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re: Classics from the Old Timers on the Rant
Posted on 2/10/14 at 7:26 pm to Iam4LSUnTN
Posted on 2/10/14 at 7:26 pm to Iam4LSUnTN
At the beginning of the ’58 championship season, one could always buy tickets outside the stadium around game time. A friend and I sometimes just drove up to the game from N.O. on a whim and successfully bought tickets. The Tigers were undefeated on October 18th when they were to play Kentucky. At the last minute we decided to attend and drove up, arriving just as they kicked off and parked at the gate. We got out of the car expecting to find scalpers hawking their tickets but all we found were ticket buyers like us. When it became apparent we were not going to get in, the crowd tried to bribe the gate attendant to sell them standing room, but the police soon broke that up. Finally everyone just sat around on the hoods of their cars listening to the game on their car radios. At the beginning of the 4th quarter (after the police went in to watch the game) the gate keeper relented and let us all into the stadium where we watched the remaining action from the tunnels and elsewhere. I do believe that this was the beginning of the tradition of sell-out crowds for LSU football. And it is true that we drove up at kick off time and parked no more than thirty feet from an entrance to the stadium. How times have changed!!! LSU 37 Kentucky 7
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Posted on 2/10/14 at 7:29 pm to Iam4LSUnTN
quote:Actually, Theismann was in pros. QB on visit to BR was guy named Brown, I believe. Gatewood was All American Receiver. This was one of my first LSU games as well. I watched Casanova one on one with All American Gatewood all game. Gatewood would take two steps and Casanova would send a legal then forearm shiver up against his head. Gatewood ran scared the entire game...
Theismann was their QB who changed the prunus citation and dropped the last N in his name to ryme with Heisman before that game.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 7:36 pm to austintexastiger
Back in the 60's and 70's the thing to remember is that there was only one College game a week on TV. One. For the whole country. ABC College Football. That was it. So when a LSU game was on TV - once every two or three years, it was just as big a deal to go to the TV game as anything. It was a status symbol to go to a game that was on TV. In 1973, LSU vs Alabama in BR at night was on National TV. We lost that night but just watching it on TV at home in Sport was amazing. Jimmy LeDoux, Brad Davis and others. What a blast... Just a little more perspective on what it used to be like...
Posted on 2/10/14 at 7:39 pm to rrboy
Way back in 1979, I broke into Tiger Stadium with a hacksaw and didn't tell my dweeb brother about it. Little shite got in anyway, or so he says. Was a great game.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 10:01 pm to Methuselah
quote:That was back in 1984. The player in question was Shawn Burks!
Two Tulane players were teaming up on an LSU guy and this other LSU player came running full speed, dove through the air about 5 yards and knocked down both Tulane players. Guy looked like Superman flying through the air.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 10:18 pm to BRAVEHEART
As a Boy Scout usher, around '64, I don't even remember what game...I was bounding down the stairs just before kickoff, from taking someone to theirs seats way up top (no upper deck). I spotted a packet of hot dog mustard on the steps in front of me, and exuberantly stomped on it...
That mustard packet sprayed the entire side of this man from head to toe, including his face, with a fine coat of bright yellow mustard. As if you loaded a Wagner Paint Sprayer with mustard and sprayed him. People wore nice suits to the games back then. This gentleman stood up...and kept going, up and up. Largest man I'd ever seen; and he looked like every Mafia goon you've ever seen in the movies. His left leg, left jacket sleeve and left side of his face was coated in mustard. The other side of his face turned beet red, and he began to profanely curse me out in a ear-splitting, terrifying roar that seemed to hush everyone else in the stadium. You just didn't curse like that in public back then, other than "Go to hell, Ole Miss". He started to move towards me; some other man wrapped his arms around me, pulled me away, and said, "Run". I did.
To this day, I believe that if I wouldn't have been wearing that cute lil Boy Scout uniform that bought me a moment's hesitation, he would have flung me all the way out onto the field.
I got another one involving living in the stadium dorms above the player's locker room entrance, Cholly Mac, and cats, but I'm saving it in case I ever get to tell it to Les personally.
That mustard packet sprayed the entire side of this man from head to toe, including his face, with a fine coat of bright yellow mustard. As if you loaded a Wagner Paint Sprayer with mustard and sprayed him. People wore nice suits to the games back then. This gentleman stood up...and kept going, up and up. Largest man I'd ever seen; and he looked like every Mafia goon you've ever seen in the movies. His left leg, left jacket sleeve and left side of his face was coated in mustard. The other side of his face turned beet red, and he began to profanely curse me out in a ear-splitting, terrifying roar that seemed to hush everyone else in the stadium. You just didn't curse like that in public back then, other than "Go to hell, Ole Miss". He started to move towards me; some other man wrapped his arms around me, pulled me away, and said, "Run". I did.
To this day, I believe that if I wouldn't have been wearing that cute lil Boy Scout uniform that bought me a moment's hesitation, he would have flung me all the way out onto the field.
