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Classics from the Old Timers on the Rant
Posted on 10/5/13 at 7:34 am
Posted on 10/5/13 at 7:34 am
I rarely read all pages and comments by subject on this board. But the Dalton Hilliard rant/subject reminded me how enjoyable it is to hear from the Old Timers on the rant sharing some of the classic moments, players and wins who had the cherished experience of being there. Fun reads.
Feel free add a few more here.
Feel free add a few more here.
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Posted on 10/5/13 at 8:14 am to Iam4LSUnTN
Ok here's a good one. 79 usc game tickets were VERY expensive.Thousands of people outside looking for tickets. It was obvious a ticket was not going to get us(me and a friend from River Ridge I met outside the stadium) in the game.
I hung around with the older crowd(my brothers friends). At the time my brother wouldn't do anything for me. He wouldn't even give me a ride to the game. He also told his friends not to give my a ride. One friend felt sorry for me and gave me a ride to BR.
We went to a friends dorm room in north stadium to party before the game. He told me I cold come to his dorm to listen to the game on the radio. So after we couldn't find a tckt, we snuck through a 1st floor dorm window and made our way to his dorm. We kept searching for a way to sneak into the stadium looking in closets, bathrooms, and any kind of opening-but nothing.
Well our luck changed! Out the corner of my eye I noticed a bar in a window with a tiny gap. It had been cut and the window was broken. Drops of blood was on the floor. I instantly knew I was getting in the game!!!
We bent the bar up and fit through the window and wound up on top of the locker room. Made sure the coast was clear and jumped down onto the ramp leading to the student section and was in the game!!!
One guess who broke the window and cut the bar.
MY BROTHER. He made sure nobody told me about the bar,because he did not want me getting into the game. Oh,he used a hack saw.
One of many stories in the memory bank.
I hung around with the older crowd(my brothers friends). At the time my brother wouldn't do anything for me. He wouldn't even give me a ride to the game. He also told his friends not to give my a ride. One friend felt sorry for me and gave me a ride to BR.
We went to a friends dorm room in north stadium to party before the game. He told me I cold come to his dorm to listen to the game on the radio. So after we couldn't find a tckt, we snuck through a 1st floor dorm window and made our way to his dorm. We kept searching for a way to sneak into the stadium looking in closets, bathrooms, and any kind of opening-but nothing.
Well our luck changed! Out the corner of my eye I noticed a bar in a window with a tiny gap. It had been cut and the window was broken. Drops of blood was on the floor. I instantly knew I was getting in the game!!!
We bent the bar up and fit through the window and wound up on top of the locker room. Made sure the coast was clear and jumped down onto the ramp leading to the student section and was in the game!!!
One guess who broke the window and cut the bar.
MY BROTHER. He made sure nobody told me about the bar,because he did not want me getting into the game. Oh,he used a hack saw.
One of many stories in the memory bank.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 8:32 am to rrboy
Around 78-79 I got into selling cokes in the stands. I was a wee lad, not nearly enough to get a real job but a kid always wants to get his hands on some money.
I don't remember how I got started by I do remember I was in Junior High school (what's called middle school now I guess). LSU or some entity would go to area jr highs and get kids to sign up to walk through the stands with cokes selling them.
All the kids would meet at a certain school around noon for a night game. Seem to remember it being broadmoor high. They'd put us all on a bus and ship is over to tiger stadium.
Obviously we were there with time on our hands. And really no supervision lol. We'd get to run around under the stadium and on the field for a little while.
Things were a little more lax than today. There were these rooms where some old practice stuff was stored. And all these kids would find these rooms and go through stuff poaching shite that was no longer used. Some of it was just junk but it was kinda like dollar days at Macy's if you know what I mean. Kids fighting over junk, old ratty jerseys flying through the air etc...
Digging through stuff I found a old ratty crappy #7 jersey/practice jersey with thw name jones on the back. It was my prized possession and I wore it playing ball in the yard basically till te thing fell off of me.
