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re: Anyone remember “Big Red” at LSU football games?
Posted on 3/2/21 at 2:24 pm to TigerBR1111
Posted on 3/2/21 at 2:24 pm to TigerBR1111
You could hear him CLEARLY during the Tiger basketball radio broadcast circa late 70's.
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Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:04 pm to Landry59
quote:You simply can't make this kind of stuff up.
He was a student living in North Stadium in 61-62 when I was there. He got unbearable the week of the Ole Miss game. When he wasn't in his room yelling "Here we go Tigers" he made a tape recording of himself and played it out the window. Other residents got fed up with this, broke into his room, got the tape and unwound it in the hallway from east to west stadium. Then at night, he would ride around the stadium yelling his famous yell. Fellow students put a end to this by taking his bike and putting it up in the pipes of the fifth floor shower room. Those were the days.
Thanks for sharing.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 3:19 pm to GentleJackJones
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That sounds annoying.
He would do it during timeouts, or some pause in play. I didn't find it annoying at all. I know he was from New Orleans, and worked for Times Picayune Newspaper. At the basketball games he would go into the entrance way to his portal so his voice would carry better. This topic has been brought up on TD numerous times.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 4:26 pm to vjp819
For a period of years, for big games, he would stand outside the players' gate, usually for the Wed. practice, and let loose for a good hr. Players loved him.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 5:01 pm to Lucky5150
You do realize that I'm not talking about "Big Red", correct?
Posted on 3/2/21 at 5:36 pm to TigerBR1111
Oh yeah.... He was the loudest fan in the history of Tiger Stadium! I would be in one endzone and hear him coming from the other endzone. I remember the name also. Early 70s.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 5:46 pm to TigerBR1111
When I was 13, I worked for the same newspaper distributor as he did. A man named Leonard Toluso. Red delivered a large route in a car. Both,Morning Advocate and the evening paper, the State Times. I had an evening route on a bycycle. Red was a very nice and genuine man. But, pretty simpleminded. LSU sports was his only passion. No family in this area. Was from Mississippi.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 5:59 pm to Honkus
You can find him mentioned in the Advocate Archives.
Figured y'all would like this one from
October 12, 1979
Figured y'all would like this one from
October 12, 1979
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:25 pm to TigerBR1111
Sat in the lower south endzone in the mid sixties with my Dad, and I remember that voice well! Used to try to find him in the north endzone with my binoculars as he would yell!
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:32 pm to TigerBR1111
Kenny Higgs says hold my beer!
I remember that cat and could see him cupping his hands!
I remember that cat and could see him cupping his hands!
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:38 pm to TigerBR1111
Was he the guy at basketball games who yelled “Referee ain’t got no sense! Referee ain’t got no sense!”?
Posted on 3/2/21 at 6:46 pm to TigerBR1111
My dad told me about this guy, but he encountered him at basketball games.
Mid '70s, right when the Assembly Center opened.
Mid '70s, right when the Assembly Center opened.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 7:15 pm to St Jean The Baptiste
Heard him as a kid in the late '70s in the Assembly Center. We had season tickets, and you could hear him from the other side of the arena when he got going.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 7:30 pm to TigerBR1111
I remember Bug Red the wrestler
Posted on 3/2/21 at 8:24 pm to TigerBR1111
Yeah I remember him. He sat in the North end zone. And yes he had a loud voice. Remember him at basketball games also
Posted on 3/2/21 at 8:33 pm to TigerWoodlands
Yes, he sat at the East end of the court behind the goal post..I remember him well.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 9:41 pm to SalE
Wasn't his chant kinda of monotone and consistent? I remember hearing him at a lot of football games in the late 70's and 80's. Tiger Bait , Tiger Bait , Tiger Bait , Tiger Bait , over & over, no high or low pitches just one tone??
This post was edited on 3/2/21 at 9:45 pm
Posted on 3/2/21 at 9:44 pm to SalE
Is he still alive? If he was a student in the early 1960's he would be in his 80's.
Posted on 3/2/21 at 9:55 pm to geauxpurple
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Is he still alive? If he was a student in the early 1960's he would be in his 80's.
Someone posted that he passed in 1993 at the age of 61
Posted on 3/2/21 at 10:04 pm to skullhawk
RIP. I was afraid of that. He was a fixture back in the day but it has been a long time.
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