re: 1979 LSU vs usc

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The athletic as an oral history of that game by Bruce Feldman....The story goes USC team at a theatre watching a movie and after movies over the team starts to walk out they open up the doors there's a bunch of fans yelling tigerbait tigerbait.....another story about the walkthrough on Friday afternoon at Tiger stadium over 5,000 people yelling and spitting at them according to quarterback Paul McDonald....who also says that the night before the game he couldn't sleep and the trainer gave him a muscle relaxer and a sleeping pill and according to McDonald he didn't really wake up until the second quarter of that game

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Loudest game I’ve ever attended and everything else that went on was flat out a defining moment for LSU. That Notre Dame game in ‘71 was my senior year. It was also awesome as well.
The game in ‘82 versus FSU was one of the wilder ones I recall as well.
I missed UF in ‘97, but I watched it multiple times since. It was wild.
I was at UF in ‘07 and all of Bama home games except the last one the last 30 years.

Out of all those, the one that sticks out and may have resulted in hearing loss was USC in ‘79. Think of a Duke student section during a UNC basketball game with 78000+ screaming the whole time. It was like that.

For a single moment though, the 1988 Auburn game may be the single moment etched in my every senses. That game was a defensive gem, but actually kind of boring. My wife felt sick so we decided to start walking down with a few minutes left. She couldn’t make it out and had to stop at the ladies room so I stood by a concession stand and watched the end of the game on one of those old TV monitors. I can’t explain to you how scared I got because it really felt like the stadium was going to come down on us. My wife came out of the rest room with a bewildered look on her face.
We talked about that game for many years.