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re: Favorite quote from ESPN or the like regarding LSU and Tiger Stadium?
Posted on 9/5/13 at 9:40 am to MetryTyger
Posted on 9/5/13 at 9:40 am to MetryTyger
This may be a poem and not a "quote" but it still gives me chills every. single. time.
It is a pantheon of concrete and steel
It is a city that rises defiantly in the delta alongside the father of waters
It is the humidity of autumn evenings that drapes stately oaks and broad magnolias
It is haunted ... and it is loud.
It is Halloween night & Cannon blasts
It is a Louisiana gumbo of humanity that cheers its Tigers to victory & destroys the dreams of invading foes
Chance of rain is ... never!
It is the cathedral of college football & worship happens here
When the sun finds its home in the western sky it is a field of glory for sure ...
But much more than that it is a sacred place
And it is Saturday night in Death Valley
Favorite game had to be Florida 2007. Such a great year to be a freshman at LSU. And I was three rows above the guys in the corner for the Auburn game that year.
It is a pantheon of concrete and steel
It is a city that rises defiantly in the delta alongside the father of waters
It is the humidity of autumn evenings that drapes stately oaks and broad magnolias
It is haunted ... and it is loud.
It is Halloween night & Cannon blasts
It is a Louisiana gumbo of humanity that cheers its Tigers to victory & destroys the dreams of invading foes
Chance of rain is ... never!
It is the cathedral of college football & worship happens here
When the sun finds its home in the western sky it is a field of glory for sure ...
But much more than that it is a sacred place
And it is Saturday night in Death Valley
Favorite game had to be Florida 2007. Such a great year to be a freshman at LSU. And I was three rows above the guys in the corner for the Auburn game that year.
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Posted on 9/5/13 at 10:09 am to LSU_PETE_2012
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This may be a poem and not a "quote" but it still gives me chills every. single. time.
My goosebumps get goosebumps
Posted on 9/5/13 at 10:47 am to htownjeep
For living so far away, I'm fortunate to have attended nearly every big game mentioned in the last 10 years. The memories are still vivid and just reading the quotes and memories all over again get me pumped.
Posted on 9/5/13 at 11:03 am to TDsngumbo
Best quote I heard, "LSU is a 800 pound gorilla with a chainsaw for a penis"
Best game attended, vs Bama 2010, the end was amazing!
Best game attended, vs Bama 2010, the end was amazing!
Posted on 9/5/13 at 11:09 am to htownjeep
Posted on 9/5/13 at 11:19 am to jrodLSUke
This one just gave me goosebumps! 
Posted on 9/5/13 at 11:22 am to Jwils
My favorite of all time. EDSBS describing the LSU/UF 07 game:
EDSBS Road Trip: Baton Rouge
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Tiger Stadium is proxy Mardi Gras. Something cuts Tiger Stadium loose from the fetters of reality. Perhaps it's the brown liquor buzz peaking with the setting of the sun, or the lurid dark purple the sky turns just as the sun is sliding beneath the horizon, or the combined and complete attention of 92,000 people all focused on one communal point of attention. We've read about the intangibles of playing in a place like Tiger Stadium before--the vague "something" described alternately as "special," "different," or "MY GOD I'M NOT GETTING OUT OF HERE ALIVE"--and scoffed.
We scoff no more. It's real, live, and tangible enough to hang your freshly slaughtered baby alligator carcass on in a pinch. (We met a tailgater who, in festive fashion, had slaughtered a baby alligator that morning in order to prepare it for the tailgate. Tiger meat's a bit harder to come by. Thanks, Chinese Medicine black market! Assholes.)
It's as loud as The Swamp, yet somehow more unhinged. When the USC score was announced, the reaction was loud enough to cause a rhythmic buzz in the ears, a noise not unlike that of a didgeridoo in full throat in the wastes of the Australian Outback.
That voodoo's real. When the "Four Corners Salute" gets cranking, it's like listening to a 747 made entirely of fired clay crashing into a field of shattered glass. Getting a snap off effectively is in itself a game ball-worthy achievement. Combined with the orgy going on outside the stadium for five miles in any direction, it's the gold standard for any other college gameday experience. Any of them. It is peerless in terms of demonstrated intensity, lunacy, commitment, flair, and menace. At several points in the day, we were convinced we were going to be killed, injected with creole butter, and thrown in a deep fryer...but only in the most festive and accommodating of ways, of course.
EDSBS Road Trip: Baton Rouge
This post was edited on 9/5/13 at 11:24 am
Posted on 9/5/13 at 12:00 pm to TigersRuleTheEarth
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That voodoo's real. When the "Four Corners Salute" gets cranking, it's like listening to a 747 made entirely of fired clay crashing into a field of shattered glass.
i launch F18's almost daily and i can tell you, Tiger Stadium not only exceeds the decibel level of a jet up on power, to the human ear, Tiger Stadium blows it out the water in terms of pure audio volume.
