Earthquake!!!!

Earthquake II

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My favorite moment in Tiger Stadium...ever!

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Mine too!

Probably not. There was more hunger back then.

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Days of long ago

Never have that reaction or feel again in Tiger Stadium. If it came down to that exact play this weekend, can you with all confidence, say there would still be enough people in the stands to achieve that level of excitement?

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I will play the much despised role of the "old guy who comes in with his back-in-the-day stories", but here I am.

I was a freshman at LSU back in 1988 and that is still my favorite moment in Tiger Stadium.

LSU beat Auburn 7-6 that night. The game started at either 6 or 6:30, and the weather was good. The stadium was packed for the entire ball game...nobody left early. Keep in mind that LSU had lost 2 straight games leading up to this game...yet the stadium was still full.

My point is this....for those who weren't at the game or who are too young to remember it and have just heard the stories about the "earthquake game", here is a cold, hard fact. Besides the Hodson to Fuller TD, that game was BORING AS frick. LSU's offense was a clusterfrick the entire game, and granted the Auburn defense had a lot to do with that. Hodson took shot after shot because his O-line couldn't protect him. Even on the game winning drive, Fuller himself dropped a sure TD pass. The offense couldn't get out of its own way.

I make that point so that I can make this point....under the same circumstances today, the stadium would be half full at the end of the game. Again, this was an LSU team that was 2-2 headed into that game with 2 straight losses. With 2 straight losses and a 3-0 deficit at halftime, Tiger Stadium would empty out. Fans would call the offense a "shite show" and demand everyone be fired.

And the "well it was Auburn, so it was a big rivalry game, so everyone stayed" argument doesn't work here. Before the conference went to divisions, LSU and Auburn actually very rarely played each other. They weren't rivals yet.

So no, that won't ever happen at LSU again.