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Earliest LSU recollection/experience that made you become a TIGER fan
Posted on 9/20/20 at 6:57 am
Posted on 9/20/20 at 6:57 am
Mine would have to be the 2002 Sugar Bowl. I was probably about 14 or 15 years old. I remember watching this game in my uncles LSU Man Cave on his BIG SCREEN TV. Watching Rohan Davey dice up the Illini Defense, throwing for 450 yards. Seemingly throwing to JOSH REED every play. Reed was on another level that night. Hauling in 14 passes for over 200 yards. My father had already ingrained LSU into my head when I was young but this was kinda the earliest memory I have of actually sitting down and cheering for the Purple and Geauxld. It was a great night. I will always remember that.
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:01 am to RaginRed
LSU bearing #1 Florida in ESPN.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:21 am to RaginRed
Going to Gerry Dinardo’s first football camp in the summer of 95 hooked me as an 8 year old kid. Before that, LSU football was just something fun to do on fall Saturday’s. I haven’t missed a game either in person or on tv since 95.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:25 am to RaginRed
First game I remember being at is the Tennessee game in 2000 we won in OT. The earliest experience I have is listening to the UAB game that year on the radio because it wasn’t on TV 
ETA: 7 years old at the time
ETA: 7 years old at the time
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:28 am to RaginRed
I was 7 years old in 1969. We didn't have a tv but we were visiting my aunt and uncle who did have a tv. My uncle started watching a football game. I was mesmerized. I thought it was cool guys got to run into each other and play with that funny looking ball.
I asked my uncle who was playing, he said LSU and Alabama. I asked him what team he wanted to win ? He gave me the glare. "LSU, boy". It was right then I would become a lifelong LSU fan. The TV was black and white so I didn't even know the LSU colors.
My uncle has since passed but to this day I am thankful for that one Saturday that gave me my fandom. LSU won, 20-15.
I asked my uncle who was playing, he said LSU and Alabama. I asked him what team he wanted to win ? He gave me the glare. "LSU, boy". It was right then I would become a lifelong LSU fan. The TV was black and white so I didn't even know the LSU colors.
My uncle has since passed but to this day I am thankful for that one Saturday that gave me my fandom. LSU won, 20-15.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:28 am to RaginRed
Little brother was a walkon. He got booted from the team for missing a mandatory meeting. He started sulking and tried to give up. I told him to man up and go ask coach Dinardo for another chance. He asked if I would go with him.
I took the day off and went down to BR. He mustered up enough confidence to march in the office and ask. I was in the waiting room so I don't know what all was said but my brother came walking out smiling and he took me to tour the locker room and put his stuff back in his locker. I just walked around in awe.
He ended getting cut that fall, but I've been a fan ever since.
I took the day off and went down to BR. He mustered up enough confidence to march in the office and ask. I was in the waiting room so I don't know what all was said but my brother came walking out smiling and he took me to tour the locker room and put his stuff back in his locker. I just walked around in awe.
He ended getting cut that fall, but I've been a fan ever since.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:35 am to RaginRed
Late 80s
Seminoles came to town.
Seminoles came to town.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:40 am to RaginRed
LSU - A&M in Tiger Stadium in 1986. The band during pregame, those four notes to the four corners. Hodson’s first game and first start. Sammy Martin’s sprint straight up the middle of the field for a long touchdown. Some guy wearing yellow duck heads tumbling down the student section head over heels during a fight. Murphy’s before and after the game.
I’ve walked into countless arenas and witnessed sporting events of the highest order on many, many occasions since then, but the plain truth is nothing has really ever come close to that feeling of being in Tiger Stadium for the first time. Cool, eerie, surreal.
