re: Favorite Saints Tulane Stadium Story...

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along with the guy's fingers and part of his hand.

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One of Tulane's players told me they found one of the fingers during practice later that week.

Dempsey kick, and drinking jax beer in those cups that the guys with the beerbackpacks would fill up for you. I was only 14 but my dad would buy me a couple, I thought I was so big

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uddenly, one of the cannon loaders got too close to the muzzle and the cannon fired its charge. It blew him several feet across the field and his hat went tumbling on the field.

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Wow! I remember that!! Happended right down by our section, you could see the guy's face in shock, all black from the powder & obviously missing several fingers. After that game, they never used cannons again after a score...

Too young to ever have attended a game in Tulane Stadium but will be at the game tommorow. Maybe one day I can tell stories of witnessing Farve's last game and the saints first NFC championship

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I was there for the 1st game in '67 with my girlfriend, she knew absolutely nothing about football but her dad got us the tickets, so I had to answer all of her dumb questions. After Gilliam ran back the opening kickoff we all went nuts and GF kept screaming it was planned.

But they had never planned for how much beer and soft drinks they needed for 80,000 people at noon, in a steel stadium, on a hot September day. All available, drinks, beer and ice was gone by halftime. We were taking beer cups into the bathroom and filling them at the sinks. They never made that mistake again.

The 1st win against the Eagles, Flea Roberts ran back a kickoff, we won 31-24.

My younger brother & I were in the north endzone right behind the goalpost when Dempsey kicked it. Our parents had just died a few months before and it was the only joyful thing that happen that year, were were 19 & 20.

Archie's 1st game, a last second win against the Rams.

I went to the Minn-KC Superbowl by myself with a ticket I bought outside the stadium for $15. By luck sat on the 50 next to Billy Kilmer, great guy who bought me beers and introduced me to his friends like we were old buddies.

I have 2. I use to sell peanuts at the games so I got to see Dempsey's kick and on the last game of 73 I think we went on the field before the game and the Green Bay crew thought we were field workers so we got to stay on the field during the game.
Also saw three Superbowls there. superbowl ix tickets were a wopping 30.00. still have it.

Lots of great trips down memory lane here... I too, remember the 1812 cannon explosion, but also remember the Ben Hur chariot races when one of the chariots lost control and crashed. My favorite part of old Tulane stadium was the steel upper deck - when the Saints were actually "in" a game and a big defensive play came around the foot-stomping on the steel deck was deafening!

Other favorite memories - the neighbor who painted their swimming pool like a Bud label - you could see it clearly from the ramps leading to the upper deck. Beer man with those crazy backback dispensers - looked like rocket men (hey, we had one of those land on the field once!)How about Danny Abramowitz running helmet-first into the TV camara on the sideline and getting knocked out? Or receivers getting stuck in the hedges in the south end zone. What a place!

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I remember seeing Joe Scarpati of the Eagles

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He'd ultimately get traded to the Saints and was the holder for Tom Dempsey's 63 yard FG.

There's your useless trivia for today.

Mom and Dad took me when I was @5 or 6. Falcons I beleive. Got sick and threw up on a guy standing in line for concessions. Hit him square in the back and almost knocked him down. Projectile!