re: I think its safe to say that the once great LSU gameday atmosphere is now dead

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You have no clue. No clue at all. The tailgates weren't as LOUD cause it was much more difficult to get music at them than it is today. Portable generators were not nearly as prevalent. Today everybody has one. You couldn't carry around seven hours of music in your shirt pocket.

Dude, games like LSU USC were off the hook cause of the nature of the game, but also cause the TailGate party just went on inside. Tiger Stadium used to reek of Bourbon on a Saturday night. These days I might smell a wiff a booze once every couple of years and just smile and remember how it used to be. Nobody wants to get DWI and Stadium searches and Marshal crackdowns in the stands have pretty much killed that off.

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So...and please don't let me put words in your mouth if this isn't what you mean...but essentially you're just advocating more drinking...specifically hard liquor in the stadium?

If it wasn't loud music, or huge cooking rigs...or telescopic flagpoles at every tailgate...or 60" HD TV streaming a world of satellite sports programming...what exactly made this mythical tailgating back in the 1970's so awesome in comparison to today?

In short, you're talking out of your arse. Even on Saturday up until midway through the third quarter Tiger Stadium was loud and raucous and ready to explode if the team played well. Fans were BEGGING the play to improve, and every time momentum swung towards the Tigers State would stomp it out. State and LSU's played eventually killed atmosphere inside the stadium...not paid parking or less drunk tailgating outside.