re: Deaf Valley...when did it change to Death Valley?

I literally had a poster from the seventies with Mike the Tiger climbing over the stadium, across the top it said Deaf Valley. The color got so faded I threw it away around 2000 sometime

There is an article I saw reprinted about students asking the school to get a live tiger in 1934. Their letter starts with,”Please bring a Tiger to Death Valley.” I don’t remember where or when I saw it. It was years ago.

Jeezus, people! It isn't that difficult! The stadium has been Death Valley since at least the '50s. The term "Deaf Valley" is, was, and has always been a wordplay on the similar sound to "Death Valley" and the fact that the stadium was far and away the noisiest in the country, famed and feared for the deafening roar of the fans from pre-game to post-game. The sign (on the scoreboard as well as the one hanging on the press box) was always "Welcome to Death Valley", because that was the semi-official nickname for Tiger Stadium. And it in no way changed the fact that many people would also refer to "Deaf Valley" because of the intimidating noise factor, just as they would later adopt "Deaf Dome" for the PMAC. The only difference was that the PMAC didn't already have a nickname (other than "The House that Pete Built", but that was really just among LSU fans), so "Deaf Dome" stuck as its "official" nickname.

Tl;dr: Tiger Stadium's nickname has always been Death Valley. Because it was so loud, people would also refer to it as "Deaf Valley" as a play on words. The sign in the stadium always read "Welcome to Death Valley". And Clemson sucks, so nobody cares what they call their stadium.

It’s all in your confused mind.

i can tell you this on the 1930's there was a push to get a Tiger mascot, I knew many people that went to LSU in the 1930's, including Marvin Stewart.

I had one person tell me even then it was known as Death Valley, I cannot prove this.

I know way more from the 1940's and over 4 told me it was known as Death Valley then, which I cannot prove.

My father went to LSU in 1950, and he said it was known as Death Valley even then, which I cannot prove.

But if someone would go the archives and look into this I think you can prove this as a fact.

I mainly did research on the early LSU football teams and mainly the 1908 team.

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Maybe you are mixing it up with what Dale Brown called the PMAC. He use to call it the Deaf Dome.

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In the 80’s both had “deaf” in the name. It became politically incorrect and was changed.

Deaf Valley and Deaf Dome were 100% what we called them in the late 80’s.

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The nickname originated at Clemson in the 1940s, while LSU's Tiger Stadium adopted the name later, around the 1950s-60s. If LSU wins this game, then BK can call them Death Valley Jr., however, and I hate to say it, Tiger Stadium is actually Death Valley Jr.

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By that logic, Florida can kick rocks. We had "The Swamp" in Lafayette before they did.

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You've clearly never visited the Score Board when we are losing during ANY football game.

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Very true… I retract my statement… How could I forgot about the dumbarses that wanted to bench JD5 his senior year

Then he won the Heisman and is currently a top 5-10 QB in NFL taking a loser franchise to within 1 game of SB in just his rookie season!