Offseason (holy crap) thread: anyone remember the precise moment they became an LSU fan?

Born in to it.

I decided I wanted to start watching football and they were the local team

It's grown a lot from there

I wasn’t a football fan growing up, but my older brother was.

He was fascinated with this freshman Herschel Walker and wanted to watch the Sugar Bowl. As a follower, so did I.

Herschel was awesome that game and I asked my grandmother, “Who is our team?” She said, “LSU”. I became a fan at that moment.

But I did ask “Do we have a Herschel Walker?” I saw flashes in Hilliard-James, Harvey Williams, Kevin Faulk, Cecil Collins, Justin Vincent, Joseph Addai etc until I finally found an almost identical Herschel clone in Leonard Fournette. Too bad CFB was no longer a RB-centric game by the time I found him.

When I was a kid at home, late '60s/early '70s, we rarely saw the Tigers on tv, usually just the national Saturday afternoon game on ABC. But the radio at home was always tuned to the game when the Tigers were playing.

I remember many nights sitting with my dad and sometimes my older sisters listening. I had an older brother who was at LSU in the late '70s; he was always talking about how awesome Tiger Stadium was and he was gonna take me to a game but somehow he never did swing it.

Finally got to go to my first game in 1982. Been going as often as I could ever since. The first time my brother and I attended a game together, the tickets were on me!

When Rohan went pass happy vs Alabama. I was like 14.

I can’t remember all the details but I can tell you I was pretty much at every home game past the age of 5. And I too can say it was those TX A&M games growing up that got me hooked. I remember wanting heat those mofos SO bad and that’s when I knew I could start feeling that LSU blood in my veins.

'81 Final Four Team. Prior to that I liked Tulane (IDKW).

In 1988, my buddy's dad took us to see LSU beat Ole Miss. The crowd was packed, probably 70k or so in the stadium. We were on the 45. The crowd railing against Ole Miss sucked me in and I was sold.

I grew up in the country, so we didn't have cable, so no hope of seeing any games that weren't over the air. I didn't get to watch many games, but I sure listened to a lot on WWL.

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Born into it.

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Theres photos of me in Tiger gear as a toddler.

When I truly became a fan on my own was when my brother went to LSU as a walk-on. In two years, he never made the field. Poor dumb bastard turned down rides at Tech and another LA school to give it a shot at LSU. That was mid 90’s