re: For the Old Timers. What was it like living in Tiger Stadium?

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This has been a GREAT thread. If I was a writer I'd try to put together a book of old dorm/campus stories. My dad was in Graham in the 70's and some of his stories are fantastic. My stories from Kirby Smith in the late 90's just don't seem to compare.

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Some of the shite we did in Hodges my freshman year in '82 would be considered terrorism today. I was on the 5th floor, south wing. One Sunday night, a dude came back to the dorm after the winter break with one of those HUGE fireworks. 21 gun salute or something like that. It was intended to shoot way up into the air at about 1,000 feet. 21 times. Anyway, the bathroom on that wing was facing into the courtyard. At the bottom of the windows they had those big crank windows. Anyway, dudes jams the 21 gun salute pointing right at the the middle of the courtyard and lights it. It was like white light and huge sound. 21 times. The rest of us were watching from the end of the hall. Perfect view of the kiddy cop station by the PMAC. After about the 3rd BOOM, the cops were diving under their desks shitting themselves. (All four sides of the tiny station was glass so you could see in there from any angle.) Alarms going off in every inch of the dorm. Hell, the fire alarms were going off in the stadium dorms. When it was over, there was about a 3 foot crater in the middle of the courtyard.