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re: Most personal LSU moment
Posted on 7/20/17 at 4:27 pm to Lacour
Posted on 7/20/17 at 4:27 pm to Lacour
I believe graduating from LSU with a BS in electrical engineering back in 2011 was a personal. Especially given only a few of my family members attended college and only about 3 have completed. Both my mother and I also have that in common.
Another was when I was at a graduation maybe 2 or 3 years ago for some friends. We walked out after the ceremony was over a bit early so we could beat the rush of people flowing out as well. And standing in front of the PMAC near the street was Les Miles.
This was before he was on the hot seat. Some were talking to him and fewer were taking pics. So i thought i'd take my shot. Took a pic with Les Miles right before the flow of people came out. Definitely was a cool moment.
Another was when I was at a graduation maybe 2 or 3 years ago for some friends. We walked out after the ceremony was over a bit early so we could beat the rush of people flowing out as well. And standing in front of the PMAC near the street was Les Miles.
This was before he was on the hot seat. Some were talking to him and fewer were taking pics. So i thought i'd take my shot. Took a pic with Les Miles right before the flow of people came out. Definitely was a cool moment.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 4:39 pm to Machine
I gave a co worker my college football cleats for his son who was starting high school and wanted to play football with one condition,I said "Robert, if he's any good, he goes to LSU Ok? He smiled and said "You got a deal" Four years later Robbie Green signed with LSU and his dad was proud to call me with the news.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 6:32 pm to Lacour
Of course I am young so I still hope to make many great moments at LSU games but for me being able to rush the field after beating Ole Miss in 2014 was something I'll never forget. Never thought I'd do that because up until then LSU was never the team that upset someone. They were always the team that got upset.
Also as horrible as the Stony Brook super regional went, I went down to the Stony Brook dugout after game 3 and was able to get a pair of William Carmonas batting gloves. He was their starting third baseman and was one of their big power hitters. Being about 13 or 14 at the time that was a pretty awesome moment.
Also as horrible as the Stony Brook super regional went, I went down to the Stony Brook dugout after game 3 and was able to get a pair of William Carmonas batting gloves. He was their starting third baseman and was one of their big power hitters. Being about 13 or 14 at the time that was a pretty awesome moment.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 7:32 pm to Lacour
As a kid in the early 90s having media passes and could walk where I wanted (press box and sidelines). As a 7th grader it was badass... too bad they sucked.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 7:43 pm to Lacour
My Aunt was a secretary for one of the science departments. Every year I would spend a week at her house. I would rome the campus while she was working. I had awesome time doing it.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 7:36 am to Lacour
At last year's Alabama game it was my little boy's first one so we got our spot for when the players came down the hill and Leonard fournette walks by and high-fives my little boy. The look on his face.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 10:52 am to Lacour
my Dad and I got tickets to the 2003 National Championship game as a Christmas present. The night before the game we were walking the French Quarter with friends and family and we ran into Skylar Green and his family. We sat and talked with them for what felt like hours. My Dad has (as long as I've been alive) has had a large Santa Claus-esque white beard.
Cut to the start of the second half and SG5 dances into the endzone and points into the stands, and it turns out that he was pointing at my Dad and I. He recognized us and was acknowledged us in the stands. We were sitting in the 2nd row in the endzone in the Loge in the Dome.
What a game, what a memory. And my Dad remembers it to this day. He's had season tickets since 1963.
let's get this season started already!
Cut to the start of the second half and SG5 dances into the endzone and points into the stands, and it turns out that he was pointing at my Dad and I. He recognized us and was acknowledged us in the stands. We were sitting in the 2nd row in the endzone in the Loge in the Dome.
What a game, what a memory. And my Dad remembers it to this day. He's had season tickets since 1963.
let's get this season started already!
Posted on 7/21/17 at 11:05 am to Lacour
Back in 1988 riding the bus from old Alex box stadium to the dorms for skip bertman baseball camp with "Sweet child of mine" aka guns n roses blaring from the bus speakers.
Never will forget seeing hot lsu chicks and seeing the campus firsthand as a young teen
Never will forget seeing hot lsu chicks and seeing the campus firsthand as a young teen
Posted on 7/21/17 at 11:14 am to Lacour
Singing "Happy Birthday" with friends & family instead of the Alma Mater, on my daughter's birthday, at the end of the Bama GOTC, 2011- the year she died (3 weeks after getting her 2nd degree that May @ the PMAC).... we always stayed to sing the Alma Mater after the game, and even belted it out at a few bars after games when not in the stadium.
A portion of her ashes are under the big oak, on the walk down Victory Hill.
A portion of her ashes are under the big oak, on the walk down Victory Hill.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 11:27 am to TigerSpray
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Mike V - sprayed me ...Dobermans and Rottweilers's ducked under houses and cats went up trees as I walked through the neighborhood. You would have to live it to understand it's AWESOMENESS!!!!
Didn't get sprayed, but got to bottle-feed and wrestle with a couple of cubs once (about 15-20 lbs), so got a good dose of "tiger slobber"... when I came home, my 175 lb. Great Dane was absolutely terrified; shook like a leaf. I could drive him flat on the floor quivering in a heap in a corner just by holding my hand out to sniff and moving it towards him...
It was indeed AWESOMENESS!!
