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re: What year did tailgating become a "thing" at LSU ?
Posted on 9/27/15 at 5:31 pm to LSUCouyon
Posted on 9/27/15 at 5:31 pm to LSUCouyon
I remember tailgating becoming popular in the
mid to late 70's....but nothing near the level
of today.
in the late 60's and early 70's there was still
a large area of greyhound buses parked near the stadium....a lot of small groups around the quad near chemistry bldg, in south stadium
there were rv's but very few compared to recent years
I lived in Johnston hall across from east side of
stadium in 1969-70...the hatcher mess hall next door
would serve steak dinner on gameday...most fans ate
or stopped at bars along the way.
in the Stovall era I remember suddenly seeing fans
parking all over campus where there was parking.as
everybody knows many of the parking lots no longer exist that were available in those days.
mid to late 70's....but nothing near the level
of today.
in the late 60's and early 70's there was still
a large area of greyhound buses parked near the stadium....a lot of small groups around the quad near chemistry bldg, in south stadium
there were rv's but very few compared to recent years
I lived in Johnston hall across from east side of
stadium in 1969-70...the hatcher mess hall next door
would serve steak dinner on gameday...most fans ate
or stopped at bars along the way.
in the Stovall era I remember suddenly seeing fans
parking all over campus where there was parking.as
everybody knows many of the parking lots no longer exist that were available in those days.
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Posted on 9/27/15 at 6:18 pm to LSU GrandDad
quote:
tailing was huge at least from the mid sixties when I started going to games.
I started going to games around '72. We tailgated in a grass lot on the southwest side of the stadium. Normally arrived around noon, I think. Ate fried chicken or poboys. Grown ups drank. Threw the football. It was tailgating, just not as elaborate as it is nowadays.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 6:19 pm to Lsupimp
RV's were big in the seventies, most of them parked by the Vet center and people tail gated all over campus too. SO it must have been in the sixties when it took off.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 6:27 pm to Lsupimp
I remember going to games around 81 or 82 with my ex bil. There would be tons of people from st James parish parked west of the stadium along Nicholson cooking jambalaya. Probably where south gate towers stands now. My ex bil would usually drink a fifth of jack Daniels and I would drive us home. We sat in the south end zone and that old joke what has a hundred legs and two teeth, the first row in the south end zone at tiger stadium was generally accurate.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 6:52 pm to Lsupimp
I started setting up small around 85. Next five to seven years it definitely became a 'thing'. More with each year.
I quit setting up around '02 or so and just visited friend's tailgates. Tailgating at LSU was legend by then.
It's has been getting nastier and more fricked up by both the idiots and LSU in the past few years, though.
I don't do it too often anymore. It's not ever going to be as awesome as it once was.
I quit setting up around '02 or so and just visited friend's tailgates. Tailgating at LSU was legend by then.
It's has been getting nastier and more fricked up by both the idiots and LSU in the past few years, though.
I don't do it too often anymore. It's not ever going to be as awesome as it once was.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 7:00 pm to C-Bear
My parents had a 57 chevy station wagon that we tailgated out of starting in the 57-58 season.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 7:28 pm to gemlsu
Posted on 9/27/15 at 7:36 pm to austintexastiger
It's true. I can recall when you were almost seen as oddball if you actually wore purple and gold. 
Awesome footage there.
Awesome footage there.
Posted on 9/27/15 at 7:38 pm to Lsupimp
During Billy Cannon's years people "pick nicked" around campus pre-games.
Mid 1980's what you think about in terms of today's crowds.
Mid 1980's what you think about in terms of today's crowds.
This post was edited on 9/27/15 at 7:43 pm
Posted on 9/27/15 at 8:02 pm to Lsupimp
My earliest memories of going to home games are from the early sixties. My parents used to pick up another couple - sometimes having one before leaving their house and driving to the stadium south on Nicholson and being waved through by State Police to the corner of Nicholson and South Stadium under the oak trees where the motor-homes park now.
The terrain around there was different back then.
They would open the trunk and take out and set up a metal folding table to put some food and drinks on - ice bucket and all. We'd stay there about an hour or so while friends came to visit and have drinks and something to eat and it got dark. The games kicked off at 8:00pm then.
When we went in the stadium my dad would leave the trunk ajar and after everyone was in the stadium the state troopers would go and fix themselves a drink. I think that was our "pass" to park there.
I don't recall there being anyone else doing the same around us. When tailgating became a "thing" sometime in the '70's I figured my parents were some of the "pioneers" of tailgating because they had been doing it at least since the early '50's.
In 1977 we bought a motorhome and began parking in that parking lot next to the oak trees on South Stadium. In the early years you had a pass and it was park in any open spot. Then they began designating spots. We did this until 200? when they moved the motorhomes out to "Touchdown Village". We retired the motorhome and got a parking pass for that same lot which became a car parking lot and now park in the same spot we last parked our motorhome. I still have the motorhome pass that I buy for some friends who bring their motorhome now.
The motorhome was fun while it lasted but when we stopped doing it I realized just how much work it was and how it dominated my weekends on home game days. I enjoy now having the option of going early and visiting my friends tailgates or staying at home watching a good game on my big screen in my man-cave and arriving at the stadium just in time to see the band and watch the game. If I hurry to my car after the game I can get home in 20 minutes or so to watch the late games.
The terrain around there was different back then.
They would open the trunk and take out and set up a metal folding table to put some food and drinks on - ice bucket and all. We'd stay there about an hour or so while friends came to visit and have drinks and something to eat and it got dark. The games kicked off at 8:00pm then.
When we went in the stadium my dad would leave the trunk ajar and after everyone was in the stadium the state troopers would go and fix themselves a drink. I think that was our "pass" to park there.
I don't recall there being anyone else doing the same around us. When tailgating became a "thing" sometime in the '70's I figured my parents were some of the "pioneers" of tailgating because they had been doing it at least since the early '50's.
In 1977 we bought a motorhome and began parking in that parking lot next to the oak trees on South Stadium. In the early years you had a pass and it was park in any open spot. Then they began designating spots. We did this until 200? when they moved the motorhomes out to "Touchdown Village". We retired the motorhome and got a parking pass for that same lot which became a car parking lot and now park in the same spot we last parked our motorhome. I still have the motorhome pass that I buy for some friends who bring their motorhome now.
The motorhome was fun while it lasted but when we stopped doing it I realized just how much work it was and how it dominated my weekends on home game days. I enjoy now having the option of going early and visiting my friends tailgates or staying at home watching a good game on my big screen in my man-cave and arriving at the stadium just in time to see the band and watch the game. If I hurry to my car after the game I can get home in 20 minutes or so to watch the late games.
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