanks to the shitfest this place is going to be for a while, I can step back and leave for a while. I'll be a ton happier not wallowing in the mud with miserable fricks like you, and you can have more of an echo chamber in which your bitch fest can ring. So enjoy!
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:19 am to supadave3
quote:It is because the NFL product is so much cleaner. THe games take about 45 minutes less time, plus people arent hungover and exhausted from tailgating all day
The energy inside the dome is electric, and I just don't get that vibe from Tiger Stadium anymore.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:22 am to T
Well, when I was the quarterback at Joe Blow High, back in '86, when I was able to throw a football a quarter mile, the tailgating got a little sparse when we played Crowley, so we had a big booster club meeting to solve it. Maybe we should do that. Yeah... Alleva should do that.
This post was edited on 9/22/14 at 9:24 am
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:27 am to GeauxTigerTM
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I've never given 2 shits about "Tailgate atmosphere." I'm on campus for one reason...the football game...so this complaint means nothing to me.
As far as that goes, when it mattered early and for a LOT LONGER than I expected, Tiger Stadium was as loud or louder than it ever has been.
But...Tiger Stadium can't make tackles, turn around and catch balls, not make strange 4th down calls at the goal line, etc. Eventually, even the most feared venue in college football will lose interest...and all the waving or arms by players by that point will be useless.
Well put, sir. I am in the "I couldn't give 2 shits about the tailgate atmosphere" group myself. I also thought the crowd did their part, the team just didn't do theirs.
Will be curious to hear what the actual attendance was. I am sure someone will have that number today.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:36 am to LSUGrad9295
It's LSU killing off the entire atmosphere.
We have seen it in numerous places around the country, charge for parking, tailgates thin out and less fans in stadium
LSU has done a good job of getting less tailgaters on campus. Its a small cry from what it was 3-4 yrs ago.
LSU has done a great job of screwing up gameday traffic.
All these factors considered on top of a 5 loss team, spells disaster for lsu attendance
We have seen it in numerous places around the country, charge for parking, tailgates thin out and less fans in stadium
LSU has done a good job of getting less tailgaters on campus. Its a small cry from what it was 3-4 yrs ago.
LSU has done a great job of screwing up gameday traffic.
All these factors considered on top of a 5 loss team, spells disaster for lsu attendance
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:44 am to T
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T
"T" is for "Time to Leave."
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:49 am to Mulat
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Really can't say on these two but TV Time Outs have killed the game we grew up with.
This.
Good lord, it seems the players spend more time huddled around the coaches on the sidelines than they do actually playing.
This has to tax the patience of even the most devoted fans. Not to mention, it kills the ebb and flow of a game, the momentum of a team, and the emotion of the fans.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 9:52 am to T
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T
You've really outdone yourself.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 10:02 am to BeeFense5
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I'm not really worried about other people's tailgates. I was by the ag building and we had a blast
same for me, on tower drive.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 10:03 am to GeauxTigerTM
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It was not required for the LSU-USC game back in the 1970's...how they pull that off? What about LSU-FSU in 1982? Tailgating was nothing like it is today. I could go on...
You have no clue. No clue at all. The tailgates weren't as LOUD cause it was much more difficult to get music at them than it is today. Portable generators were not nearly as prevalent. Today everybody has one. You couldn't carry around seven hours of music in your shirt pocket.
Dude, games like LSU USC were off the hook cause of the nature of the game, but also cause the TailGate party just went on inside. Tiger Stadium used to reek of Bourbon on a Saturday night. These days I might smell a wiff a booze once every couple of years and just smile and remember how it used to be. Nobody wants to get DWI and Stadium searches and Marshal crackdowns in the stands have pretty much killed that off.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 10:05 am to monsterballads
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miles killed the fan spirit
Really? Are you that much a fricking spoiled fan? I hope you are young, that would be your only excuse.
I was in high school in the early 90's and started really tailgating then. Curly was the coach and we were terrible. When I was a freshman in 1994 it was Curly's last year.
Here's the deal. We had a fricking blast tailgating even knowing we were probably about to get our arse kicked. We said frick it, had fun tailgating and went to watch the tigers play!
They lost most SEC games for awhile, but DiNardo helped and the rest is history.
Bottom line, stop your fricking whining about Miles and be a real fan. He's a great coach and he's not going anywhere anytime soon.
I was pissed after the game and then realized it's a young team with a lot of talent that just hasn't come together yet. Also, Moo State seems to be legit this year.
Enjoy yourselves people! It used to be a lot worse and I swear we had more fun!
/rant
Posted on 9/22/14 at 10:06 am to T
The stadium was rocking when we were in the game.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 10:06 am to TigerGman
Alleva is in the process of destroying the best gameday atmosphere in the country.
Miles in the process of destroying the fans loyalty.
Miles in the process of destroying the fans loyalty.
Posted on 9/22/14 at 10:07 am to Ford Frenzy
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, it's night and day how much more fun the Saints home games are...it's like a big party in the dome during the game, every single person is standing up celebrating, screaming, hollering, just having a good time....maybe it's selling alcohol in the game that changes it, I don't know
I've always said this, but the Saints have won their last 18 games with Payton at home by an average margin of twenty points
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