This post was edited on 9/5/13 at 12:01 pm
Posted on 9/5/13 at 12:22 pm to Big EZ Tiger
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And 1997 against Florida a special in every way. It matched the feeling of winning a national championship - it was that exciting.
I was 10 years old and at this game. I don't think we will ever be able to match the jubilation of beating UF that year. UF would dawg stomp us for a decade leading up to it and we just brought it that game. I can remember watching Tyler scamper in and hold up his arms in celebration...one of those moments in my childhood that will be with me forever.
Posted on 9/5/13 at 12:39 pm to lynxcat
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Once you can’t hear, it really doesn’t matter how much louder one place is than the other. Death Valley, when it gets rocking at night, it’s a different animal. I’ve played there in the daytime as well and it’s just a different animal at nighttime.
Not my favorite quote, but from my favorite game. UF vs LSU 1997.
I've been there when LSU converted 5 times on 4th down. I was a part of the L-S-U chant against Georgia. I yelled my arse off last year against Alabama...but nothing in my 21 years of attending LSU games compares to 1997 UF.
We got our asses kicked by Florida on an annual basis. We had Kevin Faulk, we were brinnging back the magic, and the crowd was ready for blood. Dinardo pulled a rabbit out of his hat, putting back in the Chineese Bandit package and it was the last ingredient needed for a frenzy of LSU faithful to turn the rowdy Tiger faithful into frothing animals attempting with every chear to steal the life giving oxygen from the opponents lungs.
That game was loud on the ramps on the way into the game. GEAUX - TIGERS rang out from the moment you stepped foot throught the gates. No One was sitting from pre-game until after we ran the field. The stadium was so loud, that in the SOUTH ENDZONE, my bourbon and coke had ripples in it from the noise and vibration of 90,000 stomping the bleachers and projecting their displeasure for Spurrier.
That is the game that Tiger Stadium came alive for me. Its been close to that level in many games since. But, it hasn't ever surpassed that amount of noise for that length of time. If you didn't get to attend that game, you truly missed one of the greatest. I hope that the new breed of Tiger Fans can exceed what I experienced that night. It was awesome.
Posted on 9/5/13 at 4:30 pm to jrodLSUke
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jrodLSUke
Favorite quote from ESPN or the like regarding LSU and Tiger Stadium?
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SVP on his impression of the Alabama game last year should be sent to every recruit.
“For three hours on Saturday Night, I don’t know that there has ever been an atmosphere in sports that I’ve been a part of that was as memorable to me. I have no dog in this fight. I mean look, I’ve been to games where I’ve watched Maryland win a national championship, that was very personal to me. Makes me think of my dad who left us too soon. I have nothing but being a sports fan on the line on Saturday night. And I’ve never seen something that felt like that. Or heard anything that was as sustained as that. … Everything that was part of the experience, I was told it was going to be awesome. It was better than I was told it was. … There is nothing I would put ahead of that that I’ve EVER seen in any sport. When you’re there, you don’t want to miss anything.”
-- Scott Van Pelt, ESPN Radio on the 2012 LSU-Alabama game
And just imagine if we had WON the g------m mfing game.
We were sitting in the SEZ corner, I was just waiting to scream RammerJammer - Tiger style to the red pieces of shite below us.
When we lost, I acttually had a Lee Harvey Oswald moment...
Posted on 9/5/13 at 5:25 pm to geauxturbo
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Not my favorite quote, but from my favorite game. UF vs LSU 1997.
I've been there when LSU converted 5 times on 4th down. I was a part of the L-S-U chant against Georgia. I yelled my arse off last year against Alabama...but nothing in my 21 years of attending LSU games compares to 1997 UF.
We got our asses kicked by Florida on an annual basis. We had Kevin Faulk, we were brinnging back the magic, and the crowd was ready for blood. Dinardo pulled a rabbit out of his hat, putting back in the Chineese Bandit package and it was the last ingredient needed for a frenzy of LSU faithful to turn the rowdy Tiger faithful into frothing animals attempting with every chear to steal the life giving oxygen from the opponents lungs.
That game was loud on the ramps on the way into the game. GEAUX - TIGERS rang out from the moment you stepped foot throught the gates. No One was sitting from pre-game until after we ran the field. The stadium was so loud, that in the SOUTH ENDZONE, my bourbon and coke had ripples in it from the noise and vibration of 90,000 stomping the bleachers and projecting their displeasure for Spurrier.
That is the game that Tiger Stadium came alive for me. Its been close to that level in many games since. But, it hasn't ever surpassed that amount of noise for that length of time. If you didn't get to attend that game, you truly missed one of the greatest. I hope that the new breed of Tiger Fans can exceed what I experienced that night. It was awesome.
Reading that was awesome. Sent chills down my arms. I have been to every game you mentioned except the 1997 UF game. I could only imagine the atmosphere. Would have loved to been there.
