re: How did you 80s baws watch games?

Listened on the radio.

I remember back in the 80s I bought a satellite dish I had C band and I had a K band and I could look at the games on with live feeds no commercials no editing

Radio... then eventually Tiger Stadium!!!!

I listened to mostly on radio
ABC did have a game of the week or similar and that was a special treat
ESPN eventually started
And lsu started tiger vision mid 1980’s from what I remember

Until the 1980s, there were about two college football games on per Saturday. Almost never at night. A night game televised was like Christmas. That's it. Tickets were coveted because if you didn't get them for a 68,500 seat stadium you listened on radio. WWL out of New Orleans broadcast games east of the Mississippi River at night all the way to Maine. West of the Mississippi River, the signal faded around Texas, Arkansas, etc. LSU football was on TV twice per year, plus a bowl game, and there were maybe 12 of those. A big deal to go to a bowl. We became quite accustomed to the radio Voice of the Tigers, John Ferguson and Walter Hill. Everyone listened. New Years Day was huge because there were four to six games on that day alone, and it was alot like any common Saturday today...but it was once per year. When cable became common in the early 80s, there were four to five games on per day. And then more. And thus, we became spoiled. We survived. We listened. And Ferguson and Hill were very descriptive and colorful. Some of those games are on YouTube, and their voices take me back to a time when I was younger, parents were alive, and LSU football was our world.

I lived in Northern Virginia at the time. I sat in my backyard with a bottle of Jack, a pouch of Red Man, and listened to WWL on my radio.

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The 2008 Kentucky game was the last LSU football game I had to listen to.

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Probably 2006 Kentucky. LSU didn't play them in 2008 and played them on CBS in 2007.

2006 Ole Miss is the last one I had to listen to on the radio.