I’ve walked into countless arenas and witnessed sporting events of the highest order on many, many occasions since then, but the plain truth is nothing has really ever come close to that feeling of being in Tiger Stadium for the first time. Cool, eerie, surreal.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:41 am to RaginRed
I was in the dome for that sugar bowl... my first was the southern miss loss under Curley. Fell in love with a half empty tiger stadium and rode the rebuild all the way
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:46 am to RaginRed
Going to every single home game since I was 3 with the old man, until I got to high school and wanted to drink beer with my friends
But the natty in 2003
But the natty in 2003
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:48 am to RaginRed
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:53 am to RaginRed
1993 going to LSU vs Florida with my Dad and him making me stay to the bitter end. My memory was that it was raining and we just sat there watching LSU get pummeled. If my dad was going to sit there through that crap, then I knew the Tigers were special.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 7:57 am to RaginRed
No recollection just thought i was born a tiger fan . born and raised in south louisiana. parents were not sports fans or lsu fans but my brother and i loved sports and lsu was what we loved. we used to cut the color lsu photo out of the advocate every sunday morning from saturday game. earliest recollection of lsu was lsu losing to nebraska in sugar bowl. sugar bowl
. born and raised in south louisiana. parents were not sports fans or lsu fans but my brother and i loved sports and lsu was what we loved. we used to cut the color lsu photo out of the advocate every sunday morning from saturday game. earliest recollection of lsu was lsu losing to nebraska in sugar bowl. sugar bowlThis post was edited on 9/20/20 at 8:05 am
Posted on 9/20/20 at 8:07 am to RaginRed
Earliest recollection was the 1958 season when my uncles would come over on Sunday mornings to talk with my dad about the game the night before. Earliest game I remember was listening on the radio to the Kentucky game in 1964. Hooked for life after that. 
Posted on 9/20/20 at 8:18 am to RaginRed
+Nine years old in 1947. We won. Didn't get to go to another game till the 1958 sugar bowl where we beat Clemson 7-0. After retiring from USAF and then getting season tickets in the east upper. Beating Tenn. in overtime in 2000. There were many more One bad was in 1970 in Vietnam losing to ND 3-0. But Tommy Hodson and Andy Hamilton avenging that loss the next year.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 8:19 am to RaginRed
I was 6 or 7 years old
My big brother came home from Vietnam and took me to the Tulane game at TU stadium 1970(?)
My big brother came home from Vietnam and took me to the Tulane game at TU stadium 1970(?)
Posted on 9/20/20 at 8:24 am to RaginRed
Home opener 79. (Freshman year) When TGBFTL walked out on the field and played those first 4 notes! Instant fan! And then the USC game was next!
Posted on 9/20/20 at 8:30 am to RaginRed
My first Tiger Stadium experience.
LSU vs Tulane, 1980. Sat in the South EZ. My friend's Dad took us. First time in Tiger Stadium. Ironically, I don't really remember the game itself (except that we won). I was too busy absorbing... EVERYTHING! The band, the Golden Girls, the coeds, the crowd... just a memory I will never forget.
LSU vs Tulane, 1980. Sat in the South EZ. My friend's Dad took us. First time in Tiger Stadium. Ironically, I don't really remember the game itself (except that we won). I was too busy absorbing... EVERYTHING! The band, the Golden Girls, the coeds, the crowd... just a memory I will never forget.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 8:30 am to RaginRed
attending my first LSU games as a 6-year-old and watching this guy play (pic below). Will never forget Saturday pre-game traditions of parking near the bowling alley, walking amongst the century old live oaks, eating lunch inside the Union cafeteria, and watching other CFB games on the big screen tv inside the ballroom. LSU on game day is just special for a young kid
Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:05 am to RaginRed
Listening to ‘97 LSU vs Houston on the radio. Tigers down 20 in the 4th. Faulk goes off for 246 and I think a punt return in that game to win 35-34.
Then watched highlights on ESPN after. If I recall, they kept breaking in during live coverage of whatever game was showing on ESPN that night showing the Tigers roar back.
I’d been a fan as a kid but I think that game was the tipping point for me emotionally. A loss to Houston there may have numbed me not to care so much anymore. The comeback win however solidified my core commitment to Tiger football. What a ride it’s been
Then watched highlights on ESPN after. If I recall, they kept breaking in during live coverage of whatever game was showing on ESPN that night showing the Tigers roar back.
I’d been a fan as a kid but I think that game was the tipping point for me emotionally. A loss to Houston there may have numbed me not to care so much anymore. The comeback win however solidified my core commitment to Tiger football. What a ride it’s been
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