Florida State "Oranges" game was 40 years ago tonight

Was a 9 year old kid at that game. Loved it

I graduated from LSU in August 1982. I listened to the game on WWL from San Antonio, TX.

I used to have a poster from that game.

There was so much fog that crept in, you could barely see players on the field.

I was there, it was wild. And the fog rolling in late in the game just made it legendary.

I consider that game as the high point of my time in the student section.

That was the last game when they rented out the stadium chairs with the metal frames and canvas covering. I spent a lot of the fourth quarter watching behind me from my seat in the first few rows of the west lower bowl. People were throwing oranges from the west upper and not all of them made the field. A couple of the seat cushions got thrown too but none came close to me. The students who rushed the field after the game and went to the goal posts got beat down by police for their trouble.

Also 40th anniversary of “The Play”

Makes me feel old. I was a freshman in the student section. You could smell the oranges all the way up the stadium. There were no oranges left in the grocery stores and at the end of the game very little turf could be seen especially in the NEZ.

That fog was creepy. Couldn’t see the opposite side. It just settled in the bowl and stayed there. Never seen it like that before or since.

My best Tiger Stadium memory with my Pops.