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re: Earliest LSU recollection/experience that made you become a TIGER fan
Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:54 am to RaginRed
Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:54 am to RaginRed
My sister was a cheerleader and we had what they called box seats, literally a plywood open box with 4 folding chairs, the kids “me” were able to run the sideline behind the Tigers bench and the managers would throw the used or tore up tear away jerseys to us, it was a free for all battle tween 7-10 yr olds. Anyway we were playing USC and Charles White ran towards the south end zone, slid into the fence and stood up and I slapped him on the helmet. I was young and this was an actual star that you saw on TV several times and that was a highlight of my sports life at the time. Now days there is no way people or anything can get that close to players or sideline, but as a kid back then, having no idea how BIG a game that was in Tiger lore it was the most exciting thing ever to be right there in the action, still gives me chills today to know how lucky I was and would prepare all week my strategy on how to get more jerseys. GOD thank you for the good ole days!!! Tiger through and through forever.
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Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:59 am to RaginRed
1987, 9 yrs old, #3 Ohio State vs #5 LSU. I asked an Ohio State fan what a buckeye was and he gave me one. We tied them that day 13-13 because we blocked their field goal as time expired. Been down with the purple and gold madness ever since and never wavered.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 9:59 am to RaginRed
Joined Boy Scouts to get into games. Never got a merit badge. Wasn't there for that. I wanted to see the tigers...So it started for me about 11 then....
I bought $5 youth tickets in the lat 70's...saw awesome games after working for $2.30 minimum wage at the Sizzler on College Drive (site of Ihop)
The stadium in the 70's was louder than it is now and everyone stayed. People dressed up for the games and it was ROCKING.
One endzone would be painted in the colors of the opposing team so it seemed like a bowl game....it was amazing...rotary dial phones, rode bikes, chased girls, you get the picture....
I bought $5 youth tickets in the lat 70's...saw awesome games after working for $2.30 minimum wage at the Sizzler on College Drive (site of Ihop)
The stadium in the 70's was louder than it is now and everyone stayed. People dressed up for the games and it was ROCKING.
One endzone would be painted in the colors of the opposing team so it seemed like a bowl game....it was amazing...rotary dial phones, rode bikes, chased girls, you get the picture....
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:03 am to DeathByTossDive225
[quote] Mine was Rohan’s start against Arkansas in 99. [quote]
Same here
Same here
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:04 am to RaginRed
My next door neighbor as small kid( 1, maybe two)..EVERY SATURDAY EVENING...he'd sit on his front porch uptown slow sipping whiskey with his little petite wife..saying GOOOOOOOOOOO TIIIIIIIIGGGAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHSS!...That or maybe Birth...I've been nothing but an LSU Tiger!
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:25 am to RaginRed
My earliest memory of LSU football is one of my earliest memories. Christmas Party watching LSU defeat Wake Forest in Cholly Mac's last game.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:28 am to LSD Tiger
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LSU bearing #1 Florida in ESPN
Yeah this is it for me. Being from the new orleans area with no family with ties to LSU I was always a fan but we didnt really sit down and watch as a family/group like we did with the saints. I was a senior in high school and finally knew I was definitely going to LSU and watched this with a bunch of friends drinking and got fired up.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:41 am to RaginRed
LSU vs Wyoming in the Sugar Bowl i belueve on tv. My Dad and uncles talking about Nelson Stokely
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:46 am to RaginRed
I apparently was already a fan from what I've seen but my first memory is my first game, I was 4. My pawpaw brought me to jt, was a beat down in the mid to late 90s by Georgia.
Saw Mike the tiger, the airplane by the stadium, and of course the game.
Saw Mike the tiger, the airplane by the stadium, and of course the game.
This post was edited on 9/20/20 at 11:14 am
Posted on 9/20/20 at 10:59 am to RaginRed
10 years old listening to the 1958 season at my grandmother’s house with my brother and cousins while my 2 uncles, dad and grandpa attended the games. We had a TV, but only one game was on TV - the Sugar Bowl against Clemson. I really became a die hard fan when my older brother left for Vietnam during the 1962 season. I used to write him to keep him posted on the games. He was killed at 19 in ‘63. He was my hero and the biggest LSU fan I’ve ever known to this day.
This post was edited on 9/20/20 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:00 am to LSD Tiger
My daddy and me listening LSU play ND we lost 3/0
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:07 am to RaginRed
LSU VT in Death Valley. I had been a fan before but that was the baptism.
Absolutely slapped a top 10 team and went on to have an amazing year.
Absolutely slapped a top 10 team and went on to have an amazing year.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:09 am to RaginRed
Sitting with my dad listening to the Tigers on the radio in the mid-70s. My great uncle coached David Woodley in high school and seeing him play at LSU.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:12 am to RaginRed
1984 LSU/Tulane “The fight game”......loved LSU and hated Tulane from then on. I was 9
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:21 am to RaginRed
Art Cantrell. Tyler Lafauci. Bert Jones.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:43 am to RaginRed
LSU Miami 88 in the monsoon
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:53 am to RaginRed
Mid-1960s listening on the radio at home with my parents. Had my own kid sized LSU uniform complete with cardboard shoulder pads. Wore it listening to the game.
In those days, LSU was only on TV for a bowl game, so if you weren’t at the game, people gathered for listening parties.
In those days, LSU was only on TV for a bowl game, so if you weren’t at the game, people gathered for listening parties.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 11:57 am to RaginRed
Arnsparger, and purple home jerseys.
Posted on 9/20/20 at 12:03 pm to RaginRed
1st--getting a letter from LSU offering a tuition free experience (academic scholly) if I chose them over bammer...I chose the Tigahs and never regretted it.
1st sports experience--sitting in the student section my first semester and the eruption that shook the campus after Eddie Fuller got a second chance after dropping the first pass at the goal line from Tommy H...he did not disappoint! 7-6 ...good Tigahs!
1st sports experience--sitting in the student section my first semester and the eruption that shook the campus after Eddie Fuller got a second chance after dropping the first pass at the goal line from Tommy H...he did not disappoint! 7-6 ...good Tigahs!
Posted on 9/20/20 at 12:07 pm to RaginRed
At birth it was a given with family in Jeanerette and New Iberia but Tommy Hodson fresman season I became obsessed with the tigers for sure and worse every uear hahaha
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