re: What a great old game in tiger stadium

Thank you for posting this. It brought back a great memory for me.

I was 7 years old, sitting with my Paw-paw. It was my first game in Tiger stadium.

We sat pretty low behind the LSU bench and I vaguely remembered the LSU players trying to quiet the crowd. I didn't understand that, but at 7 years old, I didn't understand much that I was witnessing.

Until watching that, I didn't realize that the referee called a time-out to get the LSU players to quite the crowd so the Notre Dame players could hear the signals. I laughed when I saw that. I had to rewind it and show it to my wife. Can you imagine a referee asking LSU player to quite the crowd these days?

You are right. Some of the loudest games I ever heard was when the stadium held 67,500 people.

I was a freshman in Tiger Band at that game---INCREDIBLE!!

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'69 Auburn (my 1st game) ever 21-20

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Mine, too!!!

First play was an LSU halfback pass for a touchdown. Then we blocked an extra point and a field goal to beat Pat Sullivan and the Plainsmen (Yes, I said Plainsmen! They didn't start calling themselves the "Tigers" until the 1980s...)

As Principal Skinner would say. "Oh Mercy!....."

I was there too, my junior year. Night game, national television, Notre Dame...

The the explosion at the end of the '72 Ole Miss game (last second Jones to Brad Davis TD) was the loudest crowd noise I ever witnessed in Tiger Stadium, but the '71 ND game was the loudest sustained crowd. From the pre-game player introductions to the end, everyone was yelling and never let up.

I was so upset because i couldn't go, but I listened to John Fergurson's call and even every Texaco commercial, and I remember what the radio looked like and where Dad and I where when we listened to the game. I loved Ferguson, but Dad was bothered by him when watching and listening at the same time, because he would stretch out the play call "He's t the 15, he's at the 10, he's at the 5, touchdown!", while the player was already in the endzone. Oh the days. I wanted to be Tommy Casanova so badly.

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Then we blocked an extra point and a field goal to beat Pat Sullivan and the Plainsmen (Yes, I said Plainsmen!

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George Bevan blocked the kick directly in front of us.....Dad was a LSU letterman & back then they got free tix....we sat about halfway up on visitors sideline on about the 30-35.......

Man yal make me feel like a baby. Got some OGs in this thread.

I was up early in the morning in Baumholder, Germany listening to that game. It was great!