And I'd make some decent cash by finding a "drinker" ( wasnt hard back then lol) who needed his coke refurbished for his bourbon
I don't remember how I got started by I do remember I was in Junior High school (what's called middle school now I guess). LSU or some entity would go to area jr highs and get kids to sign up to walk through the stands with cokes selling them.
All the kids would meet at a certain school around noon for a night game. Seem to remember it being broadmoor high. They'd put us all on a bus and ship is over to tiger stadium.
Obviously we were there with time on our hands. And really no supervision lol. We'd get to run around under the stadium and on the field for a little while.
Things were a little more lax than today. There were these rooms where some old practice stuff was stored. And all these kids would find these rooms and go through stuff poaching shite that was no longer used. Some of it was just junk but it was kinda like dollar days at Macy's if you know what I mean. Kids fighting over junk, old ratty jerseys flying through the air etc...
Digging through stuff I found a old ratty crappy #7 jersey/practice jersey with thw name jones on the back. It was my prized possession and I wore it playing ball in the yard basically till te thing fell off of me.
And I'd make some decent cash by finding a "drinker" ( wasnt hard back then lol) who needed his coke refurbished for his bourbon
Posted on 10/5/13 at 8:37 am to rrboy
1977. My Dad , a pilot, had an Cessna that we were washing as we sometimes did, at Ryan Field. We started talking about the game that day. At the last minute we decided to go to the Ole Miss game in Jackson, sans tickets. We hopped in the plane and flew to Jackson, and got there maybe 30 minutes before game time. We parked the plane and caught a ride over to the stadium, but traffic was backed up and we hopped out and walked the last mile or so. We bought some tickets from some guy and We got into the stadium right before kickoff.
It was LSU ZERO----Ole Miss 21 at half.
Final score LSU 28--Ole Miss 21.
It was LSU ZERO----Ole Miss 21 at half.
Final score LSU 28--Ole Miss 21.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 8:47 am to Lsupimp
Your brother sound like a dick.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:03 am to Iam4LSUnTN
One of my favorite moments involved the huge fight which occurred between the LSU and Tulane teams at the end of a game.
Two Tulane players were teaming up on an LSU guy and this other LSU player came running full speed, dove through the air about 5 yards and knocked down both Tulane players. Guy looked like Superman flying through the air.
I always get the guy's name wrong when this comes up. But I'm sure someone on here remembers it.
Two Tulane players were teaming up on an LSU guy and this other LSU player came running full speed, dove through the air about 5 yards and knocked down both Tulane players. Guy looked like Superman flying through the air.
I always get the guy's name wrong when this comes up. But I'm sure someone on here remembers it.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:04 am to SteveLSU35
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Your brother sound like a dick
I have many stories to support that claim.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:08 am to Iam4LSUnTN
Back in the 60's when I was in Boy Scouts, we used to usher people to their seats. I often got tips for carrying their pints or fifths of liquor up to their seats. But that was back when freshmen wore pj's to the first game and had their heads shaved.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:13 am to rrboy
Awesome story. But man, your brother don't sound to nice.
I got to go to the rematch in 1984. This of course predated the Internet and easily finding cheap flights and such, but a few days before the game my pop wound up getting tickets for a flight out of Houston. We left BR at 1 AM to drive to Houston dressed in our LSU gear.
On the shuttle bus to the airport we met and older, well dressed and seemingly well to do couple (think Thurston and Lovie). Upon seeing us, he turns to her and says, I knew we should have gone to the ball game.
On the flight we run into a young couple who got married the day before. She says, he was going to the ball game, so it was either yesterday or wait a few more months.
When the Captain comes on with his in the air speech he says, "and for those Of you going to the ball game weather for kickoff will be...."
