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Small convenient store on east side Tiger Stadium in the 80's

The kids now have been "nannied" so much. Many of the people I was in school with worked and paid for school all on their own. Their parents didn't help them and had told them when they were growing up that at 18 they were on their own.

I agree L.A.Tiger.
While at LSU from '80 to '84, I remember getting in the student line at Tiger Stadium at 3:00 for a 7:00 game. You just needed your ID then.

Also, the student section was JUST AS ROWDY and crazy then as it is now, if not crazier, WITHOUT the monumentally stupid curse word chants.
TGBFTL played EVERY song back then, without the worry of thousands of idiots RUINING it for the rest of the 80,000 (then) people, and TV audiences.

The 1982 Florida State "orange" game is an example. It was and still is the LOUDEST Pre-game I have EVER heard in almost 35 years of going to LSU games. An LSU student dressed up like Florida State Seminole, and (the costumed) Mike mockingly attacked him and broke his spear. The student section went absolutely nuts.

Those were the days.

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Posted by lgtiger

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Posted on 6/1/11 at 3:46 pm to MetryTyger

Didn't Mike do a pre-game "skit" every week back then ?

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Posted by los angeles tiger

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Posted on 6/1/11 at 3:50 pm to MetryTyger

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Also, the student section was JUST AS ROWDY and crazy then as it is now, if not crazier,

The current students aren't nearly as rowdy as we were. When we marched out onto the field for that Florida State game in 1982, the roar from the crowd was deafening. Oranges were flying onto the field and it seemed like we were going to make some type of orange wine as we stomped on so many of them. Once we were in the stands, everyone in the GBFTL was talking about how many times they were hit by an orange.

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Posted by TigersOfGeauxld

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Posted on 6/1/11 at 3:55 pm to MetryTyger

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The 1982 Florida State "orange" game is an example. It was and still is the LOUDEST Pre-game I have EVER heard in almost 35 years of going to LSU games. An LSU student dressed up like Florida State Seminole, and (the costumed) Mike mockingly attacked him and broke his spear. The student section went absolutely nuts.

I remember that! God how I wish I could find film!