re: Fans leaving were called out on Nat TV

You're very young if you were "in shock" over such b/s

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I went to the game, and had four friends leave at halftime. I don't see the point of going through all the trouble of getting tickets, going to campus, waiting in lines to get in the stadium, to only sit there for an hour an a half and leave. Thats just me though.

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I am with you....
I do not see it either, I just do not think is my position to judge them.

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I have neither the work schedule nor the money to spend on season tickets each year. How this makes me less of a "fan" is beyond me.

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Well I have the work schedule but really don't have the money to just throw away - but I do anyway.

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Believe me, if I could attend every game, I would. I've never left a game until the final whistle sounded.

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And if you did attend every game for at least ten years consecutively, you would eventually get to the point of leaving early during ULL, Tulane, etc.

Look, I didn't leave and I'm not defending the 5% that did leave.

But if you purchased season tickets you would most likely start leaving games early if they were duds and the whole "newness" of being a season ticket holder wore off after so long.

People like you purchase individual game tickets and you value the hell out of your purchase because you spent money on those tickets that week, so it's fresh on your bank account. However, if you dropped down the money for the entire season at a time and started going to games week in/week out, you would get to the point of wanting to leave the game in a blowout because the damage had been done to your bank account in the summertime. It's easy for you to say you wouldn't because you want to savor something you don't always do.

ETA: It's easy to sit on your couch and watch with the heater on and bitch about the people that are out there. It's also easy to sit back and say, "oh yeah I would pay that" because the simple fact is you don't.

If someone couldn't afford tickets to the game yesterday then they can't afford a computer to be on td. Tickets were dirt cheap yesterday. You can't call out other peoples effort when you gave 0% at least they were there for some time.

If you're looking for the call out and want to see/hear it for yourself, it starts with 13:45 left in the 4th quarter.

I think most people who left their seats went downstairs to get out of the cold. The seats weren't that empty during OT.

I am not saying you are a bad fan or anything I am just saying people that don't atten the games should not bitch and start threads about people leaving early

Look the fact of the matter is that Todd Blackledge scripted out and was waiting to use that commentary based on other games that LSU fans had left early. The game last week had built the anti-Miles issue to a fever pitch and made for dramatic commentary for the media to talk about, and what better way to bring it up than to say, "look at the fans leaving early!"

But what some of you that weren't there don't understand, is that the fans really didn't leave early. They, like me, went down to get out of the cold and came back up halfway in the 4th quarter. I knew it was going to come down to the wire, as did everybody else. We were the smart ones that saved up for the OT period.

Why don't some of you believe this? You're the culprits here wanting to blame the LSU fanbase for the first little thing. Some of you are as bad as the media - lurking in the shadows ready to pounce on the LSU fans. And to be honest, I think a lot of it is jealousy because we were there and you weren't. But that's just my opinion.

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But if you purchased season tickets you would most likely start leaving games early if they were duds and the whole "newness" of being a season ticket holder wore off after so long.

People like you purchase individual game tickets and you value the hell out of your purchase because you spent money on those tickets that week, so it's fresh on your bank account. However, if you dropped down the money for the entire season at a time and started going to games week in/week out, you would get to the point of wanting to leave the game in a blowout because the damage had been done to your bank account in the summertime. It's easy for you to say you wouldn't because you want to savor something you don't always do.

ETA: It's easy to sit on your couch and watch with the heater on and bitch about the people that are out there. It's also easy to sit back and say, "oh yeah I would pay that" because the simple fact is you don't.

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Good post and perspective. It is easy to judge when you are sitting at home in a climate controlled environment on your couch although I could never see myself leaving a game that is that close halfway through the 3rd quarter.

I liken these fat-cat bandwagon fans who unfortunately now take up most of the prime seats--to these candy arse doctors and lawyers around central Louisiana (and elsewhere) who all had Harleys when it was a fad.

They dressed up in their do-rags, leather boots and black t-shirts and had a good time pretending they were "bad asses."

Real bikers just laughed.

Now, they put on their purple and gold and enjoy playing at being football fanatics.

But of course, if the wind-chill is below 72 degrees they can't take it and go home.

Back when most anyone could get (and afford) a ticket, these same people considered and LSU football game a "low-class" thing to do.

Give me the days when Tiger Stadium was a bunch of drunk coonasses and rednecks with an attitude--a place that opposing teams feared.

I know there's probably no way around it, but I hate the fact that all the prime seating in TS is taken up by corporate seating and populated by these fat cat pollyannas.

Once again--other places like Texas and Florida no doubt have a lot of corporate seating. Why don't they empty out like pussies? The Swamp stayed full while UF was hammering College of Charleston.

TAF has raised a lot of money.

They've also made Tiger Stadium a shadow of its former, feared self.