I got another one involving living in the stadium dorms above the player's locker room entrance, Cholly Mac, and cats, but I'm saving it in case I ever get to tell it to Les personally.
Posted on 2/10/14 at 11:06 pm to StadiumDormRat'72
I miss those 70's/80's games because everybody in the stadium was there to watch the freaking game. Football diehards. We were all into the game itself. Tiger Stadium was louder even though it didn't hold as many people. Students weren't spoiled brats and there weren't very many Cheesers in the crowd. A whole different atmosphere that was real! Alleva is turning the whole thing into an NFL game now. Sad. 
Posted on 2/10/14 at 11:13 pm to Lackamoola
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At the beginning of the ’58 championship season, one could always buy tickets outside the stadium around game time. A friend and I sometimes just drove up to the game from N.O. on a whim and successfully bought tickets. The Tigers were undefeated on October 18th when they were to play Kentucky. At the last minute we decided to attend and drove up, arriving just as they kicked off and parked at the gate. We got out of the car expecting to find scalpers hawking their tickets but all we found were ticket buyers like us. When it became apparent we were not going to get in, the crowd tried to bribe the gate attendant to sell them standing room, but the police soon broke that up. Finally everyone just sat around on the hoods of their cars listening to the game on their car radios. At the beginning of the 4th quarter (after the police went in to watch the game) the gate keeper relented and let us all into the stadium where we watched the remaining action from the tunnels and elsewhere. I do believe that this was the beginning of the tradition of sell-out crowds for LSU football. And it is true that we drove up at kick off time and parked no more than thirty feet from an entrance to the stadium. How times have changed!!! LSU 37 Kentucky 7
Was the layout of campus the same? What side of the stadium did you park 30 feet from the stadium?
Posted on 2/10/14 at 11:16 pm to Four Corners
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I remember that the opposing team HAD to enter the field first and when they did the entire stadium erupted into repeated "Tiger Bait, Tiger Bait" until our team poured out of the Tiger Den. (I do so miss this tradition and wish we could bring it back!)
This times 1000!! I am still stunned that this tradition no longer occurs, every time I go to a game nowadays....
BRING BACK "TIGER BAIT"!!!
Posted on 2/11/14 at 8:18 am to Iam4LSUnTN
Nice thread. Luv all the good stories
Posted on 2/11/14 at 8:41 am to TopsInAmericaTim
I was at the 73 game and it was a big deal on National TV. Duffy Daugherty of Mich State, the commentator, said something we didn;t like. Mike Williams fell down once and Bama scored on us. What a day.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 12:27 pm to Purplehaze
Bert Jones to Brad Davis, game winning TD pass, 2 plays off in 4 seconds against O.Miss. They had the hedges up around the endzones at the time & I was not far from the O.Miss bench. I can still see the whole sidelines screaming & cursing, and after the extra point was made, half the team was throwing their helmets into the hedges. I 've never seen a whole team so mad. To make it even "better", after the game, walking to our tailgate, there are 5-6 LSU fans just pounding this one O. Miss fan like a punching bag. BRPD officer walks up, starts pulling the LSU fans off the O.Miss fan & when the final fan is pulled away, the officer takes out his handcuffs and arrested the O.Miss fan for disturbing the peace. It was too funny, even the O.Miss fan gave the officer a "you gotta be kidding me " look.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 4:10 pm to Iam4LSUnTN
My one and only year at LSU, 1980-81. We played Auburn for homecoming. Our dorm (West Stadium)placed third in the display competition for homecoming. At the time, that was the best any non-greek display had ever placed, or at least that's what the RA told us. Then I wnt to what was the best game I remember in Tiger Stadium. LSU 21- Auburn 17. Here is a link to Dandy Don's recollection of the game listed in the greatest LSU football wins in the last 50 years.
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I remember that euphoric feeling washing over me as Quinn made that interception, it was a thing of beauty.
Link if you want to see some of the others:
Dandy Don
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1980 LSU 21 Auburn 17
This was a night the crowd helped the Tigers. The game seesawed back and forth as Malcom Scott put the Tigers ahead on touchdown reception. LSU lined up to punt late in the 4th quarter. Auburn broke through and blocked the kick and recovered the ball on LSU's 10 yard line. Jerry Stovall brought the team together and inspired them to hold on for 4 downs. On the first play, a wide open Auburn receiver dropped a sure touchdown pass. LSU held for two more downs and on 4t down, Marcus Quinn made a picturesque interception and almost returned it the distance, but more importantly LSU held on and ran out the clock to go to 4-2.
I remember that euphoric feeling washing over me as Quinn made that interception, it was a thing of beauty.
Link if you want to see some of the others:
Dandy Don
Posted on 2/11/14 at 6:19 pm to Methuselah
I remember the big fight at the end of the Tulane-LSU game... And yes, it was Shawn Burks.... It happened right in front of us in the south end zone... I remember watching WWL sports the next day and recorded the fight to see it even better...
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