Posted on 9/5/13 at 5:37 pm to joetiger
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My favorite article about a visitor's experience:
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That voodoo's real. When the "Four Corners Salute" gets cranking, it's like listening to a 747 made entirely of fired clay crashing into a field of shattered glass. Getting a snap off effectively is in itself a game ball-worthy achievement. Combined with the orgy going on outside the stadium for five miles in any direction, it's the gold standard for any other college gameday experience. Any of them. It is peerless in terms of demonstrated intensity, lunacy, commitment, flair, and menace. At several points in the day, we were convinced we were going to be killed, injected with creole butter, and thrown in a deep fryer...but only in the most festive and accommodating of ways, of course.
EDSBS Road Trip Baton Rouge, 2007
I was going to link to this article too. Great way to put it. Spencer Hall is an awesome writer.
Posted on 9/5/13 at 6:04 pm to Big EZ Tiger
Awesome quote. I love it. I've got 23 people coming in from Ohio for the Kent State game to experience Tiger Stadium and I'm sending them quotes and things about Tiger Football every day for months... And never saw this one.... Any more you got please post!
Posted on 9/5/13 at 6:04 pm to Big EZ Tiger
Awesome quote. I love it. I've got 23 people coming in from Ohio for the Kent State game to experience Tiger Stadium and I'm sending them quotes and things about Tiger Football every day for months... And never saw this one.... Any more you got please post!
Posted on 9/5/13 at 6:37 pm to TDsngumbo
The loudest, funnest game I attended was LSU-USC 1979. Nuff said, I wasn't at the Florida game or the Georgia game or the Earthquake game. They may have been louder, probably were.
But that's my story & I'm sticking to it.
My favorite quote not posted so far about LSU, was not after a Tiger Stadium game. It was after the 1970 LSU-Notre Dame game which LSU lost 3-0 after a little home cooking in South Bend.
LSU came in against #2 ND and played the toughest defensive battle I've ever seen before or since. A late PI phantom call gave ND the ball close & they kicked a FG to win. All-American Tommy Casanova had dropped a sure Pick 6 a few plays before.
After the game, the AP anticipated ND being elevated to #1 and they wrote.....
"If Notre Dame is #1, LSU is 1A."
In reality, ND dropped to #4 after struggling at home against the Tigers.
This game was the catalyst for the following year's rare nationally-televised Saturday Night game in TS where LSU totally demolished ND 28-8.
But that's my story & I'm sticking to it.
My favorite quote not posted so far about LSU, was not after a Tiger Stadium game. It was after the 1970 LSU-Notre Dame game which LSU lost 3-0 after a little home cooking in South Bend.
LSU came in against #2 ND and played the toughest defensive battle I've ever seen before or since. A late PI phantom call gave ND the ball close & they kicked a FG to win. All-American Tommy Casanova had dropped a sure Pick 6 a few plays before.
After the game, the AP anticipated ND being elevated to #1 and they wrote.....
"If Notre Dame is #1, LSU is 1A."
In reality, ND dropped to #4 after struggling at home against the Tigers.
This game was the catalyst for the following year's rare nationally-televised Saturday Night game in TS where LSU totally demolished ND 28-8.
Posted on 9/5/13 at 9:58 pm to LSU_PETE_2012
Jim Murray, late L.A. Times Pulitizer prize winning writer in the Monday L.A. Times following the 79 LSU USC game after which he covered the L.A. Rams game in the Colliseum the next day... "It ought to be against the law to have to watch an NFL game or any game the day after watching an LSU game on a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium."
Posted on 9/6/13 at 12:29 am to TopsInAmericaTim
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Awesome quote. I love it. I've got 23 people coming in from Ohio for the Kent State game to experience Tiger Stadium and I'm sending them quotes and things about Tiger Football every day for months... And never saw this one.... Any more you got please post!
The quote that I put down concerning the 1979 USC game came from a great story that The Times Picayune ran on the 30th anniversary of that game. The writer contacted players from both teams and the quotes and stories in it are great. I'm posting it below:
LINK
I've been to the Bring Back the Magic Game, 1997 Florida, The "Death Valley Died" Tennessee game, The 9/11 Auburn game in December, 2003 Georgia, 2007 Florida and all of the recent Bama games, but I was just a baby when the 79 USC game took place. All of those I went to were uniquely special, but I put USC 79 as the gold standard even though I was too little to go. Fans who attended and both teams talk about it with such reverence that the legend of that night must be true.
Posted on 9/6/13 at 6:49 am to Big EZ Tiger
Posted on 9/6/13 at 7:11 am to TopsInAmericaTim
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Jim Murray, late L.A. Times Pulitizer prize winning writer in the Monday L.A. Times following the 79 LSU USC game after which he covered the L.A. Rams game in the Colliseum the next day... "It ought to be against the law to have to watch an NFL game or any game the day after watching an LSU game on a Saturday night in Tiger Stadium."
Even though the Tigers lost that game, the crowd gave them a huge ovation that seemed to go on for a long time. While heartbroken at the loss, the crowd showed immense pride and love for a team that gave its best. Truly one of the greatest games ever played in Tiger Stadium.
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