re: When did LSU start calling "Deaf Valley"...

To be sure, there would be some folks who could not respond with an actual answer. ...just like here...but there would also be others actually trying to give an answer and history...like Tigermall and lickitty split.

Go Tigers!!!

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Dude, I have followed college football since I can remember. Really started in '88/89. I KNOW LSU tried to call their place DEAF valley (because it was/is so loud)...never....NEVER heard Tiger Stadium refered to as anything other until about 4/5 yrs ago on College Gameday.

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And you've followed college football since 1989 and didn't realize LSU used that nickname until 4 or 5 years ago? Obviously, you didn't follow too closely then.

LSU Tiger Stadium is technically known as The Real Death Valley.

I've never heard Tiger Stadium referred to as Deaf Valley until I came on to this site (and I've been following the Tigers since the late 1960's). The PMAC was called the Deaf Dome at one time, but that's about it.

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I grew up in Baton Rouge and have always known it to be Deaf Valley.

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I grew up in South LA, and have only ever heard it called Death Valley

Most people on here from what I've read think that you came on here or started this thread to frick with them. Lol I myself have to ask why would your first time be about a topic like this, and around this time of the year too?? LSU has no upcoming bowl game against y'all, I thought you'd be more prone to hang out on the Gump's sites and frick with them. Lol

but really most of us LSU fans didn't start calling the stadium Death Valley imo, anyways. I think a lot of outsiders did and got it crossed up with y'alls stadium, but LSU is still worthy of it even though I do think Deaf Valley is much more fitting. But LSU goes by both, so either way I don't find it no big deal. And I'll tell you something else that I think is true, you can thank LSU for where you guys are today because of that Chick-Fil-a bowl game I think that was played awhile back in Atlanta. Y'all barely won that game against an always ever so predictable Les Miles coached LSU team with his 1970's style smash mouth offense that he ran. Your DC knew what he was gonna do like everyone else was starting to figure out around that time, and y'all won a hard fought game and realized you could play with the big boys. But it turned Dabo's and you guys program around, congrats on what y'all have done since then.

I'm right behind you at 55 and remember it being more Deaf Valley than Death, but like I said LSU is worthy of being called both because a lot of foes except for Bama as of late have perished there.

I was first called Deaf Valley years back in the 50's or 60's and it naturally just morphed into Death Valley. The stadium has been called Deaf or Death since it opened in 1924. It has been Death Valley for the 46 years of my life, so it has never changed. The change took place before I was born in the early 1970s. Also, it never rains in Death Valley, so there is that as well becuase it never rains in Tiger Stadium. You may get the occasional stiff dew, but never rain.We also have the Deaf Dome which is the PMAC, but it has been quiet for a long time since Dale Brown retired. We also have Alex box Stadium which is pronounced Alec Box Stadium; insiders and only locals know why.



That is one of the best mid-field logos in College football.

I am in my mid-50s and the "Welcome to Death Valley" sign that was below the old west upper deck (it has since been removed) had been around as long as I can remember. It was there in the late 70s when I was attending LSU and I'll bet it was there a lot longer than that.