re: Most Defining Moment In LSU Sports History?

quote:

---

Mostly because that one play won the game and put LSU football in the major national spotlight. That was our first real big game of the year, college gameday was there, record crowd, all the eyes in the nation were on LSU. and we came up big that day. to me that play represents the ascending of LSU to a national powerhouse.

---

The UGA win verified that LSU was a team to be reckoned with in the SEC that year i'll agree with that. But, all eyes in the nation were on LSU in the National Championship Game also played in the national spot light in front of a record crowd. Nat'l Championship > Home SEC win over Top10 team...especially when we drubbed them in second meeting in Atlanta later that year.

Not that I didn't go nuts after UGA win...did anyone see Trev Alberts before the game?? Still a huge UGA knobslobber.

quote:

---

And don't forget the movie "Everybody's All American", based on the Cannon legend---a legend created by that run back.

---

Not so! The story was fiction and actually based in North Carolina. The similarity between the character and Billy Cannon and LSU was purely coincidental. The producers just happened to pick LSU as the site to film the movie.

MtT69 is correct !

I was in the movie. The fiction from NC was
acclimated to La. both in scenery and in certain character development. The producers didn't mind the mythologizing of " Bill Cannon " without using him or his name !

The film was shot @ LSU in the fall of 87 & spring of 88 ! Like most movies , both fiction & non-fiction , there are a lot of inaccuracies !
The college is portrayed as Louisiana University
or University of Louisiana ! (BR)

The filming at Tiger Stadium took place against Bama.The student body & other fans dressed like the late 50's !

#5

quote:

---

quote:

The moment we are talking about defines all of LSU sports, not just one sport.

If so then it would have to be this...

quote:

10. LSU is only Triple Double SEC Champs (not sure if true, guy at work said it)

And, yes, it is true.

---

I am with PokerPlayingTiger and still think this feat is the defining moment in LSU Sports history.

Some people think this isn't a moment but an era.

quote:

---

5. W. Morris walk off home run

---

That was one of those moments, that I will never ever forget! I can still hear the cling of the bat! And just hoping that the Miami outfielder could not get to it.

1st #9 seed basketball team to make Final Four

Actually we made it to the Final Four as a number 11 seed in 1986

quote:

---

Also a little known fact is that Dr. Marty Broussard, LSU's long time trainer, is actually the inventor of "Gatorade". He developed it and shared it with his fellow trainers and the sorry bastards from Gainesville profited from it. Supposedly, Dr. Broussard's mixture didn't taste very good and the Fla. trainers developed it to what it later became.

---

I think you called me a bonehead dumbass, or something similar for a previous post. I'm not going to call you a name, but you're being loose with your rendition. Dr. Broussard did develop a gatorade type supplement, which if I'm not mistaken, eventually "10-K" got involved with, but I wouldn't want to be on record as claiming that Dr. Broussard invented "Gatorade" and someone else stole it.

Take it for what it's worth.