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re: Your LSU fan conversion story
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:04 am to cypresstiger
Posted on 8/17/17 at 7:04 am to cypresstiger
I grew up in New Orleans following the SEC through the teams of Tulane. Whenever the great rivalry games that LSU vs. Tulane, used to be, would happen, there was always news of the bets on the game where the loser would push the winner around the quarter in a wheel barrow. The Tiger fans had more success and fun, Tulane left the SEC, and I left LA cheering the Tigers.
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Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:29 am to cypresstiger
Grew up a LSU fan. Born in the 54, I wore Chinese Bandits Halloween outfits when I was a kid. But man the Tigers sucked in the 90s.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:38 am to cypresstiger
I grew up in North Carolina with no family ties to Louisiana, so I didn't have any strong feelings about LSU growing up, other than the (very accurate) thought that Tiger Stadium looked like a fun place to watch a game. I eventually got to do that once I went to school at LSU, and I really started to internalize it during my first game in Tiger Stadium. Been hooked ever since.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:42 am to cypresstiger
I was among the many that became a fan in 2001. Born in BR, but only grew up going to Southern U. games. LSU though was terrible for the most part growing up, so it didn't really matter. My first LSU game that I watched for any significant amount of time admittedly was the conference title game that year.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:57 am to cypresstiger
I'm from New Orleans my dad worked for Amoco and was transferred to Chicago when I was a kid in 78. My dad wasn't a big sports guy but we were Tulane fans because that was the local team. The Jazz had just moved and the Saints of course were terrible, though they had a promising 8-8 season in 79 only to go an embarrassing 1-15 in 1980. However that next spring LSU basketball won 26 straight and were ranked in the top 5 all year. In the days before cable when CBB games were on TV once a week on NBC, LSU got on TV a couple of times. It was pretty exciting for a kid used to bad local teams to see the home state actually winning. My cousin had moved to BR after his parents divorce and his step dad was taking him to games and was giving me info on the team. This was the first time I followed the NCAA tournament and LSU made the Final Four, pretty exciting and I started following the football team in 82 and I've been a fan ever since
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:09 am to cypresstiger
Met a guy from Omaha , all dress in purple & gold, in Florida for LSU game, ask if he was a Grad , he said no,
Just followed LSU baseball , LSU fans told him you think LSU Baseball is great , you need to go to LSU Football Game , so every year for the last 8 years he and his family go one football game a year!!
Just followed LSU baseball , LSU fans told him you think LSU Baseball is great , you need to go to LSU Football Game , so every year for the last 8 years he and his family go one football game a year!!
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:46 am to cypresstiger
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What's your conversion story to LSU fandom?
I've taken several non-fans to games... works literally every time.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:47 am to cypresstiger
Wouldn't say I was born into it, but I can't remember ever pulling for another college football team. Back before the plethora of televised games we now see, or before my first actual visit to Tiger Stadium several years later, were from when I was about six. My parents would play pinochle with another couple on Saturday nights and listen to the game on 870 on an old green tube radio we had. If I stayed quiet, I could sit over to the side in dining room and listen to the games. As I listened through the occasional static to the announcers talking about the Chinese Bandits, Cholly Mac, Bert Jones, etc over those early years, they almost seemed like mythical gods who fought epic battles, and win or lose, they were my heroes. I'm older, wiser, and less naive now, but they are still my Tigers, win or lose.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:53 am to cypresstiger
I grew up near BR, but my dad was not a LSU fan. My first two college football games I went to were a Miss St game and a game I still remember seeing Ole Miss play Alabama in Jackson in what I believe was Bear Bryant's last year coaching.
When I was around 8 years old my dad was given tickets for us to go see LSU vs FSU(the night the oranges rained down) and I've been hooked every since.
When I was around 8 years old my dad was given tickets for us to go see LSU vs FSU(the night the oranges rained down) and I've been hooked every since.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 9:58 am to cypresstiger
I'm triggered. You can't. LSU conversion therapy is a hoax and does more harm than good. Some people are born LSU fans, some people aren't. 
Posted on 8/17/17 at 10:01 am to Friar Tuck
Don't remember the year, but the radio was on and the Chinese Bandits were being discussed, what a cool name. I was hooked. When I was growing up in N Louisiana it was harder to follow the Tigers but I managed with KWKH AM and the Shreveport Times, TV games were rare and a BIG deal for me. Honestly would not know how to not be a fan.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 10:09 am to cypresstiger
Being Irish and living in Ireland I obviously have no connection whatsoever to LSU. However I was a fan of the nfl and then about eight years ago started watching college ball when our channels began to pick it up.
I remember watching the Bama game that season and being hooked. Each year I got more invested in Lsu to the point I was even following the baseball this season!
