re: 1979 LSU vs usc

Ok..... I may have went a bit overboard. But LSU played and gotten into wining position just like against USC. Hokie got stopped at the goal line.

quote:

---

LSU also played Bama at home the same year and lost a 3-0 struggle that they outplayed Bama. The toughest LSU team I have ever witness.

---

Also lost 24-19 to one of Bobby Bowden's first nationally ranked Florida State teams. This was Charleey Mac's lqast season and Bowden had been offered the LSU job. He said when he realized he could beat LSU in Tiger Stadium he knew he could have great success at FSU and turned LSU down.

I was there...there has never been another game that has come close to what that night was like in that stadium...

quote:

---

The call against Thibideaux was completely bogus..

---

it was bogus in that the play should have been called dead with 2 USC lineman moving before the snap, but he did grab the facemask, the video is on youtube...

I was there- bought a $5 youth ticket and sat in U17. Screamed the whole game and cried when we lost. It may have been the best tiger stadium has ever been. No STTDB - just pregame, tiger rag, all the best of drunk, loud, bold, brash and Louisiana proud- another ‘almost’ game....so close and that sums up the 70’s.

That 79 team played three tough teams that won atleast 11 games, bama, usc and fsu
They finished ranked 1, 2 and fourth in final poles

I was there as well...the Gold standard for Tiger Stadium!!!!

A few years before I was born. I 've heard so much about this game.

Frick it. I'm watching it tonight.

USC at LSU 1979
SEP 29 (SAT) 7:30 PM

After research.

quote:

---

Amazingly, the game was not televised live because USC would have surpassed the NCAA limit of five televised games on ABC in two seasons. It was on three times in 1978 and already had national TV games set that season for UCLA and Notre Dame.

Instead, ABC nationally televised No. 14 Ohio State at No. 17 UCLA in the afternoon and regionally televised USL and Arkansas State from Jonesboro, Arkansas, at 11:50 a.m.

---

quote:

---

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

---

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.

I was living in the North Stadium Dorms on the 4th floor, I left during that game and ran back to my dorm
room under the North Stadium Seats, probably for booze.... All you did was show your ID as a student and you could leave or re-enter the game at any time. That was a different time. In the rooms though, I remember being amazed that the place wasn't shaking like a leaf. Huey laid that roof in some solid hard concrete. You could tell a game was going on, no way you could study for a test but it was surprisingly quiet in my dorm room. The crowd was insane,earthquake level. I have never seen anything like it LSU got threats and penalized for the noise - delay of game.