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re: For the Old Timers. What was it like living in Tiger Stadium?
Posted on 11/14/22 at 8:33 pm to noassatall01
Posted on 11/14/22 at 8:33 pm to noassatall01
Panty raids were still a thing in the early 70’s on the Thursday night before the Ole Miss game, along with food fights in men’s cafeterias, 24 hour a day flag football charity event on the Parade Ground during that week. All the men’s dorms were on the west side of Highland, and women’s dorms on the east (Power was a women’s dorm).
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Posted on 11/14/22 at 8:47 pm to Run DMC
Man these threads are awesome. 
Posted on 11/14/22 at 8:49 pm to Run DMC
86 and was kind of dumpy but we liked it. No RAs and we used to shoot bottle rockets down the hallways at each other. The small cafe/grocery just below my room made a mean chicken fried steak sandwich.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:07 pm to Run DMC
Lived in East Stadium Dorm 3rd floor next to the visitors entrance 89/90. It was great! Never once met my RA. When the visiting team came by on Friday to see the field we’d “Tiger Bait” them out the window.
Residents got passes for game days so we could get into the dorm. Most people who lived there then went home on the weekends so I’d go around and get their passes and hand them out to my friends so they could get in. We’d put a keg in the bathroom and tailgate right there. Only had a couple of run ins with the campus police but usually based on unsubstantiated rumors.
I remember a Tennessee game that got moved up to an 11:00am game and I got up after a Friday night on the town only find the stadium already filling up. The walkway to the bathrooms were open to the interior of the stadium so I suppose I shocked a few fans walking to and from the showers in nothing but a towel. LOL
Basically, aside from not having AC it was a blast. Lots of really great memories were made there!
Residents got passes for game days so we could get into the dorm. Most people who lived there then went home on the weekends so I’d go around and get their passes and hand them out to my friends so they could get in. We’d put a keg in the bathroom and tailgate right there. Only had a couple of run ins with the campus police but usually based on unsubstantiated rumors.
I remember a Tennessee game that got moved up to an 11:00am game and I got up after a Friday night on the town only find the stadium already filling up. The walkway to the bathrooms were open to the interior of the stadium so I suppose I shocked a few fans walking to and from the showers in nothing but a towel. LOL
Basically, aside from not having AC it was a blast. Lots of really great memories were made there!
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:09 pm to OystermanTiger
Lots of great stories here thanks guys
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:09 pm to mdomingue
I would have wound up with you then
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:17 pm to Run DMC
These are always my favorite threads
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:19 pm to BRich
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-- At night, with the windows open, we would often hear Mike the Tiger roaring across the street. Sometimes he would roar so loud he would wake us. One of the coolest memories of living there.
I should have mentioned this too. Mike roaring was definitely cool AF.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:21 pm to Run DMC
I never had to live in a dorm at LSU and was a student there for maybe a year and a half and two football seasons attending every home game before I knew that people LIVED in that sweatbox.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:35 pm to Run DMC
IN 1963 it was HOT!
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:41 pm to OystermanTiger
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The walkway to the bathrooms were open to the interior of the stadium so I suppose I shocked a few fans walking to and from the showers in nothing but a towel. LOL
That’s pretty crazy. Love these stories.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 9:46 pm to Run DMC
In 1980, my room in North Stadium was directly across from Mike's cage, and I had one of those long plastic horns that you bought at Mardi Gras. The horn was pretty loud. When I came wobbling into my room at 2:30 AM after a full night at the Bayou, I would blast the horn out of my window, and Mike would always roar back in response. It was funny.
North Stadium was not a good place for any serious students.
North Stadium was not a good place for any serious students.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:05 pm to Run DMC
On game days in east stadium we put the speakers in the windows and treated the alumni to black sabbath and pink floyd. It would echo off the hodges cafeteria. Otherwise it sucked.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:12 pm to Festus
Early 80’s, Hodges, basement floor.
But an amazingly fun time!
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Hot. As. frick.
But an amazingly fun time!
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:30 pm to Tiger_n_ATL
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It was a dump. The rooms were cramped, horrible and loud.
The rooms were HUGE by dorm standards. It was the smell....
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:33 pm to tigerinridgeland
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Panty raids were still a thing in the early 70’s
Still were the thing in '82. They would throw that shite out at you and you'd sniff... Bitch, this shite just came str8 out the laundry. Gimme the ones you're wearing...
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:39 pm to Run DMC
I lived iñ South and loved it. 2 guys in a 3 person room. So it was the most space I had in any room. And I always went to the games so that never bothered me.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:56 pm to Tigres de Geaux
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Power was the only men’s dorm with AC.
I don’t know what year you’re talking about, but Hatcher and Kirby Smith also had AC. McVoy was for upperclassman, and it also had AC.
Posted on 11/14/22 at 10:58 pm to MMauler
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Power was the only men’s dorm with AC.
"Gay Power"... You really didn't know?
Posted on 11/14/22 at 11:45 pm to justsaygeaux2
What year were the stadium dorms shut down? People who lived in the stadium really wanted to go to college.
Walking up to the North Entrance for the USC game there was a sign “USC SUCS”. Great memories for a 12 year old.
Walking up to the North Entrance for the USC game there was a sign “USC SUCS”. Great memories for a 12 year old.
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