re: When and Why did you become an LSU Tiger?

Small world. All my moms relatives were from deridder and still are. In fact I think they still have a store on division. Not sure about that though

I’ve been a fan since I was a sophomore in high school (93). I was born and raised in Oklahoma; however I have family in Louisiana. Every summer my cousin would come up and stay with our grandparents for a month or so. She started dating a guy a few months before she came up (her junior year). One day after baseball practice I went to visit, and she had a “present”. When she handed it to me, she said “____wanted me to give this to you…..at least it matches your school colors”, she then handed me an LSU hat. They’re married now, and later on I found out he is the nephew of the late Jeff Boss. We actually met Jeff in 2001 after LSU played Arkansas; we went to his house after the game and had dinner. He had no clue who we were (my girlfriend and I), but it didn’t matter to him. LSU lost a great man when he passed away.

Birth. Grandparents had box seat seasontix since the 40's. First L.S.U. game, 1965. Bled purple and gold, never got to run out of the tunnel, though.......

March 29, 1947

It was 1998 and I had just moved to Baton Rouge for my job. Some ugly red headed woman (not fat) at work said that she had inherited season tickets and wondered if I would like to go with her. After much consultation with established LSU fans and deliberation between my ears, I decided to chance it...I mean frick, I didn't know anybody in the town.

The red head had a crew that she partied with; so I got the full tailgaiting experience. The food, drink, crowd and game were a total blast...and after my resistance had worn down the woman took me home to her house to spend the night.

I was hooked! Afterwards, people at work thought we were dating because I used the ugly red head for her tickets the remainder of the season.

The following year I found an even uglier blonde that could lay some 5th row East 35 yd line Tiger Stadium seats on me!!!

Ugly women...ya gotta love em.

Dad (BA & MS @ LSU) - Mike I's first student caretaker ---He bough four (4) season tickets in 1950. I still have the same seats. Wish I had a tickets from way back then. I do remember prices in the 80's being around $18 or so.

Thanks

I was born a Tiger.

Dad went to school there & lived in the South Stadium Dorms before he left to join the Air Force during the Vietnam Conflict. Years later, when I was a boy, my mom worked at the office of veterans affairs in Boyd Hall. We had season tickets as long as I could remember and grew up going to games & tailgating in front of the Vet School.

My first game was September 26, 1987 (3 years old) with my Dad to see LSU vs. Ohio State, which ended in a 13-13 tie. My family never missed a game, and as I got older, my mom quit going to games & me or my oldest brother would take the extra ticket and go with Dad. I got my hatred for Alabama from my father due to the fact that he had been to every LSU/Alabama game since the early 60's (with the exception of his 4 years in the Air Force) and had never seen LSU win.

Like idiots, they got rid of the season tickets during the Hallman era, and I only attended games here and there until I finally became a freshman at LSU, where I never missed a game in my 5 years there.

Now, living in Houston, I try to get back for at least one game a year. It will always be home to me.