re: How many fans of the Rant are 60 or over?

I'm 70. I remember listening to LSU football in the mid-1950s when we lived in DeRidder. My Dad was a 1950 LSU graduate, my uncle Bony attended LSU, my cousin worked at LSU, and my great-uncle E.G. Blakewood played on the 1922 football team. I have a photo of the 1959 team signed by Paul Dietzel. Billy Cannon was my boyhood hero. I met Mel Branch in the Dallas Branch grocery store in DeRidder in the mid-1950s--he was no small man. I saw a host of LSU players play in the Senior Bowls as a Boy Scout when I lived in Mobile. My Dad had a dorm room in (under) Tiger Stadium when a student there in the 1940s (that room was used for storage or something when I saw it in the 1960s). Geaux Tigers.

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My first game as a 9-year old was October 25, 1969. 9th ranked LSU 21, 7th ranked Auburn 20.
Buddy Lee pitched to Jimmy Gilbert who threw a halfback pass to Andy Hamilton for a TD on the first play. We sast in the SEZ

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My family and myself were in the SEZ for that game also... Season ticket holders at the time...

Great times as a child....

63 & 10/12ths. First i remember was Jerry "Snowball". Family had box seats in the wooden platforms above the portals. We had season tix until my dad passed in '77, I graduated from LSU and got season tix in '82, lived through the good years and the extremely lean years.

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LSU Class of 1973.

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Ditto

64 Checking in here. as others have stated in my youth I listened to games on the radio. You could visualize the plays. Yall remember that goal line stop by Mike Anderson at Auburn. There was a college highlight show on sundays on tv, Would watch the whole thing hoping to see one or two plays by our tigers. Could not afford tickets till the mid 80's. A season ticket holder still to this day. We gather with children and grandchildren now for all the away games for watch parties.

My brother worked there 1949 - 1951

that TCU 5-0 game was my first. I was 9. never had I ever seen 68,000 people in one place!

Over 70, lived in the un-airconditioned north stadium 1964-66 (but many homes didn't have a/c back then)...and army rotc both of which seerved me well when i dropped a 5 hour course making me a part time student (12 hours) and shortly after received my draft notice. I remember listening to the LSU games at Ft. Lewis Washington while in advanced infantry training and later overseas our 1st Sgt who had been at LSU in rotc program keeping me up on the tigers. When i finally got out in 1968 i came back with the GI bill and lived well off campus in an a/c apartment until i graduated in 1970.