Ten minutes later be comes back on and says he's been asked what ball game, and says that LSU is going out to teach the California boys how to play football and get some revenge. As we're getting close to LA he says we've received "special permission" to fly over the coliseum, and he says some along the lines of this is where it's gonna happen. We exchanged "geaux tigers" with him when we got off the plane.
When we get to the stadium to park, we are at the corner of Dalton (obvious) and Menlo (street we lived on in BR). Walking to the stadium I see the back of a guys head that has LSU cut in it (white guy in 1984...shocking back then). My dad gets on my for pointing and says he must have had surgery or something until he looks and sees its LSU.
We get to the stadium and run into a guy who we had met and tailgated with in Gainesville a few weeks earlier (another good omen). We ask about his father who must have been in his 80s, and he says that he's coming, he flew out but the old man drove the RV from Baton Rouge, left by himself last week.
Well, USC got a FG early after a Herman Fontenot fumble. But it was all tigers after that. I have always remembered Glen Holt for what was probably his line big moment in a Tiger Uniform.
Oh and one more funny to close the story. A few weeks before I had gone to catfish town and gotten an airbrushed T-shirt made especially for the game hoping we could go. A certain movie with bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Akroid was popular at the time.
So being 12 years old at the time, I didn't actually realize that "Trojan Buster" might have some different connotations to other people, especially USC fans. Got several interesting comments that day.
Geaux Tigers!
I got to go to the rematch in 1984. This of course predated the Internet and easily finding cheap flights and such, but a few days before the game my pop wound up getting tickets for a flight out of Houston. We left BR at 1 AM to drive to Houston dressed in our LSU gear.
On the shuttle bus to the airport we met and older, well dressed and seemingly well to do couple (think Thurston and Lovie). Upon seeing us, he turns to her and says, I knew we should have gone to the ball game.
On the flight we run into a young couple who got married the day before. She says, he was going to the ball game, so it was either yesterday or wait a few more months.
When the Captain comes on with his in the air speech he says, "and for those Of you going to the ball game weather for kickoff will be...."
Ten minutes later be comes back on and says he's been asked what ball game, and says that LSU is going out to teach the California boys how to play football and get some revenge. As we're getting close to LA he says we've received "special permission" to fly over the coliseum, and he says some along the lines of this is where it's gonna happen. We exchanged "geaux tigers" with him when we got off the plane.
When we get to the stadium to park, we are at the corner of Dalton (obvious) and Menlo (street we lived on in BR). Walking to the stadium I see the back of a guys head that has LSU cut in it (white guy in 1984...shocking back then). My dad gets on my for pointing and says he must have had surgery or something until he looks and sees its LSU.
We get to the stadium and run into a guy who we had met and tailgated with in Gainesville a few weeks earlier (another good omen). We ask about his father who must have been in his 80s, and he says that he's coming, he flew out but the old man drove the RV from Baton Rouge, left by himself last week.
Well, USC got a FG early after a Herman Fontenot fumble. But it was all tigers after that. I have always remembered Glen Holt for what was probably his line big moment in a Tiger Uniform.
Oh and one more funny to close the story. A few weeks before I had gone to catfish town and gotten an airbrushed T-shirt made especially for the game hoping we could go. A certain movie with bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Dan Akroid was popular at the time.
So being 12 years old at the time, I didn't actually realize that "Trojan Buster" might have some different connotations to other people, especially USC fans. Got several interesting comments that day.
Geaux Tigers!
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:14 am to Methuselah
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Two Tulane players were teaming up on an LSU guy and this other LSU player came running full speed, dove through the air about 5 yards and knocked down both Tulane players. Guy looked like Superman flying through the air. I always get the guy's name wrong when this comes up. But I'm sure someone on here remembers it.
Pretty sure that was Shawn Burks.... I remember that too. It was awesome.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:18 am to Iam4LSUnTN
My first game in TS was for Georgia, I believe in 78. My friend and I walked up to the stadium to see the male students hanging out of their dorm windows which was inside the stadium. They had their speakers which in those days were huge, tied off and also hanging outside rocking classic rock and heavy metal tunes in order to fire the crowd up. We were freshmen in high school and we looked at each other and said together, "hell yeah...this is where I am going to college!!" It turns out that neither of us went to LSU. hahahaha but we are both still huge fans.