Posted on 7/21/17 at 1:11 pm to Lacour
Not as good as most of these stories here but I had a chance to sit right behind Mr. Phil Harrison for the Uga game Shaqs Jr. year at LSU and he visited with me and my dad the entire game. After the game he took me back by the locker room an waited with me about 30 minutes for Shaq to come out and introduced me to him. Shaq wasn't in a great mood as we lost the game but made an effort to be very nice signed some stuff for me and took a picture. He was with Clarence Ceasar and we got to hang out for a few minutes. Made my year.
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Posted on 7/21/17 at 1:35 pm to tigerfan in bamaland
dang it dude this got me all teary-eyed. Awesome story, result of the game is absolutely irrelevant
Posted on 7/21/17 at 3:22 pm to Lacour
Being in the Superdome in 2003 for me as well.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 3:34 pm to Lacour
I met this beautiful girl in 1999 at the HS state indoor track meet at LSU. We have been together ever since; tied the knot in 2004.
Posted on 7/21/17 at 11:04 pm to Lacour
2003 National Championship game. I became an LSU fan in 95 when Dinardo "Brought Back the Magic" when I was 10. I'm not an emotional person except when it comes to LSU so I've been a diehard ever since. I never would have thought in the early years of my fandom that LSU would play for a National Championship, much less that I would be able to go to a National Championship game. I was given a free ticket to the game at church the Sunday morning of the game, a total and complete shock. When pregame started and the band marched out and played "Hold That Tiger" my eyes swelled with tears as it really sunk in that we had reached the pinnacle of college football.
I am beyond lucky to say that I was able to watch my alma mater win 2 National Championships in person. We are all lucky to be able to say we are LSU fans. Forever LSU.
I am beyond lucky to say that I was able to watch my alma mater win 2 National Championships in person. We are all lucky to be able to say we are LSU fans. Forever LSU.
Posted on 7/22/17 at 11:31 am to bayoubengal4life
Not sport related, but hustling through the cold campus, way behind in studying, hearing the campus bells, and looking up and seeing the red and green lights around the bell tower for Christmas time.
Posted on 7/22/17 at 11:39 am to zeebo
So many to list with friends and family but easily it was taking my late grandfather to a game in 2004.
My grandfather was a WW2 vet, first generation Cajun that learned english in his teens. Learned the language, went to war, and came back to the US after an extensive tour in the European theater to bust his arse until retirement.
One of the many hard labor jobs he held was working for a crew that rebuilt Tiger Stadium in the late 50s or early 60's. He had to live in the dorms while they did the work.
He had never been to a game in person despite doing this work and being a fan. When I worked for the AD, I was able to arrange a game against MSU in 2004 where I got him a special pass to park right by the Lawton Room because he had trouble walking (he was a few years away from being in a wheelchair).
Took him on a tour of the Lawton Room, then the Locker Rooms, then on the field for pregame and part of the first quarter. Then we sat in our seats on the 50yl for the remainder of the game. His oldest son (my parrain) came as well. I watched my grandfather tear up during pregame, national anthem, and of course, kickoff. What a day.
He passed away last year. Till the day he passed, he kept his name tag from that day in his home or in his room at his retirement home to where it could be seen. "Special Guest of LSU Football .....XXXXX" as well as the program I gave him from that day with the ticket stub. Sigh.
RIP Paw
My grandfather was a WW2 vet, first generation Cajun that learned english in his teens. Learned the language, went to war, and came back to the US after an extensive tour in the European theater to bust his arse until retirement.
One of the many hard labor jobs he held was working for a crew that rebuilt Tiger Stadium in the late 50s or early 60's. He had to live in the dorms while they did the work.
He had never been to a game in person despite doing this work and being a fan. When I worked for the AD, I was able to arrange a game against MSU in 2004 where I got him a special pass to park right by the Lawton Room because he had trouble walking (he was a few years away from being in a wheelchair).
Took him on a tour of the Lawton Room, then the Locker Rooms, then on the field for pregame and part of the first quarter. Then we sat in our seats on the 50yl for the remainder of the game. His oldest son (my parrain) came as well. I watched my grandfather tear up during pregame, national anthem, and of course, kickoff. What a day.
He passed away last year. Till the day he passed, he kept his name tag from that day in his home or in his room at his retirement home to where it could be seen. "Special Guest of LSU Football .....XXXXX" as well as the program I gave him from that day with the ticket stub. Sigh.
RIP Paw
Posted on 7/22/17 at 1:01 pm to TigerSpray
Played with Mike V as a cub. RIP
Posted on 7/22/17 at 1:41 pm to Lacour
My family had NEZ season tickets. In 1979, after LSU played the final home game, my dad and I walked down to field level with my friend. I was 9, he was 12. Somehow my Dad convinced the policeman to let me and my friend walk on the field and into the end zone. The seniors came out to take last pictures on the field and invited us to join them at mid field. I got a piggy back ride from one of the players from mid field back to the NEZ. I was hooked on LSU football already, but that sealed it.
In a twist of irony, my then 13 year old son had an emergency appendectomy 3 days before the 2012 BCS championship. We watched that game from Children's Hospital in NO. He was so mad that he made me turn it off in the 4th. I took him to the 2012 regular season game v Bama and he was furious afterwards. First time I heard him use the F word. Now, he is a student at University of Alabama.
In a twist of irony, my then 13 year old son had an emergency appendectomy 3 days before the 2012 BCS championship. We watched that game from Children's Hospital in NO. He was so mad that he made me turn it off in the 4th. I took him to the 2012 regular season game v Bama and he was furious afterwards. First time I heard him use the F word. Now, he is a student at University of Alabama.
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