Each day I download the 104.5 shows and listen to them on my drive to and from work and last November I was over for the Florida game. I'll be over for Bama next season hopefully.
I find it great fun to sit there on a Saturday night in Ireland cheering you on with a few beers and the TV blaring. You guys are blessed to be living in the midst of all that chaos
I remember watching the Bama game that season and being hooked. Each year I got more invested in Lsu to the point I was even following the baseball this season!
Each day I download the 104.5 shows and listen to them on my drive to and from work and last November I was over for the Florida game. I'll be over for Bama next season hopefully.
I find it great fun to sit there on a Saturday night in Ireland cheering you on with a few beers and the TV blaring. You guys are blessed to be living in the midst of all that chaos
Posted on 8/17/17 at 10:11 am to cypresstiger
I was about 6 years old, my dad was watching a game on TV and he looked at me and said "we're cheering for the guys in white with the yellow helmets."
Thus a fan was born.
Thus a fan was born.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 10:23 am to higgins
I was raised in Laplace and knew a lot of big time LSU fans, but I never really took to them. I'd say I was less than casual. I would watch the majority of the football games, but couldn't careless of the outcome. I just watched because I loved football. Watched basketball from time to time, and never watched and could careless about baseball.
I met my now wife who was attending LSU so I started spending more and more time in Baton Rouge, I eventually moved to Baton Rouge and we lived there together for a little less than 2 years.
My "fanhood" kind of slowly grew from there. We went to a few games in 2014, became more interested as 2015 went along, and I'd say over the offseason between 2015-2016 I became a so called "diehard." I never had the least bit of interest in baseball until probably 2 years ago, but living so close to the Box I kind of took a liking to it, and it was really the run season before last that really sparked my interest in baseball.
I really never thought this would be the case, but I think I honestly care more about LSU athletics than I do about the Saints or Pelicans now.
I met my now wife who was attending LSU so I started spending more and more time in Baton Rouge, I eventually moved to Baton Rouge and we lived there together for a little less than 2 years.
My "fanhood" kind of slowly grew from there. We went to a few games in 2014, became more interested as 2015 went along, and I'd say over the offseason between 2015-2016 I became a so called "diehard." I never had the least bit of interest in baseball until probably 2 years ago, but living so close to the Box I kind of took a liking to it, and it was really the run season before last that really sparked my interest in baseball.
I really never thought this would be the case, but I think I honestly care more about LSU athletics than I do about the Saints or Pelicans now.
This post was edited on 8/17/17 at 10:24 am
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:29 am to cypresstiger
It was the '84 homecoming game against Miss st and I was in the 7th grade. My classmate and I walked around campus for a couple of hours without my parents before the game and we were both digging it.
We ended up getting a little lost and these super hot gals dressed to kill ended up noticing us. The hottest and coolest of them in this black dress ended up being very cool and walked us close to where I said that we were supposed to meet my parents at the appointed time. She was crushtastic.
Sure enough, halftime comes around and those same girls get trotted out onto the field as the homecoming court. That coolest one in the black dress that walked us to the meet up point ended up being the homecoming queen.
I've been an LSU fan ever since.
We ended up getting a little lost and these super hot gals dressed to kill ended up noticing us. The hottest and coolest of them in this black dress ended up being very cool and walked us close to where I said that we were supposed to meet my parents at the appointed time. She was crushtastic.
Sure enough, halftime comes around and those same girls get trotted out onto the field as the homecoming court. That coolest one in the black dress that walked us to the meet up point ended up being the homecoming queen.
I've been an LSU fan ever since.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:32 am to higgins
Awesome story!
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:37 am to Mooreman
Cool man... and yeah, if it wasn't for the extreme summer heat, this place would be nearly perfect.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:38 am to higgins
Conversion happened at conception!
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:42 am to Mooreman
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Being Irish and living in Ireland I obviously have no connection whatsoever to LSU. However I was a fan of the nfl and then about eight years ago started watching college ball when our channels began to pick it up. I remember watching the Bama game that season and being hooked. Each year I got more invested in Lsu to the point I was even following the baseball this season! Each day I download the 104.5 shows and listen to them on my drive to and from work and last November I was over for the Florida game. I'll be over for Bama next season hopefully. I find it great fun to sit there on a Saturday night in Ireland cheering you on with a few beers and the TV blaring. You guys are blessed to be living in the midst of all that chaos
Now THAT is a cool story and a diehard fan! Made my day!
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:56 am to SuperFanDan
This is a great thread. I too was born into it. My parents were lsu students when I was born in 1958. My dad was there for the cannon punt return. My mom could not go bc of me and she still holds a grudge. I went to lsu undergrad and law. We have had season tickets for 40 years. Been going to those games all my life. And sometimes there is magic in tiger stadium. True magic.
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