By the way, my sons first words were "LSU" and he is graduating from there in May. I guess that he lived the dream for me!
Geaux Tigers!
By the way, my sons first words were "LSU" and he is graduating from there in May. I guess that he lived the dream for me!
Geaux Tigers!
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:19 am to rrboy
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rrboy
that is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:30 am to Methuselah
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Posted by Methuselah on 10/5 at 9:03 am to Iam4LSUnTN One of my favorite moments involved the huge fight which occurred between the LSU and Tulane teams at the end of a game. Two Tulane players were teaming up on an LSU guy and this other LSU player came running full speed, dove through the air about 5 yards and knocked down both Tulane players. Guy looked like Superman flying through the air. I always get the guy's name wrong when this comes up. But I'm sure someone on here remembers it.
I once went to a fight and an LSU-Tulane game broke out.
If I remember correctly didn't Eric Martin catch a late TD that really fanned the flames?
Know there was still some bad blood from the way the greenies gloated about the 81 blowout and the beating us in 82 the week after it rained oranges (in a game where it just rained rain). Guy named Reginellie or something ran all over us
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:30 am to Methuselah
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One of my favorite moments involved the huge fight which occurred between the LSU and Tulane teams at the end of a game.
I believe that game was called by the refs before the clock ran out.
A fight in the student section- An LSU student was on top of a greenie repeatedly punching him in the face. I ran over and stopped it. I really thought he was going to kill him. Blood was everywhere.
This post was edited on 10/5/13 at 9:31 am
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:35 am to Sampson
quote:
that is one of the coolest stories I've ever heard
That's my favorite, and I have plenty more.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:38 am to Sampson
My dad was a LSU alum-1938-and in 1959 he got 4 season tickets. I was 9 years old and he told me that I could go to all of the games with him and 2 of his friends. The week of the LSU/Ole Miss game came around and the owner of the town (Kaplan) drug store wanted to go the game. My dad told him that he had to make the deal with me for my ticket. The deal I made was pretty good for a 9 year old. I got to read all of the comic books I wanted without being told to buy it or leave. I also got a cup of ice cream every day I went into his drugstore. The deal was open ended. I took advantage of that deal until I graduated from high school
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:46 am to Iam4LSUnTN
LSU vs Florida St. 1982...One of my favorite games in Tiger Stadium ever. The Orange Bowl reps had announced before the game that the LSU-FSU winner would get the invite. Before the game, fans were carrying paper grocery bags full of oranges on the way to their seats, handing some to fans who didn't have any. Needless to say, when LSU scored the first TD of the game, 80,000 people threw the oranges on the field. It was literally raining oranges. The game was delayed 15-20 min. to clear the field of oranges. This occurred after every LSU TD...and there were many that night...
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:50 am to Purplehaze
Here's one from an "old-timer" who had season tickets for 25 years.........
Back in the old days, we got to Tiger Stadium and we stayed until the game was over.
When the game was over we still had traffic and drunks to contend with, but just seeing the Tigers play was enough of a thrill to stay as long as the lights were on.
I know.......I know.....I'm a dinosaur.
Back in the old days, we got to Tiger Stadium and we stayed until the game was over.
When the game was over we still had traffic and drunks to contend with, but just seeing the Tigers play was enough of a thrill to stay as long as the lights were on.
I know.......I know.....I'm a dinosaur.
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:53 am to roscoe mike
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LSU vs Florida St. 1982
Roscoe, did you go on the field after the game? It was wild.
We had to cover our heads with our arms. It was raining oranges!
Posted on 10/5/13 at 9:56 am to rrboy
Your brother seems like a fricking a-hole.
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