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re: What is something that happened that made you and your family LSU fans?
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:16 am to Byrdybyrd05
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:16 am to Byrdybyrd05
I was born in 1969. In the early 70s, my family lived in Georgia and then Alabama. We moved to BR when I was 8 and the parents took me to a few LSU football and basketball games. Been a Tigah ever since.
In retrospect, had we lived in Bama or Georgia when I started watching sports, I would have been a Tide or Dawg fan. Dodged a bullet there.
In retrospect, had we lived in Bama or Georgia when I started watching sports, I would have been a Tide or Dawg fan. Dodged a bullet there.
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Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:21 am to El Magnifico
Born in Ohio near Columbus and a big Ohio State fan. Then after college I moved to New Orleans for a year and then to Baton Rouge for 11. Got season tickets to LSU football and basketball. Now a diehard and not even concerned about OSU.
Just before the championship game I sent tigerbait boxes to all my cousins who went to OSU along with 2nd place cards I found at the Dollar Tree. And when we won the title in 2007/8 I was there on the 40 yard line worried sick until we woke up and kicked the Buckeye arse. Great memories!
Just before the championship game I sent tigerbait boxes to all my cousins who went to OSU along with 2nd place cards I found at the Dollar Tree. And when we won the title in 2007/8 I was there on the 40 yard line worried sick until we woke up and kicked the Buckeye arse. Great memories!
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:23 am to Byrdybyrd05
birth
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:35 am to Byrdybyrd05
Dad was a professor and Dean there for 36 years.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:47 am to Byrdybyrd05
Dale Brown happened. As a young teen in the 1970’s, basketball was my sport. Loved Dale and his Tiger teams. If a game wasn’t televised, I’d listen to it on the radio. Then I got interested in LSU football, then baseball through Skip’s run. I went to UNO while my several friends went to LSU, but LSU sports has always been my love. Graduated from LSU dental school so I’m glad I have some link to LSU, and my son was sold on LSU from early on and graduated in Engineering last spring.
Dale Brown remains my favorite coach of all time in any sport on any level, followed by Les Miles.
ETA: Even though my son was there for all the Covid BS, at least he got to experience the 2019 Championship run, hold up a sign on College Game Day, etc. Made it all worth it.
Dale Brown remains my favorite coach of all time in any sport on any level, followed by Les Miles.
ETA: Even though my son was there for all the Covid BS, at least he got to experience the 2019 Championship run, hold up a sign on College Game Day, etc. Made it all worth it.
This post was edited on 10/20/22 at 7:53 am
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:57 am to lowhound
There is a street in BR named after my mother's family. My father was the son of a Florida orange picker. They meet at Vanderbilt. I was born in Pensacola. We moved back to BR after my father's Navy obligations.
My father had a lab in the old sugar mill. His lab mate became chancellor of LSU. When I had the chance to walk out to the street I saw a cannon, a plane and Tiger Stadium.
We lived on Clara, Zeeland, Hyacinth and Stanford.
I had no choice. But it took my father 20 years.
My father had a lab in the old sugar mill. His lab mate became chancellor of LSU. When I had the chance to walk out to the street I saw a cannon, a plane and Tiger Stadium.
We lived on Clara, Zeeland, Hyacinth and Stanford.
I had no choice. But it took my father 20 years.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 7:57 am to Byrdybyrd05
My grandpa, born and raised on a cotton farm in Mississippi during the depression/WW2 era, said to hell with picking cotton the rest of his life and moved to BR the day after he graduated hs. A buddy of his invited him to an LSU game in 1949. He said as soon as he set foot inside Tiger Stadium he was hooked. Bled purple and gold until the day he died. Because of him, my and family and I will too.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:00 am to geauxbrown
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His name was Charles Alexander.
Ditto
1977 Rice Game
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:01 am to Byrdybyrd05
I was born in NOLA. From the day I took my first breath.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:26 am to Byrdybyrd05
Moved to Alabama from New Iberia in 1985 and became obsessed with the Tigers ever since. But all my family is LSU fans so it came naturally but the gumps and aubies made it even worse. Love my LSU Tigers!
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:26 am to Byrdybyrd05
Seeing my parents dress up for the games. In those days everyone dressed in their finest, so I knew it was something special as a very young child.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:29 am to Byrdybyrd05
Born in BR and lived within 5 minutes of campus most of my life.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:30 am to RummelTiger
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My great-grandfather was the football coach...
Go on...
Mike Donahue
He was (and still is) a revered former football coach at Auburn. When you drive up to Jordan-Hare, you drive on Donahue drive. And there's a big bronze statue to "Iron Mike" at the entrance to the stadium. He won a national championship (and several other similar titles of that time period) there, and was an inaugural inductee into the College Football Hall of Fame.
That said, he was poached by LSU and Huey Long at the height of his career (much to Auburn's angst - sound familiar?). He moved his family to Baton Rouge and had a long career at LSU (there's still family in BR to this day).
He never duplicated the football success here that he had with Auburn, but he ended up having a long career at the university. Every generation of his family since he moved here has attended LSU, and every one has graduated (except for yours truly, who ended up at La. Tech because of a ROTC scholarship). That tradition continues with my niece who is about to graduate from there, too.
Another quick tidbit: his daughter (my grandmother), was the first coed cheerleader at LSU. Her nickname was "little Mike", and she was evidently every bit the fiery Irish girl her father raised her to be.
And when I say "fiery", imagine this (true story): Once, when Mike was still coach of the football team his daughter (a freshman at LSU) got a ticket for turning through a red light. The family house was at the bottom of a hill, and she was stopped at the top.
Legend goes that when Mike heard that the police stopped her car, he grabbed his sheleighleigh (yes, the real thing) and marched his 5'4" arse up the hill waving the club yelling at the cops.
So, three generations later, I guess you could say I was born into it.
This post was edited on 10/20/22 at 8:41 am
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:31 am to Topwater Trout
Daddy graduated LSU.
I was named after Billy Cannon with a probable likelihood I was conceived the night of Billy's famous punt return.
Purple and Gold in my veins prior to my birth
I was named after Billy Cannon with a probable likelihood I was conceived the night of Billy's famous punt return.
Purple and Gold in my veins prior to my birth
This post was edited on 10/20/22 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:33 am to 4evrlsu
I attended LSU first. The next year my brother signed to play football for Cholly Mac, so of course that’s when my parents became fans too. They kept their season tickets for many years - until they couldn’t climb the stadium steps any longer.
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:34 am to KennabraTiger
At the moment of fertilization
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:34 am to Byrdybyrd05
Birth
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:41 am to Dotarian
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Dotarian
Really cool story. Thank you for sharing!
Posted on 10/20/22 at 8:48 am to Byrdybyrd05
Grandmother was one of the first women to receive a Masters from LSU (so my dad says) and later taught at LSU. My dad and aunt attended U High and my dad later met my mom at LSU. My sisters and I were all born in B.R.
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